MORTON skipper Grant Gillespie says their fans played a crucial role in the weekend win over Queen's Park and has rallied them to do the same again in the final match of the league season on Friday.

Ton head north to play Cove Rangers on Friday needing a win and a result elsewhere to go their way in the bid to reach the play-offs.

Gillespie says the near 3,000-strong crowd on Saturday helped his men over the line and he hopes a sizeabe contingent will now follow them to Balmoral Park.

He told the Tele: “We had a great crowd at Cappielow on Saturday. They came out and backed us in their numbers.

“The players fed off of that and you saw the end result on the park and that was a huge win for us.

“They came out and backed us to the hilt, like they have done all season to be fair.

“It was nice to have our biggest attendance of the season for this game and to send them home happy.

"I just hope we can see a few of them come up to Cove with us on Friday.

“It’s not ideal with the circumstances and the distance but I believe they will, just like they have done all season."

Gillespie was meanwhile purring over the performance against title-chasing The Spiders.

He told the Tele: “There wasn’t much wrong with the performance.

"Even When Queen’s scored the first goal the message was simple, there wasn’t really any need for a complete reset.

“We just had to keep doing what we were doing, because it was one break away they’d had at that stage and it had come from our slackness.

“We kept the belief. We knew that we’d create the chances and thankfully Robbie Crawford has popped up with the match winner.

“It was a great through ball from big George, who many would maybe want on the other end of the pass, but it was a great goal from Rab.”

Gillespie had earlier levelled the game with a pressure penalty kick.

And he has revealed that he thought about changing his run up as he stared down the barrel at Queen’s goalie Callum Ferrie.

He said: “I got a good contact on the ball from the spot kicks o I didn’t really have much time to worry about him diving the right way.

“I’ve played with Cal before last year at Queen’s, so knowing the type of guy and goalie that he is I knew that he’d know me and would’ve studied my penalties.

“I thought about changing the run up, but I stuck to my guns and thankfully I hit the back of the net and we never looked back from there.”