MORTON young player of the year Lewis McGrattan says he wants to build on his breakthrough year after establishing himself in the Ton first team.

McGrattan, who scooped up the gong at the club's end of year awards night at the beginning of the month, was part of a youth side that won the SPFL Reserve League and claimed famous scalps against the likes of Manchester United at Cappielow.

But the 22-year-old says that nothing compares to playing first team football week in week out and after getting his fair taste of the action, he's desperate for more.

He told the Tele: "Has this been my best season in football? Of course it has.

"I know my youth team was quite successful under John Sutton and Derek Anderson, but first team football is the real proper stuff, that's what you train for and make a career out of.

"That was my first proper season in and around the first team environment and playing most games.

"I'd say its the best I've had and I just hope that I can build on it now."

Despite the personal accolades and success, the wide playmaker says that his side's last day victory over Cove left him with with the worst feelings of his career.

The foggy conditions of the day saw players hear celebrations through a thick haar and believe they'd done enough to qualify for the Premiership playoffs.

But alas, it wasn't to be and McGrattan revealed that the moments that followed.

He continued: "The last day of the season was a real low point, it was gutting.

"We'd put ourselves back within a chance after winning four out of our last six games.

"So to go up to Cove, with the weather that we had, was wild. We were hearing the crowd celebrate the goals from elsewhere as they went in.

"We thought it was full-time in Inverness and that we'd done enough to get into the playoffs, but it was their second 'goal', which was then disallowed. To find out that we'd just missed out was horrible, it was really gutting.

"It came down to relying on others to help us out which we can't really be doing. We can't afford to dwell on it, and we'll move on from it."