Montrose manager Stuart Garden hopes his side can make the best of a bad situation when they play their rearranged League Two game down at Berwick this evening.
The fact that Berwick needed a replay to knock junior outfit Culter out of the Scottish Cup on Saturday means the Gable Endies are now faced with a three-hour 150-mile-plus trek to Shielfield Park this midweek to fulfil a fixture that was originally pencilled in for last weekend.
Garden reckons his players will be more than up for tonight’s game as they seek to get back to winning ways following losses to Queen’s Park in the league and Fraserburgh in the cup.
Nevertheless, the Montrose boss isn’t exactly enamoured with the timing.
“It doesn’t make it any easier for us having to go down there on a Tuesday night, that’s for sure,” he told Courier Sport.
“We have now got to go down to Berwick on a Tuesday night, although I see no reason why Culter couldn’t go down there on a Tuesday night.
“If teams want to be in the Scottish Cup they should be able to play in midweek, but there’s not a lot we can do about it I suppose, so we’re just getting on with it.
“We know that three points would take us back into second in the league, so that’s got to be the incentive for the players going into this game.”
Victory would see Montrose rise to second spot in the table and put them just three points behind league leaders East Stirling.
However, the Gable Endies will have to do it without central defender Alan Campbell and midfielder Lloyd Young both of whom are unavailable.