Arbroath’s perfect tart to the season was recognised when manager Allan Moore has been awarded the League Two Manager of the Month Award for August.
The Red Lichties appointed the former Stirling Albion and Morton manager in the summer when Paul Sheerin headed for Aberdeen to be their under-20 coach and they have been rewarded with four wins out of four so far.
Moore was delighted to accept the award and insisted that his assistant at Gayfield, who doubles up as his boss during the day on the football performance course at New College, Lanarkshire, Todd Lumsden, shared it with him.
Moore, who works as a lecturer, said: “Todd was good enough to bring me back to work at the college after I lost my job at Morton. He has been magnificent at Arbroath and I cannot express that enough.
“I know he gets embarrassed when I say things like that but he is meticulous in everything he does. That is different from me as I am a bit of a scatter-brain. It works for us and we work well together.
“Todd has a wealth of experience from his time at Rangers youths but like me he wanted to be back in a first-team environment after being the manager at Albion Rovers.
“He knows his stuff although the players were not sure what was going on in pre-season when he was putting them through ‘activation warm-ups’ that were very new to them. Paul McManus then saw Manchester United doing them and came in and told Todd that he does know what he is doing after all.”
As for building on their fine start, Moore said: “There were good foundations when we came in as we were a team that would always score goals. However. we had to stop conceding them. We are doing okay on that front just now.
“I was not told that I had to get promotion when I got the job but there is an expectation that when you have come down you will go back up.”
He added: “In fairness, and I don’t want to sound big headed, but I would not have taken the job if I did not think we would win promotion.”
Moore, meanwhile, is looking to bring Dundee’s recent signing Dylan Carreiro, 19, in on loan for the weekend.
The one-time Queens Park Rangers attacking midfielder joined Paul Hartley’s Dark Blues at the end of August and the move to Gayfield will see him gain first-team experience.
Midfielder Chris Scott, who left Lichties by mutual consent last week, has signed for junior side Lochee United.