Keddie Ready Now

"I hope that we can do the business and get over the finishing line. You want to play at the highest level that you can, so obviously to play in the SPL and win promotion with the same club would be fantastic.

Alex Keddie will have his usual pasta tea on the eve of a match and have a quiet night ahead of the away fixture against Morton. No public holiday for footballers and no changes to the Pars routine then as the rest of the nation was glued to their televisions and celebrating the wedding of Kate and William. After this morning's training session the 30 year old central defender expressed his thoughts:-

"I can't complaint about holidays, we get enough during the summer. I am raring to go, I just wish it was happening now. Last week we had to win to put ourselves in the position that we are in now. It was a massive game for us, our club and our fans. We produced the goods on the day and I thought that we deserved to win for the full 90 minutes.

"We can go and win promotion now but Morton away is not an easy game - they have beaten us twice this season already. It is not a gimme, we need to go there and be focussed on trying to get a win."

Alex mirrored the players' caution that the promotion job is not yet finished:-

"We are very professional. We have a lot of players who have been there and done it at that level. We need to be sensible about it."

Alex played for Ross County in last season's Scottish Cup Semi Final and Final at Hampden Park and while these are magnificent games with memories it is football at the highest level that means far more to a football club:-

"These are once in a lifetime occasions but we have been playing every game this season with the goal of promotion. There are pressures every Saturday or every Tuesday and this is a fantastic situation to be in. That is why you play football."

Saturday will be Alex's 31st appearance for Dunfermline for whom he left Ross County for last summer. He scored five goals in his 112 appearances for the Victoria Park but his first for Dunfermline is still awaited:-

"I saw the move to Dunfermline as the best way to better my career, I have been proved right so far so I hope that we can do the business and get over the finishing line. You want to play at the highest level that you can, so obviously to play in the SPL and win promotion with the same club would be fantastic. The Club deserves it and the Manager deserves it.

"I have played under quite a few managers and they have all got their own ways of doing things. Obviously the gaffer is a new manager to the block, he has done very well here in his three and a half seasons to take us to the brink of doing something special. Our team is set up the way that he likes to play football, its a high tempo with controlled aggression. We would be thoroughly pleased for him but it is a collective thing and if we get the result we need then we will be over the moon."