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In a campaign full of milestones, Mitch Megginson had more reason to celebrate this week when, having been named in the PFA Scotland League One team of the year, he and Fraser Fyvie were revealed to be on the four-man shortlist for player of the year.

The striker says it is an honour to have been recognised by his fellow pros:

“I’m absolutely delighted! It’s not something you really think about during the season, but you get near to the end and the awards start coming out, and I’m really pleased to have been nominated at the grand old age of thirty-two!

“Football is a team game, and you want to win as a team, but there is that individual aspect, and I’ve been lucky enough to pick up a few awards over the years. I’d obviously be delighted to win, but there are some great players I’m up against, so it will be no surprise if one of them gets it.”

Mitch is also targeting finishing the campaign as top League One scorer – he is currently tied with Kelty’s Ross Cunningham – and he says that is very much in his sights:

“That has to be the ambition for every striker, you have to aim that high, and with a couple of games to go it would be nice to secure that personal achievement.”

Last weekend, the striker played his 200^th game for Cove Rangers since we joined the SPFL having earlier in the season racked-up a couple of centuries – 100 goals in Scottish League football and 100 for Cove as an SPFL club:

“It’s something you can look back on when you stop playing football. For me the main one is the goals, that’s what you live and die by, and I’ve been fortunate to keep finding the back of the net.”

While Mitch is proud of those personal milestones, he is adamant the team comes first, and with the playoffs within touching distance, he wants a positive finish to what has been a long hard season:

“It’s probably not the strongest League One I’ve had, everyone is beating everyone, so it’s been very different, and every game is tough. You see that from how tight it has been all the way through.”

“The gaffer called it early on, we all expected it to go the distance, but we’re in a good position and from this point on it’s all about getting ourselves going and the job done.”

“The sense of expectation heightens as you get closer, you’re at the finish line and you just want to cement that place. If we make it, you’ve got the game on the Saturday, then you’re straight into the playoffs on the Tuesday, so it would be a big benefit to secure it this weekend. If we do so, it might allow the manager to rest a few of the older boys for the last league game down at Annan.

“That would be the perfect scenario, but however it happens, we have to be ready and fully focused.”

The full interview with Mitch can be viewed at the Cove Rangers FC YouTube channel.

Fraser Fyvie photograph (c) PFA Scotland

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