MORTON IN SAFE HANDS FOR CADDEN

NICKY CADDEN reckons Morton are in safe hands with manager David Hopkin as they swap a survival battle for a Premiership play-off push. The former Livingston winger was on target at Palmerston as Ton wiped the floor with struggling Queens. Reghan Tumilty, Aidan Nesbitt and Craig McGuffie also scored as the Greenock side made it back-to-back away wins. Hopkin insists consolidation in the Championship is his top priority but Morton have climbed to fifth and are just a point off the top four. And Cadden feels the club will continue to travel in the right direction while Hopkin is at the Cappielow controls. The 23-year-old, who won promotion to the top flight under Hopkin with Livingston in 2018, said: ‘I know what the gaffer is capable of but, as he said, next season we want to be playing in the Championship and that’s the main aim. ‘I worked with him at Livvy and the big bonus for me signing here was having the chance to work with him again. ‘He gets the best out of me and he is easy to talk to. If he has left someone out or put a player on the bench, he talks to them and, of course, his training is good.’ Cadden believes Ton showed their true colours in Dumfries as they battled hugely difficult conditions after the break to record a comfortable victory with another long trip to Inverness Caledonian Thistle up next tomorrow night. He added: ‘The boys were brilliant to get the win and it was a great performance. ‘We know it’s going to be a hard game up at Inverness, especially with it being our third away game in a row.’