I wouldn’t say that it was a great performance but, having said that, the facts are that we had eight players unavailable for selection. We had players playing out of position like Mark Haughey who’s a 17 year-old out and out centre-half playing at right back. Also, Jay Magee was asked to play in centre-midfield against Distillery and then played on the right wing on Saturday and he’s a centre-half.

We had some young reserve team players on the bench on Saturday. We had Ryan Blayney and Gareth Scott and Blayney got on for Paul Carville to get his first competitive game for Glenavon.

So, to win it, to battle it through, and to show the grit and determination that we did was very pleasing. Sometimes you just have to battle and grind it out and I think we did that.

Saturday also showed that when you have a bit of a squad, you can call on lads and they won’t let you. We had eight lads standing on the sidelines watching and Tuda Murphy, who was on the bench, wasn’t a hundred per cent fit as he has a thigh strain. We had the guts of a team standing watching!

I saw Eddie Patterson saying that they should have won or this, that and the other. But, the facts were that we were a depleted side who went out, got our noses in front and did a solid job defending it out.

In the second half, Robert Robinson had nothing really to do. Yes, they huffed and puffed but they didn’t really break us down all that much. That’s the pleasing thing, and it’s a clean sheet.

Hopefully people won’t start to sit up and take notice. We’d rather go unnoticed and we’d rather have people thinking that we haven’t improved on previous seasons. We want them to see Glenavon as a team that maybe they should pick up points against. I’d like to think that we can then be surprising like we were against Distillery and Cliftonville as well.

We’re probably yet to field what Alan Fraser and I would think is our strongest 11. Those players will still play their part as the season goes on, so it’s all about squads. It will be interesting when Crusaders, Coleraine or Distillery lose five, six or eight players. It’ll be interesting to see how they cope with it.

We’re going through that spell at the minute and hopefully that’ll be our turn over. Hopefully we’ll get players back fit and we’ll have a headache over the team selection.