How does it feel being back in the maroon? It's great.  Obviously I'm really happy to be back and to be playing first team football again.  I'm really enjoying it.

You have scored two goals in four games, and were clearly delighted to score in your first game against Stenhousemuir. Yes, it was great to come back and score on my first game.  I scored in my first debut for Arbroath when we played Clydebank at Cappielow so it’s very good to have scored on both my debuts! 

After your move to Dundee things didn’t go to plan.  Why do you think that is? I did pre-season training and then in a pre-season closed doors game I tore a muscle in my groin and was out for 14 weeks.  Then I started training again and after two weeks, I strained the same muscle again.  Then when Jim Duffy went, that totally changed things at Dens and I was out of Alan Kernaghan`s plans.

There's a bit of a debate going on amongst the fans about what your best position is.  Where do you think you are best suited to playing? I prefer playing with my back to goal up front.  I suppose some of the fans might think I should play out wide but I definitely prefer playing up front.

After being out injured for so long how do you assess your own current state of match fitness? I spoke to John McGlashan about this before I signed and he told me that the first couple of games, the adrenalin would be pumping and would carry me through the games, but the third and fourth games would be much harder and my lack of match fitness would affect me.  He has been spot on.  I actually told him on the bus to Hampden last week that he’d been correct and that I was really tired.  Even early on in games, I’ll make some runs and find that it takes it out of me.  However, now I'm playing regularly and training every day again I’ll begin to feel the benefits soon.

What are your aims for yourself and for Arbroath for the rest of the season? My aim is purely to get Arbroath into the play offs and hopefully I’ll contribute to us doing that and that will put me back into the thoughts of Alan Kernaghan.  So that when I go back to Dundee next season I will be in his plans.