Clyde’s goalscoring hero Scott Linton has warned that the playoff semi-final is far from over despite the Bully Wee’s 3-1 victory over Elgin at Broadwood on Tuesday night.

Linton hit Clyde’s second goal on the night, a spectacular half-volley into the top corner from 25 yards that he says was the best goal of his career.

Despite the jubilation from the supporters at the final whistle though, Linton knows that his side have a difficult task to see off Elgin at Borough Briggs on Saturday in the second leg.

He said: “I would say that the goal goes straight up to number one in the list of goals that I’ve scored! It was nice to score but it was even better to get the win to take an advantage up to Elgin on Saturday.

“Elgin played well in the first half and they might have gone in at half-time thinking that 2-0 was a bit of an unfair reflection on how the game was going.

“We’ve had that so many times this season though when we’ve been the dominant team and then not taken our chances or got the lead we deserved.

“It was good to go in at the break with a wee cushion but they scored at the start of the second-half and we could have just chucked it, but we managed to get the third goal and get that wee cushion to take up there.

“We showed all of the resilience and team spirit that we’ve got right now, and we’re starting to hit a bit of form at the right time.

“There’s no way we’re thinking that the job is complete though, we’ve still got a huge task to get through on Saturday and we’re far from through yet.

“The boys dug deep. In 90 minutes you’re never going to be on top all the time, there are always going to be spells when you’re under pressure, so it’s about how you deal with that.

“We nullified their strengths a lot of the time and although we rode our luck a bit at times, over the piece we defended brilliantly and I thought we were worthy of our win.

“Tuesday night is out the way though, and I’m sure the manager will be stressing to us that we have to treat Saturday’s game on its’ own merits.

“Having that two-goal cushion, Elgin are going to have to come at us from the word go, so we’re going to have to keep it tight and nullify them as much as possible.

“That will be difficult, they’ve got a good home record so we know it will be a really hard game.”

After dropping away towards the end of the league programme to fall out of the title race, Clyde’s form has turned in the last couple of games with the wins over Stirling and Elgin.

Linton says that they might just be hitting the peak of their powers at exactly the right time.

“From the start of the season, whether we’ve been in good form or we’ve been going through a bit of a bad patch, the morale has always been the same,” he said.

“We’ve never go too high when things have been going well, and we’ve never got too low when things haven’t gone well.

“Everyone gets on with everyone here, it’s probably the best group of boys I’ve been involved with and we know the ability we have in the squad.

“We knew that we had been underperforming and we didn’t finish the season where we wanted to, but we dusted ourselves down, and we knew the playoffs gave us another chance to achieve our objection of getting up.

“In hitting that poor patch of form towards the end of the season, we knew it would have to turn, and there is no better time than going into the playoffs.”