BOB McHugh has proven already in his career that he is the man for the big occasion, and for clubs like Morton, occasions don’t come much bigger than a trip to Celtic Park in the Scottish Cup.

While at Falkirk, McHugh scored memorable goals such as his last-minute winner against Rangers and his last-gasp clincher in the thrilling promotion play-off encounter against Hibernian.

But for the 26-year-old, a goal to knock the holders out of the Scottish Cup with Morton on Saturday would be right up there with the best moments of his career, and something of a dream come true.

“These goals are always the kind of goals, especially as a striker, that you dream about scoring,” McHugh said. “A goal against Celtic would be up there with the goals I got against Rangers and Hibs.

“It would be a dream for myself to get on the scoresheet, and hopefully that will help us win the game as well, which is the most important thing.

“It’s a great occasion for us to look forward to. It’s a great opportunity for us all to prove our quality.

“We seem to have hit a wee bit of consistency recently which has been lacking all season. We’ve shown bits of quality here and there without really putting it all together for a run of games, so the last few weeks has been much better, and we’ll be looking to take that into the Celtic game.”

While McHugh is all too aware that the odds are stacked against the Championship side when they make the trip to Glasgow’s East End, he is taking hope from the chinks that have appeared in Celtic’s armour of late, particularly on home soil where they have dropped 10 points this term.

“I don’t think that Celtic are the team of previous seasons, but that being said, they still have top quality players there,” he said. “They have internationals right throughout their squad, so we know it is going to be a real uphill task for ourselves. It is one we’re thoroughly looking forward to.

“We won’t be thinking too much about them, we’ll be more concerned with working on ourselves and making sure we are really well organised.

“From playing there in the past, I think that one of the key things is to stay relaxed and be brave on the ball. It’s vitally important that we look to be positive in possession, and that people show for the ball.

“It’s obviously going to be difficult, but as long as we go into it with a positive mind-set and are well-organised, we should be fine.”