There is still some loyalty around in football and Scott Morrison wants to replay the Pars for their support during his dark days.

Dunfermline are not about to lose defender Scott Morrison as they prepare for football in the First Division. He feels he owes the club for standing by him when he missed most of the 2005-06 season due to injury. He had only managed to make three appearances for the Pars, after moving from Aberdeen, when he suffered a cruciate ligament injury playing for Scotland Under-21s in Austria. Morrison is out of contract at the end of the season but hopes to extend his stay at the Fife club. Fellow defender Souleymane Bamba has already admitted he is set to leave the club after Saturday's Tennent's Scottish Cup final against Celtic at Hampden.

Morrison said: "It has been difficult with the club not knowing what league they were going to be in next season but I would love to stay because I feel I owe the club. I'm really grateful to how they treated me throughout the spell I was injured and so I have something to give back to them. I haven't been able to show the form that made them sign me. But that's my full season back and it's good to be playing injury-free. It's about taking the next step now and I'm looking forward to pushing on and getting back to where I was before the injury. There was no guarantee that I was going to make it back. I went to see a surgeon in Glasgow who said that he had never operated on an injury like it before but you have to be positive. I'm back training and playing, I'm enjoying it and I am looking to get something sorted out with the club for next season."

Morrison had played his part in the Cup run before missing out of the side prior to the semi-final against Hibs. Co-incidently, the defender has not played for the first team since the 1-0 win in the SPL over Hibs on April 7. However, he knows he stands a chance of making the team as manager Stephen Kenny's squad has already lost some key players. Stephen Glass and Tom McManus miss out as they are cup-tied, Gary Mason is suspended and on-loan Jim O'Brien has been prevented from playing by his club, and Saturday's opposition, Celtic. Morrison is aware that he could see some personal silver lining from clouds over some of his team mates. He said: "The manager has not named the team and with those players who would probably have featured missing, it leaves a few spaces open and yes, that means my chances of getting a game are increased. It's an exciting week and everyone wants to be in the starting line-up but at the end of the day the manager can only pick 11 and it depends on what formation he decides on or how he wants us to play. It's obviously hard to take for them but they (Mason and O'Brien) know that they have played their part so far and they will be wanting the boys to go out and win. I was wanting the boys to win the semi-final because you never know what the team will be in the final."
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