Celtic hero Scott Brown has been praised for raising the standards of Ayr United both on and off the park.
Former Honest Men star Ryan Stevenson is delighted to see his old club sitting pretty at the summit of the Championship table.
Brown has Ayr unbeaten in six matches so far this season, impressively managing to win five of them.
They will host fellow Scottish Premiership promotion hopefuls Partick Thistle tomorrow afternoon, knowing that Falkirk are chasing their tails.
Brown kept Ayr in the division after arriving on the job in February earlier this year.
With a new stand freshly built at Somerset Park, the expectations have switched to look upwards now, and a spot in the top flight is exactly what Stevenson hopes can be achieved.
"Ayr just need to keep doing what they're doing, one game at a time," Stevo told BBC's Scottish Football Podcast. "Obviously, I've got good connections at Ayr and everybody is raving about Scott and Steven [Whittaker] and the job that they're doing.
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"Quite rightly so. Going on about the Dunfermline thing, Ayr United off the park are making tremendous strides. All of that married together, we're now starting to see the full package.
"The work that Scott is putting in I think is relentless. I've heard numerous things about the standards he's set at the club are so high. The players have bought into it and you're seeing that on the pitch.
"Last weekend, being 2-0 down and coming back to win 3-2 just typifies exactly his attitude, the way he was as a player transforming into the way he is as a manager and then going through into his players."
Brown took over from Lee Bullen last season after losing his previous job in management at Fleetwood Town around a year ago.
