Robert Harris believes Queen of the South will be ready to take advantage if Rangers' heavy schedule leaves them heavy-legged for Saturday's Scottish Cup final.
This time last year Harris was contemplating his future after failing to nail down a regular first-team place at Clyde.
Twelve months later, the 20-year-old defender is enjoying life and on the brink of facing his boyhood heroes, with European football to look forward to next term.
Queen of the South will line up at Hampden looking to pull off one of the biggest shocks in the history of the competition.
Saturday's clash represents Rangers 68th, and final, match of what has been an epic season and Harris knows the workload could take its toll when Walter Smith's men face a team whose league season finished almost four weeks ago.
Harris said: "A lot of people are saying the tired legs are kicking in now so, if that's true, it will be a great time to get them.
"They will have also had two big SPL games this week so hopefully that will take a lot out of them.
"Hopefully if we play to the best of our ability on Saturday, we will get the right result."
If Gordon Chisholm's Queens men are confident of a shock win at the national stadium this weekend, they have every right to be.
They were mostly written off ahead of their semi-final against Aberdeen but beat the Dons 4-3 in an action-packed encounter and now want to top that by shocking Rangers in the final.
"The win against Aberdeen has been the highlight so far," said Harris.
"A lot of people expected us to just go there and make up the numbers but we showed a lot of character that day.
"It will be a lot tighter on Saturday. A lot of people will be expecting an easy win for Rangers but we will give it our best and hopefully we can get our hands on the Scottish Cup.
"If we can keep ourselves in the game for as long as possible, we will have a real good chance.
"We showed that against Aberdeen. If we can stay in the game and even nick a goal, then I think we will be okay."
Harris cannot quite believe the incredible journey he has embarked on since quitting Broadwood for fellow First Division club Queens last summer.
He said: "I came from Clyde at the start of the season just to become a first-team regular - that was the most important thing.
"But it's turned into a fantastic season for this football club. We had a poor start to the season but we kicked on after Christmas and now we are in Europe and a Scottish Cup final.
"Saturday will be a special occasion for myself and my family and it will be the same for all the other players.
"I'm really looking forward to it at such a young age, it's going to be a massive day.
"I've done okay this season and I think the gaffer has been pleased with me so I'm confident of my place in the starting 11."
As far as Harris is concerned, Rangers boast the one man who can dictate the game, and that is the player he is relishing testing himself against this weekend.
"It has to be Barry Ferguson," Harris said. "He's such an influential player for Rangers.
"You can see on those occasions when he's not in the starting 11 that it takes a lot out of the Rangers team.
"It would be great to play against him."
