Shay McCartan feels Glentoran have a chance to "redeem" themselves in this year's Irish Cup after their acrimonious exit from last season's competition.
The Glens were dumped out at the quarter-final stage last year following an eligibility row surrounding Joe Crowe.
The Oval outfit failed in their appeals against the ruling and lost their arbitration case.
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It was a sore one for the players to take but McCartan feels they can put things right in this year's tournament, starting in Saturday's last-16 ties at Portadown.
"After what happened last year with us being knocked out over a dubious decision with Joe Crowe we want to redeem ourselves," he said.
"It's going to be a tough test against Portadown.
"We played Newry a few weeks ago on a difficult pitch and it will be the same on Saturday. Our total focus is on them now."
There was more controversy in Glentoran's latest win over Crusaders on Monday night.
McCartan bagged a brace in the 2-0 win but admitted afterwards the first came off his hand.
The win, the Glens' third on the bounce under new boss Rodney McAree, keeps their title ambitions alive but the former Bradford City man says they are taking it one game at a time.
"It did (hit my hand) but we've had plenty of unfortunate luck over the past few weeks so I was due something in return," said McCartan.
"We had played Newry and Dungannon and people had said Monday night would prove how we are.
"We played well at times but we showed resilience in the last 10 or 15 minutes.
"Crusaders were throwing long balls in on top of us, but we dealt with it and kept a clean sheet.
"We're still a brave bit off it but we're taking each game as it comes.
"There's a lot of ground to make up.
"They are games in hand, that's all they are, we just have to take each game as it comes."
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