Despite missing a handful of games due to injury, Ewings has established himself as Ian Murray’s number one but with signing talks not expected to start until later this week, Ewings is yet to find out if he will be kept on next season.

Speaking after Saturday’s 4-1 win against Hamilton, he said: “Obviously I want to be here so it is just about impressing the gaffer and making sure I do enough for him to want me here next season. “I’ve struggled with my form considering what I was like at the start of the season but I am slowly but surely getting back.” And while Ewings has enjoyed playing between the sticks this season, he believes the teams involved in next season’s Championship provide an even bigger incentive to still be at the club next year.

The 29-year-old shot stopper added: “I am hoping to still be here next season — obviously with the teams coming up and down it is going to be a big league to play in next year.

“With Hearts coming down, Rangers coming up and potentially Dunfermline as well and then we don’t know who will be the other team coming down.

“Obviously the incentive is there to impress the manager at the end of the season and hopefully he wants to keep me here for next year but we just need to wait and see what happens.

“We all just need to give it our all and see what the manager chooses to do.

“There is going to be a huge focus on this league next year — my own personal opinion is that it will be the most televised league in the country because there will be so many exciting games — Rangers, Hearts, potentially Dunfermline, potentially Hibs or Ross County so it will be good to be involved.” Reflecting on another season as the best part time team in Scotland, Ewings says although Dumbarton’s performances may have surprised some onlookers, it has come as no shock to those at the club.

He said: “We knew we had the quality and we showed that last year. I know we had a horrendous start last year but from Christmas until the tail end of the season we showed we did have the quality and then over the summer the gaffer topped up on that quality.”