It is 42 years since Berwick pulled off arguably the biggest cup upset of all time when they beat the mighty Glasgow Rangers at Shielfield Park.

While victory over the Dingwall outfit might not send such shockwaves around the footballing world, it would still be a major scalp for the class of 2009.

"It's certainly going to be tough," admitted Crease. "They're a full-time club and they're up near the top of the first division so we're clearly going there as underdogs.

"Having said that, there's no need to be fearful. We will give it our best shot and are confident we can go up there and put on a performance."

Crease had the opposition watched earlier this month - they had no fixture at the weekend - and is expecting to come up against a good passing side.

"We try to play that way too so it should be an attractive tie," he said.

"Being realistic, we have to have all our players perform to the best of their ability and hope some of theirs have an off day but you never know in the cup.

"There's always the chance of an upset, of one of the wee clubs knocking out one of the big boys, as the 1967 Berwick team so famously did."

The club is giving its players every chance of putting on a good performance by breaking up the 230 mile trip with an overnight stay in Aviemore.

"It's such a long way to travel that we felt a Friday night stop would be beneficial to the players," said Crease.

"We're looking for a positive result and the best way of achieving that is to give the players every chance of preparing themselves properly for the game.

"It's unusual for us to stay somewhere overnight," he admitted.

"We normally travel on the day of the game with an early start for fixtures up north but Dingwall is such a long way."

Crease is expecting to have a virtually full squad at his disposal, with the probable exception of midfielder David Greenhill, who is struggling to shake off the ankle injury he picked up at Stranraer three weeks ago.

"It looks like Saturday will come too soon for him but the postponement of the Montrose match has given those players who were carrying niggles and knocks an extra week off so they should be fine," said the manager.

The trip to bottom-of-the-table Montrose was controversially called off just 15 minutes before the scheduled 3pm kick off time because west-based home players were caught up in traffic south of Dundee.

"It's got to be a first for a game to be called off because the home players couldn't get there," said Crease.

He revealed the Berwick team bus was approaching Dundee when one of the directors got a phone call warning of the traffic chaos ahead due to a fatal crash on the A90.

"We stopped at a garage, bought a map and took a diversion along some back roads which got us to Links Park at 1.40pm - plenty of time really so we thought the game was going ahead at that point," explained Crease.

"Fraser McLaren was the only one of our players stuck in the traffic," he added. "We'd agreed he could drive to the game because he had an evening function he had to get back for.

"Even so, we were able to field a team and five substitutes but Montrose manager Steven Tweed only had 10 men because his Glasgow-based players were stuck.

"We had a meeting with the referee at 2.45pm at which I asked for the kick-off to be put back to 4pm because we already had fans travelling up.

"The referee seemed to agree initially but when it became clear the traffic wasn't moving and there was no chance of the players getting there at a reasonable time he called it off.

"It was frustrating for us as we'd made it on time and we now face the prospect of an evening fixture up there which isn't ideal. I also feel for our supporters who were left standing around outside the ground and weren't being given any information about what was happening."

The Scottish Football League has confirmed that the match will now take place on Tuesday, December 1 at 7.45pm.