Green Island Coach Craig Doble has deployed his strengths shrewdly, keeping tactics simple and harnessing the pace and incisive power of strikers McCormack and Joel Stevens.
The Island had strong foundations laid by former coach Malcolm Fleming, and the reserve team run by Rodney Fleming, and English coach Doble appears to have fine-tuned the team into contenders for silverware.
The third Fleming, Steve, was at Memorial park assisting with player-coach Tim Horner's Caversham side for the FPL match against Mosgiel.
Regarded as a possible contender for the role, Steve Fleming clarified that he was not available for the Otago United senior coaching position that has been advertised.
''I have a job that now requires me to work weekends, and much as I would have liked to return to top-level football, it's now extremely unlikely,'' he said.
Caversham started favourite against Mosgiel, which had not won a match this season, and from the start, cranked up pacey football that had Ant Hancock setting up problems for the home team in front a large crowd celebrating the Mosgiel's club's 100-year anniversary.
And possibly that crowd, which featured a raucous choir of chanting Plainsmen, helped lift coach Mike McGarry's side to within a decibel of an upset win.
Certainly, Mosgiel's goalkeeper, Ant Mellon, showed superb form: gymnastic saves, brave secondary dives among the boots, high spring-heeled leaps to cleanly catch crosses. Only his ball distribution blighted the former Grants Braes keeper's report card.
In his best effort, Mellon showed electric reflexes in beating away a Caversham penalty awarded by referee Kenny Evans in the second half and kicked by Andrew Ridden.
Mosgiel also started well with strong early runs by Steve Dunn and Regan Coldicott, who interchanged positions right and left, and the classy father-and-son duo of Phil and Matt Kelly also delighted local support.
Twice Phil Kelly produced trademark twirling turns and close-range shots that looked destined for the net but, to Caversham keeper Liam Little's relief, they only found the side-netting.
Yet Caversham also earned copious ball possession and with player-coach Tim Horner directing traffic forward, team captain Seamus Ryder also cracked the whip. In response, Ryan Hickling used pace in space on the left wing, and Will Smith supplied passes forward from midfield.
Mosgiel centreback Tom Bekker had a steady match. He once had to hack the ball off his own goal line but then, at the other end, he was continually bombarding the Caversham goal mouth with huge throw-ins.
The 0-0 result was probably fair, but a frustrated coach Horner reckoned that his side created enough chances to win, and a clearly delighted Mosgiel coach McGarry celebrated his side's first FPL point of the season.
''Perhaps we can kick on from here,'' he said.
Queenstown ace striker Carlos Herrman led a 3-0 win over Northern, with Ollie James and John Bull grabbing the other two goals.
Grants Braes remains bottom of the FPL after running University close with a goal from Ali Rajabi, but still lost 2-1 after goals by Ifeanyi Unamagu and Jeremy Fong.
Makeshift Roslyn-Wakari striker Fraser Cameron continued his scoring vein with two goals in his side's 3-0 home win over Invercargill Old Boys.
Damo Foster also scored in a good performance, despite Roslyn being without its two Brazilians, keeper Danniel Becheri and Guiherme Melo, and influential linkman Aajay Cunningham.
The win at Ellis Park kept Roslyn-Wakari in fourth place, but there is a quagmire lower down the table, where only three points separate the bottom five teams, Northern, Old Boys, Queenstown, Mosgiel and Braes.
