Management thoughts on Edinburgh City tomorrow.

Posted on Friday, October 30th, 2009

Mike says -

“At our level there is usually a real worry the week after a Scottish Cup victory. You spend your time at training trying to get the players feet back down on the ground. You try to get them to ignore the draw for the next round and concentrate on the job at hand.

As I told them on Tuesday before the home draw against Forfar was made ”Guy’s there’s two things about the Scottish Cup – 1) the next round’s not until 28th November and 2) it’s the only competition we enter we can’t feasibly win. We do have a chance however of retaining our league title – lets forget the Scottish Cup for now and concentrate on Edinburgh City.” 

Despite the rhetoric you worry it’s a case of “after the Lord Mayor’s Show” but thankfully it’s City we are playing this week. Like us they had a good Scottish Cup win last Saturday and like us they had the distraction of the Third Round draw during the week. They are our “big” city rivals and there is a mutual respect between the players and clubs which eases Sam and my worries about our players mental preparation for tomorrow’s game. 

Our sloppy league start means every point is vital and we’ll have to be at our very best to pick any up at Medowbank. As far as the team goes it would be very hard for Sam or I to leave out anybody after the magnificent performance in terrible conditions the players gave at the Broch. We have had one player suffering from the flu this week and Sam and I will make a final decision on the line up at 1.00 tomorrow.

We are all looking forward to the game.”