Management thoughts on the Preston game

Posted on Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Mike says –

“The ground was very firm yesterday and there was more wind about than we’ve had recently which made it hard for both teams with a high sometimes erratic bounce. Preston are a big team and early on we were vertically challenged as the ball was rarely on the deck but bouncing about above shoulder height. Despite that Sam and I were resonably happy with our start. We didn’t look nervous, we tried to take the game to the opposition and they lived dangerously at times.

I thought Preston went ahead slightly against the run of play but our boys reacted in a positive manner and Gav equalised after a superb turn and cut-back from Cloudie. Archie looking well refreshed after an hour on the bench midweek ended up scoring two and missing out on a hat-trick after the lino’s flag was raised late on. He’d followed up a strike from Eck which brought out one of many saves the Preston keeper made during the afternoon. Deano on the other flank also had a good game and rounded it off by scoring with his right from outside the box.

Preston were always dangerous at set pieces and I only began to relax when Deano knocked in the fourth. 

It’s back to Tuesday and Thursday training this week with a King Cup game at Rosewell to look forward to next Saturday. As a team we are in a rich vein of form and we want to keep that up until the end of the season. I’m sure Whitehill will have something to say about that come Saturday.”

Mike