Management thoughts on our King Cup game at Ferguson Park.

Posted on Friday, March 19th, 2010

Mike says –

“Tomorrow we head out to my old stomping ground at Rosewell on King Cup duty. As a side show the teams playing are the only two who can still win the Premier League title. Will that have any baring on the game? I think not. If our league game was scheduled for next week or the week after, tomorrow’s game would have added significance but the “league decider” everyone is talking about has still to be allocated a date. No, tomorrow it’s about the King Cup and nothing else but that wont stop it being an exciting 90 minutes.

I watched Whitehill against a very good Lothian Thistle side at Saughton Enclosure on Wednesday and when the away side made it 2-2 midway through the Second Half there only looked one winner. As it was an injury to Andrew Kidd and lack of recent games caught up with the Rosewell side and Lothian came strong in the last quarter. Nothing I saw on the night made me think other than what a big task we have on our hands this weekend against a very good Whitehill side.

For our part, on Saturday Sam and I will be reminding our boys of the opening day of the season when we let ourselves down badly against those sitting in the home dressing room. Do our boys have something to prove? Not to Sam or myself but maybe they owe it to the Whitehill players to show they were a shadow of themselves on that August afternoon.

Alex King will unfortunately miss the game on Saturday but other than Wee Eck we have a full squad to choose from. We didn’t do well in the local cups last season and want to rectify that this time round. The King Cup is a welcome relief from trying to retain the league title and Sam and I will want the players to go out and express themselves in a positive manner.

With Alex unavailable we will make at least one change but those who watch us on a regular basis know Sam and I try to keep as many of our squad as match fit as possible. Whoever takes to the park in a Spartans jersey will be well warned that only their best will do against a proud and determined home side.

It should be a cracking game.”

Mike