Management thoughts on Heriot-Watt tomorrow.

Posted on Friday, March 26th, 2010

Mike says -

“This week Sam and I have been telling the players  not to take their collective eyes off the ball and that will be repeated several times before the game at Riccarton tomorrow. As Whitehill start to play their outstanding league games and a popular Forum has a thread entitled “The Greatest chase in history” it would be easy for our lot to spend too much time watching the progress of the Rosewell club and forget about the job at hand. Our final league game at Ferguson Park will take care of itself but first and foremost we have to concentrate on a very difficult game against Heriot-Watt.

Only two teams have scored three goals against us in our 29 competitive games so far this season and guess who they are? Yes you have it, Heriot-Watt and our friends from Rosewell. After a slow start as Michael Renwick got to know his players and more importantly they started to return from the long summer break students seem to enjoy, Heriot-Watt went on a long successful run which saw them challenge at the top of the league. They faltered slightly as the bad weather set in but can boast a 5-1 home victory over Preston in their recent league history.

Heriot-Watt have players who can hurt any side with the left foot of Aaron James as good as any in the league. They are driven on in midfield by the industrious Simon Ferrie while Lars Berger up front is maturing into the perfect target man. The University boys definitely know where the goals are and will be out tomorrow to put our title ambitions on hold. Student sides always play with plenty spirit and camaraderie fostered by playing twice a week and growing up together. In that respect Heriot-Watt are a typical university side and we know we’ll have to be at our very best to gain any of the three points available.

For our part we have five ex Heriot-Watt players in our ranks with Gavin Malin still playing for them in the university mid-week league. As well as Gav, Chris Flockhart, Robbie Manson, Omar Kader and Luke Cassidy all played for The “Watt” which adds to the sense of occasion.

Jorge Vinelli is back in Spain for a few days and is unavailable. Captain Stewart Fowlie has been ill and is doubtful while Alex King has re-started training and isn’t very far away. Sam and I will wait until the last minute before selecting the starting eleven.

We are all looking forward to a hard fought game against a typical competitive university side. We wouldn’t have it any other way.”

Mike