𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 ⚽️
Ahead of our Quarter Final tie against Largs Thistle we spoke to manager Colin Strickland to get his thoughts on one of our biggest games of the season.
𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐨, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐝. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞?
Yeah you can see the full town has a buzz about it, it’s a game the full of Armadale are looking forward to and quite rightly so as it’s been a while since the club has has been this far in the Scottish cup. This week has probably felt a wee bit different than most in terms of build up, but us as a management team we’ve just kept it as normal as possible for the players and trained as we always do in preparation for any game. But yeah, it’s one we’re all really looking forward to being involved in come Saturday.
𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚𝐬𝐤, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐞'𝐯𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧?
Listen we know how big a task this is going to be. Largs are overwhelming favourites and quite rightly so as they are a right good side. We’ve had a few reports on them and we also went through and watched them against Pollok last midweek. You can see why they're doing so well in there league. But we’ve got to remember we’re also a good side and that’s the reason we are where we are and playing in quarter final in the Scottish Junior Cup. We’ve put out some top sides to be here and earn the right for this group of players to go and show that we can compete as this level which we have on numerous occasions. There would be no point us showing up on Saturday if we didn’t believe we could do it, with a wee bit of luck and a good performance let’s see what happens.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰. 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦?
Same as it always is Gaz. The fans are fantastic, we took an unbelievable support down to Troon and I’m hearing it’s going to be double the amount on Saturday which is crazy. They're never taking it forgranted from this group of players, who really appreciate there support. Whatever the result is tomorrow win or lose we can assure them us as a group will give everything we can to do them and the club proud and hopefully give them another day to remember.
Cheers Coco, all the best tomorrow!
𝐃𝐁𝐖𝐀𝐇