Match Fitness.

An empty stadium can be a beautiful thing with only the field staring back at you. When you look out into an open stadium you can only picture what the stadium atmosphere is like when its full. The flood lights shone bright lighting the whole stadium. A peaceful comfort through the warm up on this mildly cold damp night for a game. Dunfermlin's squad is put together of full time footballers who train Monday-Friday mixed with some of the 1st team players as well. Our side trains a couple nights a week, which also included a couple 1st team regulars to get some more match fitness in. It took our side a little longer to switch on in the first half a couple saves early on in the match kept the team in the game. At the half we found ourselves down 1-0. The boys lifted their heads after a good team talk in the change room to sort some things out. Not too long into the second half we equalized on a header crossed into the near post. At this point in the game the guys had more confidence and played at a better level. Dunfermlin found 3 more goals in the second half with 2 break aways and a cracker of a strike that dipped top corner, taken from outside the 18. At 4-1 the drive behind the team just wasn't there anymore. To be fair it could have been about 9 or 10-1, but that's what the reserve league is about, getting your match fitness and some practice in for the first team games if you can get your chance. This weekend the first team looks to continue down the road to success as we're on the road to Clyde.

Cowdenbeath 1-4 Dunfermlin (Reserve Match)