Rutherglen Glencairn go into the unknown on Saturday after they conflict with Gartcairn for the primary time, however boss Willie Harvey is simply involved about how his facet performs.
Glencairn welcome the Airdrie membership to the Hamish B. Allan Stadium for his or her West of Scotland League First Division curtain-raiser, hoping to get off to good begin in what's prone to be a tricky league.
However Harvey says worrying about opposition groups solely results in over-complications.
He stated: “We all know their gamers, and their administration set-up, how they performed final season and issues like that, so now we have an thought.
“However I’ve all the time been an awesome advocate that I don’t concern myself about different groups, as a result of you then begin to muddle your self up a wee bit, as an alternative of sticking to what you need to do, and letting different groups fear about you.
“That’s why once we have been within the Scottish Junior Cup I by no means used to go and watch groups except we acquired to the quarter-finals or semi-finals.
“That is the best way we play. Why change it to attempt to counter-act, as a result of in the event you’re doing that every one it does is nullifies them.
“We’ll play our personal form, and have a go at it.
“In any other case you’re simply mixing your individual gamers up, they usually’re pondering ‘they don’t know their very own form, or what form we’re going to play’.
“We’ll persist with our personal form, and let Gartcairn fear about us.”
Glencairn ended their pre-season programme with a 3-1 house defeat to Beith final Wednesday, however adopted that up with a 2-0 win over Third Division facet East Kilbride Thistle to win the Hamish B. Allan Centenary Cup on Saturday, with objectives from Jack McIlveen and Isaac Frain.
Harvey stated: “Pre-season went fairly effectively. We had some good checks in opposition to Premier League golf equipment in Cambuslang and Cumnock, Cumbernauld from our personal league and Beith, who're within the Premier League.
“We let ourselves down a wee bit in opposition to Beith, but it surely’s pre-season so I’m not going to learn an excessive amount of into it.
“Within the first half-hour we have been pretty much as good as I’ve seen us all pre-season, scored a objective after which it was as if we ran out of legs.
“For the following 60 minutes we have been chasing shadows and weren’t on the mark.
“However we acquired them again in, spoke about it, and we settled ourselves again down for the sport in opposition to East Kilbride Thistle.”
Harvey is relishing the problem on this season’s First Division, however says will probably be robust.
He stated: “You’ve acquired seven ‘Premier League groups’ instantly, and within the subsequent three divisions the groups that have been second, third and fourth, so there aren’t actually any weak hyperlinks.
“You’ve acquired groups in there like Gartcairn, Shotts, Thorniewood, Drumchapel who're sturdy, and Johnstone Burgh are a good outfit which have grown in stature lately.
“There are quite a lot of sturdy groups and it’s going to be a extremely troublesome league to get out of.”
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