Stirling Albion supervisor Darren Younger heaped reward on his gamers after they kicked off the brand new season with a 2-1 win at Dumbarton in Premier Sports activities Cup Group A on Saturday.
Robert Thomson scored on his debut following his summer time change from Stenhousemuir and Kieran Moore doubled the lead earlier than Ross MacLean pulled one again late on.
The Binos don’t have a recreation this midweek however return to motion on Saturday towards Ian Murray’s Raith Rovers at Stark’s Park. The Kirkcaldy membership host Peterhead tonight (Wednesday) whereas Aberdeen tackle Dumbarton at Pittodrie.
Striker Danny Burns might return to the squad for the journey to Fife however Jack Leitch will once more miss out and former East Fife midfielder Ross Davidson continues to be side-lined as he works his approach again from damage.
Stirling face Dumbarton once more on the opening day of the cinch League 2 season on Saturday, July 30 and Younger was delighted that his gamers had put down a marker on the weekend.
His aspect had shipped 10 objectives in three pre-season video games towards Alloa Athletic, Airdrieonians and Albion Rovers however usually defended nicely within the cup opener with Stevie Farrell’s males.
Younger mentioned: “I’m actually happy with each the scoreline and the efficiency. I believe we might have scored extra objectives to be sincere and we deserved to win the sport.
“It’s nice to start out the season with three factors in what's a really tough part and you could possibly see the togetherness of the gamers.
“Robert Thomson and Kieran Moore took their objectives nicely. We made a few errors and Dumbarton did have a few good possibilities that they didn’t take however, total, it was an excellent efficiency for our first recreation.
“Dale Carrick and Robert Thomson linked up nicely and we had labored on issues in coaching in varied areas of the pitch that we took into the sport.
“We allow them to again into it with Adam Cummins’ pass-back giving them the prospect to attain however Scouse did very nicely at right-back. He has performed there earlier than as a result of Ross McGeachie had missed coaching on Thursday attributable to work commitments.
“It's going to clearly be a giant check towards Raith Rovers crew on Saturday however it’s nice to be going there on the again of a win, notably towards a crew in our personal division.”
In the meantime, midfielder Josh Cooper turned the membership’s seventh signing of the summer time on the finish of final week when he put pen to paper at Forthbank. The 19-year-old was beforehand with Morton and had spells at Broomhill and Gretna 2008 final season.
Younger added: “Josh is barely a younger lad however he did nicely within the Lowland League final season and I believed he did nicely when he got here on towards Dumbarton.
“We additionally had a number of U20 gamers on the bench. We would have had the prospect to make extra adjustments if we had scored the third purpose however it acquired a bit anxious in the previous couple of minutes once they acquired one again.”