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2-0 ICT, McKay and Vincent with goals

If anybody is actually looking for anything less than a Top six finish the they are having a feckin laff

You say short corners didnt work at least 3 occasions, but how many times does lumping it in the box not work, and a centre half just clears it, and launches a counter attack? Yes it worked twice, but at a higher level that wont happen all the time. Short corners are needed, they can exploit lack of organisation (if the attacking teams sharp) and pre season offers the chance to work on these. Obviously not every short corner will work in the same way as you dont score from every corner which is crossed in the box. From what i can see (from the highlights) one very nearly came off. If you just lump the ball into the box at every attempt, better teams will become accustomed to defending against you and will pick you off. Variety is important imo.

Compared with how I felt at the start of the last 2 seasons I feel confident that we have a squad capable of competing well next season. The team may have its work cut out to match last season's high finish but I don't think we'll have to worry about a relegation battle.

It wasn't "great" in terms of an entertaining game of football, but it was pretty decent as far as the team getting a bit more of a workout and testing some of the stuff they've been trying out on the training ground to see how it works in the real game. If you're going to these games expecting a show, then you'll come away more disappointed than not most of the time. Elgin obviously planned to sit in from the off, making it very difficult for us to play through their 8 man defence. Further evidenced by the fact that our own back line spent most of the game camped on the half way line. This meant that it was almost certainly going to take a goals from set pieces for us to win the game...and that's precisely what we did. We're going to get ugly games like that in the league this season, so it was good to see us maintain discipline and concentration to grind out the win.