Only coo in the village Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 A very important fixture for both of the teams even this early in the season. Cowden played some good stuff in our first home game against Falkirk and we are hard to beat at home. Alloa will be desperate to get some points on the board and will fancy taking something from another part-time team. It is likely to be a three way battle between Cowden, Alloa and Dumbarton for survival at the bottom of the table as none of the full-time clubs are likely to do a 'Morton ' this season. If we can recreate some of the good passing play we saw in our first home fixture then I feel we can win this one. We certainly need to take as many points as we can from our home games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowdenConvert Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 If we play as we did against Falkirk then home win. If we play as we did against Livi then who knows. If we play our best team and formation its a banker but we won't do that unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspy Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Essential we take 3 points here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden til i die Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Both teams will be thinking that. It really is massive even at this early stage. Both teams have had winnable games to open the season and neither have prevailed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vince sinclair Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Huge game for both, so early in the season. 3 points would take a wee but of pressure off for the following weeks visit from Raith. We failed to beat Alloa at CP last season and this almost cost us. Was encouraged by Falkirk performance so hopefully more of the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number one wasp Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Important we get something out of this game with having Hibs as our next league game following this which will be a tough game but a win and a few goals might lift our confidence a little bit.McDowellDoyleMarrGordonMeggattCawleySimmonsMcCordHolmesSpenceBuchanan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilky1878 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Must win for Alloa so early. This depends on how we play on the day, if we play like we did against Queens I can see us winning this although if we play like we did against Raith then we are doomed for a very long season. I don't know why Barry Smith has kept Gibson in goals the guys a clown I could probably play a better game than the guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden til i die Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 If Alloa score early it could be one of the worst games in the history of football. Time wasting from the off. I hope to god we take the game to them. Both sets of fans will be equally as confident and will regard the other as pish. Makes it all the more intriguing. Edit: also. Do you really start with Spence and Buchs up top? Surely they are very similar or have they done okay despite your league results? Genuinely interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberdeen Cowden Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 If Alloa score early it could be one of the worst games in the history of football. Time wasting from the off. I hope to god we take the game to them. Both sets of fans will be equally as confident and will regard the other as pish. Makes it all the more intriguing. Edit: also. Do you really start with Spence and Buchs up top? Surely they are very similar or have they done okay despite your league results? Genuinely interested. Alloa will be time wasting from the kick-off. They aren't anywhere near as good as they were this time last season. Not that we are much better. Was really impressed with them when they came to CP for the first game last season. Not the second time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number one wasp Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 If Alloa score early it could be one of the worst games in the history of football. Time wasting from the off. I hope to god we take the game to them. Both sets of fans will be equally as confident and will regard the other as pish. Makes it all the more intriguing. Edit: also. Do you really start with Spence and Buchs up top? Surely they are very similar or have they done okay despite your league results? Genuinely interested. They've done pretty well up front together Spence has been scoring well during pre season and Buchanan had 2 chances against Raith where he really should have buried at least one of them so was a bit disappointed with that but we've been creating chances against teams we just need to start putting them in the net and cancelling out the mistakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspy Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Must win for Alloa so early. I don't know why Barry Smith has kept Gibson in goals the guys a clown I could probably play a better game than the guy Old pals act Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sevennil Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 The second CP fixture between the sides last season had Smith in charge with Hartley's squad and we were on a poor run. I thought the game was actually quite entertaining, we took the lead twice during the match and both teams had good chances to win the game near the end. Negative tactics, time wasting, etc doesn't wash with me for that game. I think Cowden fans were just more upset about it because their team needed a win more than Alloa did and didn't manage to get it. Anyway, Alloa will attack Cowden this Saturday and if we do manage to go 1-0 up then we'll try for 2-0,etc. Spence and Buchanan have both been playing from the start and Holmes and Cawley have been very creative behind them. I'm expecting both teams to make a few chances this Saturday. On the GK debate, I hope Smith sticks with his decision to make Gibson our number 1 and keeps him in the team. Changing the keeper constantly will eventually lead to both of them losing confidence whenever they have a poor game or don't keep a clean sheet and they'll worry pre-match about performances in the hope of staying in the team. Our defence will get used to him and we don't want to unsettle the defence by chopping and changing keepers all the time. Dumbarton supporters were the same with Ewings and Grindlay last season and I think Cowden had the same problem for a while with indecision about who was going to be in goals game-to-game. You could even argue that Doyle was to blame for both opening goals against in the league games this season, although Gibson perhaps partly to blame last week. Prediction: Cowdenbeath 1 - 2 Alloa Athletic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowdenConvert Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Negative tactics, time wasting, etc doesn't wash with me for that game. I think Cowden fans were just more upset about it because their team needed a win more than Alloa did and didn't manage to get it. Dumbarton supporters were the same with Ewings and Grindlay last season and I think Cowden had the same problem for a while with indecision about who was going to be in goals game-to-game. Doesn't mean it didn't happen though and i expect more of the same on Saturday as Alloa will be far happier with a draw than we would with us being at home.We did have that problem with changing keepers every other game and it showed in the performances with both of them terrified of making a decision in case it was the wrong one and they'd get dropped for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasps1 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I dont think its a must win game only three game into the season 33 to go . Win lose or draw its not all about one game Away win by 2 . Spence double . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Pit_Owns Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Liam Buchanan will score. He always finds the net against us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden til i die Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I don't really remember him being on the opposition team against us much if I'm honest, a couple of games for the Pars and Airdrie perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasps1 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Hes has been playing well without scoreing . Had two headers on sat he should have scored both Hes going to punish someone Its might just be yous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Pit_Owns Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I don't really remember him being on the opposition team against us much if I'm honest, a couple of games for the Pars and Airdrie perhaps? Partick as well and even for East Fife in the Fife Cup last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilky1878 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Spencer and Buchanan seem to be playing well off each other. Spence has been a typical number 9 role and Buchanan seems to be more of a creator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowdenConvert Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Wasps1 . The most ignored and inconsequential person on pie & bovril. Worse than VT. Has he ever written or spoken a cognisant thought. How do you put up with him lads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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