CLUB captain Stephen McGinn can’t wait for The IRN-BRU Cup final but insists focus must remain on the Buddies’ battle at the bottom of the Championship.
The man of the match for yesterday’s semi-final admitted that it took a strong second half performance to turn over The New Saints but he was delighted the club now has the chance to take part in a cup final, he said:
I knew we were better than them and we hadn’t shown that in the first half. We would have regretted it for years if we didn’t win the match.
“I was here last time we won the challenge cup, I know what it meant to the fans and the players and it was a great day out. To do it as captain and lead them out against Dundee United will be a massive honour for me.”
Despite the positive performances in cup competitions, which has seen ten wins from eleven matches this season, Saints find themselves eight points adrift at the bottom of the Championship. McGinn is desperate to turn the form shown in yesterday’s win and last Saturday’s Scottish Cup victory over East Fife into league points.
We’re hoping to build a bit of momentum and get that belief back in the dressing room, two wins and a draw from our last three matches should do that.
“We are almost a new team and one that looks like it can score goals. This is a club that should be challenging at the other end of the league.
McGinn wasn’t too keen to reflect on yesterday’s victory instead pushing his focus onto Saturday’s massive match with Ayr United – who are Saints’ nearest rivals at the bottom.
We can’t look forward to it yet, we have three or four cup finals in-between. The league position means we can’t enjoy results like today for that long. Focus immediately goes to Ayr and what it a huge game for this club.”
"It would be wrong to say there isn’t some fear there but there’s also a bit of confidence. We aren’t a bottom of the league club and we have good players in the dressing room but we need to start showing it.
