Dunfermline Athletic

Ross ready for role

Saturday, 15th Feb 2014

"They know what we play like and we know them because we have played them a lot of times."

Ross Millen celebration

On 11th May last year Ross Millen scored as yet, his only senior goal against Forfar Athletic. That was from the penalty spot in the play offs that they had tried hard to avoid. This season Ross and his team mates want to be back in those cruel and unforgiving games as it would appear with Rangers well clear at the top, to be the only road available back to the second tier in Scottish football.

ROSS MILLEN

Forfar played well in the October meeting at Station Park and Ross remembers losing bad goals in a match where his team played well:-

"They are a hard team but it will be a difficult game. Forfar have a lot of experience and I think that we can go up there and give it a good go. They know what we play like and we know them because we have played them a lot of times."

New faces to Forfar this time will be Danny Grainger and Ross Forbes who have left top flight clubs for Dunfermline Athletic and Jonathan Page from Morton. Ross explained what the expectations were now:-

"They will bring their own experience. They are good boys and it just brings more competition for places. It's obviously going to be difficult to get your place in the team but you just have to get your head down and keep working away."

ROSS MILLEN

The Forfar match is the fourth away game in succession but that will be followed by home fixtures versus Ayr United and Arbroath before they face the long trip to Stranraer to meet the team that is currently their closest rivals for second place. Ross was oblivious to subsequent games, Forfar was all he was thinking about::-

"We're just taking it game by game. I couldn't tell you who we've got after Forfar to be honest with you! But our heads are just focused on Forfar, going there and playing as well as we can and hope for the three points."

ROSS MILLEN

Ross scored in the U20s team that defeated Dundee United on Tuesday night and despite that coming from a well struck free kick, he downplayed suggestion that he could become a free kick specialist:-

"No, but I practice. I'll just need to practice a bit more. I try and practice every day and you get told practice, practice, practice; practice makes perfect, so I need to practice every day and hopefully it works. It just worked on Tuesday."

Station Park's astro pitch was very good in the opinion of the19 year old and should not affect the Pars game:-

"Forfar is a good pitch, a big pitch as well, but you can't look at it differently because it's the same for both teams. We train on it nearly every day now because the grass is that bad, so it's just going to be the same for both teams."

Ross Millen and Shaun Byrne



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