Lewis is loving it
Thursday, 21st Jul 2022“It will be a different type of football than there was last season. I’m enjoying myself this season.”
Despite narrowly failing to add to his tally at the Global Energy Stadium on Saturday, Pars striker Lewis McCann is feeling confident that the service he is getting during matches will help him make a big impact on scoresheets this season. He said:-
“I have always been taught to stay within the six yard box because that is where strikers make a living. People don’t really look at how you play, it is more statistics nowadays. Three goals in two games was a good way to start the season. That is what the gaffer puts me up there to do. I just want to keep it going but I will take it game by game.”
Maybe it’s maturity given he turned 21 last month, maybe it’s experience as he enters his fifth season at East End Park but he claims the change in fortunes is down to having team mates upfront beside him:-
“I felt quite isolated last season and I had to do a lot more than I have to do this season. With Kevin (O’Hara), Macca (Kyle Macdonald) or Wiggy (Craig Wighton), whoever up there with me, I feel that I have a lot more support. They can take the work load off my shoulders.
“It is easier for me because it helps me to get into more attacking positions. Getting myself in places where I can score goals instead of just running about winning headers and bossing people off the ball. I will still do that but I won’t need to do that as much this season because Kev, Macca and Wiggy will be there to do that for me.”
The change in the way Dunfermline have been playing is undoubtedly a result of change in management and Lewis repeated what he has said in previous interviews about James McPake:-
“He has been a breath of fresh air. Obviously when a new manager comes in you want to impress him. He demands the best out of you and when you don’t give it, he makes sure that you know. If you are not at your best or you are slacking he will make sure he tells you. Then you try and do your best.
“With Dave Mackay and Martin Harty in the backroom I feel that we are more connected as a team this season. That’s no disrespect to the coaches last season or the team last season. I just feel like we are more united but we will wait until the league starts because that will be a tough league this season.”
Firstly there is the final match in the group stage of the Premier Sports Cup, a competition that Dunfermline have qualified out of for each of the last five seasons:-
“I wasn’t involved previously but obviously we flew away in that but then didn’t do too well in the first couple of games in the league. The gaffer always says that he doesn’t want to go into what happened last season. He will say it’s a new season, a new challenge. It will be a different type of football than there was last season. He is really good and I’m enjoying myself this season.”
Also enjoying themselves as being part of the first team squad for pre season are the five Modern Apprentice recruits - Callum Archibald, Sam Young, Jake Rennie, Michael Beagley and Andrew Tod. No longer the youngster about the place Lewis praised the effort of the teenagers:-
“They are training with us every day and they are good enough to play and the gaffer thinks that as well. You saw that when they went on against Buckie. The standard didn’t drop when they went on, so I’m buzzing for the ones who have made their debuts and hopefully they can keep it going.
“They are a good bunch of young boys and hopefully they will be involved as much as they can be this season. They will be in and out but that’s down to the gaffer.”
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