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Wait worthwhile for Muirhead

Saturday, 17th Jan 2009

"The last thing I want to do is lose my place through injury." Scott wants more action agai

Freddie Daquin and Scott Muirhead

Scott Muirhead is delighted to be back in the Pars team after waiting until the 22nd November to make his first league start of the season.

"I've had a number of injuries and Austin (McCann) has been playing well so I've just had to work away and await my chance. When it came I just had to do my best to stay in the team."

"I got a knock on the head last week when the Clyde player caught me with his knee. I was a little bit dazed but I didn't want to come off. The last thing I want to do is lose my place through injury.

That comment is hardly surprising given the 24 year old only featured in just 13 matches last season and he is keen to avoid further injury :-

"Last season I broke my foot and was out for four or five months. Then against Livingston I injured my ankle and I was out for three or four weeks with that. Then it's back with the physio to get your fitness back, play reserve games and get used to it again, so it's a bit of a pain but it's something that happens to everybody."

Scott Muirhead at Livingston

Muirhead has been selected to start Dunfermline's last three matches and fortunes have changed with the Pars winning their last two homes games:-

"We've only conceded one goal in the last three games so that's quite pleasing but the goal we conceded (against Dundee) was from a free kick so that was disappointing. We haven't looked like losing many, we've been quite solid."

The importance of winning at East End Park is not lost on the players and Scott continued:-

"It's our place and it should be a scary place for other teams to come. We should be beating teams here, it's where we should be playing our best football?on our own patch. It's one of these things you can't put your finger on it. But we seem to have put that behind us now with the goal that Shieldsy scored (against Livi)."

Scott hopes to last longer Airdrie United than he did in the only game he has played against them so far. In 2006-07 Scott was injured and substituted by Darren Young after just seven minutes of the Challenge Cup at the Excelsior Stadium. He did watch the First Division matches against them from the sidelines and knows:-

"They're a good passing team, very hard working and it will be tough for us. We have a pretty good record against them though. We just need to carry on the form of the last two home games.

"We need to take care of Airdrie because it's a chance to get closer to St Johnstone. They have a difficult game away to Partick. There's only five points in it so we can still catch them. There's still a long way to go and we play St Johnstone next week. "

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