Posted October 30, 2015

Its week 12 in Ladbrokes League 1 and we welcome near neighbours and current league leaders Dunfermline Athletic to Central Park on Saturday for the first home West Fife derby of the season.

 

Our two early season games with Allan Johnston's side are two games that we will want to forget with our two trips to East End Park seeing us concede twelve goals.

 

The League Cup match at the start of August saw us go down 5-1 with Faissal  El Bakhtaoui  and Shaun Byrne both bagging braces along with Joe Cardle with Declan Hughes got our goal.

 

The match also saw keeper Jamie Sneddon make an unexpected debut at just 17 years old, when he came on for the closing 17 minutes after Michael Andrews was sent off.

 

Things didn't get better a fortnight later in the league match when we went down 7-1 with El Bakhtaoui scoring twice in the opening eight minutes.

 

Joe Cardle also hit a brace with Michael Moffat, David Hopkirk and Ryan Wallace also on target for the Pars with Pat Scullion scoring our consolation with a minute to go.

 

Once again we finished the game with ten men after Craig Johnston was sent off just short of the hour mark.

 

MATCH SPONSOR - TAN EXPRESS

 

MATCH BALL SPONSOR - KINGDOM MORGAGES

 

COWDEN HOME LEAGUE FORM

 

This will be our sixth home league game of the season  and we have taken eight of our 11 points from those matches.

 

We have beaten Albion Rovers (1-0) and Forfar (2-1) and drawn with Peterhead and Stenhousemuir, both 2-2, while our only defeat came on the opening day against Stranraer (1-2).

 

COWDEN HOME LEAGUE RECORD

 

Pld 5 W 2 D2 L1 F 8 A 7 Pts 8

 

DUNFERMLINE AWAY LEAGUE FORM

 

The Pars go into the game on the back of three successive away league wins having won at Stranraer (3-0), Stenhousemuir (5-0) and Forfar (4-0).

 

Their only away league defeat was back on  22nd August when they lost 2-1 at Peterhead. Prior to that they had won 6-1 at Brechin on the opening day of the season.

 

DUNFERMLINE AWAY LEAGUE RECORD

 

Pld 5 W 4 D 0 L 1 F 19 A 3 Pts12

 

MATCH OFFICIALS

 

REFEREE: Mr Nick Walsh ASSISTANT REFEREES: Mr Sean Carr & Mr David Dunne.

 

Last Saturday Mr Walsh was in charge of the Ladbrokes Championship clash between QOS and Livingston.

 

ADMISSION

 

Cowden fans will be housed in the new stand and part of the old stand while Pars fans have been allocated the south terrace.

 

Only the High Street turnstiles will be open for both sets of fans.

 

ADULTS -£14

 

CONCESSIONS - £7 (65 and over, under 16, students)

 

SEASON TICKET NUMBER 6

 

PROGRAMME - £2.50

 

50/50 DRAW - £1 per ticket

 

Both programmes and draw tickets will be on sale just inside the turnstiles.

 

Previewer: Andrew Mullen.