East Kilbride Thistle co-manager Alan Paterson received positive injury news in a friendly with Bellshill Athletic on Saturday - now a scan will determine further boosts.The Jags faced Bellshill Athletic on Saturday and goals from Ronan Fox, Danny Hashim, Paul Smith and Adam Edgar sealed a comfortable 4-0 victory for EK.Plenty of players were given vital minutes out on the park, including the returning Scott Hadden, who has missed all of the West of Scotland Football Conference C season with a knee injury.Paterson was pleased with the valuable run-out his side got at Rockburn Park ahead of taking on Neilston in league action this weekend.He said: “It was a good work-out and we managed to get a lot of boys 45 minutes.
We used the squad and got boys up to speed."We had the return of Scott Hadden for the first time since pre-season when he did his knee.“Hopefully he can be a big player for us in the run-in until the end of the season.
He’s been a big player for East Kilbride Thistle in the past so hopefully he can be a big player for us.“We managed to give a few of the U20s a chance as well.
It was a worthwhile experience going into the game on Saturday. We were just going to be training on Saturday but they appealed for a fixture, so we thought about seeing how it went.“It was good.
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