George Grierson was determined to take the positives after suffering Scottish Junior Cup shootout agony on his Irvine Meadow dugout debut.
Meadow took Friday night’s second round tie at Petershill to penalties after Callum Graham’s 73rd minute strike cancelled out Craig Leitch’s first half opener for the hosts.But it was Peasy goalkeeper Steven McNeil who emerged the hero under the glare of the floodlights, saving spot kicks from Ronan Kearney and Kyle Faulds in a 4-1 shootout victory to ensure Meadow’s wait for a fourth Junior Cup success will now surpass 50 years.Grierson, who stepped into the hotseat early last week, reckons the clash came just too early for him and his new charges.But he insists he saw enough to give him great encouragement going forward.
He said: “When it comes down to penalties I’m not going to criticise anyone for missing because they were brave enough to step up in the first place. “Looking back on the game though, up until Petershill scored I thought we were the better team.“We had a wee wobble after going behind but the first 25 minutes is what I’m looking for from us going forward.“I can’t fault the players for what they’ve given me since we came in.
We’re asking them to adapt to our way of doing things and it will take a wee bit of time. But there are good players here and I think they’ll manage that quite quickly.“Maybe the cup game came too quick for us in that respect but we won’t use that as an excuse.
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