Preview Cowdenbeath

Dunfermline`s league record against Cowdenbeath reveals 27 wins and 26 defeats with 14 draws.

HOSPITALITY DEALS FOR THIS MATCH
With both clubs` matches being postponed with repetition Cowdenbeath have agreed to a fixture switch that will hopefully provide a festive season fixture at East End Park. When they met on 18th September this year it was their first league match in over 17 years since May Day 1993.

In season 1992/93 the Pars scored 11 goals to Cowden`s 6.  The Central Park club took only 13 points from their 44 matches.  It was still just two points for a win that season but the change would only have added another three points.  One of the three games that Cowdenbeath won was at East End Park after they had already been relegated.

Cowdenbeath`s rise to the First Division came after promotion in consecutive seasons. After Livingston`s demise and subsequent ejection to the Third Division had given them a place in Division Two for last season and after a great season under Danny Lennon it looked like they had bottled it by letting Stirling Albion in to win the league. But play off wins over Alloa Athletic and Brechin City meant promotion to the First Division beside their Fife counterparts Dunfermline and Raith Rovers.

Dunfermline`s league record against Cowdenbeath reveals 27 wins and 26 defeats with 14 draws. Of the last eleven league meetings Dunfermline have won nine but this is a local derby and everyone knows history and the form book can go out the window.

Jimmy Nicholl was appointed Cowdenbeath Manager after Lennon went to St Mirren and he lost 2-1 on his first match against the Pars in September.

League Form 

Dunfermline are unbeaten this season at East End Park while Cowdenbeath have won two of their away games in this season`s First Division but have not won on the road since before that visit to Dunfermline.

Last Time Out

DUNFERMLINE (v Partick Thistle): Chris Smith; Calum Woods, Andy Dowie, Alex Keddie, Austin McCann (c); David Graham, Nick Phinn, Gary Mason, Joe Cardle (Paul Willis 59); Andy Kirk (Pat Clarke 59),  Steven McDougall.
SUBS NOT USED: Chris Higgins, Neil McGregor, Kyle Allison (GK)

COWDENBEATH (v Dundee): David Hay; John Armstrong, Joe Mbu (Fairbairn 63), Mark Baxter, Scott Linton, Mark Ramsay, Colin Cameron, Craig Winter, Lee Sibanda (Greg Stewart 69), Marc McKenzie, John Dempster (Robertson 77).
SUBS NOT USED:  Tom O`Brien, Ludovic Roy (GK).

Pat Clarke will be up against another of his former clubs. The visitors goalkeeper David Hay was at Dunfermline as a youth as was Lee Sibanda but the nearest he got to the first team was cleaning Scott Thomson`s boots.