Advice on hold

Ross Millen:- "We are only a young team so we will learn from that and take it into Wednesday's game

Ross Millen can expect limited conversation at home over the next twelve days as Dunfermline will play Ayr United twice before 14th December. The second match will be a re-run of Saturday in Ayrshire but the first will be a Scottish Cup replay that he was keen to avoid:-

"I thought that we might have deserved a win but we will take the draw and take them on again on Wednesday. We have got them at home, so that's good..

"We made a good start and did well in the first twenty minutes but then died off for the next twenty. We got a kick up the backside at half time telling us to keep going and try and get the second goal. I think we did that but maybe just got a bit tired at the end when maybe they could have nicked it. Overall a draw was probably a fair result."

The 19 year old dismissed suggestion that Dunfermline's dressing room would have an air of relief within it:-

"It is more disappointment than relief. We know that we can play a bit better than we did in the last twenty minutes and we could maybe have passed the ball a wee bit more but we are only a young team so we will learn from that and take it into Wednesday's game. We will up the tempo a bit and hope to get an early goal, that would settle us down."

Ross provided the ball for Andy Geggan to convert the Pars goal but a great many of his high balls into the box got mopped up all too easily:-

"Maybe the final ball wasn't good enough or maybe the final movement wasn't good enough but we can only take that into the next game and try and rectify that. Hopefully next time it works."

The Pars right back was no stranger to Somerset Park since he was taken there as a boy to watch his father play. Andy Millen played for Ayr United from October 1997 until the end of the following season and although Ross would only have been a toddler then but he remembers those years fondly. His father is Assistant to Mark Roberts now at the club and Ross has been well mentored by his father.  He still stays at home with his father, mother and sister but in the light of the impending replay, discussions between now and the replay on Wednesday could be somewhat restricted.

"It will be a tough game again on Wednesday, they play good football up to the final areas and get the balls into the box. They made it tough but I think we dominated some parts of the game and did all right at times ourselves."

Ayr's target man Kevin Kyle picked up yellow cards in his last two cup games but is not suspended since one of those was in the third round.  He came on as a late substitute in September but may well feature much more this time.  The visitors will be very aware of what happened to them the last time they played at East End Park. Ross recalled that Dunfermline scored some marvellous goals on the way to a 5-1 win:-

"They were in it for the first ten minutes of that game but they will be looking to rectify that loss the last time."