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Leighton McIntosh is excited by the prospect of kicking off our cinch League 1 campaign against Falkirk at Balmoral Stadium tomorrow.

He said: “Hopefully we can now look forward to a more normal season than the last one, where there were no fans and it was stop-start because of the pandemic.

“Having fans back at games is the biggest thing.

“It was strange having to play the whole of last season without fans in the stands.

“I’m sure the Cove supporters will make their presence known at the Falkirk game and we will be doing all that we can to make a positive start.”

Leighton goes into the match boosted by having scored his first goal of the season in our 3-1 victory over Inverness Caledonian Thistle in our final Premier Sports Cup Group A match.

He said:  “It’s always good to open your account – but it was also good we played a lot better than we did in the previous game, at Peterhead.

“Everybody knows that’s definitely not how we normally perform, but you still have to show you can react positively out on the pitch.

“We were conceding too many goals and not being as clinical as we normally are at the other end.

“It was good that we were able to show in the Inverness game that we are better than that.

“You normally iron out the kinks in performances during pre-season friendly games.

“Unfortunately, we have been unable to do that because of circumstances that have been well documented.

“I’ve ended up playing in more games so far than I had training sessions, which has been a bit weird and is never ideal

“It’s been the same for most of the lads and it meant we were having play competitive games, while we were still building up our fitness.

“Reacting as well as we did against Inverness will give us a lot of confidence as we prepare for that first league game of the season.

“It was important we did that because we know the opener against Falkirk is going to be among the toughest we will face in the league in the whole campaign.

“The gaffer spoke about how key momentum is before we played Inverness.

“We were determined to respond and make sure we faced Falkirk on the back of a positive result.”

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