Smith’s Heart is in helping Cowden

LEAGUE TWO

CONNOR SMITH admits seeing Aaron Hickey’s ascent to first-team regular at Hearts offers hope Cowdenbeath can be his catapult.

One of Craig Levein’s final acts as Jambos boss was to watch from the stand at Stirling as the 17-year-old on-loan Jambo started in Tuesday’s goalless draw.

Smith has started all but one of Cowden’s seven-game unb eat en league run with them able to go level on points with Cove with a win over the leaders today.

All the while, fellow 17-year-old Hickey has starred at Tynecastle as Smith said: “Aaron has been excellent recently.

“It just shows you age means nothing at Hearts – if you are doing well you are going to play no matter what age you are.”

With Smith living two minutes from Central Park, Cowden are not a mere stepping stone. He said: “I just wanted to go there and try to finish as high as possible.

“Getting the home team up, that’s what you want.”

Cove were rocked by back-to-back defeats – one of which came at junior side Auchinleck in the Scottish Cup. Paul Hartley’s side gave up a Saturday without a game last weekend to train before beating Albion Rovers in midweek and midfielder Connor Scully said: “It was a point to prove to everyone else our bubble hasn’t burst, we’re still a good team and we’ve got good players.”

TEAMSHEET

BRECHIN have a full squad available for the first time this season when they face

Michael Herd returns for their clash with Fraser Mullen remaining out. Only Conor O’Keefe is unavailable for against in

take on with Alan Cook missing.

are without Gareth Rodger as they face