Brian Rice asks his players not to fear their big match

Brian Rice

has ten absent players for different reasons and his side is going to face

in a very bad shape. He thinks that no one is going to expect anything from them considering their situation.

Here is what he said when he was asked to send a message to his available players for their match against Celtic.

”Let’s look forward to it, start getting prepared today, let’s get a game plan, stick to the game plan and give it everything you’ve got.

“Don’t dread it, nobody expects anything from you, you are the underdogs, give it your best shot.”

And about Fulton’s absence he added: “Ryan has a groin injury and will be out at least two to three weeks.

“That is the concerning thing for me. Every time we get an injury it is a period of time. We just have to get on with it and make the best of a bad situation.

“A club like us missing 10 players, that’s half my squad and seven or eight are normal starters and most of them are attacking players.

“Nathan Thomas, Lewis Smith, Ross Callachan, Marios Ogkmpoe – all the players who get us up the pitch are unavailable so it makes it very difficult for us.

“It is very difficult playing against Celtic with your full squad but we have to go in with a positive frame of mind, look forward to it.

“We have to try to make it as difficult as we can for Celtic and hopefully we do enough in the game to take something from it.

“Nothing is beyond the realms of possibility.  We have seen that before.

“That’s why you get cup shocks and underdogs winning but we have to be honest for a club this size to lose the amount of players we have, to go in to face Celtic, it is a mammoth task.”

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