TOTALLY devastated by the loss to Bonnyrigg Rose, Cowdenbeath boss Maurice Ross gave a look ahead this week after seeing the club bow out of the SPFL.

The manager was looking for his team to grab an early goal on Saturday to put pressure on Bonnyrigg, but despite creating a few good chances their old failing of not hitting the net was again haunting them in this 1-0 defeat; a 4-0 aggregate loss over the two legs.

“To win any game of football you have to score goals,” he said.

“We were kind of mugged in the first leg with the sending off of Harvey Swann and the very soft penalty awarded to Bonnyrigg, but at Central Park we had chances to ask real questions of them, but did not take any.

“It is something which has plagued us this season and on Saturday we maybe hit the post and bar, but really should have scored with both opportunities.

“If these go in it changes the whole complexity of the game, but early in the second period we have another penalty awarded against us and it gave them the safety goal they wanted.

“The lads gave everything for the club throughout the whole 90 minutes, but again couldn’t get a break when it would have helped. It all completed a very sad day for the club and now we have to look ahead to the future.”

Although totally deflated by failing to get the better of Bonnyrigg on Saturday, Ross has ideas of how to get the club out of the Lowland League.

“I believe we have to look to taking a younger type of player on this route, talented individuals who have real ambition to do well,” he said.

“It will be by no means an easy job to win the Lowland League, but if we can put together a squad which has a number of good quality youngsters with the right mix of experienced players, we can seek to make a mark on the division.”

The manager plans to formulate his plans over the next few days and give his ideas to the board which will be meeting this week.

The club’s financial director, David Allan, has a budget in mind for next season and the directors will look how it can be married up with the manager’s ideas.

Cowden will receive a ‘parachute payment’ of £40,000 for losing their place in League 2.