John McGlynn says Falkirk still in Premiership ‘honeymoon period’

John McGlynn has no concerns about Falkirk’s recent lack of goals as he stressed his club are still in their Premiership “honeymoon period”.

The Bairns were receiving rave reviews as they sat fifth in the table on the back of a 3-0 win at Dundee United last month.

After back-to-back goalless draws against Rangers and Motherwell, Falkirk failed to score for a third game running when they were defeated 3-0 by Hibernian last weekend.

“The games have been difficult games and so you can understand why maybe they would (dry up),” McGlynn said ahead of Saturday’s visit from league leaders Hearts.

“But our goals are shared out, we’re not relying on one particular person. They generally come from all over the place. It’s not like we’ve got a number nine who scores 25 goals and he’s injured now. Our goals come from all over.

“So as much as we may not have scored in the last three games, we’ve been picking up points, which is the be-all and end-all. I’m not concerned about our goals. They’ll come from all over the place, really.”

McGlynn’s excitement for the challenge of the top flight remains undimmed despite slipping back into the bottom six.

“We’re still like a team that’s come up from League One to the Championship to the Premiership, we’re still enjoying it,” he said. “That honeymoon period is still there because we’ve still been getting results.

“The players are still enthusiastic. That’s not worn off. We have targets that we want to get to.

“We got 15 points in the first round of 11 games, and we’re five games into the second lot of the 11 games and we’ve picked up six points. So you have to be really working on how many points we need to get to be hitting that target, and we’re kind of on course.

“As long as we can have a positive points ratio to games played, then we can keep that cushion (from the teams near the bottom).”