WINGER David Smith is just looking forward to playing competitive football after joining from Falkirk last month.

The 23-year-old has only played one competitive league game in 2016 – and that was on January 2.

And the midfielder is hoping his move to Dumbarton will bring a new lease of life to his footballing career.

He said: “I just want to have a good season and to get back playing football because at Falkirk the last six months I wasn’t playing at all.

“I wasn’t enjoying it and I just want to get back to enjoying football and getting back to the highest level possible for myself.

“It’s a good set-up down here at Dumbarton and the manager’s been good and the boys have helped me settle in.

“The manager met me and he sold Dumbarton well.

“He’s a good young manager, his philosophy and the way we wanted to play was obviously what made me come to Dumbarton. There’s quite a lot of positives that made me want to come here.”

Smith was an integral part of the set-up at Falkirk, scoring against Brechin in the fifth round of the cup as they made their way to the final in 2015.

And despite losing that game 2-1 to Inverness, it was a moment he will not forget.

The winger said: “It was good playing in the Scottish Cup Final last year for Falkirk. It was one of the highlights of my career, getting to the final.

“Unfortunately we got beaten but it was a definitely a highlight.

The winger said: “It was good playing in the Scottish Cup Final last year for Falkirk, getting to that was one of my highlights of my career, getting to the final.

Unfortunately we got beat on the day but that was a definitely a highlight.”

But for the former Hearts academy product, there is one moment that stands above the rest.

“Making my debut for Hearts when I was 18, away to Dundee United was pretty special.”

“And obviously scoring in the Edinburgh derby against Hibs, that was probably my biggest highlight in my career so far.”

Taking the next steps with part-time Dumbarton is an untravelled road for Smith, having been a full-time footballer for all of his career so far.

And heading back to the classroom is an idea that has crossed the winger’s mind, but his main priority for the summer has been to be at his fittest for the Sons.

He said: “I’ve been full-time for the last six or seven years, but obviously as Dumbarton are part-time I was thinking of doing a college course. There’s a few things, a few courses I’ve been looking at and I’ve been doing football coaching as well, hammering the gym and hopefully get really fit for the upcoming season.”