A Son of the Rock

Links Park,  18/10/08

Another win, but still no clean sheet in a league match.

This is the third time I’ve seen us take a two goal lead this season but the first in which we’ve not been pegged back.

I got there ten minutes late due to hold-ups on the Kirkcaldy – Dundee road. We were okay first half but without creating anything were 1-0 up after the ball broke to Ross Clark in the box. It could have been two but Chisholm hit the post late on. For some reason the ref played about five minutes stoppage time before half-time.

Montrose have an artificial pitch. I thought the ball neither ran nor bounced properly a lot of the time. But it gives them a revenue stream midweek. And the tarmac surround is only a yard or so from the pitch. Might that not be dangerous?

Second half, Paul McLeod ran undisturbed through their defence to go one-on-one with their keeper and scored. From then on I was looking at my watch what seemed like every two minutes as I just knew we were going to concede. We had a couple more chances before the game settled down to not much happening at either end.

Then we switched off at the back and they scored with a minute or so to go. Mix-up on the left (Gary Wilson involved?) and the cross eluded all our defenders and keeper.

At least we saw the game out. And without our two best players. And Chappie’s subs were not defensively minded.

I met Big Rab for the first time, on the way out of the ground. He had an unfortunate experience with the bus home.  Mine was slightly different. I was on Montrose High Street after the game and I heard a woman say, “Cameron, don’t talk back to people like that.” I thought, “Parents telling off their kids? It doesn’t happen in Kirkcaldy.”  But then there’s Big Rab’s incident. I suppose everywhere has neds.