A Son of the Rock

Links Park, 14/3/09

Oh well. Jitters justified.

That was rubbish with a capital P. We could have played till midnight tomorrow and never scored.

No complaints. The better team won.

I got there late again (it’s a long way and there were holdups on the road) but I don’t think we troubled the Montrose keeper all game. He certainly didn’t have a save to make. Twice we got a man over but he had too heavy a touch and ran the ball out.

We did look a bit better when Murray and Carcary came on, but that was after the goal was already lost and we still didn’t really threaten anything.

The windy conditions weren’t conducive to football and I remain to be convinced about the plastic pitch.

We had the wind at our backs for the first half and managed two shots at goal.

The goal we lost, the ball broke to their player and he just thumped it but they had more attempts; one was bound to go in.

The BBC report of the game has the following gem. “Montrose made all the running at the start and then scored after 19 minutes when Jamie Buchan headed over.” That would have been a controversial goal.

At least we lost no ground on the two above us but Cowden’s bad run won’t go on for ever and we could run out of games.