A Son of the Rock

Ochilview, 4/4/09

I’d have taken a scabby one-nil but we got two.

After a brief Dumbarton flurry the first half was more or less all Stenny in terms of possession but they never created a clear chance. We scored from a corner just before half time – the ball ricocheting a bit from the header and ending up in the net. This confused the announcer at the ground who said, “Dumbarton scorer; I don’t know who that was,” to much laughter; but it’s been credited to Ben Gordon.

Second half we had the wind but never a full grip on the game. We caused their keeper fewer problems than he caused himself until a brilliant Stevie Murray dummy let in Ross Clark for a one-on-one he didn’t miss and after that Stenny lost heart a bit.

Overall it wasn’t a classic and we didn’t really play that well or put many passes together. How much that is due to the plastic pitch I don’t know: the bounce is weird at times. In any case, silky football doesn’t get you out of this division.

Another away clean sheet despite me approaching the game with trepidation as we don’t win at Ochilview very often. That’s also true of our record at Forfar, so no getting hopes up, chaps.

Nice to meet up with Sonsdiary.

Still second. And after Tuesday night we could be… err, second.