A Son of the Rock

Station Park, 7/4/09

Third away game in a row with a 2-0 win! It’s a good time for away form to improve.

First thing: why did Forfar play in black and red halved shirts? It made them look like Cagliari. Without the skill, obviously.

Not much happened in the first half, our midfield struggled to get into the game. We managed two attempts cleared off the line from Ben Gordon and Derek Carcary (who didn’t hit his hard enough) but Forfar had a couple on target too, plus a lot of corners.

The game was meandering in the second until we scored out of nowhere. The ball came out to Ross Clark on the edge of the box and he volleyed it precisely over the keeper. Nice finish. We weathered the Forfar push and started to look threatening on the break and Clark again scored by picking up the scraps when the ball reached him as he was following in. He nearly got a hat-trick after a fine move (confidence was brimming by this time) when McLoughlin should maybe have hit it himself but passed to the better positioned Clarkie but the ball bobbled just as he hit it.

I refuse to get my hopes up. The last time we won three on the bounce without conceding a goal we got one point out of the next nine.