A Son of the Rock

Central Park, 18/4/09

Another clean sheet but this was a tension filled game.

I’d have taken the draw before the start, and at the beginning of the season the position we’re in now with three games to go, but this was two points lost.

Stevie Murray’s penalty was saved early on and we didn’t take advantage against ten men for the last fifteen or so minutes.
Paul Keegan had a chance to open the scoring even before the pen, running in on the keeper, but lobbed it wide. That would have settled us.

I liked the look of Kieran Brannan when he came on. He gave us some mobility up front. In Chissie’s two minutes replacing Keegan before he was shifted to the right he won more balls in the air than Keegan had all game up to then.

We never looked like losing a goal, though. It was a bit like the game up at Montrose about a month ago except this time the opposition’s sole speculative strike from outside the box ended up in our keeper’s arms rather than the net and we played better, actually having a few efforts on goal (though none their keeper had to save, admittedly.)

Since Stenny play both Annan and Forfar before the season ends (and therefore it isn’t possible for all three of them to get past us) we’re definitely in the play-offs at the least.

But we could have been in the driving seat.