SPFL Tier 4, The Rock, 17/9/22.

Well that’s our first goal – and so first win – against Bonnyrigg.

I don’t know if we ground it out but that’s two 1-0 wins in a row.

Interesting to note it was Carsy who took the penalty. Ally Love took the last two – against Elgin three weeks ago.

And we broke our record of successive wins at the start of a season again – plus equalled the Division’s best ever start.

On Tuesday night we’re at Stranraer for the game postponed from last week. As I said before, they’re our bogey team.

After the suspension of football in Scotland last weekend due to the late Queen’s death it is back to business again on Saturday with a home game against Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic of ill memory.

Will the break count against us in our good run or can we keep it going and equal the division record for consecutive wins from the beginning of the season?

Mind you as the link above shows they have a 100% record at our place.

History will be made any way round.

Scottish Cup** Third Round, New Saunders Park, 26/11/16.

It was great to be at an old-fashioned football ground, crowd tight to the pitch, free standing, ability to walk round the ground, no segregation – and never a hint of trouble despite that. A great occasion for Bonnyrigg; as the size of the crowd testified.

But for us this was dreadful. Against a team not even in the same football system as us and therefore technically at least five levels below ours we looked as if all we intended was to avoid defeat.

Too many passes went astray, too many players were off it. Okay we were missing a few but we should still be able to go to a Junior ground and look to attack.

They had the better of the play apart from a minor flurry at the beginning of the second half. They might only have had one threatening attempt in the first half – well saved by Alan Martin but routine enough – to our three (Garry Fleming’s effort from their mistake followed by Donald McCallum’s shot on the rebound, both well saved by their keeper, then Don’s attempt to dig out the ball after the keeper spilled a cross) but they had most of the play.

We looked comfortable enough defending – except for corners and free-kicks and a wonderful Alan Martin reflex save from one of those – but we ourselves only had a looping header on target in the second half.

Quite why Don was on from the start when they had two big central defenders who could head the ball all day is beyond me. Robert Thomson at least won a few when he came on, we might have made something of that if he had started and Don could have come on to run at them towards the end. Not that they looked lacking in fitness. The game could have gone on till next Tuesday and no goals would have been scored.

A replay is the last thing we needed; especially in the week running up to our encounter with Hibs at Easter Road. On this evidence we could go into that game out of the Cup.

*According to their website the home club’s full name is Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic.
**William Hill Scottish Cup