[Galabankie]

Nithsdale 1 Annan Ath 5 (H/T 4-0)

[DG6]

Baba O'Reilly, on Jul 30 2008, 21:14, said:

Critchon won 3v1.
Heard Saints were beating Threave. Any truth.

Saints were 2-0 up bot threave got back to 2-2. Threave had 2 men sent off in last 5 mins of game....rightly so, should have had more sent off, got very dirty at end of game.

[gbar_2007]

Wigtown 4 Creetown 1

[southview]

Watched Nithsdale v Annan tonight - Annan deserved to win but Nithsdale will be disappointed with the goals they conceded, 3 of them coming from guys unmarked at the back post.

After Nithsdale made it 4-1, they had a great chance when the keeper Dougie Calder raced from his goal, the ball fell to a player 30 yards out but he shot wide of an open goal. Then a good ball in behind the Annan defence found a Nithsdale attacker but he shot wide to! It should have been 4-3 at that stage.

Graeme Bell scored twice for Annan, his second goal was thanks to a lovely piece of skill that took out a defender and then a cool finish. I was impressed with the right winger Ryan Adamson (No 7) and the centre-half wearing No 6 was also strong.

[Mr Maryfield]

String, on Jul 30 2008, 22:26, said:

MIDS 2-1 HESTON, WAS GOING ON 5 OR 6 FOR MIDS MISSED SOME EASY CHANCES, AND "NO" COCKY DIDNT SCORE FORHESTON,HE GOT SUBSTITUTED!!!! HAHAHA

He must have been carrying an injury if he didnt score and was sustituted . Cant wait to see the legend in the flesh, it will be the highlight of my season unless he manages to get on the scoresheet and prove to us all that he really is the brightest new talent in the South West if not the northern hemisphere

[Royal FC]

This is the one, on Jul 30 2008, 23:59, said:

The same way they probably always are - fine until Saints go a couple of goals down

Threave never turned up 1st half, fluky 2nd goal for Saints, Bread and butter for Vinnie. There was some dirty tackles coming in from Saints too (Murray on Sam springs to mind!) but totaly agree with Wilbys sending off, was an awful tackle, and really put Threave up against it with around 5 mins to go.

Chuffed with the 2-2 result tho, hanging on by fingernails at times, unlucky their number 2 with that chance in injury time.

Impressed with Jamie Clarke, he played well and worked hard, but Jim Kirk , every time he went to win a ball he gave away a foul! Bring back Rodney Niven

[tuckersloan]

marf-1870, on Jul 30 2008, 20:56, said:

Stranraer 4 Newtown 3. Could have been ten for Stranraer.

I find that comment very disrespectful to be honest. These reserve players are supposedly on the fringe of 2nd Division football. Stranraer have the pick of the local players due to some folk believing they can actually breakthrough. Now whether you think thats realistic or not it doesn't really matter.

Lets face facts here though - a team of players who some think can play in the professional leagues scraped through against a team who have very little resources or choice in comparison. There was only 1 goal in the game in the end up regardless of what you say. Even once Stranraer has taken their pick of players you have other clubs who are paying money and enticing players with sums we couldn't possibly pay out.

Before anyone throw up the 'Stranraer young team line' I will give you a few facts on that basis as well. We fielded 1 player in our starting line up over the age of 21. By my calculations Stranraer had at least 5 over the age of 21 in their starting line up.

Harry Fidler did have a number of good saves in the match but to make out it was all one way traffic is a bit unfair on the smaller team who had a decent go at upsetting the odds. Stranraer had a number of close things but surely thats to be expected given the circumstances.

[gatehouseqos]

Dbt star 6 - 2 Fleet star

[Royal FC]

saintslad, on Jul 31 2008, 09:50, said:

Fair opinions but i cant see how you can say that about Jim Kirk considering you had two of your defenders sent off and a third booked.

Do you condone Liam Paterson's actions that got him sent off? From the noises coming out of the changing room your management team sure didnt.

Overall a brilliant game its definately the best derby in the SoSL.

I didn't see Pato's 1st yellow card, but someone said he took a swipe at Maxi when they were celebrating the equaliser? Is that true? No wonder Davie was going mad!