Peter Culter

A massive win. I’m really for the players and staff who have been fighting hard. Hopefully Saturday in the Cup doesn’t prove too much of a distraction and we can keep building on the feel good factor.

A much improved performance with some really positive play but we only have ourselves to blame for not taking our chances. Cumnock were really poor and it was our nervousness more than their style of play that let them back into it. Big Jack only has to clear the ball but waits and clips the attacker to concede the penalty. The panic and poor mentality continues to worry me. TC taken off on a stretcher could be a really bad situation.

If we lose on Friday evening then we really are in trouble!

It’s very telling how we can all have our own club rivalries in this league. Arthurlie/Pollok, Buffs/Medda, Cumnock/Talbot for example but are almost all united in loving what is currently happening at this circus. That says it all.

I thought young Josh was outstanding. We looked a lot more solid this afternoon and really dangerous going forward. Well done to the management and players.

Spot on.

Some of that this evening was chronic. It looked, especially in the first half, that we’d never played together before. Arthurlie should have been three up at the break. Second half was better but our overall defensive work and passing is nothing short of horrendous. Beith will run us over on Saturday.

Any hope of watching decent football ruined by a really poor pitch. A tough watch this afternoon but into the hat for the next round and that’s the important thing. Good to see big Jack back. .

3-3. Buffs win 4-3 on penalties.

One thing is almost guaranteed at Buffs Park at the moment… goals! What an evening of entertainment that was. Our defensive frailties showed once more but the players showed great fight and spirit to come back and ultimately win the game on penalties. Hopefully this can be the start of an upturn in fortunes and the injuries sustained to Ben and Dylan aren’t too bad. I heard that Nicoll is off to Gartcairn but nothing confirmed from the club as yet.

Does it have to be in that order? .

I found that quite bizarre this afternoon. We were certainly in the game at points but as soon as Pollok went down to ten men we lost the plot. Threading the ball through the eye of a needle might work sometimes but so might actually hitting the bloody thing! Trialist ‘keeper as MOTM for me tells you all you need to know about the defence.

The loyalty this man shows to clubs is incredible! .

I thought he was a part of a three-man central defence with Ben and Gavin filling in as wing-backs. I actually thought he would have been a great signing for us after watching him for Clyde but he’s not impressed me at all.

As long as we keep playing Nicoll the mistakes will keep happening.