The Binos v Strathspey Thistle 2nd Round Scottish Cup

[rhliston]

 

This Saturday we welcome Strathspey Thistle to Forthbank in our 2nd Round Cup Tie.

 

On paper this is a game we should win, No disrespect to Strathspey and advance into the next round but you never know with the Binos at the moment, struggling to score goals and the question most Binos fans will be asking is whether we can improve our goal scoring on Saturday.

 

Let’s hope our strikers find their goal scoring boots and use them to great effect on Saturday. We will win quite comfortably or struggle to overcome them on Saturday, so hoping for a decent game with the Binos marching forward into the next round.

 

Prediction Binos 2 Strathspey Thistle 0. [emoji4]

 

 

 

[BB_Bino]

So we are into the hat for the next round draw, but the result flattered a pretty inept Strathspey. Had it not been for wonderful Goalkeeping and equally poor finishing, then the score line would have been vastly different.

As has been mentioned above,Heaver was quite rightly voted MOTM and put in a hell of a shift. I have only seen him in the games against Stenhousemuir and today, but he looks like an exciting player. He was full of direct running and offered so much. Sure, he made mistakes but if he can keep up the standards he set today then he’s going to have a wonderful season. It’s hard to believe he’s 27 and never played in the league until now.

The same can’t be said about the other Strikers though. I hate to be critical of our lads but once again Hawke looked out his depth and was rightly hooked at Half Time, Duffy missed a Hattrick of easy chances, whilst being ball greedy at other times and Max Wright looked totally ineffective, giving the ball away twice. Throw in Dylan Mackin, who looks to be out the picture and out of shape, you do wonder who’ll be the first to be offered some kind of deal to leave the club as ,Duffy aside, it does seem to be the same story on a weekly basis.

Anyway, today was a day of positives and I thought there was a lot to take, but it’s like when you are judging Scotland v San Marino, due to the lack of opposition, it’s hard to judge how good we actually were.

Most of what was good about our play today, came down the left hand side and through the trio of Creaney, Thomson and Heaver. in fact, it’s safe to say the 3 if them cruised the first half and ultimately won us the game. Like the Stricker’s, the rest of the squad were hit and miss but thankfully there were more hits than misses. Jardine showed flashes of brilliance and if he could just show a little bit more composure, could have scored. Nicol looked more like the player we saw at Clyde and the 2 Centre Backs, McLean & McGregor, strolled the little that they had to deal with.

Currie pulled off a wonderful save before Strathspey had a good shout for a penalty, when the ball hit McGeachie’s arm, going by the new rules then it was a penalty, so it was a let off, but other than that, they didn’t really show much else.

Although not the 5 that Pete Statement was demanding, it was still another positive result for KR and hopefully we can get a money spinner in the next round.

Next weeks game is now cancelled, as Cowdenbeath face Broxburn in their reply, however, whatever happens with our next game, Heaver must be playing and hopef

[rhliston]

Well we are thru to the 3rd round but it should have been a bigger score for us. First half by far the better side and Sean Heaver was very unlucky not to have a hattrick in the first half but thanks to a great save by their keeper keeps the score down to 2-0 .

Second half we were very disappointing and should have added more but poor finishing by us kept the score down. Strathspey did have a couple of chances late on but thanks to a great stop by Blair Currie they were denied a goal, might have had a penalty claim a few minutes later but it was waved away by the ref. 

One of the Strathspey players was stretchered off near the end, hope its nothing serious for the lad. 

Onwards to Round 3 and who ever awaits us in the draw. 

Edited October 19, 2019 by rhliston

[CB78]

How have Josh Peters and Lewis Hawke been playing for Stirling? 

[AlbionMan]

2 minutes ago, CB78 said:

How have Josh Peters and Lewis Hawke been playing for Stirling? 

Peters  is injured, Hawke is seen in team colours.

[BB_Bino]

How have Josh Peters and Lewis Hawke been playing for Stirling? 

Peters has played well every time I have seen him, and he struck up a good partnership with Duffy prior to injury. The less said about Hawke the better, the lad has been a complete imposter this far.