AWAY GAME v BUCKIE THISTLE FC
BREEDON HIGHLAND LEAGUE
VICTORIA PARK, BUCKIE AB56 1BJ
WEDNESDAY 28 AUGUST – KO 8pm
On Wednesday we travel to the home of the Eat Mair Fish shop and to what, I imagine, will be a very difficult evening at Victoria Park in our first Breedon Highland League encounter of the season with Buckie Thistle.
Buckie have had a very busy start to the season playing in the Challenge Cup against the likes of Stenhousemuir, Falkirk and Dundee Utd – a frightening trio – and that was before they started in the Highland League!! — but last years champions, understandably, had a bit of a stagger before getting into gear in the league this season.
This resulted in a few up and down results but got their mojo back on Saturday with a seven – one demolition of Deveronvale, who themselves have had a good start to the season accumulating eight points, currently one point ahead of Buckie!!!
Hopefully we can get something from Wednesday night’s game as currently we sit with no points and there is now a four point gap between ourselves and next bottom club, Lossiemouth, who, strangely, we welcome to Seafield Park next Saturday.
It is very early days on our new “journey” and every game is a learning curve for our new management team and players.
SATURDAY’S MATCH AGAINST FORMARTINE UNITED AT SEAFIELD PARK
Eventually the Formartine United bus arrived at Seafield Park, having been stuck for around twenty minutes in the town’s Woodside Avenue where, in the midst of all the traffic turmoil of the annual Harley-Davidson “Thunder in the Glens” weekend it, was blocked by a 4×4 pulling a horse box and with no room to manoeuvre, it was stalemate till the police arrived…….
The bus incident obviously did not manifest itself on the field of play, with Formartine running out winners by four goals to nil.
The Jags started well and were possibly the better team for the quarter of an hour missing a couple of good chances.
However, after thirty-two minutes Formartine took the lead after a goal mouth scramble and thats how it stayed until half-time.
Second half and Formartine stepped up their game and were even more aggressive and commanding in the tackle not giving The Jags much space and time we struggled with accurate passing and having no time on the ball.
It was an inevitability that Formartine would score next, which they did just after the hour mark – and then followed by a defensive mix-up four minutes later, which resulted in a soft corner which Formartine capitalised on by scoring their third, and finally finishing the goal scoring with a fine free kick from just outside the box after seventy- seven minutes.
THAT’S ALL FROM ME ‘TILL LATER ON IN THE WEEK WITH A PREVIEW OF THE LOSSIE GAME….