Huntly v Inverurie Loco Works

As "my mob's" (A H's words, not mine!) game today against Formartine 16's, (I've no idea either why it was changed), is off as usual due to council pitches here in the toon being water-logged yet again! I will be able to watch my beloved Huntly (for only the 5th time this season) against our bitterest rivals from the Dark Side. As folk would imagine, I am delighted at getting the chance to do this and will be in attendance at Christie Park (I never turned my back on my club!!) this afternoon to watch what I hope will be a good game, with of course a good result / performance from Huntly.

Here's hoping anyway!

Alan G.

poor game by both sides today, but it`s the result that matters,good goal to win it ,what a poor loser Cormie is refusing to shake our managers hand at the end of the game.

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Another great result today lads. I'm sure we would have been happy with a point but to grind out 3 is fantastic. With the top two winning it was important to get something today. Disapointed with our tatics towards the end,we are much better than that.

LOCOS SPOT THE DIFFERENCE COMPETITION - Part 8





A Huntly win v Locos
To upset Big Red's plans
Poor old Mr Grumpy
Wouldna shake McGinlay's hand

the locos board looked very embarrassed that cormie refused to shake hands with McG.

thought we played very poor but we won the game which is the main thing, a few good saves from Brems kept us in it. At times i feel McG should be making changes alot sooner than he does.

bankie jimbo wrote:

Another great result today lads. I'm sure we would have been happy with a point but to grind out 3 is fantastic. With the top two winning it was important to get something today. Disapointed with our tatics towards the end,we are much better than that.

Must agree wit bankie about the tactics at the end wish we went for the kill and got anotha goal!!! cant comment to much on the match as only managed to mke second half but from what i saw it was adire game with a draw bein a fair result but managing to steal the win was brilliant!!!

in my opinion theres nothing wrong with timewasting tactics, at the end of the day if we didn't do tht and lost a goal, everyone would say we should have been timewasting

forgot to add dont understand the two changes made 5 mins afta half time as i heard ewen was playing well n dorrat is always a threat for the wing!

hi there how u all doing for sum strange reason i seem 2 look 4 u results now good win 2 day

I'm a fan of Rusty Dorrat but he had a mare today looked uncomfortable for some reason on the right and wisna is usual robust self apart from clunking the keeper


the change was to stop going down to 10 if Dorrat mistimed another tackle !!

double change was maybe tactical as Mikey was drifting away from the box and maybe McG wanted something diff from Andrzej


time wasting we didna do it that well as we kept losing the ball but if we had gone for another goal and then left door open and gave one away we would all be moaning

Think ur being hard on Mcginlay, for me Ewen was pretty ordinary in the 1st half, ok he never got much support, but he couldn't have been tired at half time anyway. At know time did he show any urgency, or try and put any pressure on their defence or opposing keeper. The 1st half was dire, but the 2 subs Mcgin made in the 2nd half changed the game, we were then in the ascendency after that, we started putting them under more pressure and probably just shaded it in the end. Thought Gray was the stand out player in the midfield his passing and use of the ball was superb. All in all a good 3 pts.

have to agree with Huntly Don apart from comment re Grayser (and I'm a fan)

but today


he was sloppy with passing at times, especially first half (who wisna) but came onto a good game in second and this allowed Soane to influence things better

I think tactically Locos had the better of it in first half, Bisset followed Soane all over for first spell to try and nullify him and they seemed to outnumber us in the middle of park

then they switched things around and didna do so well the subs did change things BUT is that not what subs are supposed to do .....................

also pleased Dave made changes early as thats one thing i feel is done too late sometimes subs need to get into pace of game to effect change and thats what happened today

as i said earlier i ddnt c first half and was going on what i was told. but all iv gt to say is it was a fantastic win!!

A worthwhile wee trip up after that result! Certainly an improved performance on the game a fortnight ago! Pretty close between the two sides throughout, but its taking chances that wins you games and thats something we succeeded in today when Locos failed to do so. The subs in second half certainly mixed it a bit and changed the game a bit for me. Some decent spells of possession which provided the opportunity required to break the deadlock. Hopefully this spell of decent results continues!

does anyone know y ross mckenzie was dropped for the last couple of games anyway?

struggling with groin injury I hear

i heard different jamieson... i heard that mcginlay thought his form had dipped so dropped him

shaunyboy69 wrote:

i heard different jamieson... i heard that mcginlay thought his form had dipped so dropped him

If he was injured story over. If what shaun is saying is true it didnt help playing him left back at the shambles that was auchinleck. With dropping rosco after that it looks like he was made scapegoat. Why are we just talking about this now? It takes away from a great result which "most " of us on hear wanted.

i heard a different story from being injured and a drop in performance. i heard it was because he missed training twice this week due to work commitments and McG wanted to give a chance to the players who attended. It would be a bit unfair to those players who attended to start on the bench. I think as we have a bigger squad than in the past we need to rotate alot more to keep everyone happy.

At the end of the day we won the game which is the main thing.

Great result, ok not the best of games but it was 3 points against the team from the Garioch. It was a game that looked like it was only going to have 1 goal in it and Ross took his goal well. Big Dorrat, I would think was taken off instead of walking, ref Tommy would have made sure of it !

Shrek wrote:

forgot to add dont understand the two changes made 5 mins afta half time as i heard ewen was playing well n dorrat is always a threat for the wing!

Mikey picked up a knock first half

good win yesterday, players worked hard for it.

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The only good thing to come from yesterdays match was the three points.I am a great believer in playing your best team,especially against one of the top teams,clearly Huntly didn't do that.Don't know who told Shrek that Ewen was playing well but they must have been at a different game to me,his positioning and runs are all wrong and his effort to close down is non existant.If Fraser was supposed to be playing up front then he was at times 20 yards too deep,the strikers need to be much closer together for flick ons and to link up with each other,strikers need to work as a pair!Dorrat seems to be struggling to me(maybe still struggling with injury),he doesn't drive at opponents like he was doing earlier in the season and the game seemed to pass him by.On the positive side the game changed with the introduction of Brownhill and Andrez,especially Brownhill who seemed to get the rest of the team going with his effort and his ability to create things.Andrez is the opposite to Ewen in that his positioning and movement are very good and when he is on Huntly look like they can score.Brems very solid again as was Si and Soane.As for moaning about running the clock down,it is the right thing to do,Huntly just need to learn to do it better!What is the point of chasing another goal only to leave yourselves open to a counter attack?Things are going relly well at the moment lets hope the best team gets selected every week then im sure Huntly won't be far away.