Ardrossan Winton Rovers Archive

Season 2004-05

SATURDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 2004

WINTON HIT TOP

Ardrossan Winton Rovers 4
Dalry Thistle 2

Stagecoach Ayrshire District League

WINTON went top of the league after this latest game but again made it hard for themselves coming from two goals down to win comfortably in the end.

The opening period saw little in the way of good football as the two teams tested each other but neither goalkeeper had much to do.

Winton had the best chance on 17 minutes when Scott Weir went for a high looping cross that he got a touch on, but the ball went across the goal.

Dalry had a chance on 20 minutes when Gerry Malone turned and shot from eight yards but Robertson blocked his effort with his legs for a corner.

Ewan Jamieson broke the deadlock, however in 23 minutes with a fine individual goal. Jamieson broke up the park after a Winton attack and managed to hook the ball in from a tight angle under pressure from Wilson.

Dalry went 2-0 up on the half hour mark and again the visitors broke from some Winton pressure with Jamieson sending a great pass to William Hutson and he drew Robertson out from the home goal before chipping him.

In 41 minutes Winton did get a goal back that their recent pressure merited. Cuthbert got free on the right and sent a low cross in that Weir tucked home from inside the six yard box.

Winton again pressed at the start of the second half with Alistair Brown coming close at the back post with a shot that went wide.

Tempers got heated after this when Crawford was adjudged to be late and high with a challenge on the Dalry trialist goalkeeper.

In 63 minutes, ex Winton man David Hyndman saw a knock down from substitute Barrett go wide.

Winton were still trying hard to get something out of this game and some good substitutions saw Graeme Muir, Hoots Harvey and Scott Clelland come on to eventually turn this game Winton's way.

In 71 minutes Winton drew level after a good series of short passes and close control by Crawford, McCann and Graeme Muir saw Muir drive into the box only to be upended and win a penalty kick. Muir picked himself up and scored the spot kick low into the left.

Winton were on the up at this stage and kept pressing with Clelland setting up Muir who saw his shot saved by the legs of the Dalry keeper.

Muir's direct running and pace was causing Dalry all sorts of problems at this stage and it came as no real surprise as Winton went ahead in 80 minutes when a corner on the right was knocked back by Weir to Scott Crawford and he drilled a low drive into the net.

Winton sealed the game on 82 minutes when another corner on the right was knocked away by the Dalry defence but Mark McCann met the ball with his head to send an accurate header over the keeper's head and into the far corner of the net.

WINTON: Robertson, McMillam, Connelly, Easton, Wilson, Brown,
Cuthbert, Crawford, Weir, McCann, Halliday.
Subs: Yair, Clelland, Hamill, Muir, Harvey.

DALRY: Trialist, Rodgers, Burgess, Wake, Jamieson, Hyndman,
McKeown, Hutson, Trialist, McGeown, Trialist.
Subs: Muir, Jones, Dickson, Barrett, Harrison.

 

This match report has been reproduced by kind permission the editor, Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald.