John Hinshelwood's Match Report
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Maryhill v.
Perthshire
2 - 2
1st August 2009
2 - 2
1st August 2009
An injury time goal
denied Maryhill their first
win of the season.
The opening
exchanges were fairly even ,
with headers from John
Cunningham and John Craig
both coming close for the
home side and the visitors
respectively. Perthshire
went ahead in the 22nd
minute when John Craig just
beat Hill's trialist keeper
to squeeze the ball over the
line. Fraser Malcolm should
have made it two four
minutes later, but after
good work , delayed his
final shot just a fraction
too long. Maryhill, playing
some neat, but sporadic
football, forced a series of
corners, and two efforts
from Ross Barr were just
wide of the target. The
deserved equaliser duly
arrived three minutes from
the break, when Andrew
Wright headed powerfully
home from a Michael Tolland
corner.
Half Time - Maryhill
1 Perthshire 1
Nine minutes after
the interval, Malcolm had
another good chance for
Shire, but the trialist
keeper made a good save.
Ryan Scobie then came very
close for Hill, but his
header from a Mark Sideserf
cross was just inches wide.
The same player had better
luck a couple of minutes
later, however, when he gave
Maryhill the lead. Mark
Sideserf's outswinging
corner was headed goalwards
by Ross Barr, and Scobie
flicked the ball past Iain
MacKay from close range.
Maryhill dominated for the
remainder of the game,
forcing twelve corners to
Shire's two, but it was the
visitors who had the better
chances on the break.
The best opportunity fell to
Brian Noble midway through
the half, but his mistimed
effort was blocked by the
keeper. At the other end, a
header from Craig
Ferguson,and a volley from
John Cunningham both brought
out good stops from MacKay,
and a good old
fashioned"stramash" saw
efforts from Wright,
Ferguson and Scobie somehow
fail to hit the target. Just
as the three points were
looking safe, the visitors
drew level in injury time,
with indecision in the
Maryhill defence allowing
Brian Noble to fire home a
well placed shot from just
outside the penalty area.
MARYHILL-: Trialist,
Cunningham,Wright,
McGoldrick, Stanley, Barr,
Tolland (McKee 72),
Ferguson, Scobie (McLernon
88), Slack (Trialist 62),
Sideserf.
SUBS (not used ) -:
D.Wilson, Trialist,
Trialist, M.Wilson.
SCORERS -: Wright
(42), Scobie (58)
YELLOW CARDS -:
Sideserf (61)
RED CARDS -: None
PERTHSHIRE -:
MacKay, D.Craig (Johnstone
76), Wales, Broadley, Brown
(Kennedy 76), Leggatt, Eadie,
Noble, J.Craig, McCann
(Burnside 79), Malcolm.
SUBS (not used ) -;
Wright, King, Mather.
SCORERS -: J.Craig
(22), Noble (90)
YELLOW CARDS -: None
RED CARDS -: None
Referee -: Scott
Love
Man of the match -
Craig Ferguson
Opponents'man of the
match - John Craig