The over 50s travel up to Dundee this weekend for the last set of fixtures in this year’s league competition. Currently sitting in eight place the right results could see the team rise to fourth place.
This weekends games see us playing local rivals Dunfermline Dynamos, the always fiery Dundee United and newcomers Fairfield. Previous games this season saw us beat Dunfermline 3-0 and lose a tight game 1-0 against Dundee Utd. Our game against Fairfield wasn’t played due to Fairfield being unable to play that weekend so was awarded to us 3-0.
The team set off this afternoon from Starks Park with high expectations of a good start to this year’s league campaign. We had three games today against Fife Wanderers, Montrose and Saints in the Community.
Back row: Kevin Henderson, Harry Younger, Scott Jackson, Steve Fleming, John Cunningham Front row: Charles Doherty, Martin Page, Johnston Scott, John Wylie
Game 1: Fife Wanderers A tight game as always between us and our near neighbours. No goals until the 12th minute when the ref pinged us for a third run. I had only counted one up until then but…. The penalty was duly taken and the ball ended up in the net until the ref pointed out that he hadn’t blown his whistle so had to be retaken with the same result. 1-0 to Fife Wanderers. In the last minute a 3rd running infringement for Fife give us a penalty which Scott Jackson slides past the keeper as the whistle blows and the game finishes as a draw.
Arbroath 1-0 Carnoustie Panmure Fife Wanderers 1-1 Raith Rovers Crieff Juniors 3-2 Tayport Fairfield 2-1 Saints in the Community
Game 2: Montrose The game starts well for Raith with a 2nd minute goal as Scott Jackson collects a kick in and lashes the ball past the Montrose keeper. In the fifth minute a through ball to Scott lets him in again to score his 3rd goal of the day and boosts his campaign for this year’s golden boot. Chances continue for Raith while Montrose fail to really get much purchase on the game. In the 12th minute Scott Jackson claims his hat trick with a thundering shot that beats the keeper. But a big deflection off John Cunningham takes the goal away from Scott and is awarded to John. A couple of late breakaways from Montrose come to nothing and the game ends 3-0 to Raith
Dundee United 0-1 St James Dunfermline Dynamos 3-2 St Andrews & East Neuk Montrose 0-3 Raith Rovers Arbroath 2-3 Crieff Juniors
Fife Wanderers 0-0 Saints in the Community Dundee United 0-2 Tayport Fairfield 3-0 St Andrews & East Neuk Dunfermline Dynamos 1-3 St James
Carnoustie Panmure 2-2 Crieff Juniors Montrose 1-1 Saints in the Community Arbroath 3-0 Dundee United Fife Wanderers 6-0 St Andrews & East Neuk
Game 3: Saints in the Community Our 3rd and final game of the day and it was a tight one. Plenty of shots fired in by Raith but precious few on target until the 6th minute when an intercepted throw out from the keeper is passed to Scott Jackson and he gives the keeper no chance finding the top right corner of the goal from the left corner of the box. The game continues in the same vein with Raith squandering chance after chance. Luckily the whistle goes and Raith hold out to win 1-0
Dunfermline Dynamos 0-5 Tayport Fairfield 2-2 St James Raith Rovers 1-0 Saints in the Community Carnoustie Panmure 2-0 Montrose
GP
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
PTS
Fairfield
3
2
1
0
7
3
4
7
Raith Rovers
3
2
1
0
5
1
4
7
St James
3
2
1
0
6
3
3
7
Crieff Juniors
3
2
1
0
8
6
2
7
Tayport
3
2
0
1
9
3
6
6
Arbroath
3
2
0
1
6
3
3
6
Fife Wanderers
3
1
2
0
7
1
6
5
Carnoustie Panmure
3
1
1
1
4
3
1
4
Dunfermline Dynamos
3
1
0
2
4
10
-6
3
Saints in the Community
4
0
2
2
2
4
-2
2
Montrose
3
0
1
2
1
6
-5
1
Dundee United
3
0
0
3
0
6
-6
0
St Andrews & East Neuk
3
0
0
3
2
12
-10
0
League Table Week 1
At the end of week 1 the team is sitting nicely joint top of the league losing only one goal (from a penalty) and scoring five. With Scott Jackson staking an early claim for this year’s golden boot with all but one of our goals. Harry Younger scored nil today
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