McGregor was Boyd up by advice and aims to put it to use
STIRLING ALBION v ALBION ROVERS
MAN-MARKING Kris Boyd is the definition of a thankless task – unless the veteran coaches you through it.
Now Jordan McGregor intends to put the goalscorer’s tips to good use by showing he’s cut out for first-team football at Stirling.
Facing the 35-year-old striker was one of few memorable moments in a frustrating first half of the season spent in ALAN ROBERTSON Aberdeen’s development squad. Boyd even dished out on-the-job advice in a 5-0 hammering at the hands of Kilmarnock’s reserves back in September.
Bottom-of-the-table Albion Rovers visit tonight and the 21-year-old centre-half said: “He spoke to me the whole game, trying to coach me through it. Just telling me what I should have been doing, where I should be standing positionally.
“I was taking as much as I could in and trying to listen to him at the same time the game was going on. He scored the second, it was an unbelievable flick. His movement is very good. But he’s certainly not a patch on Peter MacDonald! Peaso is better in the air.”
Rovers’ sole league win came against Stirling in September and Kevin Harper, now in post three months, believes another would cue a “totally different feeling around the place.”
The Cliftonhill boss said: “The mood in the camp is we need to get a win at some point. We’ve had a couple of heavy defeats so the boys are well aware of where we’re going wrong, it’s up to them to put it right.
“We’re putting as much as we can into the training etc to try to get them to understand what they’re looking for.
“It’s up to them to show they can play and they can get the win we desperately need.”