Goal hero delighted to prove doubters wrong
IF there is anyone Ryan Fulton could have chosen to gift a gilt-edged opening to on Saturday, it would not have been a player who has made a career out of putting such chances in the back of the net.
Unfortunately for the Hamilton Accies keeper, he did just that when he dropped an Iain Vigurs cross at the feet of Billy McKay, who happily rifled home his first goal of the season.
The Staggies’ comfortable win in Lanarkshire made it two out of two for the Highlanders and, while their flying start has surprised some, the Northern Irishman says it is nothing less than Stuart Kettlewell’s men expected.
“Maybe we have surprised some people, but I don’t think we have surprised ourselves,” McKay said. “We know the quality we have got in the dressing room.
“We have always had that mentality that everybody is against us. We are going to keep that and keep pushing ourselves in house to prove a lot of people wrong.
“It’s great to get six points out of six, you can’t ask for any better. We’ve got two home games now, so we will definitely be looking to take some points from those games as well.”
Long before Fulton’s flap gifted McKay the goal, it had looked like Ross County were destined to head back up to Dingwall with all three points. They controlled the game for large swathes of the play, thanks in no small part to the growing influence of skipper Vigurs and the invention of Harry Paton in attack. The Canadian again found himself playing just off the enticing front three of Lee Erwin, Ross Stewart and McKay, the quartet defying their lack of pace with intelligent running and an understanding most forward lines take years to develop.
Whenever one of them picked up the ball, it was like a trigger for the other three, who gleefully galloped into the space behind Accies’ back line to threaten their resolve.
Rightly praised for their boldness against Celtic, Brian