Callum feels blue at Rose rock bottom
CALLUM CONNOLLY kept Bonnyrigg within touching distance at the foot of the table but admits a 1-1 draw still felt like rock bottom.
The midfielder nodded in a 75th-minute equaliser as Rose failed to turn their supremacy into three points against East Fife.
With Albion Rovers demolishing Dumbarton, the New Dundas Park side are now two points adrift with a goal difference that does little to help them.
Connolly said: “They’ve only had one chance and taken it, we’ve not taken ours. Again we have come away without the three points, which is what has been happening every week, it feels like, for the last four or five games.
“It’s frustrating as every game we are in it and there hasn’t been much in them. But again we haven’t come out on the right side of it.
“This league is so tight. The team joint bottom goes and beats the team at the top, so there is nothing in this league. Anyone can beat anyone and that’s where the frustration is as we don’t go and get the winner.”
Alan Trouten gave the Fifers the lead with a fine finish from 12 yards out just before the hour.
Rose finally found a way through when Connolly evaded his marker at the front post to head a Lee Currie corner home.
Ninth-placed Rovers have some breathing space after a 5-1 rout as Sons boss Stevie Farrell declared it was deserved.
Albion pair Joe Bevan and Charlie Reilly bagged doubles to add to Callum Wilson’s strike, with only Ayrton Sonkur’s own goal
stopping a shut-out. Farrell said: “Rovers got exactly what they deserved, as did we because we were second best and lucky it was only four at half-time.
“We lost 10 individual outfield battles and when you do that, you won’t win.”
Keeper Blair Currie saved a stoppage-time penalty to leave Stirling just a point behind the league leaders thanks to a 1-1 draw at Stranraer.
Jack Leitch fired the Binos ahead before Scott Robertson equalised.
But Currie denied Josh Walker from 12 yards to ensure Darren Young’s men left with a point.
Annan stay third despite going down 2-1 at Forfar who clinched victory via Ben Armour’s late penalty.