The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
Daunting act two for Locos
Inverurie must face leaders Buckie for second time in one week
Spare a thought for Inverurie Locos manager Scott Buchan and his players.
Last Saturday, Locos hosted league leaders Buckie Thistle in the Scottish Cup and lost 6-0. Today, the sides meet again at Harlaw Park in the league.
Thistle have won all 10 league matches this season and top the table by five points from Brora.
Buckie manager Graeme Stewart said: “We have players back, including Chris Angus, so we will be stronger than last week, but we are also expecting Inverurie to have one or two players back as well.
“They’ll have put in hard training sessions and will want to keep their discipline. This will be a completely different game.”
Locos manager Scott Buchan read the riot act to his players and said:“We have worked on some issues in training and kept the players back on Wednesday. We’ll see if they learned anything.”
Brora manager Grant Munro knows his side will be in for a tough encounter when another top- five team, Fraserburgh, are the Keith manager Allan Hale is demanding a reaction from his players after their Scottish Cup loss to junior club Banks o’ Dee in the Highland League derby against Huntly today.
Jack Henderson scored the only goal of the game at Kynoch Park and Hale is
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visitors to Dudgeon Park and added: “We won at home against the Broch last season but they have a decent record up here.”
Fraserburgh manager Mark Cowie said: “I’m still angry about the performance of his team saying: “Itwasn’t good enough and I amlooking for something special from the players as a reaction to it. I’m hurting and angry. We’ve trained hard this week and there will be changes.”
Matches between the looking for a response from the players after going out of the Scottish Cup.”
Cove are hoping to complete the loan signing of Huntly forward Matthew McDonald in time for the sides in the 1990s were about winning the title and Hale added: “This game may not have the same standing as it had when both sides were winning titles but it’s still important. It’s a derby between teams who haven’t enjoyed the best of fortunes recently
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trip to Fort William, who are strengthened by the return of forwards Iain MacLellan and Scott Davidson from injury.
Strathspey Thistle and Rothes meet in a derby at but we have ambitions to establish ourselves as a topsix club again.”
Huntly must build on their 2-1 Scottish Cup first round win at Girvan and Black andGolds midfielder Paul Napier is looking forward to playing in his first derby against Keith.
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Seafield Park with the Jags’ only absentee suspended midfielder Ryan MacLeod.
The Speysiders will hand a debut to new signing from Dufftown, James McLaren.
Napier, a two-time titlewinner with BuckieThistle, said: “I played many times for the Jags in the derby against Deveronvale, and more recently for Formartine United against Locos, but this will be my Huntly versus Keith debut.
“They will be hurting
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Wick have forwardDavie Allan back from a ban for the visit of a Deveronvale side trying to bounce back from a disappointing 3-0 Scottish Cup defeat against Gretna 2008 last Saturday. after going out of the cupso we will need to be on our guard. I’m expecting it tobe feisty.
“Both clubs are down near the bottomof the table but both will be looking to pick up points as a couple of wins could send either club right up the table.”
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Forres goalkeeper Stuart Knight scored a memorable goal in added time on Saturday to keep his side in the Scottish Cup.
Today his focus is on ensuring Lossiemouth are kept at bay and his side complete the task of securing a second-round berth.
Knight scored from a corner to earn his side a replay after a 2-2 draw and said: “If we stop Lossie from scoring we’re a long way there as, with the attacking players we have, I can’t see us not scoring.
“It will be a tough game and Lossie will definitely be up for it. They would have been on a downer this week after my equaliser and will be trying to make amends.”
Coasters manager Charlie Charlesworth has injury concerns and said: “Joao Rodrigues is suspended. It was a real disappointment not to get the win last week but hopefully we can go one better this time.”
Mechanics’ manager Charlie Rowley said: “We have to make sure we capitalise on last week. We are better prepared going into this replay, we have a decent record at Grant Park and hopefully we can continue that.”
Turriff United travel to East of Scotland junior club Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic.
United manager Ross Jack said: “We started as underdogs in our 1-1 draw last Saturday and nothing much has changed.
“We have a bigger squad, with midfielder Allen MacKenzie having recovered from an eye infection, and it is only half-time so we need to make sure we complete the job.”
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