Saints Go Shopping

Bright and early last Saturday morning a group of volunteers from Oban Saints first and second teams, headed by first team Manager Willie Gemmell, Coach Jamie Graham and second team Manager Donald Black met up to arrange a food drop for some of those in the local community less able to get out and about.

Following an 8 a.m. rendezvous at Glencruitten and a talk from Commander-in-Chief Gemmell on hand sanitising and social distancing, the twelve split up into smaller groups and departed for the various local supermarkets to put their highly questionable shopping skills to the test. Probably amazed to discover that supermarkets don't just sell sweets and alcohol, the Saints shoppers went trolley to trolley with people who actually knew what they were looking for in the already packed shopping aisles.

Forearmed with information from their mothers or better halves on what would be useful purchases and, observing anti bulk buying protocol, the willing volunteers stacked their trolleys with sensible amounts of essential items before heading to the check-outs where purse string holders Gemmell, Graham and Black waited with money collected from player donations and club funds.

After dividing the haul and packing it into boxes the Saints battle weary old mini-bus was once again pressed into action for a food parcel drop to the day rooms of the local sheltered housing complexes. Oban's Dunmar Court, Lynn Court and Torosay Court were all visited as well as Dunbeg's MacCallum Court and Ford Spence Court in Benderloch. Also in receipt of grocery boxes were Hope Kitchen in Argyll Street and Blue Triangle in Shore Street. 

The club are delighted to have been able to give something back to the the local community which supports them so well and, for as long as it remains possible to do so in these trying times, Oban Saints management, players and officials will continue to make themselves available to assist those in need of a helping hand. The club can be contacted through their social media channels or by phoning Willie Gemmell on 07455 260 175 or Jamie Graham on 07882 331 998. 

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Friday 13th Football's Unluckiest Day

The shock news received on the afternoon of Friday 13th March that all Scottish Amateur football has been suspended due to the coronavirus has sidelined Oban Saints push for the Central Scottish Amateur Football League Division 1B title.

Despite the fact that amateur football matches are rarely, if ever, attended by crowds of five hundred or more people, the Scottish Football Association, under whose jurisdiction all grassroots football falls, made their decision based on "public health, the commitments of emergency and medical services, and also on the safety of those involved in the game, which applies from senior professional football to the lowest grassroots ages." Scottish Football's governing body further affirmed "the decision is also designed to protect the volunteer network that supports the grassroots game, in line with UK Chief Medical Officer's advice".

The first Saints fixture to fall foul of the Scottish Football Association's moratorium was last Saturday's scheduled trip to Glebe Park, one of the league's finest grass playing surfaces, to face promotion rivals Lesmahagow. A win for Saints on their longest away league trip would have been another massive step on the march to promotion however Lesmahagow are a formidable outfit on their own turf and were desperate to inflict a first league defeat of the season on Saints.

The Glebe, Lesmahagow

The South Lanarkshire men were impressive in the reverse fixture at Glencruitten back in August where centre forward James McGill's fifty ninth minute reply for the visitors set up a nervy closing third of the match after David Beaton and Lewis Cameron had put Saints two goals to the good.

Fifth placed Lesmahagow's four games in hand on league leaders Saints, and six on second placed Blantyre RGM, puts last season's Scottish Amateur Football Association Sunday Trophy runners up right in the mix for promotion to the Premier Division at the first time of asking.

With no decision yet made on exactly how long football's self isolation will actually last, a curtailed fixture list upon resumption remains one of many possibilities currently being pondered by the Central Scottish Amateur Football League hierachy. Abandoning the eight additional fixtures, originally designed to extend the season for clubs not involved in cup competitions, in favour of a return to a more conventional sixteen game card would see Saints already home and hosed as Division 1B winners. There is, however, much for the Executive Committee to consider and the season being completely written off cannot be ruled out.

Oban Saints will continue to function as close to normal as is possible under the current circumstances however, following further advice issued by the Scottish Football Association on Monday 16th March, all training has been suspended until further notice.

Club elder statesman David Buchanan continues to employ his own tried and tested precautionary measures against the spread coronavirus by self medicating with a popular elixir produced by Messrs Whyte and Mackay of Glasgow.

Going into the enforced break Saints sit top of Division 1B having won all of their fourteen games finding amassing fifty four goals and conceding just nine. Overall top goal scorer Craig MacEwan also leads the way in the league where fourteen of his nineteen goals have come. Just one league goal behind on thirteen is last season's top marksman Lewis Cameron whose outstanding contribution from midfield has earned him a recall to the Scottish Amateur Football Association Select set-up.

Craig MacEwan

Lewis Cameron

Joining Lewis in receiving international recognition from Select Manager Colin MacLeod is left-back Scott Maitland, a vital part of the league's meanest defence. Maitland's regular partners in front of Saints number one Graham Douglas are young right-back Ruaridh Horne, old war horse Steven MacLeod and Skipper Dene Cassells who only lost his omnipresent tag in Saints last fixture the Cinema Cup victory away at St Patrick's FP. Regular keeper Graham Douglas has so far shared the number one jersey with Murdo MacKenzie, Jamie Strachan, Thomas MacCulloch and, for a twenty minute spell against Blantyre RGM, Steven MacLeod.

Graham Douglas

Steven MacLeod

International pair Cameron and Maitland also grace the Central Scottish Amateur Football League Select where midfield dynamo Matty Kelly has also caught the eye of Manager Colin Hamilton. The Saints triumvirate have helped the league select to a convincing Friendship Trophy win over the Ayrshire Amateur Football Association. Colin Hamilton has also masterminded wins over the Aberdeenshire Amateur Football Association and the Scottish Amateur Football League to progress to the final of the Inter League Trophy where the Kingdom of Fife Amateur Football Association lie in wait.

Scott Maitland

Matty Kelly

Matty Kelly's sterling performances have come in a Saints midfield where competition for places is at it's highest. Fourteen players, from teenagers Aaron McKay and Gavin Forgrieve all the way through to evergreen Ross Maitland regularly battle it out for five starting places. Maitland's early season exploits for Saints second string earned him a return to the first team squad where, on Saints return from the Christmas and New Year break, he was able to complete the remarkable feat of representing Saints in four separate decades.

Gavin Forgrieve

Aaron McKay

Ross Maitland

Co-Manager Donald Campbell's work sojourns in Birmingham have left colleague Willie Gemmell with limited options for the central striker role. Top marksman Craig MacEwan remains the man in possession however teenager Cammy Hill with six goals continues to push him hard for the number nine shirt.

Donald Campbell

Willie Gemmell

Cammy Hill

Perhaps the only positive that can be taken from enforced shutdown is that it gives a well earned rest to Saints overworked minibus. The battle weary bus, gifted to the club in by the Scottish Football Association West Region and the Scottish Football Partnership, has carried Saints adult and youth teams the length and breadth of the country since 2011 but is rapidly approaching the end of it's working life. The club were due to embark on some major fundraising initiatives this year with a view to replacing the bus however the current public health emergency has also put those on hold.

In a club statement on the current situation Secretary David Buchanan said "The first thing to say is that football is just a small part of a much bigger picture and you only have to look at what is unfolding in other countries to see the dangers. The safety of our players, officials, supporters and indeed the wider community is the most important thing. I get regular updates from the Scottish Football Association and the Central Scottish Amateur Football League which I pass on to our team members. We can only hope the pandemic passes quickly but in the meantime - everybody stay safe".

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Saints Book Another Cinema Trip

Saturday 7th March 2020
Central Scottish Amateur Football League
Cinema Cup First Round
St Patrick's F.P. 2 - 4 Oban Saints

Our Lady and St Patrick's High School

Howatshaws Road
Bellsmyre

Dumbarton

G82 3DR

Kick Off 2.00pm
Referee Mr Stephen Payne

A makeshift Oban Saints side missing a number of key players recorded an unlikely battling Central Scottish Amateur Football League Cinema Cup victory against three time Scottish Amateur Cup winners St Patrick's F.P. in Dumbarton last Saturday afternoon. At a windswept Our Lady and St Patrick's High School goals from Myles McAuley, Craig MacEwan, David Beaton and Cammy Hill won the battle of the Saints for Oban against old friends and former Scottish Amateur Football League rivals St Pat's.

Dene Cassells, James Ford and Scott Maitland joined long term injury victims Matty Kelly and Matt Rippon on the sidelines adding to the selection problems of Co-Manager Willie Gemmell. Gemmell's own absence, coupled with that of management colleague Donald Campbell left Coach Jamie Graham in charge ably assisted by Coach Peter MacCallum and Secretary David Buchanan.

Saints lined up with Captain for the day Graham Douglas in goal behind a back three of Kerr Newbigging, Steven MacLeod and Daniel Croarkin. Across the midfield were Ruaridh Horne, Gavin Forgrieve, Myles McAuley, Lewis Cameron and Ross Maitland. The front two were David Beaton and Craig MacEwan. Coach Jamie Graham joined teenagers Cammy Hill and Aaron McKay on the substitutes bench.


Oban Saints starting lineup:-

Used substitutes:-

Cammy Hill
Aaron McKay

Unused substitute:-

Jamie Graham

Saints kicked off with the strong wind at their backs and fashioned an opening for Lewis Cameron inside the first minute. Cameron raced onto a lay-off from Craig MacEwan but sent his effort from the edge of the box straight into the midriff of St Pat's keeper Brian Gallacher.

A good ball up the right wing from Kerr Newbigging for Craig MacEwan saw the Saints striker bundled over by Ross Cannon handing Lewis Cameron a chance to put the ball into the St Pat's box. Cameron's free-kick was well met by MacEwan at the near post with Brian Gallacher only able to parry the header back into the danger area. MacEwan was quickest to react and, from the right of the six yard box lifted the ball back across the face of goal for Myles McAuley to head into the net for the opening goal.

After a slow start the hosts began to show their Premier Division class and carved out the first of a number of good first half opportunities in the sixteenth minute. Scottish Amateur international striker Ciaran McElroy was allowed to carry the ball a long way on the right and cut into the box to unleash a powerful right foot shot which, fortunately for Saints, flew well off target.

Another McElroy run on the right was stopped, illegally in the opinion of Referee Stephen Payne, by Ross Maitland five minutes later. Martin Currie rolled the free-kick from the corner of the box back to Skipper Dominic Ruane for a shot which Graham Douglas did well to hold at the second attempt.

Some pointless back chat to Mr Payne after a disputed twenty second minute free-kick award earned both Craig MacEwan and Joseph Coleman a place in the Referee's notebook which would later prove costly for the big St Pat's central defender.

St Pat's striker Ryan McColl got the better of Kerr Newbigging to fire a left foot shot just over before right back Dominic McElroy found his way in Mr Payne's notebook for pulling back Ross Maitland in the twenty ninth minute.

The hosts levelled from the penalty spot on the half hour mark after benefitting from an extremely harsh decision given against Steven MacLeod. The once again well forward Dominic McElroy appeared to run into MacLeod after the experienced head at the heart of the Saints makeshift back three had made a clean sliding interception however Mr Payne considered MacLeod had caught McElroy with his challenge and awarded a penalty kick. St Pat's Skipper Dominic Ruane expertly tucked away the spot kick to level the scores. 

Myles McAuley joined the growing list of miscreants in Mr Payne's notebook in the thirty third minute before Ryan McColl narrowly failed to connect with a tempting cross from left back Neil Allan.

Saints rediscovered their attacking threat with a good thirty ninth minute move up the right wing involving Kerr Newbigging, Ruaridh Horne and David Beaton with only Craig MacEwan's usually reliable first touch denying the Saints leading goalscorer a clear sight of goal.

Ciaran McElroy continued to show why he figures so prominently in Scottish Amateur Select Manager Colin MacLeod's plans with another driving run and cross from the right which Stephen Gardiner, on the stretch, headed over from four yards range.

After surviving a dominant spell from the hosts Saints regained the lead in the forty first minute. A lofted ball over the top from Ruaridh Horne picked out a clever run from Lewis Cameron. Brian Gallacher was alive to the danger and came a long way out of his box to beat Cameron to Horne's through ball. Luck however deserted the St Pat's keeper when Craig MacEwan controlled his attempted clearance and sent it sailing back over his head into the unguarded net.

The Saints goal however continued to lead a charmed life when, on the stroke of half-time, Ciaran McElroy sent over another excellent cross which Joseph Cullen glanced wide of target from three yards range.

Despite conceding the considerable wind advantage to their hosts Saints made a good start to the second half and were unlucky to see a Lewis Cameron through ball for Craig MacEwan taken off the toe of the Saints striker before Gavin Forgrieve fired the loose ball twelve inches over the crossbar.

The hosts drew level for a second time after ten second half minutes from a hotly disputed free-kick awarded for handball against Kerr Newbigging. From the corner of the eighteen yard box Martin Currie bent the ball into the corridor of uncertainty between defenders and goalkeeper and was delighted to see the ball bounce beyond the despairing grasp of Graham Douglas and into the net.

Parity however lasted just three minutes when David Beaton gained his reward for a punishing shift against imposing central defenders Ross Cannon and Joseph Coleman. After Coleman had been penalised for a shove on Craig MacEwan just inside the St Pat's half Saints worked the ball forward for Beaton who raced away from Cannon and Coleman to slot the ball past the advancing Brian Gallacher.

The hosts response to falling behind for a third time was to send on 2017 Central Scottish Amateur Football League Player of the Year Kevin McElroy in favour of Stephen Gardiner.

Pressed into action on the right McElroy drew a sixty sixth minute foul from Daniel Croarkin which earned the Saints emergency defender a yellow card. Croarkin however immediately redeemed himself by heading clear Ryan McColl's free-kick.

Saints made their first change with twenty minutes remaining sending on Cammy Hill to replace David Beaton.

Joseph Coleman's earlier yellow card for dissent came back to haunt him when Referee Payne took exception to another comment from the Scottish Amateur Select man and sent the big central defender for an early bath.

The woodwork denied St Pat's a third equaliser when Dominic Ruane rattled the crossbar with a thumping seventy fourth minute drive.

Pressing forward in search of an equaliser the ten men were leaving pace at the back for Saints to exploit and Lewis Cameron found Cammy Hill in the clear in the seventy sixth minute but the teenage striker dragged his shot across the face of goal and wide of Brian Gallacher's right hand post.

In serious danger of running out of lead for his pencil Mr Payne added Kerr Newbigging to the lengthy list of cautions in the seventy eighth minute.

Matthew Devine replaced Martin Currie for the closing ten minutes and his cross from the right in the eighty second minute was hooked just wide by fullback Dominic McElroy who had again added his support to the attack.

Ruaridh Horne took a whack on the left ankle in the eighty fifth minute and, from the resulting free-kick, Gavin Forgrieve threaded the ball through to Lewis Cameron who fired a left foot shot from eighteen yards narrowly over the crossbar. Horne failed to recover from his knock and was replaced by Aaron McKay who was asked to take on an unfamiliar defensive role.

The hosts threw everything into the search for an equaliser and had Saints pinned back in their own box with a succession of corner kicks which the Saints defence, with Steven MacLeod an inspiration at it's heart, manfully repelled.

Cammy Hill and Ryan McColl became the latest to have Mr Payne reaching for his yellow card for a spot of pushing and shoving in the centre circle. From the resulting free-kick awarded in St Pat's favour Saints Skipper for the day Graham Douglas took the pressure off his embattled defence by coming through a ruck of bodies to make a clean catch.

Moving into time added on for stoppages Saints invited more pressure with a cheaply conceded free-kick which earned Gavin Forgrieve the final yellow card of the match. Graham Douglas once again made a telling contribution with a solid clearing punch paving the way for the killer goal. Lewis Cameron and Aaron McKay linked up well on the left from where Cameron found Craig MacEwan inside the centre circle. MacEwan's perfectly weighted pass sent Cammy Hill racing through where he kept his nerve to lift the ball over Brian Gallacher on the edge of his box and make the tie safe.

Saints reward for their gutsy against the odds win is another hugely difficult away tie at West of Scotland Cup holders Bannockburn.

This coming Saturday Saints return to league business with a trip to face promotion rivals Lesmahagow. 

Team Captains Graham Douglas and Dominic Ruane with Referee Stephen Payne

Brian Gallacher parries Craig MacEwan's header

Myles McAuley heads Saints into the lead

Graham Douglas

Ruaridh Horne in pursuit of Stephen Gardiner

David Beaton and Martin Currie

Kerr Newbigging

Ryan McColl shoots over

Craig MacEwan accepts the congratulations of his team mates after putting Saints 2 - 1 ahead

Martin Currie's free-kick brings St Pat's level at 2 - 2

David Beaton nets Saints third goal

Celebrations after David Beaton's goal

Craig MacEwan and Dominic Ruane with Joseph Coleman in the background

Steven MacLeod heads away

Daniel Croarkin and Ryan McColl

Cammy Hill rounds off the scoring

Celebrations after Cammy Hill's goal

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McAuley Cements Saints Victory

Saturday 29th February 2020
Central Scottish Amateur Football League
Division 1B
Oban Saints 3 - 2 Bridgewater

Oban Community Sports Field (3G)

Soroba Road

Oban

Argyll

PA34 4JB

Kick Off 2.00pm
Referee Mr Michael Kerr


A collector's item goal from Myles McAuley extended Oban Saints Central Scottish Amateur Football League Division 1B winning run to fourteen games at a wintry Oban High School last Saturday afternoon.

2018 Scottish Amateur Cup semi-finalists Bridgewater threatened to end Saints 100% record by twice coming from behind to cancel out strikes from Lewis Cameron and Dene Cassells. However normally shot-shy midfielder McAuley popped up in the Bridgewater six yard box with a seventy sixth minute winner to stretch Saints lead over second placed Blantyre RGM to ten points.

Matty Kelly and Matt Rippon remained sidelined through injury however James Ford, Ross Maitland and Kerr Newbigging all returned to bolster the squad and increase Manager Willie Gemmell's options.

Saints lined up with Graham Douglas in goal behind a familiar back four of Ruaridh Horne, Steven MacLeod, Captain Dene Cassells and Scott Maitland. Gavin Forgrieve partnered Myles McAuley in the holding midfield roles with David Beaton, Lewis Cameron and Aaron McKay supporting central striker Craig MacEwan. On the bench were Daniel Croarkin, James Ford, Cammy Hill, Ross Maitland and Kerr Newbigging.


Oban Saints starting lineup:-

Used substitutes:-

Daniel Croarkin
James Ford
Ross Maitland
Cammy Hill

Unused substitute:-

Kerr Newbigging


Visitors Bridgewater kicked off in the last of the day's sunshine with ominously dark clouds rolling in from the school end.

After a slow start Saints got their noses in front in the fifth minute from the boot of last season's top goal scorer Lewis Cameron. There was a big appeal from the home side for a penalty kick when big defender Stuart McIntosh barged into Aaron McKay however, as Referee Michael Kerr waved play on, Craig MacEwan controlled the loose ball and rolled in Lewis Cameron for an easy finish past Daniel Campbell.

Left winger Callum Boyle, one of nine changes to the Bridgewater squad from last September's reverse fixture at Govan's Palace of Art, stopped a promising break from David Beaton with a wild lunge on the pacy Saints winger wide on the right. The Bridgewater defence struggled to deal with Lewis Cameron's free-kick swung in on top of the keeper however Mr Kerr came to their rescue with an extremely tight offside call against Craig MacEwan.

Graham Douglas was called into action in the eleventh minute to push over a Ross Gemmell header from a Craig Keating corner kick.

David Beaton's pace continued to cause problems for the visitors and the policy of "stop at all costs" also continued with central defender Fraser Morrison aiming two wild swipes at the Saints wide man. Incredibly Referee Kerr considered this double assault worthy only of a yellow card and added insult to injury by booking Beaton for retaliation. Before play could re-start Bridgewater were forced into the first change of the afternoon when defender Stuart McIntosh was replaced by Christopher Black. Saints failed to capitalise on Lewis Cameron's excellent set-piece delivery with Craig MacEwan glancing a header from five yards out just wide of Daniel Campbell's right hand post.

Bridgewater Captain Craig Keating's excellent distribution from midfield turned the Saints back four in the twenty third minute with a ball over the top for striker Logan Dempsey. Fortunately for Saints Dempsey's finish was a poor one which looped gently into the arms of Graham Douglas.

As the sleety snow began to blow across the park Myles McAuley won the ball well in the centre circle and sent Aaron McKay off on a run up the left wing. McKay's low cross looking for Lewis Cameron was well cut out by Daniel Campbell on his six yard line.

Saints continued to look the more likely to add to the scoring and David Beaton came close with a twenty ninth minute front post header from a Lewis Cameron cross which flashed inches wide of target.

Beaton threatened again sixty seconds later finding space to head a Scott Maitland left wing cross goalwards and drawing a good save from Daniel Campbell.

The visitors enjoyed a massive slice of luck when, after good work on the left by Aaron McKay and Craig MacEwan, a Lewis Cameron shot from eighteen yards bounced back off the inside of the post into the grateful arms of Daniel Campbell.

Bridgewater's luck improved still further when a breakdown in communication between Steven MacLeod and Graham Douglas allowed Logan Dempsey to nip in and nod the loose ball from another searching Craig Keating delivery into the empty net to level the scores.

The influential Keating tried his luck from distance in the thirty seventh minute with a bouncing shot which Graham Douglas had to watch carefully before pushing behind for a corner kick.

Saints fullback Ruaridh Horne found his way into Referee Kerr's notebook for a thirty eighth minute trip on Callum Boyle just inside the Saints half.

A Ross Canavan shove into the back of Lewis Cameron earned Saints a forty second minute free-kick on the edge of the Bridgewater box. Cameron's free-kick was blocked behind for a corner kick which the visiting defence couldn't fully clear with Myles McAuley firing in a fierce shot from the edge of the box which Daniel Campbell did well to tip over at full stretch. From the resulting corner kick on the right Craig MacEwan bundled the ball over the line from close range however Mr Kerr disallowed the "goal" for a foul on the Bridgewater keeper.

Leading goal scorer MacEwan sent another header from a Lewis Cameron corner kick wide of target before Mr Kerr brought the first half to a close.

The second half was only four minutes old when an out of sorts Gavin Forgrieve made way for Daniel Croarkin. The visitors also made changes replacing Fraser Morrison and Marc Storrie with Andrew Guthrie and Darren Cowan.

Bridgewater defender Ross Canavan made a timely interception at the back post to prevent a Craig MacEwan cross along the six yard line finding it's way through to Aaron McKay at the back post.

Craig Keating tried another speculative long range effort in the fifty eighth minute but his attempted lob failed to catch out Graham Douglas who made an easy catch.

The visitors made another switch on the hour mark sending on Mark Chisolm as a direct replacement for Callum Boyle on the left.

Saints regained the lead in the sixty second minute from a free kick on the right won by David Beaton. Lewis Cameron rolled the ball short to the unmarked Beaton on the edge of the Bridgewater box who lofted a cross onto the head of Craig MacEwan. Daniel Campbell managed to push MacEwan's header onto the crossbar but Saints Skipper Dene Cassells was first to react and nodded the loose ball into the net from two yards range.

The Saints lead however lasted just three minutes when Andrew Guthrie, one of five survivors from the Bridgewater side which reached the semi-finals of the 2017-18 Scottish Amateur Cup, was allowed time and space to measure a delightful chip from the corner of the Saints eighteen yard box over Graham Douglas and into the net.

Saints Manager Willie Gemmell made a double substitution in the sixty eighth minute sending on Ross Maitland and James Ford to replace David Beaton and Aaron McKay.

Logan Dempsey picked a yellow card for pulling back James Ford as the Saints substitute threatened to make an instant impact on proceedings.

The visitors looked to the bench again with twenty minutes remaining withdrawing Ryan Feely to make way for Ross Bernard.

Work colleagues Ross Maitland and Myles McAuley combined in the seventy sixth minute for what would ultimately prove to be the winning goal. Substitutes James Ford and Ross Maitland linked up well on the right and Maitland's low ball across the face of goal was turned in at the back post by unlikely goal scorer McAuley.

Having hit the front for the third time Saints once again failed to build on their advantage and gave the visitors every encouragement that a third equaliser might be in the offing.

In worsening weather conditions chances came and went for both sides in what was a frustrating watch for the Saints faithful.

Lewis Cameron twice dragged shots from promising openings wide of the far post while at the other end Mark Chisolm and Logan Dempsey also both failed to find the target from presentable openings.

Teenage striker Cammy Hill replaced Craig MacEwan for the closing five minutes and his run of bad fortune in front of goal continued when Daniel Campbell spread himself well to win the one-on-one battle and prevent the big striker from easing the growing tension on the sidelines.

A succession of misplaced passes and extravagant flicks from Saints did nothing to calm the nerves before Referee Kerr eventually called time on proceedings after five added minutes ending the agony for the hardy band of drenched and frozen spectators.

This coming Saturday Saints make their debut in the Central Scottish Amateur Football League's most prestigious cup competition when they travel to Dumbarton to face old rivals St Patrick's F.P. in the Cinema Cup. 

Team Captains Dene Cassells and Craig Keating with Referee Michael Kerr

Daniel Campbell

Lewis Cameron opens the scoring

Aaron McKay

Craig MacEwan heads wide

Scott Maitland and Logan Dempsey

Gavin Forgrieve

Myles McAuley

Graham Douglas and Steven MacLeod repel a Craig Keating corner kick

Dene Cassells heads Saints into a 2 - 1 lead

Craig MacEwan congratulates Dene Cassells

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