McKenna mystified by Scorries' home blues
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WICK boss Tom McKenna is at a loss as to why his team can’t turn on the style at home.
The 8-0 thrashing of Lossiemouth last month promised much but home fixtures against Deveronvale, Clachnacuddin and now Rothes have seen the Scorries take only one point from those three games.
Were it not for their away form, they would be much closer to the bottom of the Highland League instead of mid-table and McKenna knows something must be done to banish their home blues.
Richard Macadie put the Scorries ahead in Saturday’s clash with Rothes at Harmsworth Park, but the Speysiders hit back through Jaime Wilson, ex-Academy forward Steven Anderson and Scott Davidson to complete a 3-1 win.
“I don’t know what’s wrong,” McKenna said. “Whether it’s playing at home or a mentality thing, who knows? When we’re playing away we play really, really well.
“I think with this game, we lost it more than Rothes winning it. We made mistakes and they capitalised on those.
“With the match in general, both teams just cancelled each other out. We started off brightly, took the lead but then sat back on that.
“Rothes got themselves back into it with three goals that could have been prevented.
“Away from home we’re a lot more disciplined.
“We try and frustrate teams and we are effective on the counter-attack.
“Maybe when we’re away, the lads turn up with the mentality that they know there’s a challenge there because games against the likes of Formartine and Fraserburgh away demand something of them.
“I’ve told the lads that with home games, you’ve got to demand something from yourselves.
“It’s a hard one to take. The lads have to realise they are a good team. They are a good bunch of lads who are very honest and work hard in training.”
Rothes boss Steven Mac-Donald was delighted his men ended their recent poor run of form.
He said: “We needed a result like that. I’m delighted for the boys because they’re smiling for the first time in quite a while.
“They’ve not been used to winning this season but now we have to get into the habit of winning games and build on this result.
“It’s funny how confident we looked on the ball because we’ve not looked very confident in previous weeks. I said to them on the bus up that we need to kick-start our season and that today was as good a day as any to do so.
“They all dug in because, as you noticed, our bench was a bit short with players absent due to illness, holidays and weddings. Last week we had eight who could have been substitutes.
“Maybe the adversity of being low in numbers made our boys more determined to get something from this game.”
