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Wick boss: ‘We left ourselves a mountain to climb’


By Alan Shields

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Davie Kirkwood says Scorries made it too easy for the opposition.
Davie Kirkwood says Scorries made it too easy for the opposition.

‘FOOTBALL is football, you don’t always get what you want,” said Wick Academy manager Davie Kirkwood following the defeat at the hands of Fraserburgh on Saturday.

Kirkwood said that he was disappointed with the outcome but was pleased that his side had managed to hang on to the ball for extended periods of the second half.

“It was still a good game of football,” he said. “At 1-3 it sounds like we’ve taken a battering but we didn’t.

“If you take away the three goals that we gifted them in the first 47 minutes then you can see we’ve dominated the rest of the play.” He added: “But when you’re 1-3 down and you’re gifting goals to a quality side it leaves a mountain to climb.”

The Scorries boss claims that the two-goal deficit stemmed from a failure to defend crosses.

“The two goals in the first half killed us,” he said. “We were letting them in too easy and they got in about us and put us under pressure, but we were panicking at the back, which is not like us. Fair play to them, they were straight out of the traps and got their rewards.”

Kirkwood said that the solution is a simple one to remedy – stop crosses and start playing in the opposition’s half.

That plan will be put into action next week when Academy take on Forres Mechanics at Mosset Park.

“The team will change for next week as it’s another big game,” said Kirkwood. “I know what to expect from Forres. They are a big side so we know it will be long ball after long ball, but we’ll have a game plan for it.”

Fraserburgh’s Kris Hunter has no such plans for changing his team after securing what he hailed as the best performance away from home so far this season.

“I thought in the first half we were excellent,” he said. “In the second half we were under the kosh a bit but our defensive display was tremendous and on the break we always looked dangerous and probably could have a few more goals.

“I thought we deserved the three points.” Hunter said he was pleased that his players’ fitness levels had improved and that his side was finally “sharpening up” after a few difficult away games.

“All of my players worked hard for one another and when we were going forward we looked a threat,” he said.

“It’s always hard when you are going up the hill and Wick are coming down at you but we held firm and I don’t think they really created that many chances against us in the second half.I’m very pleased.”


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