Match reports for 16/9/06

Falkirk III 1
Kinross 1

This should have an uneven match from the onset with Falkirk being a league above the visitors but as it was the last friendly before the league starts both teams took it easy. Falkirk started as if they wanted to win the game with lots of goals but unfortunately, not through lack of effort, but through lack of connecting with the ball in the goal area, they were unable to score in the first half and it was up to Kinross on their only breakaway in the first half to squirm the ball through the Falkirk defence to claim the first goal. The second half started the same as the first with Falkirk camped in the Kinross goal area and it was eventually when a perfect pass from Danny Gibney coming in on the right found the sweeping stick of Liam Robertson that they equalised. Even with Falkirk having over a dozen penalty corners they could still not increase the score. The team will have time to gel but once they do watch out East District Division 2 as this team is going to go places.

Carnegie Juniors 0
Falkirk GHG V 2

Falkirk travelled to the astro pitch at Rosyth with all players that were available from the 4th and 5th XIs and immediately were on the offensive, with John Galloway firing in an unsuccessful a shot from a short corner in the first 30 seconds of the game. Much sustained pressure saw shots from Simon Robertson, David Sharp, David Humphreys, and Luke McPhee, before young Ross Dickson opened with a reverse-stick flick through the keeper’s legs. From more pressure in midfield, David Kinniburgh joined in the attack, showing that in ten years away from the game, he has not lost his enthusiasm for the sport. Eventually, Humphreys made it two, hitting in past an on-rushing keeper. The hosts harried thereafter, but Craig McDonald in goal clinically restricted the flow of forward Jones’s progress into goal as if applying a tourniquet, denying him a sniff of a consolation goal,. which appeared to be a bitter pill for him to swallow.

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