Bankies are on cloud 9
Published 3 Nov 2011 09:30
Clydebank.....................................9
Rossvale........................................3
LOCAL lad Kieran Burns scored a superb hat-trick as Bankies notched their record win since joining the Junior ranks and secured a place in third round of the Scottish Cup.
The Partick Thistle loan player was the star of the show as Clydebank went goal crazy against the new Central League outfit.
But it was strike partner Ross McPherson who started the rout when he turned in a Burns cross on 13 minutes.
Sloppy defending allowed Lee Malchar space to fire a peach of a shot past Robert Hamilton.
Burns then drilled a left foot shot across the keeper to restore the lead after some great build-up play.
Just before the half hour mark the striker added another with a low free kick after Vinny Berry was felled in the box.
John Wright reduced the deficit for the visitors from close range after Hamilton touched a looping header on to the bar.
Wright's goal gave the visitors hope but in what was their first ever Scottish Junior Cup tie, it didn't last long.
Back came the Bankies and Burns grabbed his treble with a real poacher's finish after a botched clearance found him inside the box.
Adam Strachan made it 5-2 with a screamer of a drive into the keeper's top left hand corner after cutting in from the left wing.
Things were to get worse for Rossvale when goalscorer Wright was red-carded for a second booking just before the break.
Clydebank manager Budgie McGhie wasn't entirely happy with his team despite such a free scoring performance.
He let them know as much at the interval and urged them to step up the pace in the second half.
A minute after the restart was all it took for Clydebank to add to their lead.
Again Burns was involved when he found Graeme Smith at the end of another fine move and the ex-Auchinleck man slid the ball home for his third goal for the club.
Stevie Dymock then came off the bench to get it on the act with a back post finish after a cross-cum-shot from that man Burns.
Martin McComish then added one of the goals of the game with a stunning strike after picking the ball up in his own half and waltzing round three players before firing a low shot into the net.
Dymock completed the scoring three minutes from time and gave Rossvale a Scottish Junior Cup debut they'll want to forget.
Bankies know it will be much tougher this Saturday when they return to league action against Cumnock at Holm Park, kick off 2pm.
This article appeared in Clydebank Post 02 Nov 11
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