Bad results all round as we stay on solid ground.

Posted on Friday, July 25th, 2008

Early.                                 “Who’s the Mason in the Black and Gold?” could have been my headline and it conjures up Perry’s boy scoring the winner for East Fife or Berwick. It was in fact John in Glasgow East leaving the opposition in the Brown stuff after being over 13,000 down from the first leg.

Now as you know I’m not into politics but why are everyone going on about how bad a state Labour is in? Don’t the SNP deserve a little bit of credit.?

That was a party political broadcast on behalf of the Scottish National Party.

On the football park Cardiff beat Celtic and Barca turned the Hibs over big style. Both games were pre-season friendlies and the results mean very little at all but no team likes getting beaten. For Celtic to lose to a Championship side will give the “Scottish football is crap” brigade down south more ammunition and Hibs losing six and the size of the crowd will cheer up a lot of Jambos who’ve been on the end of some stick since the man from Casablanca arrived.

From afar Victor Laszlo looks to have started quite well in the east of the city but the proof will be in the pudding when the real football starts.

Talking of losing football games we lost our last two in the Annan tournament and didn’t score to boot. I’ll be keeping a good eye on the confidence levels tomorrow.

On the way back up the road last Sunday, Eartha also pointed out that we haven’t scored a goal at Annan in our last three visits. It’ll probably be another 100 years until we’ve played there three times again. 

The park we train on at Peffermill has been rock solid this week. The sole of my right foot was bruised after Tuesday and the ground seemed even harder last night. Hopefully there will be a bit more grass and a bit more give at Fernieside tomorrow. 

Just over two weeks until the season starts so the friendly games become more important as the fitness levels come up and teams start to take shape. That’s for the rest of course and not us as although our fitness levels are improving we will once again be without two or three key players.

“Remember to pack your shin guards again tomorrow Michael.”