The Bairns' News

Scottish Cup Replay

Clyde Ladies v. Falkirk Ladies

My first game without any coach or manager, and Falkirk started the game off very positively with the attack actually attacking with aggression and looking to do something. Shame that within the first 5 minutes of Falkirk's positive play Clyde had to score. However Falkirk didn't keep their heads down as they knew themselves that they had been displaying the best football they have played in a long while.

Even though it had been Falkirks best performance, Clyde were able to expose Falkirk's minor openings in defence and from this came a penalty - given away by Laura Bryce - and two other silly goals.

Five or ten minutes into the second half we substitutes Susan Ferguson for Stef Zilliken. By this time we realised that we needed pace down our left flanks and we hoped Susan was the person to give us extra pace.   

Roughly 14 minutes from time, Falkirk's 'die hard' keeper, Fiona Melville was kicked in shins and suffered a nasty wee injury. Given that there wasn't long to go and we were already getting beat by four goals, we decided to bring Fiona off and put Vicky Yuill in goals for the remainder of the game. 

At this, the game finished 4 - 0. Not a bad performance from Falkirk Ladies.

Team: Melv, Kirkwood, Zilliken, Brycie, Kaney, Yuill, McDonald, Beattie, Mitchell, McGrory, Hunter.

Subs: Ferguson