Busby Amateur Football Club

The first scoreless game that I can remember over the last few years. A tight, evenly matched game in which Rudi was twice through with thekeeper to beat but GK had good saves. Again the defence of Kyle Maxwell, Craig Blair and Shaun Alexander played well. Jamie Booth enjoyed moving from sweeper to centre midfield in the last 2 games and good to see Scott Crossan coming back to fitness up front.

A game refereed by Alan Bruce due to the no show by the referee. Again we struggling for bodies with just one sub due to injuries and 2 or 3 boys received knocks during the game but had to play on - Ryan Connolly,Dean McKirdy, Gurpal Singh. Thistle scored first but Rudi Kingwaya then scored quickly afterwards. Gurpal Singh,suffering from a bad back scored a fine goal before having to come off. Notbad for his last touch!. The second half was comfortable for us with the defence of Kyle Maxwell as

A disappointing result but a match that we were missing a couple of keyplayers due to injury and suspension (Alistair Gardner injured in RegionalSelect game the night before) and Rudi Kingwaya, top scorer, suspended.The game was even but a poorly controlled backpass let in Barrhead to scoreafter 20 mins. A further goal just before half time made it an uphillbattle. Barrhead's two pacey strikers caused our defence bother all day andthe cup dream was over for another year.

This was Busby's chance to play the team at the top of the table.Busby started well and it was a tough midfield battle that created few shooting chances for either team. The breakthrough came in the twentith minute when the Southside midfield created a chance and their striker scored from close range.That's how the first half ended.

Our third and final league fixture resulted in a win, draw and a defeatagainst Port Glasgow this season.We had a poor first half, Rudi Kingwaya missing a couple of great chances,and we lost a second goal right on half time to go in 2-0 down.However a great performance in the next half hour led us into a 4-2 lead.Shaun Alexander scored with a penalty after Gurpal Singh was brought down.It looked a softer award than the challenge on Shaun in the first half that

Busby 15's poor run of form continued for the third successive game, with few players, if any, showing any sort of spirit or desire to pick themselves up from the slump. Busby started slowly and were 3-1 down by half-time. Conceding a goal almost straight from the re-start ended any doubts of who would be taking the 3 points, and even though they responded with 2 goals of their own, Busby never looked like getting anything from the game, nor did they deserve to.

Played on astrograss to beat the weather we suffered a defeat against midtable Arsenal BC.We were missing a few players due to illness, injuries and holidays sodebutants Chris Bonnar and Mark McHendry played for us. Dean McKirdy also played in goals as our GK was injured.We started the game well playing a lot of good football and there was some good link, on the right side, play with Chris, Mark, Alistair Gardner and Jordan McSkeane in particular. We did not create many clear cut chances

Our first game for 5 weeks and a strong wind against us in the first half. Blantyre used the wind getting the ball forward early and putting pressure on us and we were 3-0 down mid way through the first half. At the start of the second half Rudy scored and we looked as if we could get more goals. However Blantyre scored before Alistair scored his first ever goal for us near the end.A disappointing result but one we could not complain about after the start we had.