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The Shipyard turned in their best display of the season to see off St Monans in the second round of the Fife Amateur Cup at Recreation Park. With the usual selection problems due to suspension and unavailability, manager Whitehead’s team more or less picked itself. Continue Reading
The Shipyard gained a much needed three points with a 1 – 0 win over Balgonie Scotia at Recreation Park to keep up momentum after last week’s friendly win, another clean sheet was a bonus. New signing Shaun Leishman made his debut in midfield replacing the suspended Mark Hamilton. Continue Reading
Another woeful defensive performance combined with a shot shy attack saw the Shipyard crash out of the Scottish Amateur Cup at Recreation Park on Saturday, against a team that was searching for their first win of the season. Continue Reading
The Shipyard’s season went from bad to worse with a diabolical second half performance against Lumphinnans at Ochilview Park. Leading 2 -1 at half- time the Shipyard lost 6 goals in the second half, 5 of them after being reduced to 10 men with less than 2o minutes to go. Continue Reading
The Shipyard’s Scottish Cup dream was shattered for another season after a controversial 95th winner for Glasgow University at Garscube Sports Complex on Saturday. The Shipyard deserved at least a draw, taking into account a missed penalty early in the second half. Continue Reading
The Shipyard bowed out of the Challenge Cup after gifting the Strollers a two goal half time lead at a sunny Recreation Park. Although the Shipyard produced a better second half performance the damage was done and a third goal for the Strollers near the end finished the tie. Continue Reading
The Shipyard gained a moral boosting win against Inverkeithing, before the next two weeks senior cup competition ties, at a windy Recreation park. Cook and Johnston returned from injury but, Grieve although listed as a substitute, joined McAndrew and Johnstone on the injury list. Although the margin of victory was only one goal, a missed penalty and some good opportunities in the first half, could have seen the Shipyard out of sight. A poorer second half and the sending off of Mark Hamilton gave Inverkeithing hope that they could have taken something from the game.
Playing against the wind the Shipyard took the lead after only 4 minutes when Owen McCue curled a fantastic free-kick into the net from 22 yards. In the 10th minute the ball broke to Hamilton at the edge of the box and his fierce shot was well saved by Wilson in the Inverkeithing goal. From the resultant corner J. Williams was fouled in the box and the referee awarded the Shipyard a penalty, though Inverkeithing felt he had been fouled by one of his own team mates. Neil Ferguson took the kick but after sending the keeper the wrong way put his shot wide of the post. The Shipyard were in total control of the match and Cook was next to go close when he headed over from a corner. Inverkeithing were on level terms after 30 minutes when in their first real attack the shipyard defence left the Inverkeithing forward all alone to receive a pass from the right and he swept the ball into the net with Chalmers helpless. The Shipyard were back in front almost immediately when they were awarded another penalty after Johnston was brought down in the box. This time Owen McCue stepped up and coolly stroked the ball home. McCue was now looking for his hat-trick and almost got it in the 36th minute, when after a good run his shot was just wide of the goal.
Inverkeithing started the second half much better and went close when a corner from the right was headed over. They did equalise after an hour when the Shipyard could not clear the ball from their own 6 yard box, the ball broke to the Inverkeithing player who slammed the ball into the net. Whyte had a long range shot for the Shipyard that was straight at the keeper, before the Shipyard regained the lead on 70 minutes. Substitute Henderson’s cross was miss-judged by the Inverkeithing keeper allowing Neil Johnston to gather the ball and take it round the keeper before shooting home from a tight angle. A cross from the Inverkeithing right hit the top of the Shipyard bar and went over, then the Shipyard were reduced to 10 men when Hamilton was sent off for aiming a kick at his opponent, though it was a bit unfair that the Inverkeithing player went unpunished. The Shipyard did not look like losing their lead, in fact Whyte almost scored in the last minute when he won a tackle in midfield, drove forward but saw his shot saved by Wilson.
Teams: Burntisland Shipyard: Chalmers; Ferguson; Whyte; T. Williams; Cook; Tasker(Bell); McCue; Hamilton; Johnston; J. Williams; Drummond(Henderson). Unused Subs: Muirhead; Grieve.
Inverkeithing H.S: Wilson; P. Thomson; Stewart; Morris; Tarvit; Ballie; T. Fraser; Summins; Gordon; Brechin; Ritchie. Subs: Jamieson; Urbaniak; C. Fraser; Brown; R. Thomson.
Referee: D. Campbell.
The shipyard suffered another defeat, this time at the hand of Rosyth Civil Service by 2 goals to 0, though manager Whitehead can take encouragement from the debut of James Whyte and some of the performances from fringe players. With the forthcoming Scottish and Challenge Cup ties coming up, no players with niggling injuries were risked.
Rosyth were first to show and after only 3 minutes came close to opening the scoring when a header hit the post and then fell into Chalmers’ hands. Both teams were failing to create any chances of note until Rosyth took the lead after 27 minutes when Alistair Brown’s run was not matched and he was able to poke the ball beyond Chalmers. In the 36th minute Rosyth had another attempt, when a corner from the right was headed wide. On the stroke of half-time the Shipyard almost drew level when Ferguson’s free-kick was heading for the top corner until McNab got across to save.
In the 51st minute Penman of Rosyth really should have done better when with only Chalmers to beat he dragged his shot wide. The Shipyard hit back and a great run and Shot from Whyte narrowly went passed the far post, with the keeper getting a fingertip to the ball, although a goal-kick was awarded. Rosyth doubled their lead in the 62nd when a shot by Garry Penman from around 20 yards went in off the post. Chalmers made a good save in 75 minutes turning the ball round the post for a corner and a minute later the Shipyard should have pulled a goal back when sub Henderson was clean through but shot straight at the keeper. Williams saw an ambitious overhead effort go high over the Rosyth bar, then in the last minute Henderson beat 2 Rosyth defenders wide on the right and sent in a fantastic cross that 2 Shipyard attackers failed to get on the end of.
Teams: Rosyth Civil Service: McNab; Cooper; Ramsay; Harrison; Rodger; Guild; Lambie; Curry; Ferguson; Penman; Brown. Subs: Perry; Wilson; Smart; Dyche; Harwood.
Burntisland Shipyard: Chalmers; Ferguson; Whyte; Williams; Grieve; bell (Brian Couper); Tasker; Hamilton; Annandale (Henderson); Huskie; Meade. Unused Subs: Drummond; Ben Couper.
Referee: P. Simmons.
