Ramsdens Cup aggregation

SUPER sub Willie McLaren would accept been sipping beer on the bank if Airdrie hadn’t been answer to the Aboriginal Division.

Gaffer Jimmy Boyle brought McLaren in endure anniversary if he begin out they’d been answer and his account increased.

McLaren joked: “I was declared to be sitting on the bank with a beer in Australia, but I’m abundant happier to be in Airdrie.

“I’ve got ancestors and accompany there but I’m not abiding absolutely what I’d accept done although I don’t anticipate I’d accept been sitting on a bench.” McLaren was captivated to get one over on the club that dumped him endure year.

He beamed: “You can’t exhausted it if it’s adjoin your old club. I alone played three amateur and was told I wasn’t capital so I’m absolutely delighted.

“The admirers were giving me it bound if I was abating up but again you account a ambition and they can’t say annihilation else.

“I’ve not done abundant during pre-season, I’ve alone accomplished Tuesday and played two bisected hour amateur but I’m captivated to be back.”

McLaren denticulate just three account afterwards advancing off the bank to achieve a addled cup tie. It was the home ancillary who came abutting to aperture the scoring if babysitter Kenny Arthur’s anemic bite was headed aback appear ambition by Martin Canning but Marc Warren got aback to beating the brawl clear.

Airdrie’s best adventitious of the aboriginal bisected fell to Warren himself if John Boyle laid the brawl off to him in the box but his larboard basal attempt was abject advanced of the far post.

Accies had a lot of of the control in the additional bisected but it was the visitors who looked added like winning.

With 5 account to go it was McLaren who won it for Diamonds if he got the brawl for the aboriginal time afterwards advancing on as a backward sub three account earlier.

He controlled a continued brawl from Nathan Blockley and rifled it into the basal bend beyond Kevin Cuthbert with his larboard foot.

Airdrie bang-up Jimmy Boyle was captivated with his cool sub.

He said: “We all apperceive Willie’s got that in him. It was a abundant blow and a abundant finish.

“When we confused up a analysis a bit added money was accessible and we could get Willie aback in with that.

“There’s a lot added to appear from us traveling advanced but arena adjoin full-time teams with bigger budgets in this analysis is good.

“It’s about giving the players that acceptance not to abhorrence anybody.”

Accies administrator Billy Reid said: “If they didn’t play in the address I accepted I’d accept a appropriate go but they got on the brawl and played. There’s eight guys on the esplanade 21 and beneath and the alone way they’re traveling to apprentice is by playing. They’re adolescent and play in the appropriate manner.”

STUART BANNIGAN afraid his man-of-the-match canteen of aerated — again accepted that astroturf pitches don’t pop his cork.

The 19-year-old Jags apostle won his cost as the Maryhill ancillary marched into today’s additional annular draw afterwards they’d won this ‘Glasgow’ derby on aloof arena at Alloa’s Recreation Park.

Ironically, the area was switched to the Wasps’ home as the Bully Wee’s own esplanade is accepting the bogus apparent analysis afore their aboriginal SFL home game.

Bannigan admitted: “Personally, I don’t like an bogus surface. It played a big allotment in this game, it was dry additional it ashore in players’ anxiety and it was absolutely harder to get a casual bold going.”

The teenager, who started as a midfielder, was in Thistle’s aboriginal aggregation agency at the alpha of endure division — alone to achromatize appropriate out of the Firhill picture.

Now he has been reinvented as a left-back and he said: “I am acquisitive it will be altered this time. I absolutely adore left-back — you get a lot of the brawl — but I’m altogether blessed to play anywhere.”

He will be allusive for the position with Aaron Sinclair, who’s currently out with an eye wound.

But Bannigan claimed: “When he comes aback maybe I can move elsewhere, but absolutely I’m alone apperception on my own game.”

Bannigan played a above allotment in the ambition that gave the Jags achievement — a second-half bang by antagonist Kris Doolan alone account afterwards he had been befuddled on as a sub.

The defender’s attempt spun abroad from Clyde’s admission babysitter Jamie Barclay and Doolan nipped annular him to net the rebound.

It was a win Thistle adapted for assertive control although they rarely pressured the Bully Wee’s goal.

Thistle administrator Jackie McNamara warned: “We looked a bit ashore at times in the endure third.”

He echoed Bannigan’s moans about the pitch.

McNamara said: “Put it down to the apparent — it fabricated it absolutely harder to yield men on.

“But we’ll charge to be added analytic at Forfar if the alliance starts on Saturday.”

Third Analysis Clyde alone absolutely afflicted their Aboriginal Analysis opponents if they flung men advanced in abrasion time.

Gaffer Jim Duffy said: “We gambled but it didn’t absolutely pay off.”

Duffy singled out apostle David Marsh for acclaim afterward his addition from Cumbernauld United.

He accepted his abatement over midfielder Daniel Fitzpatrick’s first-half bloom scare.

The 20-year-old is asthmatic and the Broadwood bang-up revealed: “He couldn’t get a breath.

“In a bearings like that you charge to be actual accurate — but he’s accept now.”