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A break from league business this afternoon as we gathered to compete in our divisional trophy, the Chatton Rovers cup. G.Woods showed commitment beyond the cause of duty pulling a sickie from work! He was joined up front by Anderson who arrived right on the starting whistle. Michie was in gaol, Fulton returned for his first match of the season to play alongside Marlow, Robertson and Sim in defence. N.Milne, E.Milne, Murdoch and M.Woods formed the midfield. England was our sub. Prior to ko we had been given the news that our regular groundsman Ian Masson has been taken quite seriously ill and everyone at the club sends him our best wishes. We were playing into a fierce wind against SAIC, formerly Rapid Aberdeen. They have as yet still to record a victory this season but with the tremendous wind advantage they had in this half we knew right away that we would have a battle on our hands. Indeed they had the bulk of the possession early on but tended to over hit their final passes. Michie appeared to be kicking the ball better off the deck than from his hands and on occasion some kick outs were swirling straight back at him! From one of these kick outs E.Milne did well to cushion a header back to the keeper. We were breaking forward sporadically without really bothering their goalie then in 30 Robertson stretched and hurt his groin. Moments later he had to crunch into a challenge which broke nicely into the path of an attacker, Marlow dived into tackle and prevented a good scoring opportunity. Michie was called into action as half time approached, a long through ball found our midfield missing and Robertson had to move out of position to try and clean up. He was taken out of play and Marlow moved wide to close down the attacker, a quick ball in found an unmarked forward and his first time shot was brilliantly stopped by Michie. (H.T.0-0). We had to guard against reverting to the long ball tactic, whilst the odd route one effort may well pay off, we had to work at beating our opponents by playing football on the ground. Halliburton now had the wind advantage and in the main our defence was rarely troubled for the duration of the second half. M.Woods produced a ‘special’ in 55 mins. When he raced onto a ball wide left and rifled a shot inches over the bar. We were well on top but the fact is the scoreline had remained at nil-nil. In 65 mins. SAIC were allowed to make inroads up their left flank and the ball was crossed into our box. Marlow stretched to get his head on it but couldn’t make a clean contact. The ball was glanced goalwards, but at very little pace, unfortunately Michie was not in the centre of his goal but repositioned to fingertip the ball over the top. In 70 our pressure paid off when we took the lead through G.Woods. It was in fact a route one move. Michie launched a long ball forward and G.Woods got onto it and shot us in front. SAIC were now there for the taking and Halli went for the jugular in spectacular fashion scoring 3 more goals in an amazing 3 minute burst. 2up following a corner off Anderson, the ball found its way to Robertson who unselfishly picked out E.Milne, he netted from close range. 3up and it was a beauty from Anderson. The Cullen born veteran moving onto the ball 25 yards out and sending an unstoppable drive low into the corner of the net. England came on for Murdoch before the restart and straight away we added another. 4up when in the 77^th min. a Fulton free kick was headed home by E.Milne. That saw off our plucky opponents and we were safely into the second round.(F.T.4-0). Only our 2cnd clean sheet of the season, something we must build on. No one outstanding but Topman goes to Anderson who was involved in 3 out of the 4 goals. Our squad should get back to full, almost full, strength as of next week?