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Could Halliburton put together back to back victories and force themselves up the league? That was the question being asked all around Scotland as pundits fans and players alike gathered at their respective Saturday afternoon venues. A healthy 17 strong squad were gathered at a busy Hazlehead pavilion to take on Stonehaven Athletic in what would be a difficult match. One change was made from last weeks starting line up when Fulton was preferred to Sim in the right full back position, The rest was unchanged with Michie in goal, Shaw, Robertson and Wood joining Fulton at the back. Keith, E.Milne, Longmuir and Morgan were in midfield behind the front pairing of G.Woods and Graham. The bench was filled by Merchant, N.Milne, Sim, Marlow and M.Woods. We had a strong gale behind us and a bright sun also made life difficult for Stonehaven. We got off to a great start when in only 5mins. E.Milne was well placed to tap in after a glanced header from Graham. This set the tone and Halli went on to dominate this half. Some of our play was excellent as we continually went at the visiting defence. Morgan was outstanding and the David Snedden look alike thundered into every challenge. On one occasion the wee midfielder even found time to practice his performing arts routine when he skipped and danced his way out of a tight corner before slipping the ball to Robertson who had been so mesmerised by the singer he could only blast the ball out of play! We went 2 up in 15 mins. Graham was felled in the box and G.Woods stepped forward to blast home the penalty. We were all over Stonehaven and Michie was a virtual spectator. A third was scored when G.Woods grabbed his brace in 35mins.The big striker went on a powerful run before thundering a shot low past the keeper. Right on half time we hit our 4^th. Tony Snedden Morgan hit a great volley which the keeper parried. E.Milne got onto the spillage and converted from a tight angle. (H.T. 4-0) A superb performance had put us in a commanding position for the second half however we had to guard against complacency. It was important that we continued the good work started in the first half. The visitors now had the wind in their favour and of course this did see them take a bit more control of things. We defended reasonably well only a couple of times did we look uncertain. On one break Stonehaven forced a marvellous save out of Michie who turned away a forceful drive. They did pull one back on the 65 min mark when in truth we did look a little sloppy. M.Woods had replaced the injured E.Milne at half time and did well defending , his brother was also doing a power of work getting back to win almost every header at Stonehaven set pieces. Morgan and Longmuir were battling away and Keith was unlucky when he cut inside to hit a belting left foot shot which came back off a defender. Merchant should have put us further in front in 80 mins. G.Woods got up to nod the ball down for him but the short sleeved Merchant could only roll the ball down his shin and into the keepers hand. (F.T.4-1) Excellent result for Halliburton. We had absolutely no failures this afternoon. No side are ever going to dominate for 90 mins. and Stonehaven perhaps had a 20 -25 min spell on top. Apart from that we looked very comfortable throughout. G.Woods, Longmuir and Morgan we just that bit better than everyone else Morgan getting topman for his dance routine in the corner in the 1^st half!