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Alness United manager Rob MacCormack looking to go on winning run in North Caledonian League ahead of trip to Bonar Bridge


By Andrew Henderson

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Alness United boss Rob MacCormack is looking for his side to string together back-to-back wins in the North Caledonian League.

Discounting last weekend’s match at Invergordon that was abandoned inside 10 minutes, the last time Alness took to the field they beat St Duthus 4–3 in an enthralling contest.

Going on the road to second-bottom Bonar Bridge tomorrow, MacCormack’s men may well be the favourites to claim all three points, but he is taking nothing for granted as United try to string positive results together.

“I’ve said it nearly every week – I fancy us against any team if we play well,” he said.

“We’ve had some really good results this season, and we’ve had some really poor results this season.

Alness United beat St Duthus before last weekend’s trip to Invergordon was abandoned because of snow. Picture: Callum Mackay
Alness United beat St Duthus before last weekend’s trip to Invergordon was abandoned because of snow. Picture: Callum Mackay

“If we play as well as we can, on our day we’re a match for anybody in the league.

“I say to the players every week that we have to be at our best to win. As we’ve seen over the course of the season, everybody is picking up points against everybody else, so we’ll just go out and play as well as we can.

“If we got three points on Saturday it would be great. We got an excellent result against St Duthus, so we’re looking to get back-to-back wins.”

Last week’s call off was frustrating for Alness, but MacCormack could have no qualms over the abandonment with every other match in the league being postponed too.

“It was touch and go all morning,” he explained.

“Myself and Gary (Campbell) at Invergordon had a few discussions in the morning, and at 10am the pitch was clear and playable.

“We thought we would give it a go, but we obviously knew what the forecast was. When we turned up at 12pm, the pitch was still playable, and then after 1pm we had a heavy flurry of snow.

“The referee wasn’t helped by not having assistants – I think if we had them the game could have been played – but he couldn’t see all the lines clearly so he decided to call it off.”


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