Lomond Vale 1 UCS 3

Bankies notched up their first win of the season at Posties Park on Saturday morning against league new boys Lomond Vale.

Stephen McKeaveny gave UCS an early lead from the penalt spot after a defender almost caught a cross from the left.

Poor marking allowed the home side to be level by half time whan a cross from the left was poorly defended and the ball was knocked home at the back post.

Bankies got back in front when Gary Docherty knocked home a cross from the left wing and he got his second not long after. Only a fine save from the keeper stopped him from bagging a treble as Bankies created many chances in the second 45.

Bankies; Muir, Harkin(c)(Cairns), McNeil, McKeaveny, Kilkenny, Ford, Grant(Graham), Edmonds, McInally(Cummings), Docherty, F. Urquhart

This Saturday Bankies are at home to Rosehill Utd before the opening G81 bus trip of the season to Girvan.

Round Up

Last week saw UCS involved in 3 games including the league opener.

Last Tuesday saw a 5-1 defeat at Glasgow West after taking the lead through Russell Eldred.

On Thursday night it was upto Springburn to take on Greg Gillan’s work team whose name escapes us and an 8-2 win was recorded. Doubles from Colin McInally, Gary Wood and James Ford were added to with singles from Tosh Edmonds and trialist Craig Grant who was signed.

Saturdays opening league match with Anderston United saw a demoralising 6-0 defeat at Mountblow.

This midweek sees a League Cup group match with Clyde Valley Rovers, details tbc.

Sat team v Anderston; Muir, Cairns, McNeil(Brodie), McKeaveny, Kilkenny, Edmonds, Grant, Harky(c)(Cummings), McInally, G. Urquhart & Eldred(Graham)

Thurs v Greggs; Muir, Cummings, G. Urquhart, McKeaveny, Kilkenny, McNeil, Edmonds, Ford, Grant, McInally, Wood; subs used; A. Cairns, E. Cairns, Eldred, Graham

Tues v Glasgow West; Muir, Harkin, Kilkenny, G. Urquhart, Ross, McNeil, Edmonds, Brodie, Parker, Eldred, McGarvey; subs used; McKeveny, Ford

UCS 0 College 5

UCS suffered defeat at Donald Dewar on Monday night after a 2nd half collapse.

College took the lead inside 2 minutes. The rest of the first half saw both sides have chances. Russel Eldred missing Bankies best two chances.

An unstopable volley allowed College to double the lead minutes into the 2nd half. Bankies spent too much time tryign to play World Cup passes and it came back to bite them on more than one occasion as College pounced on mistakes to win by a comfortable margin.

UCS will neeed to cut out the mistakes if they have any aspirations of doing well this season.

 

McInally(McNeil), Brodie(McGarvey), G. Urquhart(Parker), McKeaveny(Harkin), Kilkenny, Trialist, McNeil(Cummings), Edmonds(Ross), Eldred(Wood), Docherty(Eldred), F. Urquhart

Friendly on Monday

UCS will take on Clydebank College at Donald Dewar on Monday. Players should meet at 7.15pm for an 8pm kick off.

West End United 3 UCS 4

UCS dusted off the cobwebs with a 4-3 win at Donald Dewar against league newcomers West End on Saturday morning.

18 players got a valuable run out as the new season fast approaches.

The Bankies were 2-0 up at half time. Steven McKeaveny and James McCafferty scoring. A batch of subs didn’t affect the Bankies and sub Gary McLaren added a third within minutes of the restart.

West End pulled two goals back in a matter of minutes. Firstly through a move on the right and then through an unfortunate Frank Hotchkiss own goal. Bankies added a fourth through trialist “Jambo” with a smart lob from 20 yards before Kevin Brodie was beaten at his near post to finish the scoring at 4-3

The only sour note was Mark Connelly picking up a meg injury.

Bankies will train on Tuesday at OHR - 6.30pm.

Brodie, Cummings(Harkin), G. Urquhart(Cairns), McKeaveny(McNeil), Kilkenny(Hotchkiss), McNeil(D. McCafferty), Trialist(Eldred), McInally(Connelly)(Cummings), J. McCafferty(McInally), Docherty(Parker) & Eldred(McLaren)

New Season

UCS Pre Season started two weeks ago with poor numbers withmuch of the squad on holiday. The first pre season test takes place on Sat 26th July against league newcomers West End United at Donald Dewar(10am ko).

 

There will be further activity on Tuesday evening, but that has still to be confirmed.

 

Any Bankies fan who wants to join up or even just take part in training is more than welcome.

 

The team hope to show off their new strips shortly while new training gear is also expected in the near future.

Cathkin 2 UCS 4

The bankies did the double over Cathkin by inflicting a 4-2 defeat on the home side as they did the last time the sides clashed at Mountblow.

Bankies took the lead inside 10 minutes. Fraser Urquhart’s chip was palmed by the keeper but went in off the post.

The home side drew level when a deflected corner was met at th back post on the stroke of half time.

Jamie McLaren restored the lead with a fine header from a Paul Mooney corner but a rare error from Joey Muir saw cathkin level it again.

After some subs, the returning Colin McInally fired Bankies in front from Urquhart’s cross before the young Frameister got his second of the daywhen he knocked home at the back post from a long Harkin throw.

UCS 0 Gryffe 1

UCS crashed out of the cup as Gryffe snatched a 91st minute winner at the midweek Springburn encounter.

The higher league opponents were given a right battle until the late late winner which ended the hos tsides cup hopes for another season.

Olympique Energetik 0 UCS 0

UCS produced another attacking performance away to league leaders Olympique at Hamilton palace on Saturday morning.

With Harkin & Docherty injured and Mooney lost somewhere, Eldred, McNeil & Graham all came into the side that had beaten FC Inter midweek.

For the first 15 minutes it was all Bankies as they took a hold on the game. Only some good goalkeeping and poor finishing kept the scores blank as UCS and in particular Fraser Urquhart looked to build on the midweek win. Eldred had an effort cleared off the line.

Bankies should have had a penalty when an attacker was barged over in the box but the ref waved play on. At the other end Muir had two saves to make in probably the quitest 45 minutes he has had in the UCS goal.

The second half began with the hosts pressing and with Muir beaten a defender cleared off the line via the post. Olympique pressd a little more but got little out of the Bankies reargurad and on the odd occasion they did Muir was upto the task.

The game began to fizzle out and Bankeis had the upper hand but a point and a clean sheet away to the league leaders was a welcome bonus for the battling Bankies who have improved since the Xmas break.

Bankies climb a place to 8th with 13 points from 16 games.

FC Inter 1 UCS 2

Bankies picked up the points in this Monday night clash at the Frihill Complex.

Within three minutes they took the lead when Fraser Urquhart ran on to colin Donnelly’s through ball and slotted past the keeper. The Bankies lead was doubled when Gary Docherty’s diving header deflected into the top corner for a half time advantage.

Inter came at Bankies in the second half and pulled one back midway through the half. They should have been level when a close range effort was cleared off the line.

Clydebank had two chances to wrap the game up through subs Brodie & Eldred but they both missed.

A good win for UCS in a game that could have saw Inter go top with a win.