Saturday was quite a day for our Women’s section with three great performances and three great wins.
The 1s led the way with a gritty 2-1 win against Wanderers in Dundee. This is exactly the kind of result they need if they are to claim a European play-off place this season and represents an excellent start to the new term. Kaz was delighted, describing their performance as “awesome”.
The Women’s 2s made it three wins from three games in 2016/17 with a 5-1 mauling of Garnock at Auchenhowie. Wildcats are absolutely focused on promotion after just missing out last season and they look good for it at this early stage. Finally, the 3s picked up their first victory of the season with a 3-2 win at home to Uddingston 3s.
On the men’s side things were a little more mixed. The 1s played well in their 4-2 defeat to Menzieshill but the Dundee side had a wee bit extra where it counted. Fraser Calder and Rob Harwood scored Western’s goals.
Team of the day for our money was the 2s. They played Grange 3s off the park in a performance of pace, skill, intelligence and ruthless finishing. Fraser Moran scored two and was outstanding throughout but man-of-the-match has to be Andrew McConnell for his remarkable hat-trick.
The 3s stuffed Kelburne 4s 11-2 at Glasgow Green, aided somewhat by the presence of Scott McCartney. Scooter took his usual approach of mixing prolific goalscoring with magnificent nonchalance. When asked how many he got in the game he shrugged, “Eh, I think it was mibbe five?”
The 4s lost 4-2 to Clydesdale 3s in the final game of the day. In truth, this was an excellent game played in a good spirit with both teams fielding the classic district league combination of old lags and talented youngsters. Western can have no complaints about the scoreline but should take a lot of encouragement from the performance.