A good last three weeks here at Hampden with a lot of positive developments. We had a double home weekend for sessions 15 and 16 and wanted to make the most of it. First off was a Ross County team that will definitely continue to be in the thick of the promotion battle this season and we needed a good win. We got that with a 3-0 victory that garnered us a captain’s bonus for Julian Alaphillipe. The next game was a strange contest against Aberdeen where we had the better defense and offense by at least 35 but were outshot 2-1 and had to settle for a 1-1 draw. Really thought if it were going to be a four point weekend it would have been the other way around with the win here and the draw in the other game.

The next weekend was a typical home and away weekend with an away game against table topping Falkirk where we decided to save some energy and park the bus. That ended in a 2-0 defeat and we rolled out of there to a home game against Clydebank where we strolled to a 4-0 victory on the back of 18(!) shots.

Last weekend looked like a very tough session playing AI away and Brechin City at home, the 3rd and 4th teams in the table coming into the weekend. But with the shutout at home we decided to go for the sponsorship bonus here and stalled away at Airdrie. A little lucky that AI had significant time from some single digit SL players and our backup goalie Zunino was able to stop 3 shots. The 0-0 draw wasn’t just a point though it was 2/3 of the way to the sponsorship. We went into the game against Brechin with a strong team and faced off against their longball and early cross tactics but managed to get one goal through Campenaerts and hold off their offense to get the three points in a 1-0 victory and secure the sponsorship objective for this season so a great weekend.

In the personnel front we’ve been happy to welcome veteran players Barrie McKay on the wing and Brandon Rivera up front. In addition, shortly after arriving we’ve discovered that Rivera is in the best shape of his career (in the form of a 10SL boost) and ready to lead the offense for QP the rest of the season.

(In the only negative development this week while searching the archive for our last post we just now noticed that we had not followed the POTS rules at the beginning of the season and chose a GK and then missed David message thus missing out…*facepalm*)