Montrose 0 East Fife 4

Montrose Football Club crashed to their heaviest defeat of the season at the hands of East Fife at Links Park on Saturday but remained in third spot in the table some six points behind derby rivals Arbroath.
The defeat came after the Gable Endies had picked up six points on the road in the previous seven days and had looked to keep in the run going in this home fixture.
In the end Montrose gave away two avoidable goals in the space of four first half minutes and never recovered and in the end East Fife, visiting Links Park for the first time since 2008 ran out comfortable winners in a match they didn’t do very much in but didn’t really have to. Four clear cut chances and four goals for the mean from Methil.
Montrose must now look to regain their winning form this coming weekend when they play Arbroath in the second round of the William Hill Scottish Cup.
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Car Treasure Hunt

The latest event to be organised by the MFC Fundraising Committee was a Car Treasure Hunt, which took place last weekend. Winding its way through the town, across to Ferryden and up towards Usan the teams had a series of clues to solve in order to win the array of prizes on offer and also to avoid the unwanted title of ‘the team requiring most practice!’ On this occasion that honour fell to Treasure Hunt novices ‘The Dream Team’. Let’s just say Alan Kenny will not be driving to any away games soon.
Collecting first prize were a team who called themselves ‘The Seniors’ and whose collective experience earned them an impressive 50 out of 56. A great day was had by all and many thanks to all those who came along. The next event will be a Bingo Night on Friday 17th October.

Goalkeeper Signing

Montrose Football Club have completed the signing of Lucas Birnstingl. The 24 year old goalkeeper had appeared as a trialist in the Gable Endies last two fixtures against Elgin City and Clyde.
Lucas started the season with Airdrieonians as back up to former Montrose goalkeeper Andy McNeil before his short term contract came to and end.
Canadian born Birnstingl moved to Scotland from Canada three years ago for a trial at Kilmarnock and was also on the books of Clyde and Dundee before playing for Bo’ness United Juniors.
Birnstingl was with Queen’s Park last season joining the Spiders in October 2013.
He will now via with Stuart McKenzie for the number one jersey at Links Park.
Lucas is pictured with assistant manager Lee Wilikie and goalkeeper coach John McCafferty at Links Park.

Clyde 1 Montrose 2

Montrose Football Club won their second away game within four days to continue their winning ways on the road after the success at Elgin City. Opponents Clyde are always a difficult side to face at Broadwood and they were coming off the back of a heavy home defeat last Saturday and had a point to prove although they had a couple of key absentees from their line up.
Montrose took an early lead when Garry Wood headed onto the Clyde net after only six minutes, but this was quickly cancelled out by Kevin Watt 5 minutes later to even the scores at 1-1. Although Clyde tried to grab another goal with the home crowd cheering them on, it was Montrose who snatched the winner late in the second half when Terry Masson scored with a low shot.
A good three points for the Mo and two away wins on the trot. Hopefully a decent crowd will turn out for the East Fife game at Links Park to see if the corner is turned and Montrose can seriously be considered play off contenders. Messrs Shields, Wilkie and the current squad a players, including the stronger line up on the bench these days, surely deserve more support from the terraces.
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Elgin City 0 Montrose 1

Montrose Football Club moved up to third in the League Two table with a hard fought one goal victory over Elgin City at Borough Briggs on Saturday.

The all important encounter in a match that could have gone either way came in the 71st minute when midfielders Paul Watson’s shot took a wicked deflection to find its way into the net and give Montrose all three points.

It was hard battle with both sides creating good chances without taking them in the Elgin sunshine but in the end it was George Shields side who took the all important three points and get back to wining ways after two defeats to Arbroath and Albion Rovers.

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