Tennent's Scottish Cup 1st Round - Brechin City 1 - 1 Queen's Park

Last updated : 19 November 2006 By Andyboy
It was almost like playing on a ploughed field for the Spiders players but they forgot about the perils of the Glebe Park "grass" and started the match playing some nice flowing football, but were given a major let off when Ryan Geddes steered the ball over from six yards on the volley.

Our best chance in the opening 1/4 of an hour rather surprisingly came from a corner, Paul Ronald headed Paton's set piece onto the crossbar with City keeper Craig Nelson well and truly beaten.

The breakthrough came from a corner also with Paul Paton's low pass to the edge of the 18 yard box finding Mark Ferry who planted the ball first time into Nelson's top right corner to spark delirium within the large and vocal Queen's Park support.

David Weatherston and Tony Quinn both tested Nelson from Paton free kicks whose delivery was causing huge problems to the City defence which included Cowdenbeath title winner John Ward, who was sent off at Hampden in the Blue Brazil's 2-2 draw with Queen's in April.

The second half began with Alan Trouten causing problems and he won a free kick around 30 yards out 10 minutes into the second period. Paton's fizzing strike forced a great stop from the impressive Nelson.

The impressive Trouten's running was causing problems and Nelson had to be at his best again to stop his drive after he ran 20 yards. Weatherston was also to be denied by the City goalkeeper before Queen's were hit with a late sickener.

Brechin's veteran sub Paddy Connolly was brought down by Richard Sinclair in the box with only ten minutes left and Stuart Callaghan hammered the ball past the despairing Mark Cairns and into the top corner.

Weatherston missed a glorious chance from six yards after a cross by Alan Trouten scooping the ball over before the young Queen's striker forced ANOTHER save from Craig Nelson.

Queen's survived a stoppage time scare though when Connolly headed the ball away from Cairns and bundled the ball over the line but thankfully ref O'Reilly decided to rule it out for a mysterious foul on the Queen's keeper, a real let off.

The replay will be played at Hampden Park on Tuesday 28th November with a 7:45 kick off, be there and give the team the same tremendous backing they recieved at Glebe Park yesterday, MON THE QUEEN'S!

QUEEN'S PARK: Mark Cairns, Paul Paton, Mick Dunlop, Stephen Reilly, Richard Sinclair, Alan Trouten, Stuart Kettlewell, Tony Quinn, Paul Ronald (Richard Bowers), David Weatherston, Mark Ferry

SUBS NOT USED: David Crawford, Damiano Agostini, Steven Canning, Robert Dunn

GOALSCORER: Mark Ferry (21)

BOOKING(S): Stephen Reilly, Paul Ronald, Alan Trouten

REFEREE: Steven O'Reilly

ATTENDANCE: 515

MAN OF THE MATCH: Alan Trouten, Starting to finally show his potential after a slow start to the season and ghosted past players like the Alan Trouten of old.