Dalbeattie Star’s Scottish Cup dream is over after they were thrashed by West of Scotland champions Darvel on Saturday.The Ayrshire side ran out 7-1 winners at Islecroft against the team currently bottom of the Lowland League.Star boss Eddie Warwick said: “We were outclassed by a team with far bigger resources than us.
I think they’re a mid-table League Two team and they’re playing a side where the manager has only been in three and a half weeks, is struggling for form and it’s a difficult time of year to add to the squad.“Darvel got to the third or fourth round of the cup last year and I think it was a mismatch.“We did get to 1-1 although only for a minute or so.
At 3-1 at half-time we thought it wasn’t too bad. I thought some of their play was excellent and some of the stats posted in 11 games are ridiculous.“It was 4-1 at 80 minutes and 7-1 at 90 so maybe boys were getting tired from not having the ball and running all the time.
We need to make sure it doesn’t happen again. We can’t just fold like that, we need to take our medicine.“Folk need to be sensible in respect of where Darvel are and where we are right now.
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