East Kilbride Thistle boss blasts "abomination" of a display in Larkhall Thistle hammering
dailyrecord.co.ukEast Kilbride Thistle boss Aaron Connolly branded their defeat to Larkhall Thistle an “abomination” after they were on the receiving end of a second 6-1 hammering by their rivals this season.Connolly’s side had just a David Gray penalty to show for their efforts at Gasworks Park on Saturday as Larkhall repeated their dominant display from the Showpark encounter in August, which came during Garry O’Hanlon’s spell in the hot-seat.And the current boss has been left deflated by the second half display in particular, as they failed to build on a battling 5-4 win at Kello Rovers last week in the West of Scotland League Third Division.Connolly said: “I thought first half we were in the game and competed fairly well, played the better football, but giving a soft goal away from a set-piece early on gave us a mountain to climb - like we seem to enjoy doing recently.“I came in at half-time thinking we had a good chance of getting something out of the game.“But the second half was an abomination of a performance.”It was really disappointing all round.
It is not often I’ve had to have a go at the players since I’ve come in, but we just lost so many cheap goals.“I felt on Saturday it was a throwback to the early part of the season.“I thought we had turned a corner from performances like that.“At Kello the week before we lost goals, but we got back into the game and won, but we just didn’t do that on Saturday.“I’m not going to get too down about it, the same as I don’t get to high when we’ve had winning runs.”EK Thistle have been hampered by a number of exits recently, most notably Jamie Longworth leaving to take up a new career opportunity teaching in Dubai and Sean Winter calling time on his stint having briefly come out of
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