Scottish Cup: Hill of Beath 3 Irvine Meadow 0 as Colin Spence admits 'we let club down'

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Colin Spence held his hands up as Irvine Meadow crashed out of the Scottish Cup at Hill of Beath and admitted: "We let the club down." Meadow were well beaten in Saturday's preliminary round replay as Ross Allum's first half double and Calum Adamson's header after the break sent the Haws through to the first round proper.And Spence insisted he and co-boss James Latta have to take the blame for the meek manner of their exit as he dropped a heavy hint of big changes ahead.

He told Ayrshire Football News: "It's not good enough. I feel like we've let the club down and everyone who has worked hard to allow us to compete in the Scottish Cup. "For Irvine Meadow not to qualify for the first round is unacceptable."First half, we never got a foothold at all.

We didn't have a shot on target."We made a few changes at half-time hoping to get a wee reaction but we needed to go and get the third goal - instead we lost it."We've told the boys we can't be loyal to any players now - we need to go and rip it up basically."Ultimately we carry the can here.

We need to take full responsibility. If it's not good enough, it's us that aren't good enough."It's a head-scratcher but we will need to go and have a long look over the weekend."The Haws found themselves kicking into a fairly strong wind in the first half but still created by far the best chances.Adamson and Ryan Connelly flashed efforts just wide of the target inside the opening 10 minutes before Allum's thumping close-range strike forced Medda keeper Joshua Bysouth into the game's first save.Allum got in behind Medda's defence in 18 minutes but pulled his shot wide with just Bysouth to beat.Meadow struggled to string more than a few passes together, more often than not resorting to