The midweek madness began and we made the trip to the east end of Glasgow to face yet another old foe from our SAFL days in Postal Utd. The match was played on a very good surface up at Haghill.

Greenock went into the match with Shaun Dillon, Stu Higgins, Dave MacLeod and Stevie Greenlees but welcomed Andy McEwan back into the squad.

Greenock started like a house on fire and almost put this game to bed in the opening 15 minutes. Gary Loughran opened the scoring 5 minutes in when he latched onto a through ball from Stephen Burden and calmly dispatched beyond the Postal keeper. On 12 minutes that lead was doubled when Mick McColgan battled well on the edge of the area and ficked into the path of Kev Brown who met it powerfully on the volley giving the keeper no chance as it flew into the roof of the net.
Greenock had there tails up and Stephen Burden was again involved and he made headway down the left. A neeat interchange of passes with him and Gary Loughran saw Burden drill an effort goalwards only to see it well saved by the Postal keeper, unfortunately for him he parried it out into the path of Loughran who blasted high into the roof of the net.
Postal came back at Greenock but found the defence of Thomson, Davis, Rankin and Jamieson all in top form.

HT: 3-0

Postal came out the traps at the start of the 2nd half and 5 minutes in the almost pulled one back when there big centre forward found space in the box but his goalbound effort was parried around the post by Willie Swan. This passage of play saw Neil Rankin having to come off injured with young Ryan Corr coming on. around the hour mark it was 4 nil when Loughran won possession out on the left and work it into Kevin Brown who once again volleyed for goal beating the keeper, hitting the bar and then off the keepers back and into the net.

The hosts kept battling away but it was Greenock who had chances to increase there lead with the impressive Postal keeper making a couple of fine stops.

The backline battled hard to keep a clean sheet for the 2nd game on the trot.

Overall a tremendous showing from all the boys involved. Midweek games are always a nightmare and having a great start set up well for the rest of this match.

Greenock HSFP Team: Swan, Thomson, Davis, Jamieson, Rankin (Thomson 55), Bradley, Forsyth, Burden (McEwan 65), McColgan (K. Munro 65), Loughran (Queen 75), Brown (B. Munro 75)

Goals: G. Loughran (2) and K. Brown (2)

Greenock High School FPs AFC

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