Scottish Cup [R] *All Rounds*

[Scottish_Morton]

FIRST ROUND

Stirling Albion v Elgin City
Cowdenbeath v Greenock Morton
Edinburgh City OR Spartans v Berwick Rangers
Alloa Athletic v Selkirk OR Girvan
Partick Thistle v Albion Rovers
Stenhousemuir v East Stirlingshire
Dumbarton v Forres Mechanics
Preston Athletic v Gretna

SECOND ROUND

Preston Athletic or Gretna v Cove Rangers
Arbroath v Dumbarton or Forres Mechanics
Ayr United v Cowdenbeath or Greenock Morton
Queen's Park v Raith Rovers
Lossiemouth v Edinburgh City OR Spartans OR Berwick Rangers
East Fife v Peterhead
Threave Rovers v Forfar Athletic
Stenhousemuir OR East Stirlingshire v Partick Thistle OR Albion Rovers
Stirling Albion OR Elgin City v Inverurie Loco Works
Alloa Athletic OR Selkirk OR Girvan v Montrose

[Toon³]

Please post results, fixtures and chit-chat about all rounds here please. :)

[Teso Dos Bichos]

I'll wait until the big teams come into play. ;)

[Toon³]

Come on East Stirling!!

[DeeTee]

Mighty Raith are on their way to Hampden! ;)

[Scottish_Morton]

What's the bet on Gretna being top scorers of the competition with Preston and Cove Rangers in the first and second round? Couldn't get much easier for them.

[Gordon EF]

I'll wait until the big teams come into play. ;)

LOL

I hope that was ironic.

[Catfish]

I wish I had Setanta so I could watch the SPL and Scottish Cup. I guess I will just have to keep pestering my cable company until they pick it up or maybe get a dish.

[Scottish_Morton]

Cowdenbeath are putting up the prices from £9 to £12 for our visit, how nice of them :rolleyes:

[Scottish_Morton]

Freezing weather means most of the cup ties tomorrow will probably be off :(

Stirling Albion v Elgin City (Inspection 0900 Saturday)
Cowdenbeath v Greenock Morton (Postponed)
Spartans v Berwick Rangers (Inspection 1000 Saturday)
Alloa Athletic v Selkirk (Inspection 0930 Saturday)
Partick Thistle v Albion Rovers
Stenhousemuir v East Stirlingshire
Dumbarton v Forres Mechanics (Postponed)
Preston Athletic v Gretna

[WillieB]

Can someone tell me what part of Scotland Preston Athletic come from?

[Scottish_Morton]

Can someone tell me what part of Scotland Preston Athletic come from?

Just east of Edinburgh.

[nach0king]

Can someone tell me what part of Scotland Preston Athletic come from?

Prestonpans, as SM says, is just east of Edinburgh.

Thistle drew 1-1 with Rovers, so there's a replay at Cliftonhill soon. Good result for the Coatbridge boys, especially since they were down to ten men for the last half hour.

Gretna racked up an easy 6-2 win at the Pennypit, with Preston's two goals being late consolations.

Most of the postponed ties are due to take place on Saturday.

[WillieB]

Just east of Edinburgh.

Thanks, found out when reading today's papers that Preston is actually Prestonpans. I thought those muppets from England had hi-jacked our cup.

[Scottish_Morton]

Spartans 1-0 Berwick, Non-League Spartans have put out 3rd division leaders Berwick in the early kick-off.

[Scottish_Morton]

Today's other cup scores:

Cowdenbeath 0 - 3 Morton :)
Stirling 2 - 1 Elgin
Dumbarton 4 - 1 Foress Mechanics

Remaining first round ties on Monday night:

Alloa v Selkirk
Stenhousemuir v East Stirling

[Scottish_Morton]

Tonight's scores:

Alloa 9 - 0 Selkirk :eek: (Alloa have lost 4-0, 3-0, 4-2, 3-1, 4-1, 3-1, 6-1, 3-0 and 5-2 in their last 11 games, I wonder what Gretna would've done to Selkirk?!)

Stenhousemuir 3 - 2 East Stirling - Stenny win despite having 2 players sent off in the first half.

[celtic76]

[QUOTE=Scottish_Morton]Tonight's scores:

Alloa 9 - 0 Selkirk :eek: (Alloa have lost 4-0, 3-0, 4-2, 3-1, 4-1, 3-1, 6-1, 3-0 and 5-2 in their last 11 games, I wonder what Gretna would've done to Selkirk?!)
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I couldn't believe the scoreline myself until i checked a couple of sites to see if there wasn't some trigger finger happy kid at the board. If any can post highlights of it i will toss some rep your way.

[nach0king]

WTF do you expect? Selkirk are a terrible team who play in East of Scotland Division 1. There are around 4 good teams in the East of Scotland *Premier*. Division 1 is awful, truly awful in quality - and Selkirk are 5th in it.

[Scottish_Morton]

WTF do you expect? Selkirk are a terrible team who play in East of Scotland Division 1. There are around 4 good teams in the East of Scotland *Premier*. Division 1 is awful, truly awful in quality - and Selkirk are 5th in it.

Still, we only managed to beat Vale of Leithen 4-0 when they were bottom of the East of Scotland Premier and we were flying high in the second. Selkirk are obviously of a very amateur quality but you'd expect them to hold a very poor Alloa side to about 4 or 5.

I agree the quality is horrendous though, junior teams would do much better in the Scottish cup. It's about time the big junior clubs got rid of their 'junior' status and joined the football league in a pyramid system and got in on the Scottish cup action. If they don't want to change status it's their choice but many junior sides would be very good additions to the SFL. locally to me a team like Kilwinning Rangers or Irvine Meadow would have much better supports in the second or third division than East Stirling, Cowdenbeath etc. It's about time things were freshened up.