St Cuthbert Wanderers suffer 7-0 defeat at home to Creetown

It was “one step forward, two steps back” for St Cuthbert Wanderers at the weekend.

A week after taking encouragement from their narrow defeat to Caledonian Braves, they were hammered 7-0 by Creetown at St Mary’s Park.

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The visitors were 5-0 up at the break after a first half goal blitz before adding two goals late on.

Craig Rudd, who is taking the team along with Raymond Gordon and Ally McMillan, said: “It’s one step forward and two steps back.

“We actually started quite brightly, Creetown had most of the ball but we were containing them.

“We lost a goal and before we knew it we’d lost another two.

“That’s the way it is just now, we’re not just losing one goal we’re losing two or three in quick succession and before we know it the game’s gone from us.

“We made a couple of changes at half-time and I thought we did a lot better. We created a couple of chances and if we’d scored we might have given them a fright.

“We played a lot better but Creetown had probably taken their foot off the gas a bit and we lost two late goals. We questioned their attitude at half-time, if it bothered them losing 5-0 at half-time every week and to be fair they worked their socks off in the second half, so it shows they do care and are willing to work to put it right.

“Me and Raymond had a chat after Saturday, we maybe got a couple of selections wrong which is on us but we wanted to stay loyal to the team that had done well the week before. Maybe against a more experienced team it was a wrong decision.”

The tough run of fixtures continues for Saints this weekend.

“They head along the A75 to take on Stranraer’s second string.

Rudd added: “It’s another tough task, they’re another sharp team and we just need to keep plugging away and fingers crossed something turns for us.

“We need to find a way to stop conceding goals and start creating more chances.

“If we get that first goal instead of always losing the first goal, it might give them something to hang on to.

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“We need to stay in the game as long as we can without having it gone by half-time.

“The boys are sticking together, no one has said they’ve had enough and want out.

“They want to work through it, which is half the battle for us.”