Cambuslang Rangers boss Paul McColl was pleased with his side's performance as they beat Caledonian Locomotive (Image: Stuart Vance/ReachPlc)

Cambuslang Rangers bag impressive win despite missing eight players

Boss Paul McColl was impressed as his side swept Caledonian Locomotive aside

by · Daily Record

Cambuslang Rangers beat Caledonian Locomotive 4-1 on Saturday, despite missing EIGHT first-team players.

Goals from Godson Nechi, Carlos Lang, Owen McGinty and an own-goal gave Camby a comfortable win at Stepford Park, moving them up to ninth in the West of Scotland Second Division, and leaving them three points off third-placed Larkhall Thistle.

But boss Paul McColl has been left fuming by a stop-start schedule that leaves them without a game this coming weekend.

McColl said: “You’re in Scottish football, you’re meant to be in a professional league and you don’t have a game this week, one next week, then without one the following week.

“It’s a difficult job, but I don’t know why we don’t have a game.

“It’s disappointing that you’ve not got a game when you’ve just had a win, and it’s just difficult.

“It is a hard job that the fixtures guy has to do, but we’re one of the only teams without a game this weekend – I just don’t get it.”

On his injury situation, McColl said: “I don’t know if a lot of teams have had the same luck as us with goalkeepers and guys injured, suspended or on holiday, but we had eight players out again on Saturday.

“In every game we’ve had six or seven out, and it’s a lot of players, guys who have been starting.

McColl says his players performed well to win the game at Stepford Park (Image: Stuart Vance/ReachPlc)

“It has handicapped us a wee bit, and our goalkeeping situation has just been daft – broken ribs, a broken thumb, suspended, a young boy throwing about five in – the list goes on.

“But it seems to be clearing up a bit, so hopefully we can start to get some of them back.”

Camby’s win has been a real tonic for McColl, however, after a string of results where they’ve lost by the odd goal.

He aid: “It was a good win, a decent game and we played well.

“In the first half we started to get the better of them after about 20 minutes, and we then just went out and scored a goal within 30 seconds of the second half, got a couple more, and we played well. To be fair to the boys on Saturday they did well, and did us a wee turn.

“It was a great win, and Caley Locos are a decent team, with good boys that run them, a good set-up, management team with good guys behind them.

“It was a good win for us.”

McColl had misgivings about Stepford Park before the game, and his opinion hasn’t changed.

He said: “It’s just my opinion. I played amateur football and there isn’t a problem with it, but we’re meant to be at a professional level, and that’s garbage. It’s done with now, we’ll not be playing there again this season.”

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