| Date | Saturday, 22 October 2005 |
|---|---|
| Competition | Scottish League Division 1 |
| Fixture/Score | Clyde 1:0 Ross County |
| Venue | Broadwood Stadium |
| Attendance | 1,012 |
| Referee | Stuart Dougal |
| Comments | Match Report Report from the Press & Journal. Clyde 1 Ross County 0 Ross County's financial worries continue to swirl around the club with suggestion that players could leave during the transfer window in January. But manager John Robertson is adamant that any unsettlement behind the scenes is not affecting performances on the pitch. Despite losing top spot in the First Division and slipping up again by losing to Clyde, Robertson is not pressing any panic buttons. He said: "It is not for me to talk about money and I think anyone who saw the performance against Clyde would see that it did not affect us. "We did really well for much of the match but had a bad 10-minute spell when Clyde scored. We created plenty of chances, but did not get a break all day. "Clyde's goalkeeper played well and pulled off one or two good saves. We will continue to play as we did, as we like to get the ball down and play football." It was County who started brightly and could easily have gone ahead in the opening ex-changes as home goalkeeper Paul Jarvie finger-tipped a Jim Lauchlan header over the bar. Then County had the misfortune to lose goalkeeper Ian McCaldon, who limped off after 13 minutes to be replaced by Stuart Garden. Garden was fortunate not to lose the opener just two minutes later when Tom Brighton hit a Post, but he had no reprieve in 25 minutes when the youngster crossed to the near post for the oncoming Alex Williams to score the opener. Jarvie was again on form to turn away a powerful Mark McCulloch drive before County had another fright as Lauchlan cleared an effort off the line and then, in the second period, Williams hit a post. After that it was County who got on top and should have at least equalised but David Winters' drive was blocked by the legs of goalkeeper Jarvie. |
| Ross County | |
| Manager | John Robertson |
| Starting 11 | 1: Ian McCaldon, 2: James Lauchlan, 3: David Cowan 1, 4: Lionel Djebi-Zadi, 5: Martin Canning, 6: Fergus Tiernan, 7: John Rankin, 8: Mark McCulloch, 9: Alexander Burke, 10: Steven McGarry, 11: David Winters |
| Bench | 0: Stuart Garden, 0: Sean Webb, 0: Don (JNR) Cowie, 0: Stuart Taylor 1, 0: Steven McGarry |
| Clyde | |
| Manager | Graham Roberts |
| Starting 11 | Paul Jarvie, Chris Higgins, Craig McKeown, Eddie Malone, Craig Bryson, Stephen O'Donnell, Bob Harris, Michael McGowan, Alex Williams 1 1, Tom Brighton, Steven Masterton |
| Bench | Peter Cherrie, Kevin Bradley, Andrew Dick, Romauld Bouadji, Roddy Hunter |