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Tain Thistle 18 Eastern Rose 0

• 29 Jun 2016

With the Tain Gala well and truly underway, the Jags and the Bombers provided the midweek football entertainment following the Primary School Soccer Sevens tournament at the Links which saw Tain Juniors emerge victorious.  The Jags capped things off nicely for Tain's football clubs with an entirely one sided win over their Inver visitors.<div><div>Missing for the game were birthday boy Arron Christie and his brother Daniel, along with Chippie Mailley and Dave Murray.  The team lined up with an unorthodox 3-3-4 formation and after taking a good quarter hour to get going, they opened fire relentlessly on the Eastern Rose back line.  </div><div><br /></div><div>David MacIver got things going with a cross come shot which curled into the net off the far post.  Mark Lamont struck his first of the night from the penalty spot after a handball on the line prevented Thistle's second and Liam Rostock opened his account a minute later.  MacIver and Lamont added another to their tallies in the next three minutes and Rostock netted his second on 32 minutes.  Lamont completed the hat-trick on 34 mins and Jack Hudson scored three minutes later.  Three quick fire goals made it 11-0 at half time, with Lamont hitting his fourth and fifth and Hudson netting his second.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Lamont started the second half with a sixth goal and Thistle's 12th and Darran Goller finally got in on the action on 51 minutes. Substitutes were introduced at this point and shortly after Rostock completed his own hat-trick before Goller scored again.  Substitute John Maclellan scored Thistle's 16th marking his return to the side with a goal and Robbie Ross, scoring his first goal in two years, made it 17-0 getting on the end of a Maclellan cross.  Lamont scored the last goal with 8 minutes to go.</div><div><br /></div><div>Two records were broken tonight as Thistle recorded their biggest ever win, thrashing last year's record of 15-1 (also against Eastern Rose).  Player wise, John Allan secured his 19th clean sheet in Jags colours, surpassing the previous record held by Steven Martin.</div>