Title Hopefuls Drops 3 Points................

<p>Statement 'Game of two halves' sums up this match. GRFC got off to a&nbsp;strong start putting the Blantyre goal under siege. A strone breeze helped the rovers heep Blantyre pinned in their own half for long spells in the first half.

<p>Chance after chance&nbsp;was squandered including an open goal missed from Fraser Veitch on&nbsp;17min (30 yards out). The plethora of chances missed would cost the rovers in the&nbsp;end. The rovers back 4 and GK looked solid and well organised and were&nbsp;winning everything thrown at them. The 1st half finnished 0-0.

<p>Rovers made an excellent start to the second half with David Clancy&nbsp;coming in off the wing and hitting a good shot on target, the shot was blocked but Roy Watson was in&nbsp;position and tucked it away to make it 1-0.<br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" />As the second half progressed the Rovers lost their way. A mistake at&nbsp;the back from Iain MacGregor resulted in a corner. Blantyre scored&nbsp;after a knockdown in the box fell at the feet of a blantyre player,&nbsp;Darren McDowall could do nothing in goal to stop the shot. After the Goal there was a real lack of football played from the rovers and resulted to long ball tactics which&nbsp;was neither pretty or effective.&nbsp;

<p>The referee was giving no protection&nbsp;to the rovers strike force which really upset the home crowd of 2!&nbsp;Blantyre scored a second goal late in the second half from a corner and the Zonal players did not attack the ball like they should. Shortly after Carlo Santi&nbsp;Squandered a 4v2 counter attack which compounded the poor defending and from their on the writing was on the wall!&nbsp;

<p>The match finished 2-1 to blantyre,&nbsp;the quality of football played was poor and no where near the standards set by the GRFC squad in the league cup campaign. A&nbsp;very disappointing result for&nbsp;the promotion hopefuls.