I would like to say well done to Arthur for all the running about and phoning he has done in the last few days to try and sort out this league farce. He has managed to get the meeting set up for next Tuesday so hopefully we will get the backing from the other teams!!!!

The official news from the League Committee:

This is what the clubs decided at the meeting on Monday 18 August from the minute of that meeting:

"The EC proposed the top club in each section play off for the title with both promoted. An amendment by Paisley Amateurs seconded by Ferguslie that the top 4 in each section enter a KO competition with only the 2 finalists promoted and the 2nd division championship awarded to the winner of the final. The amendment was carried by 14-6"

We think this is a very poor way to end the season hence the reason for the vote?

With this being a local derby and Kilbarchan being the league above and also doing well in their league this was going to be a very tight game, both teams not wanting to allow any advantage to the other and with a pre season game ending 4-3 to Kilbarchan it would be a battle.

With the weather being good the pitch would be reasonable to play on so both teams were determined for the upper hand early on but what wasn't counted on was the strong wind in the first half to Kilbarchans favour. Both teams played nervously but Kilbarchan had the upper hand with their obvious height advantage and wind, they missed some good opportunities but perhaps Houston had the best chance in the first half with Chris Gillies lobbing the keeper and just putting wide, at half time 0-0.

In the second half Houston manager Arthur Jackson tried to impress the wind factor in favour and to play to the ball on the ground, Houston pressed without looking to cause to many problems. Then a flash point when the referee took to the lime light softley sending off a Kilbarchan player for abusive language in the 70th minute, two minutes later Kilbarchan took advantage of a lacks in the Houston defense to go ahead 1-0.Chasing the game Houston went with 4 up front but just failed with impressive attack to get the illusive goal Kilbarchan saw the game out 1-0, not Houstons best performance but can take heart that they were playing a team above them league wise and hopefully will have the chance to meet again.
Houston are at home next week at St James park to CWS Transport in the cup.

Houston put in another good performance again on Saturday under very hard conditions. We now have to look forward to next week with a very tought game against 1st Division side CWS transport.

Houston played well in patches of this game when the manager tried out a new formation. The formation worked not to bad but it could have been better. The good thing about this game is that we got goals from all over the park.