A big night for Buckie Thistle tonight in the Scottish Cup match at Bonnyrigg Rose being shown live on BBC Scotland, 7.05 k.o. Its Buckie top of the Highland League v Bonnyrigg top of the Lowland league so should be a competitive, even game with I’d say Bonnyrigg favourites with home advantage and having beaten Fraserburgh away in the last round when the Broch where then top of the Highland league and unbeaten.
Buckie don’t have the freescoring team of a few years ago with 50+ goals striker John McCleod still out injured, but talented attackers Kevin Fraser and Sam Urquhart are now starting to hit form again after long injury lay offs. Fraser in particular is capable of winning any tight game, picking the ball up in midfield and driving forward he’s very hard to dispossess . Player of the season so far is Andy MacAskill , stocky , hard working midfielder who drives the team on . Other names to look out for are Jack Murray, 19 year old loannee from Ross County , young striker Sam Robertson and a club stalwart in Hamish “ Squish” Munro who adds his own degree of toughness to the defence. ‘Mon i ‘Jags!