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Cumnock ..............0 Kilbirnie ...............7 Liam McGuinness revealed a scouting mission made Blasties go "gung-ho".

He was speaking about David Anderson, the Kilbirnie legend who last week pulled on a Blasties shirt for a 280th and final time.

Kilbirnie Ladeside are the team in town as the Blasties descend on 'Lie's Dunterlie Park.

Three pots in, nay blasties and it's stick goalie." I may as well have been speaking Swahili such were the looks the children that gather every night to play football on the patch of grassland outside our home (laughingly known as the Village Green) gave me as I explained the rules of street soccer.

The Blasties came roaring back and Moses Apiliga and Ricky McIntosh levelled before McCulloch's heroics in the shoot-out.

The Blasties sit just one point off bottom and face a huge task this afternoon at Glenafton.

But the Blasties unravelled after the break and boss Liam McGuinness said: "If you play like that in the second half you don't deserve three points."

McGhie and Robertson have exceeded expectations at the Blasties since taking over.

But David Ramsay lobbed a 57thminute leveller for an injury-ravaged Blasties who only had one sub.

ROB ROY 0 KILBIRNIE LADESIDE 1 ADAM FORDE was the Kilbirnie goal hero as the nine-man Blasties all but secured their Super Premier League safety.

6 Darren Henderson's Ford ruined Liam McGuinness's managerial debut by hitting the Blasties for six.

The Blasties boss was just one defeat from the sack as his side toiled at the bottom end of the Premier Division.