Highland League Weekly – Heath hat-trick helps Keith, champions show character, joy of six for Huntly

Rothesnell Keith free at the weekend Callum the story was young Aberdeen FC loanee Heath Duncan with a hat trick

Aye he had a very good day well he's having a very good season he's got 12 goals now from midfield but aye his hat trick em was the difference on Saturday but in fairness I thought it was a thoroughly comprehensive and pretty one-sided game really.

Keith were well worth their win and probably their only disappointment was that they didn't score more given some of the chances they created in the areas they got into but to be fair for all their pressure it looked like Rothes were maybe To be fair to them, they were hanging in, and it looked like they would maybe get to halftime at 0-0, but then a moment of magic from the aforementioned Heath Duncan with a free kick from the edge of the box right into the top corner, broke the deadlock, and then a rebound after he did a penalty save early in the second half, and then a pretty cool finish when he was through one-on-one for Liverpool.

3-0 and that sort of rounded off a very good day's work for Keith overall back-to-back wins in the league and I know Craig Ewan was quite happy with the clean sheet as well because maybe the feeling at Kynock Park is probably having a defended as well so far this season as they would have liked compared with how well they did defensively at times last season so clean sheet was welcome and other than one header from Matthew McConaughey right at the start of the second half Craig Reid was never tested and although we're obviously speaking about Keith Duncan there and he seems like he's going in sort of stature all the time and he's doing really well for them I do think there are some other performances for Keith and Saturday I thought Jordan Lynch especially playing at left back I thought he caught where he's sort of running power and his surges forward from left back he caused Rothes a lot of problems and they got a lot of joy down that side and there were others James Brownie in the middle of the park and you and Clark sort of knitting it all together up front I thought you know there's a lot of Keith players could be very happy with how they played and a good three points for them for Rothes I mean like they're certainly not you couldn't fault the effort of the Rothes players on Saturday but it's right in essence that after the game they were they lacked quality they lacked sort of composure and didn't really put Keith under enough pressure but injuries certainly aren't helping them because you like guys that are missing it's like Dylan Lawrence Thomas Brady, Cammy Lyle Zach McPhee Ali Morrison and taylor thane daniel fraser robbie lean like it's like if you put them in their squad i do think they're a bit of a different proposition and although they don't have a huge amount of experience in their squad a lot of them are probably they're more experienced players kind of like sir thomas brady's probably played 100 odd games at highland league level things like that so it's like it can guys that they can probably ill afford to be without and that's probably reflected in their sort of recent run that's 10 league defeats on the bounce now for them and i mean there were there was a one moment i think they felt went against him a wee bit they were appealing for just before keith's third goal they were outshot sean cameron there's a sort of coming together collision with him and scott barden in the box and they were appealing for a penalty and then it wasn't given by referee Mark Bolton and Keith went up to the other end and scored however I wasn't necessarily sure it was a penalty could have been given but what I would say is like I think the referee maybe wasn't going to give it because there was a pretty clear foul on James Brownie in the middle of the park in the build-up that he didn't give and I don't know if maybe he thought well play shouldn't have got that far so he just you know maybe looked the other way with it but the penalty shoot but it did lead to one well depending on the viewpoints maybe not a moment of hilarity but one moment of slight hilarity after that penalty claim had been turned around Ryan S and then his sort of fury ended up punching the dugout and causing a hole in the perspex in the back of the dugout so that probably summed up how his day went overall unfortunately wasn't the best day beating and then damage to the dugout as well so yeah I wonder if he'll be fined for it.

One of those depends on your perspective.

Former goalkeeper.

Strong hands, too.

Yeah.

Big, strong hands.