Angry Rutherglen Glencairn boss Joe Pryce says his side’s performance against Darvel was the worst of his tenure, after they crashed out of the Junior Cup at the third round stage.
And he has warned players who are not up to the task that they will be replaced if they don’t sharpen up their act. The 2023 Junior Cup finalists went down to a narrow 1-0 defeat in Ayrshire, but Pryce was furious with the lack of quality his side displayed.
He said: “We let the players know in no uncertain terms at the end of the game that those standards won’t be accepted here. “As a management team, we work too hard with them at training for them to put that level of performance in on a Saturday. “They let themselves down as well because we see them at training, and the levels they put in there are exceptional.
But you’ve got to replicate that on a Saturday. “Congratulations to Darvel, they edged it and they probably deserved to go through on the day, so we wish them all the best for the season. “But I am certainly not going to accept those levels from our players, not a chance.