Cambuslang Rangers boss: Draws killing us in West of Scotland League survival battle

Cambuslang Rangers boss Paul McColl says draws are killing his side and they must turn their form around in the West of Scotland First Division to beat the drop.

An Owen McGinty strike rescued a point at home to Whitletts Vics on Saturday, keeping the South Lanarkshire side 14th in the table, three points ahead of their Ayrshire visitors with a game in hand, and two behind Maybole, who have played one game fewer.

Cambuslang have drawn eight times this season, the most in the division, and McColl points out that if they had turned even half of those into wins, they would be sitting ninth.

But he says a share of the spoils in Cambuslang was better than a defeat.

McColl said: “In my opinion we did enough to win it, and we didn’t, but a point is a point just now.

“A few teams round about us got beat, Neilston and Maybole both lost, so I suppose you could say that if we keep picking a point up when they get beat you’re going to be harder to catch.

“But we’ve drawn eight times this season and nobody else is anywhere near that – there have been a lot of points lost from draws and it’s cost us.

“If you reverse four of those to wins, you’d be nearly in the play-off slot, on 32 points, which makes a big difference.

“We played well enough and it was a really good second half, with us coming from behind again – but we need to start going ahead and keeping the score, and not conceding daft goals.”

McColl added: “Near the end of the game we put a lot of pressure on them and probably should have won it.

“There were a few wrong decisions from players who should have passed the ball and didn’t.

“But it was some goal from Owen McGinty, he belted it into the top corner, no keeper will be stopping that.”

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