East Kilbride Thistle will entertain you, says boss as he eyes Junior Cup scalp at Muirkirk

Aaron Connolly hopes East Kilbride Thistle’s entertaining football can win them some new fans this season.

The Jags have scored 27 goals in seven league games so far after earning their first away win of the season at Royal Albert on Saturday.

Goals from Adam Edgar, Ross Kennedy and Mitchell Rooney earned a 3-1 victory that has them third in the West of Scotland Fourth Division, five points behind leaders St Peter’s.

With two 6-1 wins plus 4-4 and 5-5 draws among their results, Connolly says supporters will get their money’s worth watching his side, and hopes that pays off at the turnstiles.

He said: “I think we have proven in the early part of the season that we are an entertaining watch, if nothing else.

“There’s always goals in our games and that is the way we set the team up to play, to attack relentlessly and try to score as many goals as we can.

“We do have a vulnerability that makes us entertaining, so we are hoping we can grow the support a bit over the season by maintaining our performance levels.

“We can look back on the first six weeks of the season and be reasonably pleased with where we are.

“We have picked up a fair amount of points, winning four out of the seven, so I think we can be pleased.”

Such is Thistle’s penchant for high-scoring recently, Connolly was frustrated to only come away with three goals to show for their trip to Stonehouse.

He said: “I thought we were really good for the first 20-30 minutes and then, in all honesty, I felt we took our foot off the gas a little bit.

“That left me a little bit disappointed and then we conceded a goal really late on, but Royal Albert were good value for their goal.

“It could have been a wider margin of victory but we only had 14 bodies for the game, so we