Glenafton Athletic 8 East Kilbride Thistle 1: Jags 'have work to do', says boss as Junior Cup exit adds to woes

East Kilbride Thistle gaffer Garry O’Hanlon admits he has a lot of work to do after an 8-1 Junior Cup hammering at Glenafton Athletic heaped more misery on the Showpark side.

The Jags have now shipped 18 goals in their last three games with Saturday’s defeat following on from 6-1 and 4-1 thrashings in the league at the hands of Larkhall Thistle and Lanark United, respectively.

During the Glenafton clash, EK were tied at 1-1 in the first-half after David Sinclair struck for the visitors, but the Premier Division side soon found their shooting boots to inflict a painful defeat.

And O’Hanlon said: “There’s a lot of work to be done over the next few weeks, that’s for sure.

“It’s just not working at the moment and that is pretty clear from the results, so we need to iron this out quickly.

“It was 2-1 just before half-time but we conceded a goal and then another one 35 seconds into the second half and that just completely knocked the stuffing out of us.

"Individual errors later in the game played into their hands and we lost a couple of boys to injury as well so that didn’t really help.

“But on paper they were always a good bit ahead of us.

"I felt we were doing okay and we had chances to go 2-1 up ourselves, but with that lack of confidence we didn’t take them.

“Then we got punished for that.

“I hope we can get back to winning ways on Saturday.”

A trip to Vale of Clyde in the West of Scotland League Second Division now awaits, with Thistle aiming to stem a run of five games without a win.

O’Hanlon added: “I’m expecting a reaction against Vale. The last 10 days have been difficult but, prior to that, we were doing okay.

"It’s up to me to regroup and get us going again.

“We just need to get back to basics and try to get out of