Scottish Cup heartbreak for Threave Rovers after last minute Stranraer defeat
It was last-minute heartbreak for brave Threave Rovers as they bowed out of the cup in a dramatic finish to an epic tie.
They had been leading 2-0 against senior side Stranraer only to be pegged back to 2-2 in the see-saw thriller.
With minutes left Threave were reduced to 10 men when Charlie Watson was shown a straight red card for violent conduct.
Ryan Edgar grabbed the gut-wrenching winner for the visitors deep into stoppage time.
Anguished Threave boss Danny Dunglinson said afterwards: “That’s the Scottish Cup in a nutshell.
“Magical things can happen in the Scottish Cup and we were close to something magical there until the sucker punch at the end.
“But I have never been as proud of my players as I am now. To be fair Stranraer were always in the game.
At 2-1 the boy has hit an absolute wonder goal and we could have had two keepers on the line and still not saved it.”
Before kick off, the home players warmed up with t-shirts over their tops emblazoned with a QR code to highlight the plight of their teenage ace Charlie Watson who is battling skin cancer.
Rovers then took the lead in a blood-and-guts cup clash through skipper Dylan Cairnie four minutes from the break.
He ran into the box to meet a cut back and squeeze a low shot through a crowded box and beyond keeper Jacob Pazikas.
The crowd erupted in the second half when Rovers went 2-0 up with a goal from Ross Irving in 54 minutes after he cut in from the left and curled a low shot around the keeper and inside the right post.
But the Blues bounced back with two substitutes linking up for a goal 10 minutes later.
Deryn Lang cracked a low cross towards the back post where Edgar bundled it home before Lang lashed in a thunderbolt from 30