Shotts boss not getting carried away as side sit joint-top of First Division

Shotts boss John McKeown admits he is happy to be joint-top of the West of Scotland First Division after the first quarter of the campaign, but he is not getting carried away with the success of his young squad.

The Bonny joined rivals Rutherglen Glencairn - who lost 2-0 at Blantyre Vics - at the summit on Saturday after being held to a 0-0 draw at home to Thorniewood United.

McKeown reckons a point apiece was a fair reflection of the game and says he’s pleased to reach this stage with just one defeat in seven games.

He said: “We are 25 per cent through the league now and we are sitting joint-top with Rutherglen, so we are doing well considering the overhaul of players in the summer.

“We’ve only lost one game. Against Rutherglen we were well beaten, and rightly so, but in the other games we’ve more than competed and done well.

“We’ve won the majority of our games and played well, but we know we are still a work in progress and there is a long way to go.”

He added: “We were playing against a Thorniewood team with a good calibre of player and a club who have invested heavily in their squad in comparison to us.

“Sometimes you have to say fair enough, we’ve matched them, done well and defended excellently.

“Our goalkeeper and defenders were really good and if we’d been a bit sharper in the final third, we could have won it.

“But I think a draw was a fair result. We probably shaded the first half and had a good couple of chances in the first half. Young Harry Kent was free with the goalkeeper about 10 yards out, and just couldn’t adjust his feet to score.

“There wasn’t much else in the first half and we started brightly in the second half, before they really came into it for the rest of the game.

“We had a wee wobble where