Stirling boss hails deserved Clyde win after composed away display

Bullish Stirling Albion boss Alan Maybury insisted his side’s weekend win at promotion favourites Clyde was thoroughly merited — and believes it could have been more.

The Binos travelled to Hamilton at the start of a difficult looking month of fixtures against some of league’s fancied outfits.

But despite conceding most of the possession and a bombardment of crosses from the home side, they produced a composed away performance to walk away with a 2-0 win courtesy of a Lee Hamilton own goal and a late Cammy McKinley strike.

It gives Stirling six points from a possible nine to start the campaign – a positive start with a number of first-team players missing through injury.

A delighted Maybury said: “I thought we started well and looked OK in the first 15-20 minutes of the game, we put passes in when we got the ball and broke well.

“Harry does brilliantly for the goal and Ally is claiming he touched it so we’ll have to see on that one!

“But after that, we sunk deeper and deeper and were too cautious, more worried about what was in behind us, we defended quite well and I don’t think we gave up too many chances.

“We spoke at half-time about being braver with and without the ball, not being scared to take it but also without the ball, getting in the face of the player in front rather than being too concerned with the player behind and I thought we did that better in the second half.

“They put loads of balls in the box but we handled it better and being higher up the pitch allowed Erik (Sula) and Geeks (Ross McGeachie) to play higher up the pitch and come on to things.

“We kind of weathered the storm and if you look at the bare stats from the game, we had the four best chances with the two goals and the two other one-on-ones