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Daily Record
23-05-2025
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Cambuslang Rangers boss blasts 'lack of fight' as they lose crucial game in relegation fight
Paul McColl's side are now sweating over Clydebank's Lowland League bid Cambuslang Rangers boss Paul McColl has blasted his side's 'lack of fight' after losing 4-2 at Bonnyton Thistle in their West of Scotland Second Division finale on Saturday. The defeat leaves Camby one point ahead of third-bottom Yoker Athletic, which would usually be enough to avoid the drop. However, should Clydebank lose their play-off on Sunday against Musselburgh Athletic for entry into the Lowland League – currently poised at 1-1 – the bottom four in each of the top four leagues will be relegated, leaving Shotts, Ardrossan Winton Rovers, Cambuslang and Glasgow United sweating over the outcome. However, McColl says his side haven't been good enough all season. He fumed: 'There are guys who are playing in the team who are not good enough, and that's just a fact – they need to move on. 'Us struggling in the Second Division isn't right. Teams paying nowhere near as much as us are above us, and that's embarrassing. 'That's why we're in this position, because guys are turning up when they want. Time-keeping is abysmal, and it has gone on too long. 'It has been a poor season and everybody needs to take the blame, but Saturday wasn't good enough and I'm really disappointed with it. 'It was a poor end of the season game and nobody was up for the fight to win it, and they should have been. 'Conditions were hard for both teams, it was absolutely melting, but we were really poor and I can't have that standard next season.' On the game, McColl said: 'I missed the second half but we lost a goal in a minute, which is abysmal, and has happened again and again. 'I don't know what the centre-half or the goalie are doing, there's no shouting, they miss it, and the guy just scores. 'At the second one a guy who can't even run has gone past a couple of our players and hit a shot that has gone in. 'Carlos Lyon missed a penalty in the first half, but scored one in the second half. 'We went in 2-0 down at half-time and they came back alright in the second half, but it's just a poor season. 'We were abysmal in the first half, and seemingly we were a bit better in the second half, which I missed, but that's as bad as I've seen, and in an important game like that. 'We just need to hope that Clydebank do us a turn.'
Daily Record
02-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Record
Fuming Cambuslang Rangers boss claims poor ref standard 'will cost club'
Paul McColl insists 'poor decisions' are massively impacting on games Furious Cambuslang Rangers boss Paul McColl blasted referee Steven Clark for his handling of their 3-0 derby defeat at home to Lanark United, and says the standard is going to cost them. McColl insists he's not a sore loser, but said the young whistler made baffling decisions for both sides during the game, including sending off Aaron McNeil in 25 minutes for two fouls. Three 3-0 defeats on the bounce have left Camby just a point above the relegation zone, and McColl says they need wins in their last two games. Seething McColl said: 'There wasn't a lot in the game, but every second week our referee is ghastly, and now it's beyond a joke – something needs to be done. 'Before the game started he moaned about Carlos Lyon's socks, he fixed them. He held the game up for five minutes, then tells us to put cones out as an area for the management team, when we just stand at the dug-out. 'The game got delayed for about six minutes because of him. One of Lanark's players had black Under Armour on, nobody even noticed, and the ref told him to take it off, so that was another two minutes. 'He sent one of our guys off in 25 minutes for two tackles. The first one wasn't even a foul, the second one he's trying to have a shot, a defender goes to block, and he's kicked him slightly. 'When you're down to 10 men for 65 minutes it does make a difference, and that was never a red card. 'The ref was abysmal and cost us the game. I've never seen anything as poor in all my life. 'But when the game was at 0-0, we missed an absolute sitter. It was a great free kick from Carlos, a good save, and Nicky Hardy has put it over the bar.' Camby aren't in action again until they visit Muirkirk on May 10, with Bonnyton Thistle the following weekend, and McColl reckons they may need two wins to survive. He said: 'I'm not a bad loser, if we get beat we get beat fair, but every week or every second week we're getting refs who shouldn't be anywhere near this level. 'In seven games we've had red cards and we've not won any of those games – that's not a coincidence. 'You're not going to win a game when you get a man sent off, and I'm going to guess at least four of them shouldn't have happened. 'It's costing us, big time. Refs are throwing cards about like confetti and it's out of hand. 'We've got two games left, we might need to win the two of them, maybe one, we just don't know at this point. 'A few teams round about us won at the weekend, and that makes me even more annoyed.'
