S.J.F.A. North Region

League Cup Group 4

Saturday 3rd August 2024

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 14.01

Stonehaven 3 Deveronside 0, attendance 63

17’ 1-0

27’ 2-0

74’ 3-0 (pen)

@ Glenury Park

Mineralwell

Stonehaven

AB39 2SP

£6 Admission, including 4 page programme.

Today I decided to visit the most southern based club in the S.J.F.A. North Region, at the Glenury Park home of North Premier League side Stonehaven, who were hosting Championship club Deveronside, one level below them. Both sides had won their opening group matches, Stonehaven winning 1-0 away at Buchanhaven Hearts and Deveronside beating Sunnybank 6-1 at home, with Owen Christie scoring five of the goals.

Stonehaven had the game sewn up within half an hour. They opened the scoring after seventeen minutes, heading in a cross from the left from 8 yards out and goal number two followed ten minutes later, when a free kick from the edge of the D was bent round the wall into the bottom corner. Deveronside had a great chance in the closing minutes of the half, missing an easy chance when through on goal, shooting high over the crossbar. Unfortunately for them, the chance didn’t fall to Owen Christie. In fact, he never really had a look in all afternoon and was well marshalled by the home defence for the entire ninety minutes. Any chance Deveronside had of getting anything out of the game disappeared when they had a defender sent off nine minutes into the second half. His offence was calling the Referee ‘a clown’ following an award of a free kick against them. As expected, Stonehaven were well on top for the remainder of the game, but were only able to add one more goal, which came from the penalty spot after a foul on the corner of the six yard box.

Glenury Park has the changing room building/tea bar (plenty of hot food on offer) behind the entrance goal end. The pitch is railed off and there’s a pair of dugouts on the left hand side. No cover here, but not needed on a glorious afternoon. Approaching the ground along a lane running alongside the river, you first come to a cricket ground, where there was a match taking place, before reaching the football club. At the far end of the car park there is a 3G pitch, which was also hosting a match, presumably a friendly, that kicked off half an hour before the Stonehaven game.