ABERDOUR suffered a frustrating weekend as their first and second teams both fell to heavy defeats on Saturday.

The firsts welcomed Ballachulish Camanachd to Silver Sands and, despite playing well, went down 4-0.

Lisa MacColl, head coach with the club, insisted that the team were beginning to come together and that signs of progress were there to see.

“The results haven’t been going our way,” she said. “We’ve been playing really well, we just can’t seem to get the ball in the back of the net and we lose a couple of silly goals.

“As I’ve said before, we’ve been looking at rebuilding a squad this season, a younger squad and from a coaching point of view, they’re doing everything we’re asking them to do and progressing every week.

“After Saturday, a game on paper we probably should’ve won, to come away with a 4-0 loss, it’s disappointing for everybody.”

Lisa added: “As a squad, they are really starting to gel and we’ve got a fantastic forward line who creates lots and lots of chances.

“I think the problem is their confidence in front of goal, especially in the last few weeks when the story has been the same.

“Their keeper has pulled off some phenomenal saves and I think their age and experience in knowing how to cope with that and press on is the bit we struggle with.”

Meanwhile, the seconds made the long trip west to take on Bute Shinty Club, an eventual 3-0 loss for the Fife side.

The head coach said that numbers were a struggle for this game and despite the result, the seconds put out a good showing at a really tough ground.

She continued: “We were really tight for getting a team out this week, we just managed to get 12 and it was a very young squad.

“They managed a very respectable 3-0 loss, it’s always a difficult place to go especially with a very neat team.

“That was a pretty young team and we have a few newer, inexperienced players so to go all the way to Bute and take 3-0, that’s alright.

“I’ve heard there was a lot of good play, but they were a much older, bigger and more physical side and that was the difference.”

The Aberdour women’s shinty team were also in action over the weekend, heading to Glasgow to take on Glasgow Mid Argyll Shinty Club.

They were defeated 7-1 at Peterson Park on Sunday, with Rebecca Thorington on the scoresheet.