Century-seeker puts win ahead of own glory
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FORGET a Scottish League goal century, all Craig Gunn wants as an early Christmas present this weekend is an Elgin City away win.
While the City strike machine has been regularly hitting the net on his travels this season, it hasn’t been enough to earn his team a league win on the road since the opening day of the season.
Last weekend, Gunn’s penalty gave Elgin a half-time lead at Stirling to raise hopes of a first away victory in League 2 since August.
GOAL! Elgin take the lead from Craig Gunn's penalty. Stirling Albion 0-1 Elgin
However, their hosts used the strong winds to greater effect as they hit back with three goals in the second half, once more leaving City to travel home empty-handed.
Gunn had made a habit of scoring at Forthbank, netting in all five visits there with Elgin, while Saturday’s strike was his 99th goal in the league for the Moray side.
This weekend, the Black and Whites make the marathon journey to Berwick Rangers’ Shielfield Park, a ground where they have enjoyed recent success over a team Gunn really loves scoring against.
He hopes that will be the catalyst for a long-awaited Elgin success, and insists the long journey south should not be a burden.
“It would be nice to clock up the 100 on Saturday but it would be a lot nicer just to clock up an away win,” he said. “We need to try and sort out this away form. So far we’ve only won once away from home and we must start picking up more points.
“We seem to have done better away at Berwick in the last two or three years, so we need to bring that form into Saturday.”
Of Gunn’s 120 Elgin City goals in all competitions to date, 17 have come against Berwick including six at Shielfield.
Full story in Northern Scot print edition.
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