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Orkney's hopes of an upset are demolished as Heriot's flex their capital-strength muscles
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HERIOT'S FP 115
ORKNEY 6
HERIOT'S waltzed to an easy and predictable victory yesterday but
the haste with which the Orkney players surfaced in the bar suggested
the visitors' pre-match hopes of wreaking some sort of havoc at
Goldenacre were still very much alive.
Given that Heriot's are still an outside shout for the Premiership
and Orkney are wallowing close to the basement of National Division
4, a shock was never likely, except for the one the Orkney players
got when nightfall had not descended by kick-off. It would be doing
Orkney a massive injustice, however, to suggest they were ...
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