SAUCHIE two-goal hero David Winters is relishing playing alongside the likes of Collin Samuel, Darren Cummings and Brian Morgan after the attacking quartet tore Forfar West End to shreds in Saturday’s 3-1 East of Scotland cup victory.

Winters opened the scoring with a simple header following a stunning Morgan cross before the same player set up Cummings for Sauchie’s second, with Cummings and Winters combining for the third goal late on.

Former internationalist Samuel was a behemoth in attack as well and was very unfortunate not to find the back of the net himself, but Winters says that it’s a matter of time before his new partner gets off the mark.

David said, “The boys are all happy with the win. We went up there with a game plan just to go right at them, try and get a result and get into the next round of the cup.

“In the cup you need to do that, it’s a one-off game and you can’t give anything half-hearted. We travelled up in really high spirits. From first whistle to last I thought we really deserved the win.

“I played against Collin through my whole career and I know what he’s capable of. We already seem to have a bit of a wavelength and he just needs a goal and he’ll be flying. He was close and he’s just been unlucky.

“His presence up there is incredible, he’s dragging players left right and centre because there’s usually two players on him, that just creates lots of space for the likes of me and Daz to get into.

“Morgan did brilliantly, he set my first one up and the second for Daz as well. I couldn’t have asked for a better ball, it was right on my head and all I needed to do was header it. The curl on the ball was great and I just let it hit my head, it was always going in because the goalkeeper really can’t do anything from that close in.

“It was a lovely early ball for Daz and he couldn’t miss either.” David was pleased to see the side get a boost in confidence with the result and waved off the plaudits for his scoring exploits, saying it doesn’t matter who scores for Sauchie so long as somebody does.

He added, “After getting beat by Bo’ness we managed to scrape a win at St Andrews, then we let ourselves down in the Linlithgow game so it’s good to get back on the winning trail with a good performance.

“All the boys were needing a wee confidence boost. We worked hard, got the win and we’ve got the confidence up a bit.

“I’m always pleased when I score but I just thought someone was going to score, so I’m pleased it was me that scored two. I don’t care who scores though, I just want Sauchie to win games.” Sauchie started the game the better and always looked in control and despite West End showing some great endeavour in spells, it was a comfortable win as they advanced to the second round of the East of Scotland Cup.

Fraser Duncan was attack minded from the off with Collin Samuel, Darren Cummings and David Winters making up a strike trio to be reckoned with.

Sauchie went ahead in 15 minutes when Brian Morgan jinked down the right with his well weighted cross was headered home powerfully by Winters.

The speed of Samuel caused havoc in the home rear all afternoon.

The second half was only four minutes old when Sauchie increased their lead. Morgan was again the provider of an inch perfect cross for Cummings to head home from the edge of the six yard box.

Forfar responded well and had a few close shaves including a free kick off the post with Halliwell beaten.

Sauchie killed off the tie on 67 minutes when Cummings’ cross flew beyond the goal to Winters who headed home brilliantly across the keeper to make it 3-0.

Forfar added a late consolation when Graeme King nodded a late Forfar free kick past his own keeper in the dying minutes.

SAUCHIE: Halliwell, Morrison (Purdie), Kiczynski, King, Tully, McCulloch, Morgan (Martin), Comrie, Samuel (Bonar), Cummings, Winters.