Post-Match Reaction: Back To Winning Ways
There was a rare away success in Aberdeenshire FA territory for County as they deservedly took all three points from their trip to Huntly.
It was a second away win in a row against Dave McGinlay's men for Nairn and also the second game at Christie Park in succession where they hit the net three times. That last victory was County's final match of last season in May as Nairn threw off the shackles and put on a free-flowing, entertaining display and the performance in this game was equally as impressive.
County boss Les Fridge was delighted to get back to winning ways. Nairn County FC Online caught up with the manager shortly after the final whistle inside the bowels of Christie Park. He said: "Huntly is a difficult place to come. We knew it was going to be a hard game and a bit of a battle so we're delighted to get the three points.
"We've gone to places like Deveronvale and Fraserburgh over the last couple of weeks for games that I thought we did enough to get something out of. But one thing or another cost us those games so today we had a chat and we were a lot more like ourselves. I thought we were very organised, competed really well and scored three goal goals."
The manager had to do without the services of suspended top scorer
Fridge has been somewhat outspoken in recent weeks about the performance of referees and has even incurred a four-match touchline ban for comments made to the officials after the defeat at Fraserburgh, although the club plan to launch an appeal. This time though, there was nothing in the referee's performance to get the manager worked up. He said: "They have a hard enough job as it is so I'm not going to get into it. I just felt that over the last couple of weeks decisions had gone against us at important times in games. Today though, there was nothing to talk about gladly and that's the way it should be."
County now take on reigning league champions Cove Rangers at Station Park in a long-awaited home fixture. "We've not played at home for eight weeks through one thing or another," Fridge pointed out. "So we're delighted to get a home game but we're talking about playing the league champions, so we'll just see how it goes."