McLauchlan: Title is still the one we want.
THERE was completion of a historic treble-double cup success, but for Avoch-raised talent Rachel McLauchlan Sunday’s Scottish Women’s Cup final triumph remained bitter-sweet.
Hibernian’s 8-0 win over Motherwell at Firhill brought to a close another season of great accomplishment for the local lass and her team.
The Edinburgh outfit made it six cups from six over the last three years, but the disappointment of narrowly failing to wrest the league title from Glasgow City lingered in the background during celebrations.
McLauchlan, in three years at Easter Road, has known nothing but knock-out success. But for the third year running in the league, Hibs finished close runners-up after a slender 2-1 defeat to the relentless Glasgow side on October 21.
The final-year Napier University undergraduate was still able to savour a great achievement for her club.
Next season, the defender will look to work her way back into national coach Shelley Kerr’s plans for the 2019 World Cup finals.
Read more in today's Ross-shire Journal.
