It's a quieter spoken young lad though but one with the same desire to win. Neil Gauld, like "Jer" already has a medal in his collection this season, winning in the SFA Challenge Cup but that fails to lessen his hunger to go for a second

"Look at the League table this Cup Final is 1^st v 6^th and you have to say Cove have done well, not an easy run in for them. They'll be all confident after last Saturday, but so will we. It has not been a good run for us so we wanted to get our passing going and we did that at Fort William. They can be tough opponents, Huntly only won 3-2 there when I played for them"

Seven days away from playing in his final game of 2007/2008, "Gauldy" and his colleagues were to hit the jackpot, thirteen goals without reply in Lochaber:

And the Locos No 10 got a third of them,

"It's the most I've scored in a League game at Highland level(four) and obviously my first hat trick. It would've been more but I missed a penalty. I suppose you can say we're all playing for places in the big game,even though we are aware our squad is a bit tight at the moment

My four goals move me up to 21 in the scoring charts, at the start of the season I set a target of 20 , as a striker you are there to score goals and at the start of a season you try to do that."

For strike partners he could not hope for better but not only that the players all over the team hit hot form on the day:

 "Kenny Coull and Scott Michie have a lot of experience, Kenny speaks a lot and that is a big help while Scott being an ex Don has that senior experience. The wing supply and quality of crossing into the box has been good and we should be finishing higher.

In the Vale game we played well despite losing and obviously did well at the Fort, sometimes the ball goes against you at one end as well as the other."

As a youngster Neil Gauld came through the Colony Boys Club ranks, he netted 36 goals under the leadership of Cormie in the junior ranks at Formartine Utd. His dream move to Inverurie Locos in Summer 2006 under John Gardiner was to end shortly after the arrival of Kevin Will  Jamie Watt had also arrived in the Garioch as a second diminutive striker,the options up front limited his immediate desire to be a first team regular.
Having netted a handful of goals in the Red and Black before moving along the A96, "Gauldy" was to hit 18 in 32 squad appearances as his pace and ability to sneak into the tightest of spaces made him a nightmare for defenders to deal with

With Cormie moving into the Harlaw hotseat the dream move back to his roots was back on and he penned a deal to Summer 2010

Saturday will be his second Cup Final playing for Locos and obviously his first against Cove Rangers. His previous Final ended in disappointment but it's to that game playing in Black and Gold in October he looks for inspiration:

At the back end of 2007 the local plumber outlined his ambitions,

"I want to be very successful and beating Deveronvale in the Challenge Cup gave me the appetite because I played for Locos in the Shire Cup against the Vale and that was the downside, losing by a single goal."

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Inverurie Locos are a mere ten days away from playing in their first ever Fosters Highland League Cup Final, they will face Cove Rangers at Christie Park Huntly on Saturday 10^th May in a repeat of the 2004 Qualifying Cup Final

Locos Chairman Steve Innes wants to see a huge crowd turning up to support the Red and Blacks and with that in mind, special plans are in place

"We want to end this season on a high by winning silverware. Our Supporters have followed us all over the place and as reward we will lay on two Complementary buses to travel to the big match. It really is a case of who wants it.

A first come first served basis, our Supporters know the drill for booking their places. They just add their names to the Booking sheets in the Social Club or contact either Tom Davidson or Dek Rorie"

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Footballers at all levels get the chance to look back at their careers with pride but are often known to be greedy when it comes to chasing success. One player who has tasted League Championship success, when Peterhead broke the Huntly domination, is Mark Simpson.

"Simmy" or "Homer" as he is also known as at Harlaw Park, was not far away from adding a second League medal to his collection, before Barry Somers’ late late goal for Keith at Fraserburgh swung the pendulum the Maroons way at the end of last season. From there the rest is history

Success on that front will not come the way of the Garioch club this term so the big No 5 is determined he wants to win the next best thing:

Defining what the reasons are for the dip this term is harder to define for the popular Blue Toon loon who has had to endure some serious injuries in his time with Locos:

So to this weekend’s game against Huntly, carrying a 4-1 victory into the tie. Without Craig Ross and probably a few others you could be spared for wondering if the home players fear the same thing might happen. The player who can also list Morton and Montrose as former clubs is determined lightning won’t strike twice:

"Last week there is no doubt Huntly played really well and I felt there was an extra edge to their play being up against their former manager Dave Cormie. We certainly cannot be as bad as last week while I wonder if Huntly can possibly play better than that."

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