Tranent 7 East Kilbride 0: Kilby boss blasts side's 'arrogance' after 'embarrassing' Scottish Cup exit

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Angry Mick Kennedy accused his East Kilbride side of being arrogant after a 7-0 trouncing by Tranent in the Scottish Cup inflicted the heaviest defeat in the club's history.The unbeaten Lowland League leaders travelled to East Lothian hopeful of booking their place in tomorrow's third round draw but Kennedy - who masterminded a shock win over Premiership Aberdeen with Darvekl last season - saw his side put in their worst display of his reign.Kilby trailed 5-0 at the break after four goals from Cameron Ross and a Broque Watson strike, but things got worse after the interval as Watson bagged his second and Kallum Higginbotham completed the rout.And Kennedy gave a scathing assessment of his side post-match.He told the club media: "We can't take credit away from Tranent and I think it is important that we give them credit, because I thought they were outstanding, to a man."We've been driving our message for weeks and we saw this coming.

but I didn't expect it to be that [7-0]."The problem is when you start well, you have so much momentum, there's so much talk about you, people start believing it and buying into it."But the truth of the matter is, we are in October."I always say successful teams are judged when you get to the end of the season and, unfortunately, there is a wee bit of arrogance starting to creep in."You can just feel it about the place."We've tried to fix it the last couple of weeks and, unfortunately, we've not managed to get it out."Then today, you get a result like that."We've not laid a glove on Tranent and we were miles off it."It is disappointing, it is embarrassing, but it is something we just need to recover from."It is one game in the context of the season.