Date	Saturday, 29 February 1992
Competition	North of Scotland Cup
Fixture/Score	Ross County 2:0 Caledonian FC
Venue	Victoria Park
Referee	P. Barnett
Ross County
Manager	Robert (Bobby) Wilson
Starting 11	1: Stephen Hutchison, 2: Christopher (Chris) Somerville, 3: Alexander (Sandy) MacLeod, 4: Robert (Robbie) Williamson, 5: Johnston Bellshaw, 6: Cameron Robertson, 7: Jamie MacPherson, 8: Brian Grant, 9: Alan Duff 1, 10: Gordon Connelly, 11: Barry Wilson 1
Bench	0: Albert Allan, 0: Kevin Craig
Attendance
Match Report	Match Report Report by Bill McAllister for the Press & Journal. Ross County 2 Caledonian FC 0 Southampton assistant boss John Mortimore will today report to manager Ian Branfoot on whether to make a bid for Ross County winger Barry Wilson. Mortimore flew home yesterday after watching WILSON score the late clincher in County's 2-0 McEwan's Lager North Cup semi-final tie with Caley at Dingwall. The 20-year-old touchline flier has played trials at The Dell and has been watched three times by Southampton. Ross chairman Hector Maclennan said: "Mortimore will report to the manager in the morning and it is make your mind up time for Southampton. We expect to hear fairly quickly from them." Wilson could be with the English First Division club by the time County face Forres Mechanics or Lossiemouth in the North Cup final at Kingsmills on March 21. It is 20 years since County last won the North Cup--their only other success was back in 1930--but if they triumph, it will create history in that the Dingwall side would have four trophies on the sideboard at the same time. The league championship trophy, the Tennents Highland League Cup and the Press and Journal Inverness Cup are already there. Ross centre half Johnston Bellshaw was among the fans locked out of MacDiarmid Park for Caley's Scottish Cup tie last Wednesday--and the Black Isle lad performed a lock-out of his own on Saturday with a commanding display which blocked the way to goal for the Inverness attack. But it was a poor game, with neither side able to parade passing skills in a swirling wind and on a lifeless surface which cut up badly. The ball was too often in the air and there was too much broken play for it to be a repeat of the classic these teams produced in the Inverness Cup final. Caley's cause was an uphill one once Mark McAllister was ordered off in 20 minutes--for retaliation against Barry Wilson, who was booked. Alan Hercher was pulled back to centre half, with Kevin Mann going to left back. Hercher did a brave job in the circumstances, but there was nothing he could do about the Alan DUFF strike which proved to be the winner--as well as the Tain lad's 30th goal of the season. Mortimore may well have added Southampton to the admirers of Mark McRitchie, the Caley keeper who won the man-of-the-match award for defying the Ross attack in the second half as 10-man Caley were hemmed in for long spells. Martin Lisle was outstanding for Caley, chasing and harrying superbly in the visitors' outnumbered midfield. Robbie Williamson was an excellent sweeper for County, while Chris Somerville's ventures into attack were inventive and persistent. Not a vintage performance overall--but results are what count in semi-finals. County assistant manager Don Cowie said: "I have been on the losing side with County in this final four times in the past 17 years and we are certainly overdue this particular trophy."