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The weekend encounter with Montrose marked a milestone for the club; it was our 150^th in the SPFL since gaining promotion from the Highland League just five years ago.

The adventure in the senior set-up began in notable fashion with a 5-0 thrashing of Edinburgh City at Balmoral Stadium, and it was entirely appropriate that Mitch Megginson netted our opening goal. The captain, of course, remains a key figure at the club, along with two others who started that afternoon, Blair Yule and Connor Scully. Inevitably, all three feature prominently in the lists of statistics thrown up by our journey through the divisions.

Unsurprisingly, they hold the top three places in the league appearances tally, with Connor coming out on top. Incredibly, he has missed just seven of the 150 league games played to date.

TOP TEN APPEARANCES LIST

Player	Total	Start	Substitute
Connor Scully	143	138	5
Mitch Megginson	130	129	1
Blair Yule	120	114	6
Fraser Fyvie	98	93	5
Scott Ross	97	90	7
Stuart McKenzie	88	88
Jamie Masson	83	54	29
Leighton McIntosh	78	39	39
Harry Milne	65	63	2
Mark Reynolds	64	63	1

Up until Saturday, Leighton McIntosh held the record for most substitute appearances in a single season, a total of twenty in the 2021/22 campaign, but Kyle Connell matched that when he came on against Montrose.

Only three players have recorded ever-present seasons with Stuart McKenzie having done so back-to-back in our first couple of campaigns. The big keeper started fifty matches in a row, a total being targeted by Connor Scully, who has kicked-off the last thirty-seven league games since missing the defeat to Dundee just over a year ago.

Connor played every game in 2019-20, and has emulated that feat so far in 2023/24, and the third ever-present was Blair Yule, who did not miss a game in the truncated 2020/21 campaign.

Morgyn Neill was absent for one match in 2021/22 and Scully suffered the same fate in our Championship campaign. Rumarn Burrell is also in line to play every game this season, albeit his total includes one substitute appearance.

In total, seventy-six players have featured in league matches for the club in the last five years with fifteen playing fifty or more games. At the other end of the scale, half a dozen have come on as substitutes without ever starting an SPFL match.

Shay Logan started fifty league games, but never came on as a sub, while Mitch Megginson has made a single substitute appearance in his 130 SPFL matches, being called from the bench in the 2-2 draw with Raith Rovers in January 2023.

*Look out for more features here on the website and on our social media channels this week as we celebrate SPFL150!

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