[5] The club's embarrassment at its Cup debut spurred the team into several weeks of training before its first tie in the 1888–89 Scottish Cup, at home to the new Balaclava Rangers club; the visitors being further handicapped by a "very wet hour's drive" in a brake from Crina'n, and having to supplement the side with schoolboys because of player non-availability.

[6] The margin of victory suggested that Lochgilphead could handle Oban in the second round, but returned home with a 4–2 defeat.

[9] The club however was drawn at Oban in the first round of the county competition, and the home side won 5–3.

[14] A meeting in November to urge the club on to greater effort[15] was to no avail and at a meeting on 12 April 1893 the club committee agreed to give up Bank Park and dispose of the pavilion.

The club's last action was to play a friendly at Inveraray the following day - Lochgilphead signed off with a 3–1 win.