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News November 2008
| 29th November 2008 | After Match Comments Allan Moore - Stirling Albion Manager Ian McCall - Partick Thistle Manager Alan Archibald - Partick Thistle Defender |
| 29th November 2008 | Young Reds Receive SFA
Quality Mark The re-launch of the Young Reds Soccer School in February 2007 has culminated in the award of the SFA Quality Mark Standard Level. The Certificate was presented to Young Reds Co-ordinators, Steven Leiper and Ian Jones, by SFA Chief Executive, Gordon Smith, at half time at the Scottish cup tie against Partick Thistle. The award is the result of almost 2 years hard work by coaches, volunteers and children. The SFA Quality Mark is the "Youth Action Plan" initiative which helps to support and sustain grass roots football. Through the Quality Mark, the SFA will promote the role of clubs and schools to broaden community participation and to enhance player, coach and volunteer development and best practice. The Young Reds has achieved the required standard for Standard Level through the hard work of coaches who have attended various courses to get the necessary qualifications, attendance at workshops and the starting up of teams playing in the Forth Valley Development League. Next step is to Development Level. To achieve this, the Young Reds will need to start up more teams and plans are already being formed to do this. The award also brings some benefits to the Young Reds which will help us in our plans to expand. |
| 29th November 2008 | More
Injuries Graham suffered a calf injury and could be sidelined for several weeks while Liam Corr had to have four stitches in a knee injury. |
| 29th November 2008 | SFA Chief In Attendance Our Scottish Cup tie at Forthbank against Partick Thistle was watched by Scottish Football Association Chief Executive and former Stirling player Gordon Smith. |
| 29th November 2008 | Stirling
Albion v Partick Thistle Stirling's dream of progressing in this year's Homecoming Scottish Cup are over but it could have been so different. Partick Thistle eventually edged out The Binos 3-2 but Stirling will look back on squandering a number of missed chances throughout the match which could have seen the Divison One side tumble out of the cup. Thistle though were cruising after only 33 minutes after goals
by Scott Chaplain and Gary Harkins, who scored from the penalty
spot. Thistle restored their two goal lead seven minutes from time through Liam Buchanan before Paul Murphy's shot curled into the net in the closing minutes to set up a tense finale but Thistle held on to progress to the fourth round. Stirling Albion team:- Christie, Lawrie, Lowing, Graham, Gibb,
Molloy, Corr, Murphy, Grehan, McKenna, Docherty. Partick Thistle team:- Tuffey, Paton, McKinlay, McStay, Archibald,
Maxwell, Chaplain, Rowson, Buchanan, Donnelly, Harkins. More news after the match. Due to Scottish FA copyright rules there will be no video highlights of this match available on the website. |
| 29th November 2008 | Gibb
Allowed To Play On-loan defender Scott Gibb recieved last minute permission from Falkirk to play in Saturday's match against Partick Thistle. |
| 29th November 2008 | Taggart
Injury John O'Neill, Ross Forsyth, Ian Harty and Sean Roycroft also missed out through injuries. |
| 29th November 2008 | Match
On Today's Homecoming Scottish Cup match against Partick Thistle at Forthbank Stadium will go ahead despite freezing overnight temperatures. The Forthbank pitch is soft underneath with only a small layer of surface frost. |
| 27th November 2008 | Forsyth
Knee Operation Ross Forsyth recently underwent an operation on his injured knee. The defender damaged ligaments in his knee during a recent match against Ayr United and after consulting a specialist it was decided an operation was required. The operation went well but it is expected Forsyth will be out of action for the rest of this year as he fights back to full fitness. |
| 27th November 2008 | Forthbank
Cup Match Nears Ian McCall's Thistle side are challenging near the top of the First Division and will be clear favourites in this third round match. Stirling have struggled to find any sort of good form in recent months, but with the prospect of knocking out a higher division side Boss Allan Moore will be hoping this will give his players an extra boost, that may just also rejuvenate his sides poor league form. Stirling though have injury problems ahead
of this match with Ross Forsyth out and Stewart Devine, Andy Graham,
John O'Neill, Ian Harty, Sean Roycroft and Nathan Taggart all trying
to shake off various injuries. |
| 24th November 2008 | Match Video Highlights
v Peterhead |
| 23rd November 2008 | Match Report v Peterhead Read Match Report... |
| 22nd November 2008 | Peterhead
1 v 1 Stirling Albion Peterhead took the lead midway through the
first half through Graham Sharp. Harty, Devine, Forsyth, Roycroft and Taggart all injured. Peterhead team:- Kula, Donald, Smith, Skinner, McDonald, MacKay,
Sharp, Ross, Bavidge, Anderson, Gunn. |
| 22nd November 2008 |
Peterhead v Stirling Albion - MATCH ON 1.00 pm - Match ON after pitch inspection by Match Referee 11.00am - Conditions not improving. Pitch just playable. Match referee not expected to inspect pitch to lunchtime. 9.45am - Local referee passes pitch at 9.30am but match referee inspecting pitch late morning. 9.00am - Pitch inspection due at 9.30am. |
| 22nd November 2008 | SFL
Clubs Receive Financial Boost All 30 Scottish Football League clubs have received a financial boost with the early release of £10,000 to each member club. The money due from sponsorship money was due to be paid to clubs later in the season but The Scottish Football League released the money early due to the current financial climate. |
| 21st November 2008 | O'Neill
Comments On Forsyth Injury Forsyth sustained the injury in late October and assistant boss John O'Neil commented to The Stirling Observer Newspaper "Ross is now waiting on a date for his surgery. We are hoping that he will be out for weeks rather than months but we don't know at this stage." |
| 18th November 2008 | Forsyth
Injury Blow After an examination on his injured knee by a specialist it is expected that defender Ross Forsyth will require surgery and could be out of action for several months. |
| 17th November 2008 | Youth News Click for latest youth team news... |
| 16th November 2008 | Match Video Highlights
v Arbroath View Match Video Highlights... |
| 15th November 2008 | Stirling
Albion 0 v 2 Arbroath Stirling's run of poor performances continued on Saturday as Division Two's bottom side Arbroath won 2-0 at Forthbank Stadium. After a goalless first half Arbroath took the lead on 53 minutes through Bryan Scott and ten minutes later doubled their lead when Barry Sellars found space at the back post to head home. Stirling were missing several key players
through injury but Boss Allan Moore would still have expected more
from the players that took to the field. This result leaves the
Binos still in mid-table six points behind a play off spot but also
only 6 points from the bottom of the division. Stirling team:- Hogarth, Roycroft, Devine, Gibb, Lawrie, O'Neill,
Taggart, Molloy, Grehan, Murphy, Corr. Arbroath team:- Hill, Bishop, Forsyth, Raeside, Rattray, Campbell,
Doris, Lunan, Scott, Sellars, McGowan. Aftermatch Comments:- |
| 14th November 2008 |
Forthbank Bound Gibb Still In Falkirk Plans Stirling Abion have completed the loan signing of Scott Gibb from Falkirk ( see news below ). Falkirk Manager John Hughes told the Falkirk Official website, " It's a good move for Scott. He will get regular first-team football and it will give us a chance to monitor his progress at that level. Scott is still a big part of our future plans." |
| 13th November 2008 | Gibb
Heads To Forthbank The 20 year old Northern Ireland under 20 internationalist will join The Binos on-loan for at least one month and will go straight into the squad to face Arbroath on Saturday at Forthbank Stadium. The move for Gibb was prompted because Stirling have defensive worries ahead of Saturday's match with several defenders injured or carrying knocks. Arbroath are currently bottom of Division Two and have not won a match since they defeated us 3-2 in August in the CIS Cup at Gayfield, but Stirling Boss Allan Moore knows not to underestimate Arbroath and will also be determined to make up for last week's derby defeat at Alloa. |
| 13th November 2008 | Youth News Click for latest youth team news... |
| 9th November 2008 | Match Video Highlights
v Alloa View Match Video Highlights... |
| 9th November 2008 | Match Report v Alloa Read Match Report... |
| 8th November 2008 | Alloa Athletic v Stirling
Albion Stirling team:- Hogarth, Graham, Devine, Lowing, Lawrie, O'Neill, Corr, Molloy, Harty, Docherty, Grehan. Subs:- McKenna, Murphy, Hamilton, Roycroft, Christie. Alloa
team:- Jellema, McClune, Campbell, McKeown, Forrest, Hill, Scullion,
B. Ferguson, Stevenson, McCaulay, Scott Match video online Sunday at 5pm. |
| 8th November 2008 | Youth News Click for latest youth team news... |
| 6th November 2008 | Derby Day At The
Recs The second derby of the season takes place at Recreation Park and The Binos will be eager to build on last weeks win against Stranraer. Both sides met in September in an exciting five goal encounter at Forthbank Stadium, when Stirling won 3-2 after trailing to an early goal from ex-player Douglas Wilson. Allan Moore's squad make the short trip to Alloa with defender Ross Forsyth a major doubt with a knee injury, otherwise Moore has a full squad to choose from. |
| 4th November 2008 | Reserve Match Stirling Albion and Auchinleck Talbot drew 0-0 on Tuesday evening in a reserve match at Forthbank Stadium. |
| 4th November 2008 | Scottish Cup Admission
Prices Admission prices will be as follows:- Admission will be by pay at gate. Stirling Albion season tickets will be valid for this match. The Third Round matches will be played on Saturday 29th November at 3pm. Both teams met in the 2005/06 competition when Thistle won 1-0 at Forthbank. The Fourth Round takes place on Saturday 10th January. |
| 2nd November 2008 | Match Video Highlights
v Stranraer View Match Video... |
| 2nd November 2008 | Match Report v Stranraer |
| 1st November 2008 | Post Match Interviews
- View on Video Match Video will be online at 5pm on Sunday. |
| 1st November 2008 | Stirling Albion 3 v
2 Stranraer Stirling Albion emerged winners as both teams served up five goals at Forthbank Stadium. The visitors deservedly led 1-0 at half time thanks to the hard working Gregory Tade as Stirling once again put in a dissapointing first half performace. Boss Allan Moore made two substitutions at half time and it was one of them, Martin Grehan who equalised six minutes into the second half. Stirling's joy didnt last long tough as Ian Dobbins put Stranraer ahead once more when he capitalised on poor Stirling defending. Stirling though dug deep and it was midfielder Craig
Molloy who would emerge as the hero of the day when he scored two
goals to send Stirling towards only our third win of the season.
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| 1st November 2008 | Forsyth Injured Defender Ross Forsyth missed Saturday's match against Stranraer due to a knee injury sustained during last week's match against Ayr United at Somerset Park. Forsyth hopes the injury will heal in time for next weekend's derby match at Alloa but at this stage it's too early to say whether he will definately face the Clackmannanshire side. |
| 1st November 2008 | Devine Returns Stewart Devine made his first competitve start in the first team since early August against Stranraer on Saturday. Devine appeared as a second half substitute against Ayr United last weekend as he makes his comeback after missing most of the season so far with a groin injury. |
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