Match Report v Peterhead
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Aftermatch Comments
Stirling coach - Roddy Grant.
We definately dropped two points today, I think we dominated the game from start to finish, if I'm being fair Peterhead did have some of the best chances, but we have got to be dissapointed in only drawing with the amount of possession we had.

We just didnt seem to have strikers or anybody else on the end of the crosses into the box today. We must show desire to get on the end of things, I know when I played I would have loved to get on the end of the balls played across the goal and we have got to get in between defenders and cause them problems but we just didnt seem to do that today. Again to be fair we have been scoring goals recently so maybe its just one of those things and games today.

You had two goals disallowed, what did you think about them? I agree with the second one, it was a push in the back by Martin Grehan, but I was not in the greatest position to call the first one when David McKenna scored, but the linesman has done his job in flagging for offside.

We are a hard team to beat and are defending well and we just need to start turning our possession into goals and start winning games. Peteread didnt create that many chances and that's credit to our defenders, they are always a danger side and have good pace up front but I think we held them quite well and limited them to only a few chances.

We go to Queens Park next week and that will be us played all the teams and I definately think we are just as good as anybody in this league if not better on our day.

We now have a better sized squad of players and as you can see from today we can get the ball down and pass and play good football, we play the ball wide and get the ball into the box and we are now five games unbeaten and we must take confidence from that and take it into every game.

How is John O'Neill's injury? He has been struggling with a groin injury for the last few games and like last week will rest this coming week as he felt his injury flair up again during the match and thats the reason he came off.

Stirling Albion 0 v 0 Peterhead
Stirling extended their unbeaten run to five matches on Saturday but will be dissapointed to have picked up only one point.

The Binos had two goals disallowed and had good spells in the match to take the lead but in the end fought out a goalless draw against Peterhead, whose Manager Neale Cooper was delighted to leave Forthbank with a point as his side stabalise their position near the top of Division Two.

David McKenna and Martin Grehan had goals disallowed for offside and a push, respectively but The Binos otherwise failed to convert in a match which saw Stirling have the bulk of the possession.

The goalless draw was the frst clean sheet for Stirling this season.

Stirling team:-
Hogarth, Graham, Lowing, Lawrie, Forsyth, O'Neill, Taggart, Molloy, Harty, McKenna, Docherty.
Subs:-
Corr, Murphy, Hamilton, Grehan, Christie.

The Stirling side featured Scott Christie, Chris Hamilton, Martin Grehan, Sean Roycroft, Liam Corr, Paul Murphy and Steven Waddell.
Former Albion player Ian Cashmore played in the Auchinleck side who's backroom staff include another ex-Bino Derek Anderson.

Raith Rovers 1 v 1 Stirling Albion
It was a tale of two late penalties at Stark's Park. Stirling missed the chance to go 2-0 up with only minutes to go when Ian Harty's penalty struck the post and then a couple of minutes later the referee awarded a soft penalty against Ross Forsyth. The home side were more clinical from the spot to draw the scores level after Nathan Taggart put Stirling ahead in the first half.

The late penalty action brought to life what was otherwise a poor match. Stirling's Stewart Devine and Martin Grehan both missed the match through injury.

Afterwards Boss Allan Moore said "Im gutted with what's happened late on, I've watched their penalty on our team video and its never a penalty, but we should have dealt with the ball long before the penalty decision. After leading for most of the match to drop two points late on is a blow".

Match report and match video will be online on Sunday.

Stirling Albion team:-
Hogarth, Graham, Lowing, Lawrie, Forsyth, O'Neill, Taggart, Molloy, Harty, McKenna, Docherty.
Subs:-
Corr, Murphy, Waddle, Hamilton, Christie.

Raith Rovers team:-
O'Connor, Wilson, Cook, Campbell, Ellis, Silvestro, Walker, Davidson, Smith, Weir, Ferry.
Subs:-
Armstrong, Sloan, Guerrero, Bryce, McGurn

Stirling team news:- Stewart Devine and Martin Grehan both injured.

Molloy Returns To Forthbank
Stirling Albion Boss Allan Moore has secured the services of St Mirren player Craig Molloy on a loan deal.

The 22 year old midfielder who featured on loan at Forthbank last season trained with his new team-mates on Thursday night and is expected to feature against Raith Rovers at Stark's Park on Saturday.

Molloy Set For Forthbank Return
Stirling Albion Boss Allan Moore is set to secure the services of St Mirren player Craig Molloy on a loan deal.

The 22 year old midfielder who featured on loan at Forthbank last season is expected to have signed in time to face Raith Rovers at Stark's Park this Saturday.

With midfielder's John O'Neill and Liam Corr both picking up injuries against Alloa Athletic last weekend, Moore is keen to secure the services of Molloy in time for Saturday's match.

The squad will also be boosted by the return of Mark Docherty from suspension.

Once confirmed the deal will see Molloy on loan at Forthbank until at least the end of December.

The club will be looking to continue our excellent recent form at Stark's Park this Saturday. We won three games on the bounce in Kirkcaldy prior to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of the play off semi-finals in 2007.

Kick off on Saturday is 3pm.

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Allan Moore - After Match Comments v Alloa Athletic
" I was really pleased with our battling performance today, its practically a new team with a lot of young boys in the team, so its good to see them starting to battle for each other and the players now realise that winning games like today are the type of games that will get you up near the top of the table.

Its always good when you come from behind to win against your local rivals and especially when you go into a 3-1 lead, but we gave a couple of silly fouls away just before half time and then we didn't mark well at the corner that gave Alloa their second goal, but we managed to battle away and get the points.

We went a goal down to a good strike by Dougie Wilson, but like the Ayr game I always thought that we could get ourselves back into the match and its pleasing to see us now recover from those situations but losing the goal just before half time we put ourselves under pressure going into the second half and we didn't have enough of the ball in the second half as we would have liked, but thats when we had to battle away for the points, and it's good to see us hold firm and collect the points.

Myles Hogarth did well today, he had a couple of great saves, Myles has done well for us over the years and he can get us out of trouble at times like saving the penalty at Arbroath a few weeks ago.

I still think we need another player in the squad as we are starting to pick up a couple of injuries now. John O'Neill was struggling at half time and battled on, he did well to stay on as Liam Corr had to came off with a calf strain, but thankfully with rest they both should be ok for next week. I've spoken to the Chairman about bringing in another player to boost the depth of the squad, but thankfully also next week we have Mark Docherty back from suspension."

Happy 60th Birthday
Stirling Albion FC would like to wish loyal supporter Iain Paterson of Menstrie a very happy 60th Birthday. Iain is a season ticket holder and has been supporting the club for 50 years. He attended our 3-2 win against Alloa Athletic and was presented with an Official Matchday Programme signed by the players and management.
All at Stirling Albion hope you enjoyed the match and wish you a happy birthday along with Barbara, Andy and David.

Midway through the first half Ian Harty put the Albion ahead and The Binos went further ahead 6 minutes before the break when Liam Corr fired home. Alloa got themselves back in the match on the stroke of half time when Andy Ferguson netted at the back post, which set up a tense second half, but The Binos held on to secure their second win of the season

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Stirling Albion team:-
Hogarth, Graham, Lowing, Lawrie, Forsyth, O'Neill, Taggart, Corr, Harty, McKenna, Grehan.
Subs:- Murphy, Waddell, Hamilton, Roycroft, Christie.

Squad 2008/2009

Back Row (Left to Right) - Andy Lawrie, Paul Murphy, Myles Hogarth, Scott Christie, Andy Graham, Steven Waddell.
Middle Row (Left to Right) Stuart McColl(Team Kit), John O'Neill(Player/Assistant Manager), Liam Corr, David Lowing, David McKenna, Kevin Ross, Martin Grehan, Andy Myles(Physio), David Eccles(Goalkeeper Coach).
Front Row (Left to Right) - Nathan Taggart, Stewart Devine, Ross Forsyth, Allan Moore(Manager), Chris Hamilton, Mark Docherty, Ian Harty.