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Friday, January 30th, 2009 The 1st XI need another win tomorrow to keep the pressure on league leaders Dalbeattie Star and fellow challengers Edinburgh City and Whitehill Welfare. For the fourth game in a row the same 16 will take the jerseys with the coaching staff ready to rotate the squad. Squad: Flockhart, O’Donnell, Gerrard, Archibald, Fowlie, Hoskins, Malin, King, Kader, McLeod, Henretty, Walker, Hair, Manson, Devlin, Preston. Skipper Stewart Fowlie is likely to return to the starting line up after being on the bench last week.
- Skipper Stewart
Struan Preston is also pushing for his first start in three months. Co-manager Mike Lawson said “Any team who have beaten Heriot-Watt and Easthouses in the league as well as taking a point away from home at Peffermill must be taken seriously and that message has been drummed into the players by Sam and myself all week. The kick off at City Park is 2pm.
Right back Ross...hoping for another clean sheet tomorrow
Spartans Little Dribblers
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Our Spartans Little Dribblers programme ready to start in February is now full for 3 – 4 year olds. We have still spaces in the 5 – 6 year old group. The programme promotes the development of co-ordination, teamwork, communication and a variety of social skills encountered and experienced whilst playing football.
Action from Inverleith Park
The programme runs from Saturday 7th February to Saturday 14th March inclusive between 10am-11am at the Academy on the small FieldTurf pitch. The cost for the programme is £25.
For further information please contact Kenny Cameron (Community Programme Manager) or Debbi McCulloch (Football Development Officer) on 0131-552-7854.
Midweek action at the Academy
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Our Under 13s entertain Falkirk FC this Friday (30th) at the Academy with an 8pm ko.
It will be good to see how our team does against an 
SPL outfit. Our 13s are our last representatives in the Scottish Cup at Youth level.
- 13s star – Cammy Fraser
Our Womens 1st XI are playing a re-arranged SWPL game against Hamilton Accies on Wednesday 11th February, again the ko is 8pm.
Foster’s Central Scottish League Dinner 19th Feb 2009
Monday, January 26th, 2009| Fosters Sportsman’s Dinner |
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Following the fantastic success of last years dinner the League have now concluded the line up for this year’s event.
The dinner will be held in the Colville Park Country Club on February 19th 2009 with the following speakers: Brian McGinlay – Chairman The club has tickets available. Anyone interested please contact Nick Reid 07789 926 671. |
Successful day for Spartans Womens teams
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 At the academy this afternoon our Womens 1st XI had a convincing 8 – 0 win over Aberdeen to close the gap at the top of the league to five points. We have a game in hand and are now only five points behind Celtic. Our 2nd XI then beat East Fife 2 – 1 in a friendly.Earlier in the day our Under 11 Girls lost to Falkirk and then our 2nd XI at 13s lost 3 – 2 to Inch Colts in a cup tie.
3s Gain Point and Academy Fixtures tomorrow
Saturday, January 24th, 2009 The 3s drew 0 – 0 with league leaders Newcraighall Vics at the Academy this afternoon. Our best chance fell to striker Steve Malin just before half time but he failed to convert. It was our first clean sheet of the season withy veterans Marsters and Robertson outstanding in defence. Team: Gilmore, Hutchison, Robertson, Fleming, Marsters, MacRae, Skivington, Ben Gharbia (Brown), Fitzsimons (Webb), Malin, Clark Sub not used: Hutton.Tomorrow our Under 12s kick off the action at 10am followed by our 2nd XI at under 13s who entertain Inch Colts A in the Lothian Buses Cup at 11am.
Our Womens 1st XI then entertain Aberdeen FC in the big game of the day at 1pm.
Our Womens 1st XI skipper Shelley Faughan
Our Woemsn 2nd XI then have a league game with a 3pm kick off.
Spartans Beat Peebles
Saturday, January 24th, 2009 Spartans today beat lowly Peebles 8 (Eight) – 0 today in a very one sided encounter at City Park. It took over 25 minutes for the first goal to go in due to a spirited performance by the Peebles goalkeeper. Once Kader scored the first goal however, the flood gates opened.Donal Henretty extended the lead before Keith McLeod and Henretty again ensured Spartans went into half time 4-0 up.
Second half goals from Kader, O’Donnell, Devlin and Hoskins sealed the eight nil victory infront of over 130 supporters.
Devlin, Hoskins and Kader replaced Walker, Fowlie and Malin in the starting line up as Spartans looked to turn their fortunes having lost to Easthouses Lily in the King Cup last week. It was a very strong performance by all and Lawson and Lynch will have much wanted selection issues for next weeks home game vs Selkirk.
Team: Flockhart, O’Donnell, Hoskins, Archibald, Gerrard, Manson, King (Hair), Kader, Devlin, McLeod (Preston), Henretty (Walker)
Att: 136
Action for Saturday 24th January
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 The 1st XI hope to get back to winning ways tomorrow in their league game at City Park against Peebles. The kick off is 2pm. Sam Woods is added to the squad after fully recovering from flu. The squad is Flockhart, Archibald, Fowlie, Gerrard, O’Donnel, Kader, Hoskins, Woods, Manson, King, Manson, McLeod, Devlin, Henretty, Malin, Hair, Preston. We don’t have international clearance yet for our two overseas acquisitions and Scott Livingston is still recovering from his knee operation.
Straun - back and fully fit
The 2nd XI East of Scotland cup tie against Liberton AVU has already been postponed.
The 3rd XI play a crucial league game at the Academy against Newcraighall Vics, the ko is 2pm.
The bar at the Academy will be open both before and after the game at City Park.