On Thursday night the Juniors drew 2 – 2 with Heriot Watt University with goals from Kenny Young and Gary Shanks.

The next games are next weekend when we host Newtongrange Star and  Musselburgh Athletic to take part in the Ronnie Swan tournament.

Spartans Seniors play EOSL 1st Division side, Easthouses on Saturday at the academy. The game takes place on the FieldTurf and kicks off at 1pm.

The Juniors face a Uni double as they take on Heriot-Watt tonight at Riccarton before traveling to Stirling on Saturday to take on the EOSL Premier new boys. Kick off on Saturday is 2pm.

Tonights game kicks off at 7pm and manager David Cowan has a near full strength side to choose from with only Joe Steele and Nick Reid unavailable. Squad from: Paterek, Cruickshank, McKibben, Sutherland, Antoni, Campbell, Shanks, Bannon, Cowan, Roberts, Boyes. There will also be a couple of trailists on show as the Junior side continues to build for the season ahead.

Team: Flockhart, Archibald, Fowlie, Townsely, Sivewright, McAuley, Beesley(O’Donnell), Malin(King), Hoskins, McLeod, Etale

Spartans Juniors lost by a single goal to Blackburn in their first game of the pre-season. The match, part of the Eddie Queen tournament gave David Cowan a chance to see some of our new players in action while give some trialists a chance to impress. In spite of the result it was a good run out for the team and we will now face either Civil Service Strollers or Kircaldy YM in the 3rd/4th play off tomorrow, kicking off at 12.30.

Team: Parerek, Cruickshank, Boyes, Steele, Sutherland(Trialist), Antoni(Trialist), Shanks(Crolla), Campbell(Trialist), Reid(Roberts), Cowan(Trialist), Bannon(Trialist)

We start our defence of the trophy against hosts Blackburn on Saturday 17th, kick of is 12.30pm. Civil Service then play Kirkcaldy YM in the later game kicking off at 3pm. The two losing sides play each other on the Sunday at 12.30 with the two winners facing each other in the final at 3pm on the Sunday.

The weather is set to clear in time to see a new look Spartan Junior side back in action. The majority of last season players have signed up again for this year with only Dale Robertson, Gary Young, Iain Cartwright and Adam Perry leaving over the summer. We are delighted that Phil McKibben has made his move perminent and there will also be a number of new signings on show, full details of these new players and the squad for next season will follow later.

Any Spartan fans looking to make the trip should contact Cameron Hobbs (07962 353 645) for information on location and travel arrangements. Entry is free on both days and we would love to see some of you there.

Livingston started strong and took the lead early through new signing Iain Russell. Russell then scored a second midway through the first half to give the visitors a strong 2-0 half time scoreline.

It took just minutes into the second half for the lead to be extended. Kyle Jacobs scoring having come on at the break to make an instant impression on the game. Another new summer signing, Aaron Conway then made it four before Alex King scored a screamer towards the end of the game to reduce the defecit.

The game finished 4-1 and the players will have benefitted from the strong test against this season second division favourites.

Team: McGarrie, O’Donnell, Townsley, Sivewright, Hoskins, Manson, King, Beesley, Henretty, Etale, Malin.

Spartans legend Jonny Seeley has been training with the team over the last couple of weeks although work commitments will keep him out tomorrow and will limit his availability through the season.

Mike - in charge against Livi

Mike Irving will take the team on Saturday with messrs Lawson and Lynch on holiday.  With Omar about until September before his 9 month working spell in London this season’s squad has a familiar ring to it…only Dan Gerrard leaving and Jack Beesley and Chris Townsley joining.

Our pre-season tourney has also been confirmed.  It is on 31st July/1st August this year to give the grass pitch a full eight week rest so this has ruled out SFL opposition.  Newtongrange Star and Musselburgh Athletic from the East Junior Super league provide the opposition for our Senior and Junior teams.  The Saturday fixtures pitch our Juniors against Musselburgh at 1pm and then our Seniors against Newtongrange Star with a 3.30pm ko.   The Sunday will see a 3rd/4th place play off before the final.  Admission will be £5/£3 on both days.

We have one other friendly confirmed, a game against a Falkirk XI at the academy on Tuesday 3rd Augsut.