Blue1870

Town has a strange attitude to its team. You have the diehards. All the people that moved away that still go home and away now and again. However there is too many people with strange chips on their shoulders in the town. Nobody has been able to change the views of the haters as of yet. Myself and others who live away find it very strange as the town is very lucky to have an spfl1 team with a population between 10 and 12k. There is good hospitality at the park. 2 executive boxes and an internal sponsors suite. The bad design of stand means the rooms arent big. That isn't really a problem at the moment though. Old folks chase away the young team who have been singing and trying to create an atmosphere. Apathy is rife it really is bizarre and to think the money a football club has brought to the town. Anyway I've put 25quid in the pot on the online donation fund. I feel my 15quid most weeks was a donation anyway. I wish more felt the same.

Pretty even match. First half the blues got a stonewall penalty denied. 2nd half was disappointing. Never really got a head of steam up. Montrose started to look more threatening and stronger as match wore on. Goal came from a poor kick by our goalie. We never recovered and it was a fine finish. Another bad result. Draw wouldnt have been a bad result in my opinion as Montrose are a decent outfit and we didnt even get that. Next two matches are crucial. Not a pitch for good football we were trying to run with the ball up the wings and doesnt work. The pitch was tackling the players. Very frustrating. Pre match pitch looked fine. It cut up and became bobbly.

Ah well not to be. Fought hard against the well drilled Montrose. Could have quite easily got something positive from this game. An entertaining match. Controversial 3rd goal killed us of but my gopro pic just about proves the goal might have been onside. Hopefully we can start getting some breaks and take the chances as we are running out of time

Custom house for wetherspoons type food. StranraerFC Fitba bar next door for pre match and post match. Their is also the pavilion bar at the ground next to turnstiles you will go in. Craigenelder is also a good pub with food just 5-10minutes walk from the ground and 10minutes walk from station at end of pier.

Sadly town appears in general not to give feck. Too many say they support the old firm yet dont go to see them. You are allowed to support both though. The apathy is rife. Too many with chips on their shoulders and too many with negative attitudes instead of trying to help the club develop. There is no reason why it couldn't prosper really. Just need people to give themselves a shake and go now and again. I don't think people in the town realise the money a fitba club brings into such a remote town. Out of 300 home fans. Probably 100 of them come from other parts of the country to watch them. So only 200odd from a town of 10000-12000 is pretty grim.

Shared onto stranraerfc supporters Facebook group

Bang on. Very bizarre schedule.

Pitch inspection today at 3PM. Heavy rain all morning. Showers and 50mph winds tomorrow. I'd be surprised if its played.

The first claim for a pen is never a pen. Ball comes over and hits robbos thigh. Flies up onto his hand complete accident. If that had been given as a pen I would have walked out. 2nd one not much better. Ball comes over Thomson misjudged flight of ball due to wind probably dropping it short of where he wanted boom lands on the flaming ball.. pen. Not much luck there. Then straight in fae corner. Never mind we got what we deserved heehaw. Next...

Fate sealed oh well.

Clips from 05/06 part 2

Clips from 05/06 part 1

04/05 decider v Morton.

No probs. A season in which we should have stayed up. Queens signed 6 players in January. While we sold players and got injuries. Lost out in play off final to thistle. 3-2.

However if you arent at a game you wont know if we have been unlucky in a game will you. As I said we didnt deserve anything due to a bad period in the middle of the match. I have been very frustrated at several matches infact at clyde I left early which is unusual for me. Mind you I was oncall. 3nil down against 12men with 10 on park lol. Until its mathematically impossible then I will give the club full support. No point in changing the manager now. Whose going to come in now. The club have spoken to faz on numerous occasions about their plight. They will do so at the end of the campaign as well.

Were u at the game kv. Yes we are in a terrible position but with 3 points for a win it's never over till it's over. It's easy to be negative. I prefer to give the squad as much support as I can. All the best to young Jinky who got a nasty injury after falling awkwardly on the astro. Might be out for 6weeks. Yet another injury blow. We should have been 1up. Missed a gilt edge chance and were the better side. Then I thought and others thought stevo got pushed on halfway and the move forward might have been offside but hey 1nil. Then a very unfortunate pen. Ball in doesnt carry due to wind and thommo mistimes a header. Apparently accidental handball and the bampot ref gives a pen. Aggie scores. We concede a very easy 3rd for east fife and the confidence is gone. Arguing with teammates is rife. Then Wallace corner gets caught in wind and it flies in 4zip. We come into the game and perhaps could have nicked another after the 2 we got but the middle part of the game cost us when we were ragged. This is not a time to give up. The club needs as much support as they can get whether they go down or not. Town doesnt really deserve a team. It as if some want relegation. Soon get a shock if were a non league team with even worse crowds #monblu

Yip for ball out.

Linesman flag up straightaway

It was a unbelievable decision. Forfar fans around me were in total agreement it was a pen and red. The goal in first half couldn't have been for offside because surely the corner was a mistakes by the goalie as he fumbled it goal wards before Johnstone bundled it in. Was it maybe not for the ball curling out maybe.

Yip draw possibly fair. Although maybe we did enough to get win in 2nd half. Every shot seemed to weak or not trouble the goalie. Btw even the forfar fans around couldn't believe it when andy Stirling got taken out. I think it was a pen and a red card. He was clean in on goal and got barged over. It was a strange decision. I presume the ball must have gone out in first half from the corner that the goalie pushed into his own net.

Thats correct. The corner was hit into the wind so perhaps didnt carry as far as the raith goalie expected. He was positioned wrongly surrounded by stranraer players with nowhere to go. Didnt look like much protection from defenders. Ref couldn't wait to give a foul. Luckily I thought the ref gave us a soft pen though. Mind you when I spoke to john mcglynn in the press room he could see why it was given due to the full back tackling with the wrong leg meaning there was contact.

Got to stranraer at 1430. What a crazy game this will be. Gale across park and a bobbly pitch. With rain not far away by the looks of it. 6-6

About to leave Glasgow. Its bloody wild. This will be a farce.

If its postponed it will be based on the afternoon forecast of 60mph gusts. Cause a morning inspection the game conditions will be fine. I'm not going down. Not with a forecast like that.

Sadly the town doesnt give a feck about its fitba team and the PTA at the academy demanded the 3g pitch be put at Stranraer Academy 400yards away along London rd. Love a grass pitch but ours is rotten November to march. That's why in my opinion we should have had a 4g pitch which would mean all our teams south, youths, ladies could have played at stair park. At the moment it struggles with just the 1st team. Bizarrely there are rumours the reserves will be back on it next season due to the 3g at the academy which we look after becoming overused and damaged and not fit for south SOSFL football.