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It was great to show Sam around Stair Park on Sunday with the creator of the 150th exhibition Nish Walker.
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Looked like orrs near post shot got blocked by the young sub yates. Bit unfortunate. Stirlings 2nd goal was a fluke. Shot going 5yards wide deflected into other corner. In the end 2-2 was fair. Albion were probably the best opponents we've faced. Glad we saw a different side to us. Fighting back. Last season we would have lost easily. Highlights on StranraerFCtv youtube tomorrow with a few gopro clips.
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Stirling and burns are according to www.stranraerfc.org.
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Another year goes by. One more youtube video to be added this week and thats me done.
Follow my fishing adventures on my channel. From Stranraer but lived in Glasgow for nearly 20 years which sees me fish mostly the Loch Lomond system fir Salmon and seatrout with occasional trips to other rivers. Also do seafishing when back in stranraer.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCasgwMTZ_sU6HFRywJm3oYQ
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City play too many passes across the park. Not direct enough. We didn't have much of the ball but created a number of clear cut chances. Should have been more ahead by half time. Good win for the Blues.
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We've got 6 out 12 available apparently. A few South of Scotland reserve team players on the bench
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I'm down in Stranraer sadly not allowed in for the game. Rain wasn't as bad as Glasgow northwards. Heavy showers though. Wind is hellish. So if its on the game will be a bit of farce. Keep the high balls low.
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Great to get Andy Stirling back. Great signing.
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glad to see prices drop by a quid for a lower league. Any chance the two threads can be merged admin
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Any chance the two threads can be merged admin
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We won't have any players in 2 days so who knows. Too early to say. Nobody knows when we will be playing for definite.
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11 hours ago, Thereisalight.. said:
Sad to see Stranraer relegated. I always enjoy an away day down there. I thought you would have done well “this” season. On paper you had a good squad and I thought you’d be nowhere near the relegation places
In my opinion we needed to be at full strength more often than not to survive. That wasn't possible due to injuries. Squad wasn't good enough in so many games. It was improving since new year though. That's why I'm disappointed we didn't get the chance to catch Forfar who were to be honest pretty horrific as well. All these crystal ball fans of other clubs who said we definitely wouldn't catch Forfar. How the feck do they know lol. Its been done before by Stranraer sides. Unlikely but not impossible with 6 at home and a game in hand. However its not to be so moving on..
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9 hours ago, Shadwell Dog said:
Worst thing I remember about Stair Park was the midges but it's a wee while since I've been.
That must have been one of the few summer evenings without wind lol.
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I find it bizarre as well. You can watch the game from all parts of the ground unless there is segregation. Even then you can watch from 3 sides of the away end. OK cooshed view is rubbish. For a home fan we can watch from anywhere.
U goto some grounds and you are stuck away in a corner miles from pitch.
Maybe fans basing it on bring stuck out in open terrace. If I was an away fan at stair Park I would just move about the whole of the away end.
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14 hours ago, Gordon EF said:
Stair Park definitely lost something when they put plastic seats over the benches in the away section. Absolutely maniac level decision making from them. It was the one wee edge a trip to stranraer had considering it's miles away from everywhere. A great wee shed to generate a bit of atmosphere in. Now it's just the same as everywhere else.
Thing is it before the wooden benches in the cooshed it was just concrete terracing. Then before that railway ash with wooden sleepers as terracing. Its just the regulations clubs need to do. I wish either side of the cooshed was covered with just high banks of terracing. That would be really good addition. Then the young team might be allowed to sing and create some atmosphere away from the moaning old farts in the plastic seats.
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1 hour ago, sydney said:
I can understand Hearts and Patrick’s ire, but do Stranraer really think they had a realistic prospect of avoiding relegation ? Possible yes, but unlikely.
Why not. 9 games left, game in hand, 6 at home. Forfar stinkin the place out as well. Nothing certain in football. I've said before if you play any sport you don't chuck it when you still have a chance. As a stranraer fan of over 40 years I've seen it all. Comebacks to win leagues. Comebacks to avoid relegation. Seems to me a lot of fans of other clubs have some sort of crystal ball allowing them to definitely know what's going to happen. If we were relegated over 36games then that would have been tough but deserved. However over 27 games is different and if other clubs had been in the same situation as stranraer there views would have been the same as ours.
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20 hours ago, Owsley said:
I notice there is a Stranraer Just Giving page but it's on £0 with a £25k target. Seems to have been on the go for almost a month. Can't find any recent mention of it on the club's Twitter, is that why it hasn't taken off? The donate a ticket thing seems to be a dead loss if junior sides like St Rochs have raised more.
I think we are upto a grand. Not bad. Stranraer folk a bit slow on the up take of online stuff. Remember they just got the Internet there recently. I created the StranraerFCtv YouTube channel years ago and before that various websites. People still amazed some of the archived stuff is online.
https://donateaticket.com/donate/stranraer/
St Rochs are well supported and the heart of a big community related to celtic so no surprise there's is bigger.
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Just now, Diamonds are Forever said:
Please correct me if I'm wrong, is it not 16 league matches since you won a game? And you have picked up 6 points in those 15 games since?
So the 'if' you won your game in hand is a monumental 'if'. Then to make up the other 5 points on top of that given it took you 15 games to pick up your last 5 points would be incredible. To describe that as 'not much' is either delusional or deliberately misleading.
Lol. 5 points is nothing. You are absolutely right we have been pants but have you been at all the stranraer matches. Obviously no. So you are basically saying just because our results have been poor fir 27 games we couldn't suddenly pic up some good results. Wow. I have been watching football a long time. Things change and Stranraer sides have done this sort of thing before. We actually won a league in 1998 from second bottom we won 12 out of 14 to take the title. Obviously this is a poorer side but to right off a teams chance to survive is bizarre. If you are playing golf and your 6 down with 7 to play. You don't walk in. You fight until its over.
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6 minutes ago, R.R.FC said:
Are you not contradicting yourself there? You say it’s unfair to relegate teams with games in hand (I assume you mean Partick Thistle and Stranraer) yet you complain that Brechin survive when they are actually closer to 9th place than Stranraer?
Cove, Dundee United and Celtic have all but won their leagues and should be rewarded as such. There is no doubt League One is very different and we may be beneficiaries of the situation but you have to do the same for all leagues. However, I have trouble relegating teams such as Partick and Hearts who have a reasonable chance of survival.
2 up and no relegation is the fairest (or least unfair) option for me. I don’t think null and voiding 75% of the season is a fair option. I also don’t buy into leagues of 16 or 18 or whatever just to please everyone because the current season has been cut short. If that sort of reconstruction is the long term solution then fine but we shouldn’t be changing for the sake of it. I think 14, 10, 10, 10 could work as a positive, permanent change.
Is it not obvious I'm saying that if we're to go down then it would be strange that other teams were getting off with it.
I also think the teams at the top should be given promotion in some sort of reconstruction whatever that might be.
Stranraer if they win game in hand would be 5 points behind with 8 games left. That's not much. We have 6 games at home and players were coming back from injury so there is every chance we could have put pressure on Forfar who have been pretty pants as well.
Still think its bizarre to want a team relegated by voting. Sorry I wouldn't want raith relegated by voting anyway considering my dad was born in Kirkcaldy. I might want Queen of the South..
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Its hard to believe some of the comments on here.
Its bizarre some of the fans of other clubs think its fair to relegate teams with games in hand and 9 games left. I wouldn't to do that to another team. Another resolution should be found. Well done East Fife and Falkirk.
On top of that brechin survive and nobody up from non league. You couldnae write it. Corruption of the highest order.
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We have its on our official website, twitter and Facebook. Linked to whole match YouTube threads recently.
http://www.stranraerfc.org/index.php/77-latest-news/1740-relive-donate-a-ticket
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12 hours ago, MOFOREVER said:
As a fan of a different club I’ve watched my team at Stair Park many, many times over the last 40+ years but when I visit the place nowadays it looks and feels fairly soul-less. In saying that I don’t mean to be nasty but there look to be fundamental things just not happening there AND I’m not referring to things on the pitch.
My club Montrose were in the doldrums for many years but since we focussed more on being a Community Club and got a plastic pitch (which is used 6 days a week) we can and do use all our facilities every day. On matchdays our excellent hospitality facilities are buzzing and usually fully booked every game thus earning vital extra income as well as connectivity with locals. It rubs off on the town as well with all sorts of Community focussed things going on every day run by the Montrose F.C. Community Trust both at Links Park and by taking things out into the wider area.
Stranraer also have a grandstand which is almost a carbon copy of that at Montrose BUT it does not look fully used or even open between fortnightly games and I doubt if they have installed hospitality facilities or got plans to use the Stair Park facilities every day.
This isn’t meant as a slight on Stranraer and it doesn’t guarantee a winning team on the pitch but I do feel a lot more needs to be done to get the football club and the rest of the town pulling together with a strategic Community based plan. BUT it takes somebody to spearhead it locally.
Or, carry on as you are and simply hope for the best. I hope somebody at Stranraer takes notice and starts to put a bit more energy into this good 150 year old club.
Also the town about 10 years ago not sure decided the school academy would get the 3g pitch inside the running track. Thats fine but stranraerfc look after it. Get grief for doing so. I wish we had either a tremendous grass pitch or a new 4g pitch. Then all our reserves youth teams and ladies could play on stair park.
Some wee neds fae the toon would probably burn it tho
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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.
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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.
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Stranraer 2021-2022 - The Big 151
in Scottish League 2 General Chatter
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He's been all over the country. Doesn't speak face to face with anyone. All protocols followed. I'm allowed to travel for my job all over Scotland and I stay in Glasgow. All you need is a letter if stopped.
I and others think its great coverage for your club.