RH33 Posted August 18, 2023 Share Posted August 18, 2023 7 hours ago, welshbairn said: I reckon "we got Golspied" will become a new phrase like "they hibsed it". Guess where Fort Williams favourite former leauge secretary lives Bankies would've been gauranteed one fan at the ground 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Pennel Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 This is splendid. C'mon the fitba. (Don't know how tae say that in teuchterspeak)... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandmac Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 6 hours ago, Black Pennel said: This is splendid. C'mon the fitba. (Don't know how tae say that in teuchterspeak)... Just say it in patronising weegie,then 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Pennel Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 Rightie-oh, old bean... Eh, naw...that can't be it... Seriously though, I'm glad the clubs got something settled before it all got too undignified. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 2, 2023 Share Posted September 2, 2023 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Fort William's dropped its trews. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 Remarkable scenes as Fort's home game goes ahead, while the weather put paid to every Highland League match ! Fort probably still hurting from last week's spanking at Loch Ness though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 15 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: Remarkable scenes as Fort's home game goes ahead, while the weather put paid to every Highland League match ! Fort probably still hurting from last week's spanking at Loch Ness though. Normal service has resumed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tout P'ti FC Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Putting an apologetic statement out excuses this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Apparently they had plenty reserve team players available but not enough of them fancied it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Starting their pish again is it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 2 hours ago, TheScarf said: Starting their pish again is it? I'm still blocked from their FB but they're saying a few of their players had booked holidays because the season was supposed to have finished before Easter. Disappointing that the youth players refused to step up but I don't think they're back to the batshit mental times of John Trew's reign. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 Easter on not(defiantly not, if the excuse is its easter then its pathetic) not being able to get 7 players available for a league match is inexcusable. I've had a look back and there's zero announcement of a league extension at least for the last month, therefore they've had plenty of notice, its not like a game was called off last weekend and they've been forced to scrabble a team together( something that has happened before, and teams do get a side together.) Teams get reprimanded in recreational 5 aside league for late call offs, its simply unacceptable in senior football, fine + points deduction for next season seems only possible outcome with expulsion if repeated within next 2 years IMO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Shaker Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 (edited) 8 hours ago, TheScarf said: Starting their pish again is it? Their pish never stopped, it just got put to one side as they were winning occasionally. They’re always going to be a bit div but this latest episode is a farce. Notice my emphasis on the word farce. Edited April 1 by Jimmy Shaker 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 On 01/04/2024 at 17:37, parsforlife said: Easter on not(defiantly not, if the excuse is its easter then its pathetic) not being able to get 7 players available for a league match is inexcusable. I've had a look back and there's zero announcement of a league extension at least for the last month, therefore they've had plenty of notice, its not like a game was called off last weekend and they've been forced to scrabble a team together( something that has happened before, and teams do get a side together.) Teams get reprimanded in recreational 5 aside league for late call offs, its simply unacceptable in senior football, fine + points deduction for next season seems only possible outcome with expulsion if repeated within next 2 years IMO Easter is unusually early this year, and for many years NCL has always ended in mid-April... league wasn't extended, and as you say it's not a recently rearranged game. Looks more like Fort just couldn't raise an XI on a holiday weekend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 (edited) 2 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: Easter is unusually early this year, and for many years NCL has always ended in mid-April... league wasn't extended, and as you say it's not a recently rearranged game. Looks more like Fort just couldn't raise an XI on a holiday weekend. The clubs had 2 fewer fixtures this year and Fort William would have finished their fixtures by March 23rd if the Halkirk game hadn't been postponed. It's poor that they couldn't raise a team despite having reserves available, and it was daft to book holidays so soon after the scheduled season given our weather, but plenty other teams have struggled for players at the end or beginning of the season, particularly before the end of the Summer amateur leagues which are more popular than the North Caley in some parts of the region. The difference is they always manage to put some kind of team together, I hope and expect Fort William will start next season with serious negative points, it's not like they had an outbreak of the plague. Edited April 2 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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welshbairn Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 (edited) Time running out for under pressure Fort William FC SportJun 25, 2024by Peter Newman Fort William FC’s search for a new manager has reached crisis point as the need to get someone in post intensifies. Fort William FC chairman Rob Coull is concerned for the future of the town's senior team. Photograph: Iain Ferguson. With only weeks to go before pre-season begins, the North Caledonian League outfit have had to begin considering drastic measures in the light of their failure to appoint someone to run the team next season. Chairman Rob Coull said: “We are really coming up on the most critical time now. “We have spoken to various people who, for whatever reason, are not in a place where they feel they can take the team on at this time. “It is really sad because we have made so much positive progress; the reserve side is bedded in now and we have a thriving youth section delivering exceptional coaching. “Sadly, having no one free to step in and take over first team duties leaves us in a horrible position. If we can’t get a candidate in place by the end of the first week of July, we will either have to look at pulling out of the league or folding the first team completely. “At the end of the day, our mission - along with this being the club’s 50th anniversary - has been to restore the club to the community and get back into the Highland Football League once more. “If, ultimately, the town and community doesn’t want a football club competing at senior level, then that is the choice of the town and community, but I will personally be very upset if that is the case.” https://www.westcoasttoday.co.uk/sport/time-running-out-for-under-pressure-fort-william-fc Edited June 26 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 A fairly ludicrous 'mission' to restore Highland League football, when absolutely nothing about the club setup merits that status right now or shows a capacity to retain that status. Something about this situation doesn't read right from that report: are there literally zero candidates for the job? From the outside, it reads more like a chairman having a tantrum about how things are going but would be happy to be corrected. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 I suspect one of the reasons people they are speaking to won't take the job is they have seen the shambolic running of the club and that they don't want to be involved with that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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