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2024-2025 Season: Late show sees Banbridge banished for another three point haul We have just two matches left to play, and then another season closes. Unlike last season, there's nothing on the international calendar to take in after the Euros...
2024-2025 Season: Just a normal week, well as normal as football allows you to be… Just two matches remain and season number two in the book. We're making gigantic steps forward at the moment and boy that feels just fine and dandy to be fair. We have...
Interesting story, keep it going! Nice blend of text and graphics here, must admit I prefer my text to be justified rather than centered. Other than this, I'm liking this mate,
2024-2025 Season: Signing that new contract gave everyone a boost. It might only be a one-year extension, I really wanted to make a statement and sign a two year deal personally, but staying here shows to all and sundry that everyone is on the same p...
Thanks fella, keeps me active whilst also writing my own wee story in the obscure Northern Irish leagues. 👍
2024-2025 Season: A new contract and a pay rise The first thing that was on my mind after that dramatic home win against Coagh, was to talk shop with Ken. But Ken was too busy, wrapped up in his own wee bubble, well it's not every day that your...
2024-2025 Season: Deal sealed, joy as we are the champions! When Callum McVeigh's right foot connected with the ball in the second minute of time added-on in the second half, I had no doubts what was going to happen next. It was destined to evade the...
2024-2025 Season: Callum crowns it! We knew the forthcoming Saturday could be one of the defining days in the club's history. Since the Club was formed in 1956, 68 years ago, we have never won a league title at all. We have been runners-up twice but...
2024-2025 Season: Ready for the final month… Our nine goal thriller wasn't the only game that had goals, and plenty of them, in it. Overall, the league had a total of 46 goals scored across the seven matches which were played. You could say in a lot...
2024-2025 Season: Goals galore but destiny is just a point away now Like every club, we want to be playing every week to keep the team fresh and focused but the way the fixtures are in this division means you might go through periods where you have a...
2024-2025 Season: It's just called going through the motions… I didn't feel hurt by the loss in the Intermediate Cup quarter-final against Ballinamallard United, only a sense of pride that we had competed with a side one division above us and with a...
First of all, congratulations on getting the League 1 title to the trophy cabinet. Now for another step up in standard. Like the idea of a mini pre-season tour outside of where you play. Always good to also try and throw in a couple of prestigious ho...
2024-2025 Season: Cup dream over as Mallards edge a thriller We are prepared as well as we can be, and the Mallards are about to land at the Dub for a quarter-final in the Intermediate Cup. When we started the season way back in August, the plan for...
2024-2025 Season: Sorry seems to be the hardest word in a busy old world "I can't do it, sorry but I really can't. Imagine the fallout." Those were the words I said to Roy McGivern on the phone when I returned his call about the managerial vacan...
2024-2025 Season: The big fish comes a calling When David Taylor's 93rd minute effort flew past Ballymacash Rangers Brian Neeson and caused the net to ripple, the relief was palpable all around The Dub. It had extended our league unbeaten streak to a...
2024-2025 Season: DT saves a point, and the unbeaten record too! It's simple as that, seven points from six games will get us promoted. But if everyone below us takes points off each other then it could be done without kicking a ball in anger. I mean...
2024-2025 Season: The final two months, but beware the Ides of March So we came off The Dub with the bragging rights firmly ensconced for us, and how the Students knew about it. The music was blaring out of the speaker in the “away” dressing room and...
2024-2025 Season: Dub derby success against the Students We were now heading into the final weekend of games in February, and once they're complete then there will be just six matches left to play and with March being a bit light on the league matche...
2024-2025 Season: A testing week ends in some Cup glory As much as we enjoyed thrashing Newington, one of the promotion rivals, 4-1 at The Dub: all things weren't exactly rosy in the garden post-game. We had lost winger Sam Morrow just before half ti...
2024-2025 Season: C'est four-midablé as we go nine points clear They say that revenge is a dish that is best served cold, and that's what was on The Dub's menu board on Saturday as we played one of the biggest home games of the season ahead. The team...
Why are you changing the club but using the same beginning to the same story? Is there something you don't want to tell us, I'm intrigued.
2024-2025 Season: A crunch game in the offing Whilst we didn't take maximum points from our trip to Breda Park, the main thing was that we were remaining unbeaten as the season hurtles towards its dramatic conclusion. That's always a positive. Howeve...
2024-2025 Season: Kee at the double in a six goal thriller So we moved into February having kept the squad intact despite rumoured interest from here, there and everywhere. Whether the mumblings over quality defensive reinforcements has subsided is n...
Good start, looking forward to seeing what you can achieve.
2024-2025 Season: Rounding the month off Well one's mind has been well and truly blown away by Saturday. We went to a Championship side, were expected to lose and actually came away with the win against the odds especially when we were 2-0 down at ha...
2024-2025 Season: The Comeback Kings Every season we look at the competitions we are in and assess which ones are priority and which ones aren't. Of course the priority every season is the League, and in the Cups then we are expected to be competitiv...
2024-2025 Season: Couple of new faces in the ranks After the meeting with Owen Madine and skipper Johnny Wilson, we agreed that we needed some reinforcements in central defence. Granted that Ben Mitchell and the veteran that is Andrew Ferguson have d...
2024-2025 Season: Extra Time Anguish The day before the Irish Cup tie against Championship side Ballyclare Comrades was the draw of the Second Round, live on BBC Radio Ulster. We were in the hat, and were actually first ones out too. Should we prevai...
2024-2025: Build up to a big game Granted we had made seven league matches without defeat, the mood wasn't as upbeat as you would expected it to be. We had scored five away from home but conceded three, in my opinion, weak goals and they were weak go...
Well done squire, well done indeed. What's next? Conquering the CL?
2024-2025 Season: Goals, goals, goals…. It had been a busy old week following on from that win on the North Coast at Portstewart's Seahaven ground. It's another win ticked off the chart and leaves us with ten games left to play. I'm making it abundan...
Apologies for the next post not showing the team sheet image as usual. I clean forgot to do the screengrab and only did realise once I had played the fixture. Who's a silly billy, eh?
2024-2025 Season: A busy week It was a very happy bus coming home from the North Coast. We had avoided the banana skin at Portstewart, and kept the five point advantage in place with just ten games to play. Newington are our biggest challengers and w...
Season 2024-2025: Seahawks are put to flight None of the squad knew about the conversations that I held with Crusaders at the Crowne Plaza Hotel this morning. In fact I wanted to keep it as hush hush as possible so got pinkie promises from both Kyle...
2024-2025 Season: I suppose it's good to talk, yeah? So I'm now being headhunted for a role in the Premiership, Northern Ireland's top division, and by one of their “big” clubs in Crusaders. Ronnie Millar's phone call that Saturday was a real curve b...
Been to watch Bohs, Slavia and Sparta play on various occasions when doing a speedway related holiday. Surprisingly decent standard, good luck for the rest of the season.
2024-2025 Season: One in, one out and a Premiership call… 2025 and the start of a new year which is going to have many a up and equally many a down. It's also the opening of the winter transfer window too which lasts until 1 February. Like...
2024-2025 Season: Finishing off the year So we managed to complete the double over Distillery with a comprehensive win under the floodlights at The Dub. Did I expect it? To be frank, nope. Whilst I like to go usually with a positive attitude in every...
2024-2025 Season: Some daylight… Christmas had been and gone and nothing had changed, it was just business as usual as far as I was concerned. The main focus was seeing what we could achieve in the games that remained. If we could complete the double...
2024-2025 Season: Feliz Navidad The win at the Coleraine Showgrounds wasn't just a win that avoided a banana skin, but it was a win that ensured one main thing: that we would remain top of the pile over the Christmas period. We have a three point gap...
2024-2025 Season: Leading the way as Christmas arrives. The penultimate game of 2024 was around the corner, and to be fair the year had been quite a good one for us in all respects. We knew one thing was for sure; that if we could avoid defeat in Col...
More updates are on the way….
2024-2025 Season: Still leading the way… As I basked in the happiness of winning another game, our eighth league win from thirteen this season, I was more concerned with how bad Jonathan Doyle's ankle injury. It looked serious judging by the anguish...
2024-2025 Season: Second Half strikes see us home We had very little respite ahead of the midweek match with Rathfriland at The Dub. Rathfriland, like ourselves, have completely had a better season than last and go into Tuesday's game with designs on...
2024-2025 Season: Better late than never, eh Mr Madine? The loss of both Sam (Morrow) and Alex (andre Machado) was something than I had not expected. I could the loss of one winger but not both of them to be fair, as we had seemingly hit on a winning...
2024-2025 Season: Hammer blow 1, 2, 3, 4…. It was good to make it three wins from three and start the month of December so positively with such a comprehensive home win over Armagh City. That win had seen us go two points clear at the top as Newingto...
2024-2025 Season: Three from three as Armagh are swatted aside The busiest period of any season are always the months of December and January. They can be very much, what they call it: season-defining. If you can make it through them without a multit...
2024-2025 Season: And just like that…. So who were the three special guests to be in the crowd against Armagh? Well Ken knew, he knows everything that has to be said… You've heard of the TV show “Sex and the City” right, well there's been a foll...
2024-2025 Season: That's November in the bag… Those Cup wins really were a lift as losing them could have really damaged the team morale, not to mention again how embarrassing the Cup exits could have been. We're definitely exceeding all expectations...
2024-2025 Season: Two Cup wins in a week After turning down Kettering, I was totally focused in getting the team prepared for the trip to Derriaghy Cricket Club on Saturday afternoon. It was another banana skin of a game, following on from Tuesday's...