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  1. 3 hours ago, rhliston said:

    We make the long trip to Stranraer before our big game against the Rangers on Friday, lets hope the players don`t switch off against Stranraer and save themselves for the Rangers game. 

    We need to get something from this game to keep us in touch with the teams above us. Its going to be interesting to see how the players react after the defeat to Kelty last week. Lets hope we will be leaving Stair Park with something for the journey back up the road. 

    Prediction Stranraer 1 Binos 1 😀

    From Twitter

    'In Line with government regulations Stranraer F.C. encourages all supporters to take a lateral flow test before attending tomorrow's game.'

    Prediction  Stranraer 1 - 0 Stirling Albion. 

  2. 11 hours ago, Ray Vaughn said:

    Hi there. Trying to organise a bus to the Stranraer v Stirling game of on Sat 15th Jan but we don’t know what Stranraer are doing for match entry.

    i didn’t see an entry on FanBase for Stranraer so I assume that is not happening.

    Is it turn up and pay at the gate?

     

    thanks in advance.

    John

    The last 5 Stair Park game attendances have been 312, 235, 258, 272, and 337 so should be no problem. Look out for Stranraer FC twitter or Facebook page for admission info. We just pay at the gate.

  3. Santa came early for Kelty Hearts with Stranraer gifting the first 2 goals to them.

    We had a couple of chances to make it one all but couldn't convert. The second Kelty goal sealed the victory.

    Kelty Hearts are a better team than Queens Park and will win this league with half a dozen matches remaining.

    The only way to come close to them is to have all your first eleven picks fit and playing with confidence, and them taking the foot of the gas.

  4. The Blues welcome Kelty Hearts to Stair Park for the first time ever this Saturday.

    A very even game up at New Central Park in September with an 8th minute Nathan Austin goal giving the home team the 3 points. 

    It looks like it's going to be a good day for a game of fitba' with virtually no wind and partially cloudy sky. 

    Really looking for forward to this game and I'm predicting a score draw!

    Any Kelty fans looking for a beer before the game should visit the Fitba Bar in North Strand Street. Only a ten minute walk to Stair Park.

     

    fitba-bar.jpg

  5. On 26/10/2021 at 14:38, LoonsYouthTeam said:

    Hey folks. My mate and I are getting the early train to Stranraer this Saturday and will be there around 11.00am. Is the Stranraer football bar still open and if so what time does it open? What other bars do you recommend or should we definitely avoid? Thanks in advance.

    Stranraer FC Fitba' Bar open at 11am.  Carling £2.80 a pint, Tennants £3.00. 

  6. 2 hours ago, BB_Bino said:

     


    If Saturday is anything to go by then it will certainly be a long season for you, one thing that did surprise me though was how accepting of the performance that the fans appeared to be. Other than 4 or 5 guys behind the goal shouting at the Goalkeeper to get it forward, nothing else seemed to come from the stands and everybody just seemed to trudge home afterwards, all very blasé like.

    Might be wrong, but just going in what I witnessed on Saturday.

     

    We  had a great team last year but it was decimated during the close season, plus the manager pissed off to Dumbarton after signing a contract a fortnight earlier! 

    A Stranraer manager will always have a small budget to work with and Hamill is up against it. 

    A good performance against Killie gave us hope in the system and young players. The start of the league campaign brought the reality crashing down. 

    Still, it's too early to panic and a few tweaks might make a difference, he says with a rabbit's foot and lucky white heather to hand.
     

  7. 22 minutes ago, beaver1 said:

    PS Stranraer were excellent. Best of the rest.

    From the gloom of Elgin and Edinburgh Cities to the highs of Stirling Albion and Stenhousemuir, this is why we support our teams, you never know what you are going to get! 

    Stenhousemuir just didn't turn up for the first 20 minutes and unfortunately for them Stranraer played their best 45 minutes of the season in that first half. They must have been playing for a places  for this Sunday's game v Hibs! 

    As Faz said, 'A week is a long time in football'.

  8. That's right, the first time the two teams had ever met was the season 1988-89 Skol Cup game at Easter Road. Given the Hibs team it's no surprise The Blues lost 4-0 with goals from Kane (4), Evans (34), Archibald (73 and 77). We took about 200 up to that game and I remember the pie stall had only ordered 2 dozen pies for the away support!

     Hibs team was Andy Goram, Gordon Hunter, Alan Sneddon, Neil Orr (George McCluskey), Gordon Rae, Tommy McIntyre, Micky Weir, Steve Archibald, Paul Kane, John Collins, Gareth Evans (Joe Tortolano).

    Stranraer were Duffy, Lowe, Hay, Watt, Rogers, McCutcheon, McQueen, McNiven, Arthur (Lloyd), Frye, Henderson.

     

     

    Stevie Archibald v Neil Watt.jpg

  9. On 09/03/2021 at 16:32, bluearmyfaction said:

    This is probably as good a place as any for a query on the club's history.

    I've read that Stranraer was a merger between a number of other clubs - Academy Coursers, Lodge TC, Sheuchan Swifts, and Waverley.

    The only references I can find on googling them relate to them all merging to form Stranraer.

    What was the point of them doing so?  It basically stopped there being any fixtures within Stranraer.  Or had they all decided that they would be better off only playing clubs from outside the town?

    Also, what was the story with Dalrymple Harriers?  According to the John Boyd research on the net Viscount Dalrymple became the president of the remnant Stranraer United - was he a bit ticked off that this upstart club was stealing his name?  (About the same time Stranraer Corinthians started, couldn't get registered, and vanished.  Seems there was a lot of plotting going on then...)

    John Boyd's book 'The Stranraer Football Club Centenary 1870-1970' is a very handy reference source.  There were a lot of games getting scratched in those days as the teams couldn't field enough players due to work, etc.

    We'll never know why, but can only surmise the teams of the town got together to have a strong first team squad to play games outside the local area, and a junior team to play in the summer league.

    There must have been  either a massive fall out or someone was splashing the cash for almost all the players to go to Dalrymple Harriers, however that team must have been unsustainable as no record of them exists after the one season.

    Throughout the decades local teams come and go but I've never heard of Stranraer Corinthians.

     

    SFC 1870 1970 book.jpg

  10. On 21/09/2020 at 17:12, gogsy said:

    Question for the Stranraer fans, noticed  in the Scottish Referee periodical for 14/10/1907 that a new club had been formed called Stranraer United , the original Stranraer team being defunct. Did this new team become the Stranraer FC as we now know it and how was it linked to the original Stranraer team  that was formed in 1870?

    In 1906 the formation of another senior club in the town, Dalrymple Harriers, almost brought about the end of Stranraer F.C. when the Stranraer players defected en masse to the new club and the Blues entered a period of inactivity. 

    However, the Harriers lasted barely a season and the old club was re-established under the new title as Stranraer United although the suffix was soon dropped. 

     

    From 'Senior Non League Football in South West Scotland' by Malcolm Pagan.

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