HOME GAME v WICK ACADEMY FC
BREEDON HIGHLAND LEAGUE
SEAFIELD PARK, GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY, PH26 3HY
WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 2024 – KO 8pm
Would you believe Wednesday is the fourth anniversary of football being shut down due to the pandemic…13 March 2020!!!
Onto brighter things …..for our third game in a row at home we welcome Wick Academy for what is I think the third time this game has been scheduled – we were meant to meet initially last September but due to a crash on the A9 and the road being closed the team bus could not get through and secondly, the weather put paid to the re-arranged fixture on a very cold Wednesday night in December.
So, third time lucky, and hopefully a win for the Jags!
Our last meeting at the start of February at Harmsworth Park, the predominant feature was the exceptionally strong wind and in the half the wind was for Wick, three goals were scored…..and when the wind for us we managed two ….resulting in a three two win for The Scorries. Hopefully on Wednesday night the wind will be a lot more benign and not influence the game quite so much.
Currently sitting in fourteenth place and on twenty three points Wick Academy have had some very good results over the past month or so, although they did lose 3-1 to Inverurie last Saturday.
All Jags fans will be hoping the boys put in the same effort and performance as they did in Saturday’s game against Keith FC.
SATURDAY’S GAME v KEITH
In a hard fought ninety or so minutes at Seafield Park, Keith finished up 2-1 winners.
They went ahead after twenty minutes, although we did have one glorious chance to level before half-time.
Mike Mckenzie equalised on fifty-eight minutes finishing off a very good move and the game see-sawed after that until the seventy-fourth minute when a high through ball bounced awkwardly over our defence setting up Keith’s Mikey Taylor to lob the ball over the advancing keeper Ethan Rae. Ethan, on loan to the Jags from Ross County until the end of the season, produced another excellent individual performance.
Probably a draw would have been a fair result but no-one could fault any of the Jags for not giving one hundred per cent.
FOCUSSING ON………
The Club would like to thank Betty and Davie Love for all their help and dedication over the past twenty years or so, Davie as grass cutter and groundsman and Betty (aided and abetted by Davie) for cleaning the dressing rooms, The Shack and the toilet block making them spick and span for the next home game – as well as turning out every home game to support the Jags.
Thanks again to you both and we look forward to seeing you both at every home game at Seafield Park!!
Referee Billy Baxter is retiring at the end of the season after twenty five years service to the game.
The Jags and Keith FC wished to pay tribute to the fact as this was scheduled to be Billy’s last time officiating either club this season.
Keith compiled a double sided list of all the games involving Keith FC over the past twenty-five years officiated by Billy, as well as a bottle from one of Keith’s finest whisky distilleries and The Jags presented him with 30-Year StrathspeyThistle commemorative plaque.
LOTTERY MILESTONE
This week the jackpot has reached £5000 – and our photographer managed to capture the boys celebrating the milestone figure…..
Tickets for the draw for this week and every other week are available in the following Grantown businesses…..The Wee Shop, Grantown Diner, Ashers Bakery, Claymore Bar, the Ben Mhor Hotel and the Legion in The Square. If you can’t get to these establishments you can go online CLICK HERE and play along… over-sixteens only I’m afraid!
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
WEDNESDAY 3 APRIL AWAY MATCH v BUCKIE THISTLE FC
See y’all on Friday….