Team photo

Largs Thistle 1-2 Winton Rovers

Three defeats in a row now.

The last time Winton beat Thistle in this competition was 14th August 1993 when they won 3-1. Two days after that defeat we were beaten by Kilbirnie 3-1. Four days later we lost 10-0 to Beith. By the end of the season we had won the League and more importantly the Scottish Junior Cup. I can see history repeating itself.....except this time the League winners get to participate in the Scottish FA Cup the following season. I can see us getting to the final of that and beating St. Mirren (gaining revenge for the 9-0 friendly game). This would see us qualify for Europe the following season - by which time I'd have stopped taking Class A drugs.



Largs Thistle 1 (Alan Barnes)
Ardrossan Winton Rovers 2 (Iain Reid, Graham Muir)
Half time : 0-0 Attendance : 84

LARGS THISTLE.....Connick, Davidson, Kyle, Walton, Burgess, McCabe, Robertson, Deas, McClure, Lappin, Marks.
Substitutes.....JP Dow, Barnes, Molloy, Mullin, Black, Jamieson, Greenwood (gk)

ARDROSSAN WINTON ROVERS.....Stewart, Paton, Milliken, McMillan, Wilson, Muir, Ireland, Gilmour, Gallagher, Reid, Jones.
Substitutes.....Adam, Breen, Breslin, Hamilton, Rae, Bellew (gk)

REFEREE : Barry Cook
ASSISTANT REFEREES : Nicholas Walsh, Thomas Clark.

Largs Thistle 0-1 Beith Juniors

Largs Thistle 0
Beith Juniors 1

Charity match at Barrfields

Sunday 2nd August 2009 (1pm kick-off)

Between the British Energy Hunterston B current team and former team in aid of Multiple Sclerosis charities.

Largs Thistle 0-4 Kilbirnie Ladeside

The season proper began tonight at home to Kilbirnie Ladeside. An Ardagh Glass League Cup, Section One game. 0-1 at half time and it just got worse.

First programme produced of the season for me - number 21 in total now. I haven't got the proper colour covers so just when with a plain yellow cover.



Largs Thistle 0
Kilbirnie Ladeside 4 (Alain Kinney, Mark McRoberts-2, Mark Collins)
Half time : 0-1 Attendance : 202

LARGS THISTLE.....Connick, Molloy, Mullin, Walton, Burgess, M. Dow, McCabe, Deas, Monaghan, Marks, Barnes.
Substitutes.....JP Dow, Lappin, Jamieson, Greenwood.

KILBIRNIE LADESIDE.....McCann, McKerrel, Smith, Cochrane, Bell, Anderson, Chang, McGuinness, Longworth, Kinney, Kelly.
Substitutes.....Collins, McRoberts, Jordan, Schouller, Boyd, Frew, Colquhoun.

REFEREE : Ross Haswell.
ASSISTANT REFEREES : Jim Brown, Andrew Monkhouse.
The programme listed John Baillie as one of the assistant referees but this was changed to Jim Brown - unfortunately too late for the change to be made to the programme.

Previous results v Kilbirnie Ladeside in the Ayrshire Regional League Cup
Season	Date	Venue	Result	Score	Scorers
2008-09	11 Aug 2008	Valefield	Lost	0-1
2007-08	15 Aug 2007	Barrfields	Lost	1-3	McCabe
2006-07	12 Aug 2006	Valefield	Won	4-1	Own Goal, Black, Murphy, Shearer
2005-06	03 Aug 2005	Barrfields	Won	5-0	Brolly, Reid-2, McGlone, McManus
2004-05	04 Aug 2004	Barrfields	Won	3-0	Murphy, Goldie, McNally
2004-05	18 Aug 2004	Valefield	Won	6-3	Goldie, Armour, Murphy, McNally-2, McGlone
2003-04	09 Aug 2003	Valefield	Lost	2-3	Gilluley-2
2002-03	14 Aug 2002	Valefield	Lost	0-2
2001-02	22 Aug 2001	Barrfields	Draw	0-0
2000-01	26 Aug 2000	Valefield	Draw	1-1	Love
1999-00	11 Aug 1999	Barrfields	Won	1-0	McNally
1998-99	12 Aug 1998	Valefield	Lost	0-4
1997-98	16 Aug 1997	Barrfields	Draw	1-1	Own goal
1996-97	21 Aug 1996	Valefield	Lost	0-1
1995-96	26 Aug 1995	Barrfields	Lost	1-4	Own goal
1994-95	10 Aug 1994	Valefield	Won	2-1	Quigg-2
1994-95	10 Sep 1994	Valefield	Lost	1-2	Frank Morrison [SEMI FINAL]
1993-94	16 Aug 1993	Barrfields	Lost	1-3	Phairs
1992-93	12 Aug 1992	Valefield	Lost	2-4	Sloan, Quigg
1991-92	14 Aug 1991	Barrfields	Lost	0-2
1990-91	25 Aug 1990	Valefield	Lost	4-7	Quigg-4
1989-90	12 Aug 1989	Barrfields	Lost	0-3

Evening Times (24th July 2009)

Evening Times article on Largs Thistle

24th July 2009

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Partick Thistle Under-19s

Largs Thistle beat Partick Thistle Under 19s 2-0 on Wednesday night (22nd July 2009) with the goals coming from Stephen Kyle and Ryan Deas.

St. Mirren win the Nardinis / Largs Thistle Summer tournament

St. Mirren Under-19's narrowly beat Largs Thistle 9-0 in the final of the Nardinis / Largs Thistle Summer Tournament at Barrfields this afternoon.

Greenock Juniors finished third after beating Benburb 2-0 earlier in the afternoon.

Nardinis Summer Tournament

The semi finals of the summer tournament sponsored by Nardinis saw St. Mirren X1 beat Benburb in the first match 3-0. The other semi final saw Largs Thistle also win 3-0 (with goals from Willie McClure-2, 1 a penalty and Ross McMillan). All the goals in both games were scored in the second half.

There was 114 paying punters on day 1 - so clearly outnumbered by the amount of players and officials from four teams.

Tomorrow Benburb will meet Greenock Juniors in the first match to decide the 3rd/4th place. This will kick off at 1pm.

The final between Largs Thistle and St. Mirren X1 will kick off at 3pm.

Some photos I took at Barrfields today

I took these pictures while waiting for the portacabin to arrive at the ground today (15th) - unfortunately it was damaged beyond repair whilst it was being lifted on to the lorry to transport it to Barrfields.

Largs Thistle squad 2009-10

Name	Season signed	Previous club
Alan Barnes	2008-09	Greenock Juniors
Graham Black	2006-07	Greenock Juniors
Robert Burgess	2009-10	Hurlford United
Stephen Connick	2005-06	Irvine Meadow X1
John Paul Dow	2008-09	Greenock Juniors
Martin Dow	2007-08	Greenock Juniors
Gary Davidson	2008-09	Beith Juniors	(1)
Ryan Deas	2009-10	Renfrew
Gus Gault	2007-08	Greenock Juniors
Neil Greenwood	2009-10	Beith Ams
Tam Jamieson	2008-09	Port Glasgow Juniors	(3)
Stuart Hendren	2005-06	Irvine Meadow X1	(4) (3)
Stephen Kyle	2008-09	Inverclyde Ams
Gordon Lappin	2008-09	Clydebank
James Marks	2003-04	Greenock Juniors (?)
Paul Mullin	2008-09	Kilwinning Rangers
Tom Molloy	2007-08	Greenock Juniors	(1) (3)
Andy Monaghan	2009-10	Port Glasgow Juniors
Alan McCabe	2006-07	St. Peters U21's
Willie McClure	2007-08	Port Glasgow U21's
Ross McMillan	2008-09	Renfrew
John Robertson	2005-06	Greenock Juniors
Eddie Walton	2009-10	Port Glasgow Juniors

(1) still to agree terms for 2009-10 season
(2) not signed yet but likely to sign
(3) they also had a previous spell at the club
(4) Stuart Hendren has been put on the transfer list.

Programme Cover 2008-09

Below is the programme cover for the final game of the 2008-09 season against Pollok in the Evening Times Cup. For the first time in quite a few seasons there was a programme for every competitive match played at Barrfields that season - 20 matches in total.

Scottish Junior Cup final programme 1994

Barrfields

Attack of the killer midges

Below is footage of Largs Thistle being presented with the trophy for winning the Stagecoach West of Scotland Super League First Division (2008-09) after the Evening Times Cup quarter final tie against Pollok (which Pollok won 2-0).

Who's got the biggest flag?

Had to laugh at a Thistle fan's Bebo page recently. A Kilbirnie fan was on boasting about how they had they biggest flag in Junior Football to which a Largs fans came back with that Largs also had a flag - which said "First Division Champions 2009".

Pre-season friendlies

The first matches to be played will be part of the new
Nardinis / Largs Thistle Summer Tournament.
It will be held over the weekend of Saturday 18th July and Sunday 19th July.
On the Saturday the semi finals will be played - kick offs at 1pm and 3pm.
The following day the 3rd/4th place play-off will kick off at 1pm and the final will kick off at 3pm.

As well as Largs Thistle the other teams taking part are St. Mirren, Greenock Juniors and Benburb (managed by former Thistle player and manager, Frank Lovering). On the Saturday Benburb will face St. Mirren at 1pm with Largs facing Greenock Juniors at 3pm. Largs met Greenock in a friendly at Barrfields last season with James Marks and John Paul Dow scoring for Largs in a 2-2 draw.

On the 22nd July Partick Thistle will be sending a team to Barrfields and then on Saturday the friendlies are finished off with a game against Rutherglen Glencairn at Barrfields.

Fun Day (Sunday 12th July 2009)

The first fund-raising event of the 2009-10 season will be a fun day to be held at Le Stade d'Barrfields on Sunday 12th July 2009 starting at 10am and ending at 4pm.

Edit : Unfortunately this was cancelled due to the rain pissing it down all morning.