OLD NEWS - April 2006
29th Apr 06. Glens 3 Dungannon 1 - Browne, Morgan, and wait for it .... JODY TOLAN!
Well done all round ... Winner of the draw v Dungannon was Larry Harland with the ticket number 9373, Larry won £500 and due to the magnificent response from the best supporters in the League, a great servant to the club - Chris Walker, also gets £500 towards his Benefit funds. May I place on record my sincere gratitude to our generous supporters for their consistant support of the Halfers Draw which they have made by far, the best Match Day Draw in the whole of Ireland. Thanks very much!! - Tommy McKee
**Note** - I happen to know Tommy (Halfers) McKee very well folks, but for those of you who don't (and I hope he doesn't mind me saying this) - Tommy's not the sort of guy who does this for personal credit, he's a die-hard Glenman who amongst others stands out there in all weathers week in week out for the love of his football club - OUR football club. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks Tommy does a tremendous job in his 'Halfers' hut. Buy the man a pint on Saturday!
28th Apr 06. Dungannon game - Match Betting: Glentoran 4/6, Dungannon 10/3, and a draw 5/2. All odds by TOALS
27th Apr 06. It's Party Time ...! First online Cup Final bus sold out ... so we've started taking names for a second ... Keep em comin ...! Anyone who has already received confirmation of their places relax, your seats are safe, otherwise we are still taking bookings at the links above. If we need more buses ... we'll book more buses :-)
Halfers Special - Saturday's last Halfers draw of the season will be a £2 special and the clubs profit will be donated to the Chris Walker Benefit. Glentoran supporters will have a chance to show their appreciation to a true Glenman by buying a ticket, and will also have a chance to make their weekend a happy one if their ticket comes out of the box! Dig Deep :-)
25th Apr 06. Cup Final Day 2006 @ Ballymac ... Return bus tickets (including disco etc.) are now on sale. Full details of what's included, and a booking facility for those of you who would like to purchase online is now available ... HERE. Otherwise you can approach a member of the club directly, tickets will be at the Oval this Saturday.
1st Glentoran NISC ... are holding a 'Night at the Riots' this Friday 28th of April in the Ballymac GSC clubrooms. Anybody fancies a bit of a laugh is very welcome to come along. Doors open 7.30pm, and it's £3 a head, but £1.50 of this goes towards a Half and Half on the night.
24th Apr 06. Uefa promises to hit Zoo's hard after a Panda is caught eating bamboo in a sectarian manner ... HERE
Drogheda win the Setanta Cup ... Report
CHRIS WALKER BENEFIT - SPORTSMAN'S BUFFET AND AUCTION
What was originally planned as a Sportsman's dinner and auction has been slightly changed with the dinner being replaced by a buffet. It will still be taking place in the Park Ave Hotel on Saturday 20th May and will start at 7pm with a Guinness reception for the first hour. Among the guests for the evening will be Glentoran Legends including members of the undefeated league winning team of 1980/81, who will be receiving a presentation from Chris Walker to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their marvelous achievement. Joel Taggart will be the compere for the evening, along with a guest speaker. There will be a wide range of autographed football shirts and footballs, along with some other sporting memorabilia on auction.
Tickets are very reasonably priced at £20 and will be on sale from Saturday 29th April. To reserve your seat you can contact me on 07886337857
William Cameron
Secretary
23rd Apr 06. Ballymena 0 Glentoran 4 - Results and League Table pages updated
22nd Apr 06. Irish Cup Final Day @ the Ballymac ... Annual Cup Final Disco commencing 11.30am, Free Balloons for kids, Free Face-Painting for kids (big AND small!), Competitions, Return Bus to the game, and much more ... ALL FOR JUST 4 QUID A HEAD!! Upwards of 4 buses will be leaving the Wilgar Street clubrooms this year, at least one of which has been specifically set aside for bookings taken online! Keep an eye on the site from Monday for more details and how to book ...
Dungannon 4th - Dungannon have made this afternoons' game all but pointless now for Ballymena Utd, after hammering Coleraine 6-1 last night to secure 4th place in the Premier League, and next seasons' final Setanta Cup spot. TABLE
21st Apr 06. Ballymena game - Match Betting: Ballymena 9/4, Glentoran 1/1, and a draw 11/5. All odds supplied by TOALS.
Ballymac's bus leaves Wilgar Street tomorrow at 1.30pm..
18th Apr 06. Glentoran 5 Portadown 1 - Nip me ...
17th Apr 06. In light of investigations from UEFA into alleged sectarian chants recently, I hear the great unwashed have sent documentation to UEFA pleading their case. One of the documents was a photograph of a few players modelling the new white away kit for next season. I believe they hope that with white being the colour of peace & impartiality, UEFA will be more lenient with their sentence. I've managed to get hold of the photo and attached it HERE
16th Apr 06. 0-0 ... when was the last time they won a friggin match! ... champions my chocolate starfish! Brace yourselves folks ... BIG CHOKE ON THE WAY! Roll on the 6th of May. 61 years and countin ... ;-)
15th Apr 06. Irish Cup Final Ballot - Forza Glens have launched a ballot aimed solely at providing as much colour as possible on Irish Cup Final day. There are some fantastic prizes on offer, and with all the proceeds going towards making May the 6th a Red, Green and Black spectacle surely it's worth a quid of anybody's money. The Forza crew will be selling the ballots today at the swamp, just look out for new Forza tops - courtesy of the Glentoran Community Trust and the IFA.
Dig deep - View the list of prizes HERE
14th Apr 06. Linfield game - Sorry folks, been verrrry busy. Match Betting: Linfield 7/10, Glentoran 7/2, and a draw 5/2
All odds supplied by TOALS bookmakers.
11th Apr 06. Get those passports checked, UEFA Cup calender ...
June 23?, 2006 - Draw for 1st qualifying round of the UEFA Cup
July 13th, 2006 - 1st qualifying round UEFA Cup, 1st leg
July 27th, 2006 - 1st qualifying round UEFA Cup, 2nd leg
July 28th, 2006 - Draw for 2nd qualifying round of the UEFA Cup
Aug 10th, 2006 - 2nd qualifying round UEFA Cup, 1st leg
Aug 24th, 2006 - 2nd qualifying round UEFA Cup, 2nd leg
Aug 25th, 2006 - Draw for 1st round UEFA Cup ... err, think that's probably enough to be gettin on with ... ;-)
Seedings thus far can be found at the UEFA link above
10th Apr 06. Linfield game - We are reminded that this coming Saturdays League game with Linfield at the swamp is an ALL TICKET affair. Tickets are now available from the usual outlets. £8 and £5.
AGM - The Glentoran FC Annual General Meeting has been postponed to May 17th
Loughgall 2 Glentoran 3 - almost forgot .. ;-)
By the way ... take a wild guess who's after Gary Smyth? (for a third time!)
7th Apr 06. Loughgall game ... and No, I'm not kiddin ;-) Life goes on (and anyway there's a nice wee club in Loughgall). Ok I hear you say, so with UEFA Cup and Setanta qualification secured what's the point in these last 5 league games? Well actually to you and me not a lot I suppose, but to the players ... ? Well. These last 5 games will decide who gets an opportunity to redeem themselves on May 6th. After today, and before the Cup Final, the last 4 league matches are against the other top 4 teams in the table, and 3 of them ARE still looking for European and Setanta Cup qualification! Any slacking and we could find ourselves on the end of a few more 6-nillers! No, what there is left of our season we begin building for tomorrow, and that includes character. If some of these players can't muster a fight for an Irish Cup Final place, then in my opinion we should play a wee lad from the Seconds in his place! I suggest you go to these next 5 games and judge for yourself. Ballymac's bus leaves Wilgar Street at 1.30pm, I imagine there'll be plenty of room!
Match Betting: Loughgall 3/1, Glentoran 4/5, and a draw 9/4. All odds supplied by TOALS bookmakers.
Oh by the way ... Paul Millar has just been named Northern Ireland Football Writers' Manager of the Month for March!
6th Apr 06. Irish Cup Final - The Ballymac will be running at least 4 coaches to the 2006 Nationwide Irish Cup Final. The big day will begin at our Wilgar Street clubrooms with the 'annual' Irish Cup Final disco commencing 11.30am, before departure for the swamp around 1.45pm. More details will follow here in due course, but I can confirm that bookings for return bus and disco will once again be made available online ... 60 years and counting ;-)
5th Apr 06. Can anyone confirm our Physio Tony Barnett has now been shafted?
Just in case you find you've nothing to wear this summer ... the one that got away ... HERE
4th Apr 06. Latest Irish Cup betting: Linfield 2/7, Glentoran 12/5. All odds supplied by TOALS bookmakers
And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse ...
"The club would like to express its sincere best wishes to Pat for the future" - Glentoran.net 30/03/06
"RAGARSE ROVERS!" - Pat McGibbon, Daily Mirror 04/04/06
Read the full article HERE
3rd Apr 06. Linfield 6 Glentoran 0 ... even had 'Sas' sent off before half-time! Unacceptable, Totally inept, Pathetic!
2nd Apr 06. Glentoran 2 Larne 0 - Get your priorities right I say ... job done, UEFA Cup here we come. Now let's go out and enjoy ourselves on the 6th of May.
