Glentoran Football Club would like to thank all those who attended this morning's service of Remembrance athe Bet McLean Oval.
The service was conducted by Club Chaplain Rev David Thompson and a poppy wreath was laid on behalf of Glentoran by Club Chairman Colin Jess.
Lest We Forget.
Photography by THOMAS SEWELL
NIFL has announced today that all Sports Direct Premiership games scheduled for Monday 1st January have been brought forward by two days.
That means that our home game with Cliftonville will now be played at the Bet McLean Oval on Saturday 30th December at pm.
A reminder that this Saturday (11th November) on the 105th anniversary of the Armistice, Glentoran Football Club will conduct a Remembrance Service at the Bet McLean Oval.
The service will be conducted by Club Chaplain, Rev. David Thompson at the Glentoran Remembrance Plaque at the Directors’ Entrance of the main stand. The Club Chairman and other club officials will be in attendance.
All Glentoran supporters, local residents and all who wish to pay their respects to the fallen are very welcome to attend.
The game was ultimately settled by Glentoran indecision in both boxes, despite a late rally after falling two goals behind. A minute’s silence was also observed before kick-off to remember all those who gave their lives in both world wars and later conflicts. The chairmen of both clubs laid poppy wreaths to mark the occasion.
Glentoran FC is delighted to announce that our young full back Johnny Russell has signed his first full time professional contract with the club. This will keep Johnny at the Bet McLean Oval until the end of the 2025/26 season.
Johnny (19) has been with the club since joining as a 10-year-old, so is currently in his ninth season at Glentoran. It’s a tremendous achievement for any young player to make it all the way through from 10 to the first team so Johnny has showed great determination and talent to now make it to full time football.
With a number of regulars called up to the first team squad this week, it was a very young squad that fought out a solid goalless draw with Crusaders tonight, at Ashfield in the NIFL U20 Premiership.
It was great to see the sorely missed Seanan Clucas commence his return to action in this game. Seanan played for over an hour in his first match since January due to a groin injury. This will be good news for the senior management and the broad Glentoran support.
Tuesday 7th November 2023
Kick Off 7.45pm
Tomorrow night we face our old rivals Linfield in the second round of the Bet McLean Cup.
Holders Linfield go into this tie in superb form, recording 9 victories in a row in all competitions since losing away to Larne in mid-September while scoring 26 goals and conceding just 4 in the process.
In Tuesday night’s Glentoran Gazette Warren Feeney tells how he brought the squad in on Sunday to discuss how they could bounce back from a result which left him frustrated. He blamed a loss of concentration for Carrick’s goals but reiterated his message that we need to finish off teams after taking the lead in games. He also looks ahead to tonight’s game while our writers detail Linfield’s flying start to the season.
One positive in Saturday’s game against Carrick is that Aaron McCarey made his 100th appearance for Glentoran in the fixture.
Aaron was signed by Mick McDermott from Cliftonville in the 2021 summer transfer window and has been a fixture in the first team ever since. So far this season Aaron has kept six clean sheets in the Sports Direct Premiership, joint best of any keeper in the division.
Congratulations Aaron!
The high spot of an otherwise disappointing day at the Bet McLean Oval yesterday was the presence of 20 of Glentoran’s greatest ever footballers at the match. They were there as members of the Glentoran 250 Club – players who made over 250 appearances for Glentoran – who were there to receive new 250 Club membership cards, specially designed by Clifford Logan. These men have over 100 League and Irish Cup winner’s medals between them.
