Glentoran remain without a win in the Premiership after being held to a 1-1 draw by Carrick Rangers at Taylor’s Avenue this afternoon. After his red card in Wednesday night’s game against Crusaders Elliott Morris was serving an automatic suspension so Aaron Hogg took the goalkeeper’s jersey and manager Eddie Patterson brought Jonny Addis in to centre back with Jay Magee dropping to the bench.
Colin Davidson is a Newtownabbey based Glenman who has been a member of the Raven GSC for 20 years.
After listening to the great unnoticed work that goes on at the Glentoran Academy and the release of the favourable fixture list (away to Carrick Rangers in August), Colin decided to do a 10 mile sponsored walk to Carrick to raise funds for 2 much needed causes; the Glentoran Academy and Disability Sport NI. To that end if anyone would care to sponsor Colin please click on the link below, see him at an upcoming match or in Carrick on the day.
In a game that had everything at the Oval on Wednesday night, Glentoran and Crusaders played out an enthralling 2-2 draw that included one of the best goals ever to grace the hallowed east Belfast turf. After what can only be described as a shockingly bad performance against Coleraine on Saturday, manager Eddie Patterson made several changes to the starting line-up with Barry Holland, David Scullion, Kym Nelson and Conor McMenamin all coming in to a 4-4-2 formation.
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The Superstore will be open from 4:30 tomorrow and Season Tickets will be on sale.
The presentation of 2014/15 Match Worn Shirts will take place on Saturday 22nd August 2015 at 5:30pm after our home match against Warrenpoint Town.
A light buffet will be provided.
To assist with catering, sponsors are requested to contact Ruth as soon as possible in the Superstore to advise if they can attend.
ALL 1st team players will be in attendance.
Can we take this opportunity to thank all our sponsors for their continued support.
Further details on 2015/16 Shirt Sponsorship opportunities will be announced shortly.
Match highlights from the opening day defeat at the Coleraine Showgrounds are now available on Glens TV
*NOTE*
Due to a technical fault with the match audio, the highlights are played over Eddie Patterson post match interview
On Wednesday 5th August, Belfast's Lord Mayor, Councillor Arder Carson, held a reception in the City Hall in recognition of Glentoran's Irish Cup win.
The reception was attended by Glentoran President, David Chick, Chairman Stephen Henderson, members of the board, club officials, staff and players. A number of representatives from various political parties were also in attendance.
Glentoran's Danske Bank Premiership campaign got off to a poor start with a 1-nil defeat at Coleraine. It might have been different had referee Hetherington awarded the Glens a penalty in the opening minute when Curtis Allen went down in the area under a challenge from David Ogilby but the official waved away the appeals. On 7 minutes Elliott Morris made a fine save, tipping Garth Falconer's 25 yard effort over the bar. Glentoran were restricted to half chances by both a resolute Coleraine back line and by some very poor passing.
The 2015-16 Danske Bank Premiership gets underway on Saturday and Glentoran's campaign starts with a trip to the Coleraine Showgrounds.
In the past 3 seasons the two clubs have met 10 times in the Premiership with both winning 2 games each. The other 6 games have been drawn.
