This showdown between the two contenders for the Sports Direct Women’s Premiership lived up to its billing at Ashfield tonight.
Cliftonville had the better of the opening exchanges, without causing too many problems for a resolute home defence and opened the scoring on 17 minutes when Caitlin McGuinness neatly touched the ball home after a left wing run and cross from her sister Kirsty.
Tomorrow evening we begin our Bet McLean (League) Cup campaign for 2023/24 with a historic first ever meeting with Dollingstown FC.
We begin our Bet McLean League Cup campaign tomorrow evening with our first ever game against Dollingstown and the Gazette brings you up to speed with all you need to know about the unknown quantities from County Down. Elsewhere Warren Feeney rues poor decision making in our defeats against Coleraine and Carrick Rangers, Brian McClelland mourns the demise of much loved local ground of the past, This Week Then features Fred Roberts, Terry Kingon and Matty Burrows, the 1923 Committee appeal for some common sense on admission prices for young fans, while Tommy Sewell and Norman Ternahan revie
Monday 2nd October
Ashfield Boys' School
KO: 7.45PM
After a 3-week international and cup break, Glentoran Women return to Sports Direct Premiership action tomorrow night at Ashfield. And what a night it should be, as the only two sides mathematically capable 0f winning the title meet.
Glentoran currently sit top of the table, nine points ahead of the Reds who have two games in hand.
For the second week in a row, Glentoran meekly surrendered a half time lead, this time to a Carrick Rangers team that was in eleventh place going into today’s game. In truth the result accurately reflected the game and the difference between the two sides.
Four of our young players were involved with the Northern Ireland Under 16 squad this week as the squad scored wins over Finland and Estonia in international friendlies at Ferney Park, Ballinmallard.
The Glentoran players involved were Jayden Charnley, Jack Faloona, George Feeney, and Darragh McCann.
In Tuesday’s 3-2 win over Finland, George Feeney set up the first goal of the match as Northern Ireland took the lead through Glenn McCourt. The game looked like petering out for a 2-2 draw until our own Jayden Charnley powerfully headed home an 85th minute winner.
We travel to Carrickfergus on Saturday looking to arrest our last two poor performances and get back to winning ways.
Carrick were widely tipped to finish comfortably in mid table, after making a number of impressive summer signings, but have found themselves in 11th place after a difficult start to the campaign, which has seen them collect only 7 points from their first 9 games and concede 26 goals, the highest number in the division.
The September 200 Club winners are as follows.
Congratulations to all winners! Can winners please contact Ruth via superstore@glentoran.com to arrange payment of winnings.
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Glentoran Women have four games left as they chase a league and cup double at the end of this season.
The Glens go into Monday night’s top two game with Cliftonville Ladies holding a nine-point lead at the top of the table, but the Reds have two games in hand. So this should be a great spectacle from the two best teams in the league.
Our final two games are against third placed and in-form Crusaders, and fourth placed Linfield, so the players and coaches would appreciate a strong and noisy turnout for these games.
Sports Direct Women’s Premiership
The Ballymac Glentoran Supporters Club held its annual player of the year awards night on Saturday 23rd September in the Ballymac clubrooms..
Members and visitors were joined by guests Colin Jess (Glentoran Chairman) , Ian Clarke (Head of Media), Marcus Kane and Elliott Morris. MC for the evening was Alastair Craig of the Ballymac.
The night kicked off with a hot supper buffet followed by award presentations.
