The club have been drawn at home to Ardossan Winton Rovers in the first round of the Scottish Junior Cup. The full 1st round draw is below –

 

SCOTTISH JUNIOR CUP Round 1
Forth Wanderets v Dufftown
Annbank Utd v Fc Stoneywood
Ellon Utd v Carluke Rovers
Scone Th v Newtongrange Star
Thornton Hibs v Ashfield
Bonnyrigg Rose v Inverness City
Oakley Utd v Jeanfield Swifts
Sunnybank v Glenrothes
Glentanar v Kelty Hearts
Renfrew v Ballingry Rovers
Wishaw Juniors v Sauchie Juniors
Dundee North End v Kello Rov
Aberdeen Uni v Kirkcaldy YM
St Rochs v Lochgelly Albert
Tranent v Edinburgh Utd
East Kilbride v Johnstone Burgh
Kilsyth Rangers v Blairgowrie
Falkirk Juniors v Islavale
Kilwinning Rangers v New Elgin
Cruden Bay v Tayport
Whitehills v Lochee Harp
Downfield v Vale of Leven
Harthill Royal v Darvel Juniors
Dundee East Craigie v Hill pf Beath
Arthurlie v Hall Russell Utd
Shettleston v Ardeer Th
St Anthonys v Ardrossan Winton Rovers
Colony Park v Clydebank
Cambuslang Rangers v Irvine Meadow
Lanark Utd v Penicuik Ath
Lochee Utd v Muirkirk Juniors
Parkvale v Rosyth Fc
Hermes v Petershill

Ants player of the year last season Jason McKay has left the club to join fellow Central League Division One club Bellshill. Jay had a great first season at the club but felt that he wanted to move on and the club reluctantly agreed to this request. Thanks for all your efforts in the last year wee man and good luck (except against us obviously) at your new club.

As the old saying goes ‘Once an Ants man always an Ants Man’

Saturday’s away match v Lesmahagow has been switched to McKenna Park. Kick Off is still 2pm

Below is a twitter feed of all the West Region Clubs which should give you live updates of the matches played within the region today. As it is a live twitter feed match reports and highlights from other games may be posted after the game / during the week so feel free to check back

Tweets from https://twitter.com/SaintAnthonysFC/lists/west-region-clubs

The Ants open their season with a EuroScot Engineering Sectional League Cup match against a Neilston side who will be looking to bounce back from a 1-0 defeat v a 10 man Pollok side at Newlandsfield on Saturday. The Ants look set to give competitive debuts to a number of players who were snapped up in the close season. Jonny Duncan looks set to deputise in goal after he signed from Glencairn, whilst Finlay Thomson, Bernie McDonald, Jamie Docherty and Stephen Woods are all looking to make their competitive bows and available for selection for Ants boss James McKenna.

Ants – Neilston games are usually entertaining encounters and hopefully this game is cut from the same cloth, Last season Neilston were unbeaten against the Ants winning 4-3 at Brig O’Lea in a thriller in the Sectional League Cup, before a 3-0 win in the league and a 1-0 victory at McKenna Park and the Ants players will be looking to avenge those defeats and get their season off to the best possible start

Kick Off is at 6:45pm with a £4 entry for Adults and a £2 fee for OAP/Concessions

A 24 page match programme will also be available for £1

Come along and watch the Ants kick their season off and get behind the players

#ITSANANTSTHING!!

Ants Season tickets are now available for purchase. An Adult Season Ticket is only £25 and a Concession/OAP/Child Season Ticket is great value at only £15. All season tickets are valid for LEAGUE MATCHES ONLY . So don’t delay email us at seasontickets@theants.co.uk, Contact a committee member or ask the gateman at the next Ants home game you are at

Tuesday nights friendly match v Albion Rovers has been postponed to give the Rovers players further time to recover from the excellent win over Airdrie on Penalties after extra time on Saturday.

Good luck to all at Albion Rovers for the rest of the season from all at the club

Hi guys,

Welcome to the new look Ants website. Content from previous seasons will continue to be added throughout the course of the season as well as all the latest news, views, video’s and photographs from The Ants.

Let us know what you think of the site by leaving a comment below or through our social media pages/feeds

Thanks

 

Martin

 

 

Hello everyone,

Well, thats the World Cup done for another four years and what a great tournament it was. Plenty of fantastic football, great goals and lots of controversy culminated in Germany lifting the small trophy to become World Champions. Most of you will agree that the Germans probably deserved to win it considering some of their performances on the way to the Final.

I hope that you have all enjoyed being part of the St. Anthony’s Sweep and after a slow start I hope you have been kept up to date regularly with what has been happening. It has been hard work scoring all the games but it has been really enjoyable seeing peoples scores fluctuate game by game and also to see some people come from nowhere to mount a late challenge.

Now it is the moment we have been waiting for.

For the first time since we started doing the World Cup/Euro sweeps we have two players on the same score. BRIAN SMITH & IAN MCMENEMY have finished on a fantastic score of 560 points. As was mentioned in the last update, if this was the case the outcome would be settled by the person who had predicted the most correct scores in the Group Stages.

All sheets have been verified and I can confirm that Brian got 3 scores correct in the Groups and Ian managed to correctly predict 5.

This means that IAN MCMENEMY has won our first prize of £250 and BRIAN SMITH has won the second prize of £125. I am sure you will all join me in congratulating them both on their wins.

The final leaderboard is at the bottom of the post as is the list of all names and the numbers for you all who can win their £5 entry fee back. Numbers will be drawn at random tomorrow and results will be posted as soon as all numbers have been drawn.

May I take this opportunity to thank you all very much for taking part in our Sweep. Your support is greatly appreciated by everyone at St. Anthony’s and we hope that this sweep has added to your enjoyment of Brazil 2014. Please keep your eyes peeled for an email explaining a sweep we are looking to do for next season. This will be a season long sweep as long as we get a certain amount of participants and we are looking at giving out lots of prizes over the season. More details will follow.

Thank you all once again

Regards,

ANTHONY McKENNA
St Anthony’s FC | Treasurer

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