Inevitably, due to the weather conditions, this Saturday’s (9th Jan) F.A. Trophy Second Round home tie against Guiseley has been called off. After instruction from the F.A. the following fixture arrangements have been put in place if consecutive cancellations occur; the rearranged dates for this tie are Tue 12th, Thurs 14th and Tues 19th Jan KO 7.45pm This potentially means that our away game to Northwich Victoria on the 19th…
Guiseley Match Off
The club can announce that Saturday’s FA Trophy match with Guiseley has fallen victim to the bad weather. As reported on the website earlier, the game will now be played, weather permitting, on Tuesday night at 7.45pm. Failing that it will be played on Thursday at 7.45pm. Further updates will be provided on this site, as and when we have them.
Exec Committee Meeting (4 January 2010)
MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE MEETING HELD ON MONDAY 4th OF JANUARY 2010 Present; K Scott, I Evans, R Harding, A Bowron, G Young & C Baxter. Guests; A Seghini & M Hunter. Apologies; A Platten, J Wilkinson & I Hertwick. 1. MINUTES OF LAST MEETING a) The minutes of the last meeting (14.12.09) were approved. 2. MATTERS ARISING a) IKE has received a letter of explanation from NCC regarding the…
IMPORTANT – GUISELEY MATCH, PROVISIONAL DATES.
Due to the prevailing weather conditions and in the event of our home F.A. Trophy 2nd Round tie with Guiseley on Saturday 9th Jan being called off, the following dates have been agreed should the match dates be postponed in succession: Tue 12th 7.45pm KO – Thurs 14th 7.45pm KO – Sat 16th 3pm, this would involve rescheduling our Saturday home league match against Vauxhall Motors. Regular updates will be…
SpartansFans POTM – Dec 2009
JACK NORTON & MICHAEL TAIT – DECEMBER 2009 The award for the SpartansFans Player of the Month for December jointly goes to Spartans keeper Jack Norton and midfielder Michael Tait. The current cold snap has meant that the Spartans only played two matches in December, but both players excelled in the games. Jack’s performance gaining a hard earned point at Stafford Rangers and Michael’s lung busting midfield dynamo display ensuring…
Revised Fixture Dates
With the agreement of the date for the semi final of the TyneTec Northumberland Senior Cup being made and the recent cold snap, the following fixtures have been arranged: – January 26 – Tue – Stalybridge Celtic (Home) February 09 – Tue – Harrogate Town (Home) March 02 – Tue – Workington (Away) 09 – Tue – Workington (Home) 16 – Tue – Farsley Celtic (Home) 30 – Tue –…
Post New Year News
‘Out with the old and in with the new’ is a popular aphorism as the New Year takes its first faltering steps. Blyth Spartans’ manager Mick Tait actually started that process during the start of the season, rather than the New Year, disposing of the majority of the FA Cup run squad of 2008/9. But he is currently concerned that the lack of games due to the inclement weather might…
WORKINGTON MATCH OFF
Although the pitch was in good condition yesterday, due to significant over night snow and more forecast, today’s match has been called off due to 3″ of snow on the pitch as well as the condition of the surrounding access roads.
Port of Blyth POTM – Dec 2009
JACK NORTON – DECEMBER 2009 A combination of opponent’s cup commitments and the current cold snap has restricted the Spartans to only two games within the month, the first was a draw at Stafford Rangers where Player of the Month Jack Norton produced several fine saves, including a stunning one handed tip around the post at the start of the second half, to ensure that the Spartans came away with…
FARSLEY – MATCH OFF
After a pitch inspection this morning, todays game against Farsely has been called of due to a frozen pitch.