Following the miserable home display against Albion Rovers the Beanos hit the road as they headed North to face Arbroath at Gayfield Park. The Smokies have been in great form at home but some indifferent displays on their travels means the jury is still out on the promotion prospects of Paul Sheerin’s men. However, at Gayfield there is currently no doubting their credentials as nine goals in two home matches would testify to. When Stirling lifted the Second Division title back in 2009/10 they recorded two wins at Gayfield having generally struggled in the past on Arbroath’s home soil. The wide open expanses of Gayfield tend to lead to free flowing games and today was probably expected to be more of the same. Team lines for Jocky Scott’s side showed three changes in total from the Rovers match. Skipper Brian Allison was missing, presumably injured or ill, while Shaun Fagan [... more]

Top of the table, two wins from two and fresh from the five goal romp at the Rock, confidence must have been high amongst the Albion squad before today’s match. Written off by most it looks as if Jocky Scott’s young team is taking pleasure so far in proving people wrong. However, lest we not forget that in amongst the league wins have been some less than impressive outings in cup competitions. The point being that nobody is still really sure what to expect from this group of players. Paul Martin’s Albion Rovers side were promoted following a play-off final win against Annan Athletic and will be nobody’s pushovers this season. Like Stirling, the Rovers don’t have much money to spend and as such are lumped in with the Beanos as relegation favourites. However, with a win over Forfar last time out the Coatbridge side would have come to Stirling [... more]

Following last weekend’s excellent win over the much fancied East Fife the Beanos second league clash of the season took them down to Dumbarton. The midweek irrelevance at Livingston would have been quickly forgotten by Jocky Scott’s men as they returned to the much more important job of collecting league points. Dumbarton started the competitive season with a narrow win over East Stirling in the Ramsdens since when it’s been three successive defeats. In their league opener the Sons went down by three goals to nil on the plastic paradise that is Airdrie’s Excelsior pitch. Stirling too lost heavily in North Lanarkshire so nothing really for either manager to draw from those matches. With an all new squad to watch the Albion fans are still not sure what to expect from their favourites. However, if they continue to show the effort, endeavour and no little skill as was on display [... more]

The match which is often referred to in the media as Stirling v Albion is up next for Jocky Scott’s men. Despite some ropey results in cup competitions the Beanos have made a flying start to Division Two action. An opening day win over heavily fancied East Fife was of course followed by a 5-1 tanking of Dumbarton down at the Rock. Early days of course but the signs are encouraging that the Beanos may not quite be the pushovers the rest of the division was expecting. Paul Martin’s Rovers outfit suffered a nightmare start to their league campaign up at Gayfield as they had two keepers sent off and lost six goals. In their second league encounter the Wee Rovers recorded a narrow win over Forfar thanks to a last gasp goal from former Stennie man Robert Love. The teams of course met in cup action a couple of [... more]