tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333997142008-03-07T13:36:03.397ZtheducketBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33399714.post-64413723612149510782008-01-03T21:22:00.000Z2008-01-06T22:57:24.138Z

The news and fixtures on the right will continue to function but it is unlikely that there will be any new photographs for a bit. See you in the Third Division (regrettably).

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Brechin City 2 - 2 Berwick Rangers Michael Renwick's Berwick Rangers had to settle for a point away at Glebe Park today despite twice going ahead in an entertaining game that very few Berwick fans made the trip to see. I felt today there were signs of improvement as the boss changed things around. He welcomed back Robbie Horn (above) and introduced "emergency" signing Kevin Davison, the former

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It's been a real pleasure this week, as I've turned each page of Chris Sanderson's excellent "Mission Impossible" book, to have been reliving the highs of last season's Championship win. Paul Smith and friends at the Berwick Rangers Supporters' Trust have put together a high quality publication that is a must for any Berwick fan. The book starts way back at the end of the 2004/05 season when

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Dumbarton 2 - 0 Berwick Rangers "Garbage" was among the words being hurled from the stands on Saturday as Berwick fans watched on as their Dreamteam went down 2-0 at Dumbarton in the Scottish Cup. Two first half goals sealed the win for the third division side. It really was dire (not just the atrocious weather), especially in the first half where after David Greenhill's early effort we

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After their 3-0 win over Forfar tonight Dumbarton have set up a 3rd round Scottish Cup tie against Berwick. The game will take place in Dumbarton on 24 November.

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Christmas presents for all the family are sorted folks. A new publication is coming soon commemorating the club's second ever league championship trophy. Titled "Mission Impossible", the book celebrates Berwick Rangers' Championship success last season and hits the shelves on Monday 3rd December, just in time for the Christmas shoppers. The book covers two contrasting seasons at Shielfield Park,

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Welcome to Michael Renwick who has replaced John Coughlin as the manager of Berwick Rangers. The former Hibs player has taken up his first managerial post after a stint at Cowdenbeath as a coach. An unknown quantity clearly (although every manager has to start somewhere) & with a small squad and a number of players older than he is - it will interesting to see how he imposes his authority on the

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It's always nice to welcome a new Berwick Rangers related web site to the scene and this one is well worth keeping an eye on. The ducketblog webmaster, Paul Smith, is promising to say on his site what others are not able to say, if you get what I mean. Personally it's great, because I guess this is what I'd wanted to do when I relaunched theducket.com last year but have never been able to do it

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A sad day, as the man who orchestrated only the second league title in our history resign his job as manager. Rumours abound about exactly why - however for now let's just remember the football, players, results and trophy that he gave us. My thanks go to John and good luck for where ever you go next.

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Berwick Rangers 3 - 3 Brechin City Berwick went from being two goals up at half time, to 2-3 behind by 4.15. However an excellent strike from David Greenhill gave Berwick a deserved point. The result though still sends us to the bottom of the Irn Bru Division 2. Berwick lost Robbie Horn early on which, with Jordan Smith unavailable today, meant Gary Wood had to play at centre back for 75

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Partick Thistle 3-1 Berwick Rangers Berwick went out of this year's Challenge Cup after going down to two late goals at Firhill this evening. Berwick spent the majority of the first half defending and conceded the opening goal from a set piece. The Jags' Gary Harkins putting his free kick round the wall and into the net for the opener. The second half saw Berwick slowly but surely gain

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Albion Rovers 1-1 Berwick Rangers. Berwick win 4-3 on pens I thought Chris Flockhart had a terrific game in goal for Berwick tonight, making a string of top-class saves to keep Albion out. In contrast the Rovers keeper was dreadful and Berwick had some good chances because of that but couldn't put them away. He was subbed at half-time. Coughlin was clearly keen to give the rest of the squad an

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Following on from Tuesday night's extra-time success, Berwick have been handed a home draw against First Division Hamilton. The game will take place on Tuesday August 28th at Shielfield with a 7.45pm kick-off. Accies overcame the third division Shire 2-1 in their first round game.

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Action from the opening day 1-1 draw with Cowdenbeath. above: Third Division Champions Flag. The flag is very near to the main stand and seems protected by it - it was quite windy yesterday and this was about as near to unfurling as it got. above: Robbie Horn, Michael Bolochoweckyj and Gary Wood up in attack. above: Gary Greenhill celebrates scoring Berwick's goal above: Scott Gemmill gets on

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So, just hours to go until the start of the new campaign. There can't be anyone out there who is seriously expecting a campaign as successful as last year - this will be tough given the make up of the division but we do have the talent to stay up and that must be the aim. I expect two divisions within this league with Ross County, Airdrie and Raith Rovers surely the teams expected to be

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Berwick have a formidable line up in attack this season with three proven strikers and a new signing with a terrific reputation for scoring goals. Gary Wood originally joined Berwick in 2000 and spent three and half seasons at the club scoring nearly 50 goals before a big money move to Queen of South. He wasn't nearly as prolific at Palmerston playing division one football but they tended to use

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You might like to take a look at these pics from the Blyth Spartans' game.

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On paper Berwick have eleven, yes, a whole team of midfielders vying for just 3, 4 or 5 places each week. Last season Berwick fielded a reasonably settled midfield. They were without Danny Swanson and Ian Little for most of the season too. They're back now and some new boys have been recruited so let's just say competition for places looks like it could be tough! Stuart Fraser, Gary Greenhill,

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So, where were we? Oh yes, Gary Wood. Highly regarded at this level as both a striker and centre back so I asked Grant, if he was in charge, where would he play Gary? “Play him anywhere as long as it's not centre half as he's a moany Bas£**d!! No, definitely striker!” It was rumoured this time last year that you'd be off, along with a good number of colleagues – any truth in that? “To answer

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I ended Part 1 by saying I'd asked Grant how things changed under first Sandy Clark and then John Coughlin. He told me, “Things changed quite a bit under both Sandy and John - Sandy came to Berwick with a lot of experience, he was a highly respected name in football and this was evident from the first training session he took, he varied things from day one and had many ideas both on and off the

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Recently, through the photographs I take for theducket.com, I was lucky enough to be contacted by Grant McNicoll. I took the opportunity to see if he'd answer some questions and look back over his time at Berwick and this is the result. I started off by asking Grant how it had come about that he came to Berwick in the first place and who were the people that helped him develop as a player when

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So, on with the squad review and let's look at our Defenders. Berwick go into this season of course without a certain G. McNicoll (left) in the squad. Released after 10 years service it's going to be odd when the team list for the Cowdenbeath game is read out at Shielfield and Grant's not on it. I'm a big Grant fan and it won't be the same at Berwick without him but you have to respect Cough for

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There are plenty starting positions in the XI where it's not yet clear who John Coughlin will favour from the squad but I don't think Goalkeeper is one of them. Gary O'Connor is in his third spell at the club having originally joined on loan from Hearts in 1993. Now 33, he's played over 250 games for the club and is surely one of the best keepers the club has ever had. Reasonably reliable, and

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So, with the fixtures out, the players back in training, new strips available, friendly matches only days away and the unfurling of the Division Three flag at Shielfield only a month away I thought I'd start a review of the squad in the lead up to the first game.

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Berwick have been handed a very tasty opening fixture but a tough August follows. Shielfield Park will host arch-rivals Cowdenbeath (is that being too soft?) on August 4th. The rest of August sees us visiting Raith (11th), hosting Airdrie (18th) and away to Ayr (25th).Full fixtures here on the new official club site.

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