Club Update

Following the postponement of our scheduled SPFL fixture at Broadwood on Saturday, the ‘Loons’ squad had a full training session in superb overhead conditions at Station Park on Saturday afternoon.

The players certainly seemed to be in high spirits despite the setback of not getting the opportunity to build on the previous week’s first victory of the campaign at Peterhead.

To compound matters results elsewhere saw the Athies slip back into the bottom spot in the table as it stands.

On the plus side, the management team have however been able to fix up a friendly with a Dundee X1 at Station Park on Tuesday evening to assist with continuity of match fitness ahead of the visit of Partick Thistle to Forfar this coming Saturday.

It is hoped that Steven Anderson who has been sidelined since the friendly in late September at Gayfield might get a run out for part of the game against the Dens Park outfit.

Sadly there seems no movement whatsoever at present on the potential for the return of a limited number of supporters to SPFL fixtures in general, but rest assured we will keep the Station Park faithful abreast of any developments on this front.

As regards the Clyde fixture, Forfar Athletic officials will simply await further instruction from the SPFL on the matter.

The decisions by the tribunal last midweek to award 3-0 defeats to St, Mirren and Kilmarnock following investigations into those clubs been unable to fulfil fixtures earlier in the season due to reasons related to Covid, appear on the surface to be harsh.

Similar decisions as the season progresses could also by the end of the day in this truncated campaign make a mockery of league positions.

The continued directives, especially at times from government sources about how football players should somehow be living in a ‘bubble’ environment, are, to say the least difficult to implement and control for clubs at full-time level in Scotland and at part-time level impossible due to other work and study commitments, this before taking travel and accommodation arrangements into account.

As hopefully, a light is beginning to shine at the end of this pandemic tunnel which none of us could ever have imagined happening or planned for in our lifetime, clubs at our level including Forfar Athletic would appear to be giving it their ‘best shot’ in the circumstances and need and in the main have been getting finance apart perhaps, all the support that can be made available to them.