£175 for a pitch and half the far sides floodlights not working nearly leading to the game being abandoned last night. maintenance clearly isn’t carried out and the pitches are impossible to access at the best of times due to demand.
Money making exercise killing football.
The leader of Inverclyde Council has defended the cost of football pitch hire following criticism of the prices in the area.
Cllr Stephen McCabe said the cash-strapped local authority is doing everything possible to keep fees down.
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Full Time Result
Athletic 3 - 1
@maryhillthistle
Superb from the boys this morning battled for every ball and played some great football along with it. Solid to a man and a semi final to look forward to in a couple of weeks now.
#Athletic
Cup Final Day 😆
Around 16 months after it was originally due to be played we will be taking on
@SemsaFC
in the Presidents Cup Final tonight at New Tinto Park with an 8pm KO.
FT:
@portglasceltic
1 - 7
#Athletic
Port Glasgow is 🔴.
The boys were superb tonight weathered storms at the the start of both half’s and went on to be ruthless and the final score is a fair reflection on the game. ATB to Port Celtic for the rest of the season.
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
Great turnout last night for the first session of pre season, a lot of hard work from all the boys which will all be worth it once the season starts, Well Done Lads same again Thursday!
#Athletic
Port Athletic 5 - 0 Inverclyde Nazarene
Our final preseason game today as we came out comfortable winners in the end. A lot of good play from the boys and effort was second to none and we even got to debut our new home strips so a good day all round.
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
Greenock 0 - 2 Athletic
Great win today in the local derby. Solid in defence and clinical when the chances arose after good pressing from the boys up top. Much better week for us after toiling in the opening fixtures.
Goals From;
@LeeFinlay9
@KieranWrightttt
MOTM - Gav
🇵🇱
Friendly Result:
@NicosBarGlasgow
2 - 2 Athletic
A hard test for the boys this morning and a cracking game by all accounts.
All the best to Nicos for the season ahead and enjoy the day out boys 😎
Goals:
@RossRodgers9
⚽️
@Shug_1998
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🏆 Bespoke Finance Trophy SF
⚽
@WoSAFC
📅 Saturday 11th May
⏰ 10am
📍 Parklea Grass
Semi Final for us at parklea tomorrow get yourself along and back the boys
#Athletic
🔴⚪⚫
At tomorrow nights game both ourselves and
@portglasceltic
will be holding a bucket collection with all proceeds going to a great cause. If anybody would like to help with the bucket collection please get in touch with ourselves or Port Celtic 👍🏼
RT!
A big thank you to everyone who came down to the game last night and donated to the bucket collection to raise a fantastic £350 for Rosie
@portglasceltic
Port Athletic 3 - 2
@RoyalleMadrid
A great game tonight down parklea as both sides went at it from the off providing a great cup game for everybody who made the trip down. The result could have been more flattering if we had took our chances but that’s football.
For those coming to the race night tonight it is a 7pm start but advisable your here as early as possible to get a seat as we anticipate a very busy night 🇵🇱
🏆 Bespoke Finance Trophy Final
⚽ Bridgeton Vale
📅 Monday 20th May
⏰ 7:15pm
📍 Jimmy McGrory Park (G21 2DT)
Those coming to watch the bus is leaving the com at 6pm and there’s only a couple of spaces left on this so a big thanks to everyone making the journey 🇵🇱
Another good run out for the boys as we come out 3-2 winners vs
@OBUPort
. 3 great team goals and lot of hard work defensively can’t ask for much more, preseason for us is now on pause as half the boys head off to Ibiza and Tenerife. Enjoy Lads!
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
Big thanks to everyone who came along to the race night last night and helped us have our best ever fundraiser to date which will see the club able to fund a lot of new things going forward. Was a brilliant night and I hope everybody enjoyed themselves as much as we did 😎
We would like to invite you to join us at our first Presentation Night on Saturday 29th June in the Hibs as we celebrate a successful first season together
Tickets are priced at £5 and can be purchased by contacting us on here or through any player!
See you there 🇵🇱
It going forward we would also like to say a big thank you to everyone who came up to watch the game tonight the vast majority of the 211 crowd came from the port which we can’t appreciate enough we’re just a bit gutted we didn’t get the win.
Thanks again 👍🏼
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
Also done out presentation after the game today.
@MelvilleBilly
scooping players player and joint player of the year with
@LeeFinlay9
who also won goal of the season.
@KieranWrightttt
was also top goalscorer last year.
Athletic 3 - 1 St Francis
Bradley Anderson ⚽️
@PaulPettigrew8
⚽️⚽️
All the boys were a joy to watch tonight fully committed all wanting the ball and moving it excellently when I possession.
On to the next one 🇵🇱
We are delighted to announce that we will be holding our annual race night on Friday 29th October in Donnachie’s Bar with tickets priced at £5. Much like our last night in 2019 which was a massive success and great night it will be fancy dress 🎃.
Another away trip for the boys in the second round of the Scottish Cup, we will announce the details of the game and a bus up to Falkirk in due course.
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
Cracking team day out after a 3-2 win vs
@MilngavieW
a good game we felt we should have out of site long before the death, boys definitely feeling the affects of Thursdays session but more mins in the legs.
We will be hosting our annual Halloween Race Night this year again on Saturday 29th in Donnachies Bar. Big thanks to Karen and all the staff in the pub for their continued support. Tickets are £5 and can be purchased by dm’ing the club on twitter or through any players.
FT: Athletic 4 - 0
@HuntershillAFC
Great result for the boys after coming back from the Christmas break, a lot of good football on show as we got the ball moving quickly and used the space well, all in a pleasing day for us.
⚽️
Stephen Gemmel
@markkkalexander
x2
@RossRodgers9
Full Time
Rothesay Brandane 0 - 5 Athletic
Great performance from the boys to see us into the next round of the west. Very cagey first half from ourselves but a very strong second half secured a comfortable win.
#Athletic
Pre Season training starts tonight for the boys with a 19:15 start at the Public Park with everyone at the club buzzing to get our first season together underway
We would also like to say a big thanks to Gemma, Janice and Karen at Donnachies Bar for letting us jump about the place from 12-12 every Saturday and keeping us fed after our games.
And a big thanks to everyone who’s played or came and lent us support in our first season.
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Before our first competitive game Wednesday we would like to take this opportunity to thank our Sponsor, Inverweld Fabrication Port Glasgow for sponsoring our kit in our debt season. A real credit to the community, and
@ScottMcCorry
For our badge design.
#Athletic
Good to be back at it today with some serious graft up the public park also a good turnout with a large part of the squad still on holiday (but they’ll pay for that soon enough)
Athletic 0 - 0
@PGBCams
Athletic 9-8 on pens
Excellent off the boys today solid in defence and on another day a couple of chances probably go but unfortunately wasn’t to be and we finished normal time goalless.
Athletic 4 - 2
@CastleRockFC22
Raced in to an early 2 goal lead before being pegged back at the start of the 2nd half. Boys showed great composure to get back on top before a great strike from Bally and tap in from Ross sealed the points.
Atheltic 5 - 3
@StanleyAthletic
Made to work for it today due to sloppy mistakes but eventually ground out the result.
All the best to Stanley for the season.
Goals:
@aidansharp9
⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️ + MOTM
@PaulPettigrew8
⚽️
First game back at it tonight vs
@AmateurRhu
a cracking game to get back into it with both teams playing some really good stuff. On to Saturday for us now as the games hopefully start coming thick and fast. All the best to Rhu FTS.
FT
Rhu 3 - 1 Athletic
⚽️Mark Ross
🇵🇱
⚽️
@RossRodgers9
3
⚽️
@KivFinlay15
2
⚽️
@LCambo5
⚽️Stiv Gemmell
Special mention to the rest of the team a bunch of warriors ran themselves daft and the defence and keeper superb 🇵🇱
FT
Athletic 4 - 1 BSA
Started brilliantly today on the front foot and got our rewards with a goal early in the half the game started to become more scrappy but we won the battle and in the second half found ourselves 4 uo before a late consolation for Blantyre.
🇵🇱
Athletic 5 - 2 Bonnyton Thistle AFC
A first half blitz from the boys as we progress into the second round of the West Region Cup. A lot of good football on display at times with Bonnyton posing some real problems of their own. ATB to Bonnyton for the season.
#Athletic
Full Time.
Rutherglen Glencairn 1 - 4 Athletic
An early start this morning in horrible conditions up in Newton. After having the best of the first half and the chances we found ourselves 1-0 down due to a free kick we failed to deal with in the swirling wind. 1/3
Result Today
@WoSAFC
3 - 6 Athletic
Good to close out the season with a win and to see 6 different scorers with a few missing and boys being asked to play in positions that’s not their own. Also great to put Monday’s disappointment behind us.
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
Campsie 1 - 3 PGA
Through to the next round of the cup with a tremendous performance. Scoring straight from kick off dealing with a fight back and then going on and seeing out the tie making the game safe with 5 to go.
🇵🇱
🏆 -
@OfficialSSMFL
Div 1
⚽
@OvertounParkFC
📅 Saturday 18th August
⏰ 10:00am
📍 Toryglen
The boys look to get the league campaign off to a good start against Overtoun Park tomorrow.
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
Eventually the deadlock was broken when
@LyallMcc
sent a freekick in to the top corner and secured all 3 points for Athletic.
On to the next one ⚔️
🇾🇪🐺
Athletic 5 v 2
@OvertounParkFC
Tough game to today against a well organised overtoun, found ourselves 2-1 down at half time and a week with no training really did show but we managed to score quickly in the second half and run our comfortable.
ATB to overtoun for the season👍🏼
🏆 Championship A
⚽
@SemsaFC
📅 Wednesday 28th August
⏰ 6.45pm
📍 Parklea Grass
First league game of the season tonight for the boys due to the weather and cups.
#Athletic
🔴⚪⚫
@Scottish_AFF
🏆
@ScotAmFA
Cup Rnd 2
⚽
@WestquarterV
📅 Saturday 6th October
⏰ 2pm K.O
🚌 1110am @ Corrie Park
🚌 1120am @ Com
💰 Bus £8
📍 Lauriston Park
Still some seats available DM to book🇵🇱
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
Paisley Utd 3 - 4 Athletic
Into the semis after an eventful morning down in Beith. 3-1 down with 20 to go staring down the barrel but dug deep and clawed our way back into it before Rosco scored the winning goal with 5 to go!
Superb from all the boys!
🇵🇱
🚨 For tonight’s Race Night we ask that everyone arrives at Donnachie’s around 7.30pm with the first race getting underway at 8pm.
Many thanks for your fantastic support in buying tickets, horses and sponsoring races thus far and we hope you have a great night.
🇵🇱
Athletic 4 - 2
@ghsfp
SSMAFL
Right at it today from the first whistle today and done ourselves a bit of justice after two poor performances in the league matches against our opponents. ATB to the high school for the rest of the season.
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
FT
Athletic 5 - 2 Rutherglen
2-0 up at half time from a superb strike from Ross and a strike from Jamesy. Visitors made it interesting early in the second half before we ran away with it with some great play before Billy had to dig us out a hole and save a pen.
Full Time:
Athletic 3 - 1 Stratton
A lot like last week got ourselves ahead from an early goal and great finish by Jamesy. As the half went on we feel out of it and found ourselves under a bit of pressure which resulted in an equaliser but after regrouping at HT we … (1/2)
🏆
@ScotAmFA
West Region
⚽
@GNorthAFC
📅 Saturday 15th September
⏰ 14:00
📍 Parklea
After a week of heavy rain parklea grass has held up well and up to now is still on. Looking forward to this one tomorrow.
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
@PortAthletic
0 - 0
@RoyalleMadrid
Sickener for the boys tonight after dominating the game when it feels like a defeat it tells the story. To a man superb tonight and we’ll learn from this moving forward.
MOTM -
@KivFinlay15
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
Another great turn out and effort at parklea tonight by the boys another couple of sessions before we start to get some friendlies as well in the lead up to the Competitive fixtures in early August. Well done lads!
#Athletic
Full Time:
Port Athletic 3 - 0
@AfcDti
Scrappy game on what turned out to be a mud bath with the weather but we tried to play as much as possible and reaped the rewards today a well deserved win.
⚽️
@LCambo5
@aidansharp9
@Thejosh_oneill
#Athletic
🔴⚪️⚫️
The Club are dissapointed to announce that Season 19/20 has tonight been made null and void.
The season started with us taking real momentum from last season and going on a great run but a few defeats in the cups seen us dip in to a poor run of form. 1/2
Full Time
@SemsaFC
1 - 5 Athletic
An already depleted squad was rocked by a couple of drink related no shows this morning 👀 none the less the 12 strong athletic went and got the job done. 4-0 up at HT and came off it a bit 2nd half as you would expect.
@SemsaFC
v
@PortAthletic
ref: Barry Feery
5th v 10th 8 points separate these 2 as the port travel to Toryglen in good form winning their last 3 league games after a dip. Semsa always hard to beat at home will look to bounce back from their last league defeat to Maryhill.
Athletic 3 - 1
@AfcAshfield
A superb first half from the boys a great team goal for the first then some individual brilliance from
@KivFinlay15
and
@RossRodgers9
. A second half penalty got our opponents tails up but we should have been further out of sight by full time.
@TroonDunAFC
0 - 2 Athletic
Started really strongly today and had one off the post and a couple other great chances in the opening 3 before Troon had a period of pressure to HT.
During the break we regrouped and looked like the team we were at the start of the game.
Port Glasgow Athletic are having a club fundraiser in the Hibs on the 24th of August if anyone is wanting to come along get in touch with a player for tickets, buying a horse or sponsorship for your work/business.
Tickets & Horses cost £5
#Athletic
3-0 win for the men a lot of great football and goals. Good work out in the heat and you can tell the fitness is definitely definitely coming. Brilliant to get a wear out the new kit 🔥 big thanks to CNLE for sponsoring us this season!
The St Francis Invitational ‘Team Talk’ Cup starts this Saturday with:
@BelvidereFc
vs St Francis
@PortAthletic
cs
@BishoptonFC
Huge thanks to
@greenocktele
who got in touch to offer us and, more importantly, the project some exposure too.