All the Official News from Mourneview Park
Today’s Carling Premiership game at Ballymena Showgrounds has been called off following a pitch inspection. The Warden Street pitch is frozen and it is snowing heavily in Ballymena.
Glenavon’s Carling Premiership game away to Crusaders on Saturday 27th February has been switched to Monday 1st March and will be screened live that evening on SKY Sports.
Further details will be released in due course.
It’s off to the Ballymena Showgrounds for Marty Quinn’s Glenavon side tomorrow for what he sees as a vital game for both sides, “We desperately need a win to get our season back on track again and it would help to keep Ballymena off our tails. The lads have been very positive in training and the morale is good despite our poor run but we have to carry the skills, passing and good touch I see in training onto the match pitch. It’s a confidence thing really and if we could get our noses in front the players should start to relax and play as I know they can.”
Marty Quinn should have a full squad to choose from but Roy Walker has Chris Ramsey and Noel Anderson suspended after they were sent off in the midweek derby defeat to Coleraine.
The Chief Executive of the Irish Football Association will be the special guest at Mourneview Park for next Tuesday night’s rescheduled Carling Premiership game against Newry City (kick-off 7.45pm).
Patrick Nelson will officially switch on Glenavon’s new £100,000 floodlighting system, work on which will be completed this weekend. David McVeigh, the IFA’s Facilities Manager, will also be in attendance.
The floodlighting system has been provided under the FIFA Goal Programme, funded by the Irish Football Association.
The switch on will take place immediately prior to both teams taking the field at 7.40pm.
Taking part in the Unite Against Hate campaign are, from left, Cliftonville's Peter Hutton and Mark Patterson, Glenavon director Eddie Drury and players Jay Magee and Mark Haughey pictured before Saturday's match at Mourneview Park. Photo by Presseye.com.
Glenavon FC and Cliftonville FC support the ‘Unite Against Hate’ campaign which is endorsed by the IFA.
To read more about it check out the Campaign’s website.
