WESTA Wenches over-run Prague
Jen Blackwood, June 2008
Westa were out
in force in Prague at the end of May. Roll on Macedonia and
Iceland... |
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Burns Night Supper
a roaring success!
Jen Blackwood, February
2008
WESTA's annual
Burns Supper took place at Oran Mor on 2 February and was,
once again, an outstanding success... made even more special
by the presence of our new manager, George Burley and his
wife. Thanks to the SFA for making that happen and thanks
to everyone who came along. Hope the sore heads have gone
now... |
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Happy New Year and
Best Wishes for 2008!
Jen Blackwood, January
2008
And as a wee treat, we've uploaded FOUR
new photo galleries, covering Italy,
Austria
and the club's superb victory in the ATAC Sevens (Gallery
1 & 2)
- all of these open in new windows.
EXTRA: Thanks to the
Netley Abbey Tartan Army, we can now bring you WESTA
Wallpapers in a range of colours and screen sizes; some
even come complete with a two-year calendar to save to your
desktop - comes in handy for planning trips! Finally, remember
to keep an eye on the forum
for all the most up-to-date Club news, including the latest
on the Burns Supper. |
Happy Hogmanay to all
WESTA members!
Jen Blackwood, December
2007
Hopefully everyone enjoyed last night's
WESTA festive drinks at the Sports Cafe (sorry for not getting
on the front page beforehand!). In other news, I sense a bit
of a theme appearing amongst the WESTA lightweights (below).
To be fair, this photo was taken as we waiting on our flight
home from the Faroe Islands and it had been a very long day! |
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2008 WESTA Membership form
online
Jen Blackwood, December
2007
Next year's Membership Form (which is
just like last year's, but with an 8 instead of a 7...) is
now available to download from the Contact
Page as a Word
or PDF document.
We hope to have some archive photos online in the next few
weeks, but in the meantime, here's a link to Jen's own photo
collections from some recent games. |
It's all been a little
too much excitement for some...
Jen Blackwood, September
2007
Following the historic win in Paris,
not all WESTA members could hack the pace and had to be helped
on to the Metro following the celebrations. Ahh, bless..... |
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WESTA win the ATAC Sevens
Tournament
Jen Blackwood, July 2007
Congratulations to the WESTA football
team who overcame strong opposition this weekend to win the
annual ATAC 7's tournament in Inverness. Photos to follow
soon.....
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Lift off for Air Westa...
Jen
Blackwood, June 2007
WESTA chartered
a plane to the Faroes for the game on 6 June. A City Airlines
32 seater Dornier plane departed Glasgow airport at 6.00 am
and returned to Glasgow at 01.25 am the following morning!
A great time was had by all. No tales here - what goes on
tour, stays on tour! (apart
from the photos, that is...) |
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Thanks to Ray & Andy
Jen Blackwood, May 2007
WESTA would
like to thank Assistant National Coaches, Roy Aitken and Andy
Watson, for taking time out in their busy preparations for
the games in Vienna and the Faroes to attend WESTA's May meeting.
Both, very honestly, answered questions about their roles
and the scenes behind managing the national squad.
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David Taylor meets WESTA
Jen Blackwood, Mar 2007
WESTA were delighted to host a visit
by David Taylor, Chief Executive of the SFA at our March meeting.
Mr Taylor very kindly answered questions from members about
his role at the SFA and his aspirations for his new role with
UEFA.
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WESTA Day Trip to Faroe
Islands - NOW FULL!
Jen Blackwood, Feb 2007
The WESTA day trip charter to the Faroes
is now full. Members need to pay the outstanding balance by
the end of April. More information will be supplied by email
to members who have reserved a seat on the plane.
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2007 Membership Form now
online
Jen Blackwood, Jan 2007
Both Word
and PDF versions
of the form are now available from the Contact
page - remember to sign up quickly and enjoy the benefits
of membership for another year!
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Annual "Black Tie"
Burns Supper - Sat 3rd Feb 2007
Jen Blackwood, Jan 2007
WESTA's annual black tie Burns Supper
will take place on Saturday 3rd February at Oran Mor.
Tickets cost £20 for members and
£25 for non-members and include a three course dinner.
For more information or to request a ticket, please email
Jen Blackwood.
Please note that there are only a few ticket left so please
email your request asap.
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Ukraine Photos added &
WESTA POTY Dinner
Mark Adams, October 2006
STOP
PRESS:
An extra 20 photos, courtesy of Al, Clark
and Jen, are now on the Ukraine
2 Gallery
23 assorted
photos of the Ukraine away game have been added to the
Photo Gallery, and the results page
has also been updated.
WESTA's Player of the Year
party will take place on Sunday 26 November
at the Holiday Inn West in Glasgow. There will be a three
course dinner and disco plus special entertainment from 7
pm to 1 am. Tickets cost £20 for WESTA members and £25
for non-members. Please contact Jen by e-mail
for further details or to book a ticket.
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Lithuania Photos added
Mark Adams, September 2006
10 photos
of the successful trip to Lithuania have now been added, and
the Results page has been updated
(and now includes the dates for the remaining qualifiers).
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Links Page Updated
Mark Adams, August 2006
The links page
has now been updated, including a link to the new Tartan
Army .com site.
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Japan Pics added - Kirin
Cup Champions!
Mark Adams, June 2006
Thanks to WESTA member Al Firth for
sending us some of his photos
from the victorious trip to Japan. We've also updated the
results page.
Apparently it was so Japan-easy...
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WESTA Golf Outing - 17th
September 2006
Mark Adams, September 2006
WESTA GOLF OUTING - 17TH SEPTEMBER 2006
KILLIN GOLF COURSE
MEET AT GROSVENOR HOTEL, BYRES ROAD 10.30
GREEN FEES £18
MEAL £8
TRANSPORT TO BE CONFIRMED.
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Aviemore Photos
Mark Adams, June 2006
Thanks to Jen Blackwood for her photos
from the Aviemore Gathering of the Clans.
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Japan Pics added - Kirin
Cup Champions!
Mark Adams, June 2006
Thanks to WESTA member Al Firth for
sending us some of his photos
from the victorious trip to Japan. We've also updated the
results page.
Apparently it was so Japan-easy...
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| WESTA World Cup Scorecast
Game
Jen Blackwood, May 2006
Play the WESTA World Cup Scorecast game
- £1 to enter, three prizes of £100, £50
and £25.
For more details and a chance to enter,
download the ENTRY
FORM now (requires Adobe
Acrobat reader)
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| WESTA v EASTA Pictures
added
Mark Adams, April 2006
Pictures
of our Tartan Army Cup 11-a-side game against the East of
Scotland Tartan Army are now online. It was a close game...
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| 2006 Membership Form now
added - Thursday 26th January
Please see the Contact
page to download our new membership form.
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| WESTA Hampden Visit |
Lesley Inglis - April 2006 |
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details of our Hampden visit are as follows:
We have booked a private tour
and museum visit for 2.30pm on Sunday 30th April. Admission
is £5.50 for the museum, £3 for the tour,
for adults, £2.75 and £1.75 respectively
for children. If you bring the voucher in your Scotland
Supporters Club pack (valid for 4 people) you will get
in to the museum for half price - don't forget it!
I will be taking the train from
Central at 2.10pm (Newton train) to Mount Florida (arrives
2.19pm) - I suggest that those who wish to go by train
meet under the clock at 2pm. Otherwise we can meet at
Hampden. The museum closes at 5pm.
You all have given your names
to Jen and she has booked a place and paid a deposit
for you accordingly. If you do not now intend to go,
or if there is a change to the numbers in your party,
please let Jen know by e-mail
to avoid unneccessry cost.
If you have not visited the museum
before I certainly recommend it. There is lots to see
and it is well laid out.
See you then!
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| Results Page and Forum updated |
Mark Adams - March 2006 |
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| Following
the Switzerland defeat, we've updated the Results
Page you can now cast your eye over all our results
from 2000 until the present day.
We've also sorted out the WESTA
Forum - a change Proboards put through last autumn
left all new users subject to approval (which we discovered
the other night!). Normal service should now have resumed,
and the colours have been tweaked to suit the rest of
the website. Enjoy... |
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| New venue for WESTA Meetings: Sports
Cafe |
Jim Brown - Feb 2005 |
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next WESTA meeting will take place on Sunday
26 February at 7.30 pm. We'll be holding this
meeting in the Team Room on the 1st floor of the Sports
Cafe in Sauchiehall Street. There will be one
free drink on arrival, courtesy of the Sports Cafe.
All welcome.
If you've not yet registered as
a WESTA member this year, the 2006 membership application
form is available HERE.
You can bring this with you on 26 February with your
£12 membership fee or send in advance to membership
secretary, Glenn Hays, at the address shown on the form.
Sports
Cafe website
Map to Sports
Cafe, Sauchiehall Street
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| WESTA Burns Supper 2006 |
Jim Brown - Jan 2005 |
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| Friday
3rd February @ Oran Mor
Download all the details and your
invitation letter here
(requires Adobe PDF) or here
(MS Word document)
Outline:
The WESTA BURNS SUPPER
2006
Venue - Oran Mor, Byres Road / Great
Western Road, Glasgow
Date - Friday 3 February 7.p.m. for
7.30.p.m. – Carriages 1.a.m
Dress - Black Tie or Highland attire.
Tickets - Members: £15; Non-members
£25 (WESTA membership is £12 - so it's worth
joining!)
Tables - seat 10. if you want to secure
a full table please advise immediately – several
tables are already gone!
Contact - Jen
Blackwood
We wish members to have the first
opportunity of tickets so please respond immediately
to Jen – we have friends from throughout the country
asking for tickets to what will be one of the Tartan
Army nights of the year.
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WESTA Christmas and New Year Meeting
/ Get Together
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Jim Brown - Dec 2005 |
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| Wednesday
28 Dec at 7.30.p.m. The SPORTS CAFE
Following on from the very successful
"do" in November. WESTA will be meeting upstairs
in THE SPORTS CAFE, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow on
WEDNESDAY 28 December 2005 at 7.30.p.m. all
members, old and new along with friends are invited
to celebrate Christmas and New Year with some free pitchers
and a finger buffet.
After our regular meeting, our
very own DJ extraordinaire Tam Coyle will be spinning
the discs to keep the festive cheer moving along, come
along prepared for a good night out.
Some advance notice on our Burns
Night celebration - WESTA are delighted to
announce that Scotland's premier venue ORAN MOR, top
of Byres Road in the West End, Glasgow, has been secured
for Friday 3 February 2006, where a
mix of the traditional and the new along with quality
surroundings, excellent food and top clas speakers guarantees
the night of the year. look out your glad rags and dig
out the black tie, details of tickets priced at only
£15 for members and £25 for guests will
be available next Wednesday at The SPORTS CAFE. |
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| WESTA Player of the Year "do"
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Jim Brown - Nov 2005 |
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| WESTA are
holding an informal POTY "do" on Friday 25
November from 7.30.p.m. upstairs in The Iron Horse,
West Nile St, Glasgow.
The committee are delighted to
invite fellow TA to an evening of laughs - with not
one but two comedians coming along to entertain us,
with a late bar, disco and buffet we look forward to
welcoming friends old and new.
To help us with the number of
sausage rolls and how many bottles to bring in through
the Sponsors Whyte and Mackay, if you are looking for
something to do in Glasgow on Friday, post us a message
on the forum and we'll add your name to the list.
Cheers and don't be late or we'll
have drunk all the free booze !!!
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| Welcome to our new site! |
Mark Adams - 24/10/2005 |
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| Welcome
to our new look website. All of the old info is here,
and you can still access our popular forum and all the
other pages, either by using the buttons on the left
or the text links at the foot of each page.
Also included in this update are
photos from our fantastic win in Oslo and our friendly
draw against Austria in August. We hope to have some
Slovenia pics online soon.
In the meantime, take a look around,
and please let us know what you think of our new look! |
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| Tartan Army Gathering |
Mark Adams - 24/10/2005 |
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| The Tartan
Army is heading to Aviemore next June instead of Germany!
The Clan Gathering from Thursday 29th June till Monday
3rd July 2006 will be a long weekend of fun, games and
the usual "bonhomie" associated with the Best
supporters in the World! The gathering is being organised
by 4 foot soldiers from different parts of Scotland
with the vision and organisation to produce a weekend
of different events so all tartan army foot soldiers
and their girlfriends/wives and family and friends can
participate and enjoy themselves!
The event is during the second
phase of the world cup which will be beamed live to
the tartan army on a giant screen...... the very successful
annual football tournament will take place on the Saturday
at Aviemore with a fun golf tournament at the new prestigious
Spey valley championship course on the Friday! The largest
ever gathering of clans since the Jacobite rebellion
360years ago will also stage their own carnival highland
games fun event on the Sunday! There will be bands and
music in different venues throughout the weekend.....
A major concert will be staged on the Saturday evening....
and a last night ceilidh in the Aviemore Highland Resort
on the Sunday evening....... the aviemore highland resort
will run a children’s programme over the weekend
and it is envisaged that being the start of the Scottish
school holidays a proportion of TA visitors and their
families will stay on in the Spey valley for several
days......
Aviemore is in badenoch and strathspey
is right in the heart of Scotland’s largest national
park and on the main A9 road, which connects the highlands
of Scotland with the central belt! The village has all
the facilities to host this event from extensive hotels,
campsite, pubs and restaurants plus excellent public
transport links by rain/bus /car.
The new MacDonald highland resort
will host the event which will attract approx. 2000
members and family of the tartan army, one of the spectacles
of the weekend will be the march from the main resort
car park to Aviemore football pitch with all the clubs/members
in full regalia being led down main street by the their
own pipers/drummers...
The organisers are in discussion
with some big named Scottish bands to bring them to
Aviemore it is also hoped to have some of the management/players
of the national team present.......
For further info.... visit the
web site on www.tartanarmygathering.com
ORGANISERS:
- Don Lawson (Aviemore)
- Tam Coyle (Glasgow)
- Taffy Maclea (Inverness)
- John Kaylor (Perth)
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| Looking for the old news? |
Mark Adams - 22/10/2005 |
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| The old
news updates (June 2003 - September 2005) can now be
found HERE
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