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Taidhg Geesteranus for being asked to play out of his normal position with no complaints, a great team player displaying the attributes we want to encourage here at Soccer 7s.

Harris Ross for his brilliant attitude throughout the whole session, giving high fives to his team mates when they did something well, checking on players after they went in for tackles and encouraging his whole team. Displaying the clubs core ethos right there, well done Harris. Tip of the day – be more like Harris.

Harris ‘Bobo’ Younie for his fantastic goalkeeping display even managing to save an almost certain goal with his butt, leaving the coaches and spectators speechless.

Junior 7s Results

Round 1

Thomsons Tyres 1 – 1 Grigor & Young Solicitors & Estate Agents

Scorers – Mercedes Reid & Christian Bruce

Fair Play Award – Mercedes Reid & Fergus Robertson

Keirans Legacy 3 – 0 Malones Plastering Services

Scorers – Cameron ‘The Machine’ Wardlaw, Calum Gray, Egan Reid

Fair Play Award – Cameron Wardlaw & Mac Pattisson

Round 2

Malones Plastering Services 0 – 1 Knockomie Inn Hotel

Scorers – OG

Fair Play Award – Brodie Ross & Lewis Mackintosh

Grigor & Young Solicitors & Estate Agents 2 – 0 Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses

Scorers – Harry ‘You’re A Wizard’ Oakes-Illingworth, Fergus ‘The Hitman’ Robertson

Fair Play Award – Dennis Mann & Christian Bruce

Round 3

Knockomie Inn Hotel 2 – 0 Thomsons Tyres

Scorers – Aaron ‘Sweeney Todd’ Barber & Timmy Edwards

Fair Play Award – Jackson ‘It’s Christmas’ Slade

Keirans Legacy 2 – 0 Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses

Scorers – Olly ‘Olivander’ Hizzett & Logan Smith

Round 4

Knockomie Inn Hotel 2 – 0 Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses

Scorers – Rory ‘Pants’ Lynch & Aaron Barber

Malones Plastering Services 6 – 2 Grigor & Young Solicitors & Estate Agents

Scorers – Bartek ‘The Cobra’ Popiolek x2, Brodie Ross x2, Fraser Cameron, OG, Christian Bruce, Liam Cowie

Fair Play Award – Brodie Ross & Harry Oakes-Illingworth

Match Day Results – Sunday 9th March

12th March 2025 By Paul Lynch

Super 5s

Round 1

Moray Firth Credit Union 0 – 0 Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer

Stew ‘N’ Drew’s 0 – 1 Murdoch Brothers Butchers

Scorers – Ewan McKay

Fair Play Award – Kyle Bremner

Fraser Fire & Security 0 – 2 Farish Foundation

Scorers – Kyle Thomson, Arran Dingwall

Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors 0 – 0 Cluny Estate Agents

Fair Play Award – Freddy Milton, Orlagh Jackson

Round 2

Firthview Windows 3 – 1 Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer

Scorers – Oscar x2, Mohamed Shabrak, Freddie Allan

Cluny Estate Agents 1 – 3 Macleans Highland Bakery

Scorers – Lucas Balfour, Danny Jack x3

Fair Play Award – Thomas Green

Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors 0 – 1 Stew ‘N’ Drew’s

Scorer – Alex Anderson

Farish Foundation 3 – 1 Moray Firth Credit Union

Scorers – Leon Farish x2, Harvey Dingwall, Lachlan Sly

Fair Play Award – Ruaridh Sly

Round 3

Fraser Fire & Security 0 – 2 Stew ‘N’ Drew’s

Scorers – Jonah Johnson, Jan Townsend

Murdoch Brothers Butchers 1 – 0 Moray Firth Credit Union

Scorers – Kyle Bremner

Fair Play Award – Frankie Christie

Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors 1 – 2 Macleans Highland Bakery

Scorers – Lachlan Jackson, Archie Laing, Byron Johnson

Cluny Estate Agents 1 – 0 Firthview Windows

Scorer – Lucas Balfour

Round 4

Farish Foundation 2 – 1 Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer

Scorers – Harvey Dingwall, Arran Dingwall, Reuben Saebel

Firthview Windows 0 – 1 Murdoch Brothers Butchers

Scorers – Ewan McKay

Fair Play Award – Ewan McKay

Stew ‘N’ Drew’s 0 – 0 Cluny Estate Agents

Macleans Highland Bakery 1 – 0 Fraser Fire & Security

Scorer – Danny Jack

Round 5

Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors 2 – 4 Farish Foundation

Scorers – Byron Johnson, Zac Falconer, Arran Dingwall x2, Leon Farish x2

Fair Play Award – Isaac Allan, Josh Cook

Firthview Windows 0 – 0 Moray Firth Credit Union

Macleans Highland Bakery 1 – 2 Murdoch Brothers Butchers

Scorers – Leo Taylor, Ewan McKay, Kyle Bremner

Fraser Fire & Security 2 – 1 Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer

Scorers – Kayden Sutcliffe, Sunny Louden, Freddie Allan

Fair Play Award –

Junior7s

Round 1

Malones Plastering Services 1 – 1 Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses

Scorers – Halden Davies, Jack Mackay

Fair Play Award – Mac Pattisson, Charlie Brotherton

Knockomie Inn Hotel 1 – 5 Keirans Legacy

Scorers – Aaron Barber, Logan Smith x2, Egan Reid x3

Fair Play Award – Egan Reid, Timmy Edwards

Round 2

Malones Plastering Services 1 – 0 Thomsons Tyres

Scorers – Bartek Popiolek

Fair Play Award – Fraser Cameron, Adam Bobrus

Grigor & Young Solicitors & Estate Agents 2 – 0 Knockomie Inn Hotel

Scorers – Liam Cowie x2

Fair Play Award –

Round 3

Keirans Legacy 1 – 1 Grigor & Young Solicitors & Estate Agents

Scorers – Oscar Young, Cohen Anderson

Fair Play Award – Lucas Bain, Johnny Kaminski

Thomsons Tyres 0 – 3 Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses

Scorers – Jack Mckinnon, Igor Narewski

Fair Play Award – Murray Ure, Jack Mackay

Round 4

Knockomie Inn Hotel 1 – 4 Malones Plastering Services

Scorers – Aaron Barber, Fraser Cameron x2, Bartek Popiolek, Oliver Parker

Fair Play Award – Leo Miller, Bartek Popiolek

Thomsons Tyres 1 – 2 Keirans Legacy

Scorers – Murray Ure, Oscar Young x2

Fair Play Award – Murray Ure, Lucas Taylor

Junior 7’s Team Of The Week – 2 March 2025

4th March 2025 By Paul Lynch

Congratulations to Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses Junior 7s team this week for displaying some of the clubs core ethos and attributes, earning them the first ever Team Of The Week in the Junior 7s Section.

Keep up the great work team.

Super 5’s Team Of The Week – 2 March 2025

4th March 2025 By Paul Lynch

Congratulations to Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors Super 5s team this week for displaying some of the clubs core ethos and attributes, earning them the first ever Team Of The Week in the Super 5s Section.

Keep up the great work team.

Match Day Results For The Season Opener – 2 Mar 2025

3rd March 2025 By Paul Lynch

Results – Super 5s

Round 1

Farish Foundation 0 – 2 Stew ‘N’ Drew’s

Scorers – Ezra Travis & Alex Anderson

Fraser Fire & Security 1 – 2 Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors

Scorers – William Hunt & Byron Johnson x2

Fair Play Award – Byron Johnson

Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer 0 – 1 Cluny Estate Agents

Scorers – Robbie Codd

Macleans Highland Bakery 3 – 0 Firthview Windows

Scorer – Sonny Mcknockiter x3

Round 2

Moray Firth Credit Union 0 – 0 Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors

Fair Play Award – Louie Thomson

Murdoch Brothers Butchers 4 – 0 Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer

Scorers – Ewan Mckay x3, Kyle Bremner

Fair Play Award – Ewan Mckay

Stew ‘N’ Drew’s 1 – 0 Firthview Windows

Scorers – Jonah Johnson

Farish Foundation 0 – 3 Macleans Highland Bakery

Scorers – Sonny Mcknockiter & Lexi Angus x2

Round 3

Fraser Fire & Security 0 – 0 Moray Firth Credit Union

Fair Play Award – Hamish Macdonald

Cluny Estate Agents 1 – 4 Murdoch Brothers Butchers

Scorers – Lucas Balfour, Kyle Bremner x3, OG

Fair Play Award – Kyle Bremner

Stew ‘N’ Drew’s 1 – 0 Macleans Highland Bakery

Scorers – Alex Anderson

Firthview Windows 0 – 3 Farish Foundation

Scorers – Kyle Thomson, Leon Farish, Rhys Mckenzie

Round 4

Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors 1 – 2 Murdoch Brothers Butchers

Scorers – Byron Johnson, Kyle Bremner, Ewan Mckay

Fair Play Award – Frankie Christie

Macleans Highland Bakery 3 – 0 Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer

Scorer – Sonny Mcknockiter x3

Fraser Fire & Security 3 – 1 Firthview Windows

Scorers – Oliver Simpson, Sunny Louden x2, Josh Hay

Fair Play Award – Oliver Simpson

Moray Firth Credit Union 1 – 0 Cluny Estate Agents

Scorer – Lachlan Sly

Round 5

Fraser Fire & Security 0 – 4 Cluny Estate Agents

Scorers – Orlagh Jackson, Lucas Balfour x2, Rory Gibson

Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer 2 – 4 Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors

Scorers – Freddie Allan x2, Kian Ogg, Byron Johnson x3

Fair Play Award – Freddy Milton

Stew ‘N’ Drew’s 1 – 0 Moray Firth Credit Union

Scorer – Jan Townsend

Farish Foundation 2 – 6 Murdoch Brothers Butchers

Scorers – Aaron Dingwall x2, Ewan Mckay x3, Kyle Bremner x3

Results – Junior 7s

Round 1

Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses 1 – 1 Grigor & Young Solicitors & Estate Agents

Scorers – Igor Narewski, Cohen Anderson

Thomsons Tyres 0 – 6 Keirans Legacy

Scorers – Oscar Young, Logan Smith x3, Calum Gray x2

Fair Play Award – Murray Ure & Logan Smith

Round 2

Grigor & Young Solicitors & Estate Agents 0 – 3 Malones Plastering Services

Scorers – Brodie Ross x2, Fraser Cameron

Fair Play Award – Oliver Parker

Knockomie Inn Hotel 2 – 0 Thomsons Tyres

Scorers – Aaron Barber & Rory Lynch

Round 3

Keirans Legacy 1 – 1 Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses

Scorers – Logan Smith & Igor Narewski

Fair Play Award – Cayden Macrae & Alexander Hunt

Grigor & Young Solicitors & Estate Agents 0 – 2 Thomsons Tyres

Scorers – Mercedes Reid & Murray Ure

Fair Play Award – Mercedes Reid

Round 4

Keirans Legacy 3 – 1 Malones Plastering Services

Scorers – Logan Smith x2, Calum Gray, Bartek Popiolek

Fair Play Award – Calum Gray & Fraser Cameron

Knockomie Inn Hotel 1 – 2 Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses

Scorers – Aaron Barber, Igor Narewski, Jack Mackinnon

Fair Play Award – Denis Mann

Super 5s & Junior 7s Registration 2025

19th January 2025 By Paul Lynch

Due to the vast amount of players returning this year we have had to now close registration for both the Super 5s & Junior 7s age groups.

We are still going to run a waiting list so if you have not been able to register your child please contact the club to add your child to the waiting list.

From Forres To Tanzania.

14th January 2025 By Paul Lynch

Recently we had the opportunity to work with Weronika Cichosz, an employee of James Jones and Sons Forres, to build football connections with a city in Tanzania. Over the festive period Weronika travelled to Morogoro to visit a team of missionaries who run one of their schools there.

Weronika works with the clubs Vice-Chairman; Scott Thomson who wanted to offer some gifts from Forres Area Soccer7s for the school children in Tanzania. We then asked if the children might like some of our previous season’s strips and a few new footballs to play with, which Weronika said was a fantastic idea. We met up at the clubs’ pavilion and sorted out some strips and footballs for Weronika to take over with her on her travels.

This is what Weronika had to say on her return from Tanzania.

The school has a ‘pre-school’ class, which they affectionately simply call baby. This is for children between the ages of 2.5 and 5 years old. Then from 5-13 they run the primary school programme.

There are some 900 students overall, 40 of which (typically coming from very far or very poor families) stay in the boarding house.

The school employs 32 teachers so as you can imagine – they have their hands full!

The school has a large garden in the back were tomatoes, bananas, mangos and other basic fruit and vegetables grow – even some chickens and goats are kept (which double down as cheap grass cutting service during holidays!). There’s also a very ferocious guard dog patrolling the grounds – Stella – who likes to intimidate newcomers by asking them for belly rubs.

The children receive meals at the school’s outdoor kitchen every day, which is further encouragement for families to send their kids to school rather than have them working in the fields. To prepare for the first week of classes, we spent a morning sorting through 100kg of tomatoes which may last for about two weeks.

The children receive a comprehensive education in Swahili, English, maths, history, sciences, arts, music and many more.

Thomas, who you can see below with a Soccer 7s strip, oversees 5 such schools in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda.

It has taken many years and many people of good will to build this school up to what it looks like now. At present works are underway to expand the classroom space to accommodate for the 1000 children which are expected to enrol this year.

Among the surrounding area this school with its colourful walls looks like a peaceful haven for kids to run around and play. There’s a football pitch (of sorts) with some goal posts (of sorts) but they haven’t been making much use of it because they haven’t been able to get decent balls. I’m sure you’ll be aware but a seemingly small gesture from yourselves will bring a big smile on many wee faces – and probably annoy the neighbours with the noise.

The country of Tanzania is without a doubt, a beautiful one, the nature and wildlife provide an unforgettable experience for the senses. However, an even deeper beauty there is that of the people. Sounds of rejoicing and celebration are never ending and something that was particularly obvious is that Tanzanians look after their things; they take great care and pride in what they have so something we can be sure of is that these kits and footballs will be in use for a very long time.

The club is now looking to arrange for more strips to be sent over, so one day we might see a big derby match in Tanzania between Maclean’s Highland Bakery v Murdoch Brothers Butchers or Mundole Taxi’s v Tom Ross & Sons.

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Volunteer’s Required For The 2025 Season.

9th January 2025 By Paul Lynch

As we approach the start of the 2025 season we are looking for new volunteers to join us. The club relies on volunteers to help coach the local children and if we did not have that we would not be able to offer this great facility.

If you want to volunteer or know someone who would be a great addition to our team then please contact us through email – office@forres-soccer7s.co.uk or pm through any of our social media pages.

We are all looking forward to another season with more great sessions, matches, events and much much more.

See you all soon.

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Match Day Results – Sunday 18th Aug.

21st August 2024 By Paul Lynch

Super 5s Results

Round 1

Stew ‘N’ Drew’s 0 – 1 Firthview Windows

Scorers – Harvey Dingwall

Fair Play Award –Harvey Dingwall & Joshua Hay

Murdoch Brothers Butchers 0 – 1 Macleans Highland Bakery

Scorers – Ilkay Gunsan

Fair Play Award – Robbie Codd & Lexi Angus

Cluny Estate Agents 1 – 0 Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer

Scorers – Lucas Balfour

Fair Play Award – Jameel Hossain & Mohamed Shabrak

Fraser Fire & Security 3 – 0 Farish Foundation

Scorers – Jonah Johnson, Fletcher Preston x2

Fair Play Award – Harris McKenzie & Axl Baltunas

Round 2

Firthview Windows 0 – 0 Macleans Highland Bakery

Fair Play Award – Ruairidh Sly & Sonny McKnockiter

Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer 2 – 0 Stew ‘N’ Drew’s

Scorers – Freddie Allan, Jan Townsend

Fair Play Award – Casper Moffatt & Harvey Ellis

Cluny Estate Agents 2 – 0 Farish Foundation

Scorers – Liam Cowie, Fraser Cameron

Fair Play Award – Fraser Cameron & Matthew Gardener

Moray Firth Credit Union 0 – 6 Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors

Scorers – Alexander Hunt x3, Oliver Simpson, Ewan McKay x2

Fair Play Award – Eden Russell & Ivan Mykytenko

Round 3

Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors 1 – 1 Firthview Windows

Scorers – Arran Dingwall, Lachlan Sly

Fair Play Award – Ruben Evans & Reiley Black

Stew ‘N’ Drew’s 2 – 1 Moray Firth Credit Union

Scorers – Harvey Ellis, Oliver Simpson, Ivan Mykytenko

Fair Play Award – Joshua Hay & Oscar Minierski

Farish Foundation 1 – 1 Murdoch Brothers Butchers

Scorers – Harris McKenzie, Sonny Louden

Fair Play Award – Leon Farish & Kayden Sutcliffe

Fraser Fire & Security 0 – 0 Cluny Estate Agents

Fair Play Award – Liam Cowie & Fletcher Preston

Round 4

Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors 0 – 2 Murdoch Brothers Butchers

Scorers – Alexander Hunt x2

Fair Play Award – Zac Falconer & Harris Ross

Farish Foundation 1 – 3 Firthview Windows

Scorers – Leon Farish, Willis Pedan x2, Harvey Dingwall

Fair Play Award – Harrison Cooney & Willis Pedan

Fraser Fire & Security 1 – 1 Moray Firth Credit Union

Scorers – Jonah Johnson, Ezra Travis

Fair Play Award – Ezra Travis & Ollie Lowther

Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer 0 – 1 Macleans Highland Bakery

Scorers – Cesar Hattingh

Fair Play Award – Jan Townsend & Reuben Saebel

Round 5

Murdoch Brothers Butchers 0 – 3 Stuart Allan Plumbing & Heating Engineer

Scorers – Jan Townsend x2, Alfie Allan

Fair Play Award – Thomas Green & Orlagh Jackson

Tom Ross & Sons Funeral Directors 0 – 0 Fraser Fire & Security

Fair Play Award – Jonah Johnson & Arran Dingwall

Macleans Highland Bakery 2 – 0 Stew ‘N’ Drew’s

Scorers – Reuban Saebel, Cesar Hattingh

Fair Play Award – Leo taylor & James Milton

Moray Firth Credit Union 0 – 0 Cluny Estate Agents

Fair Play Award – Liam Grant & Kyle Thomson

Junior7s Results

Round 1

Keirans Legacy 0 – 1 Grigor & Young Solicitors & Estate Agents

Scorers – Cohen Anderson

Fair Play Award – Daniel Grant & William Lowther

Malones Plastering Services 0 – 0 Knockomie Inn Hotel

Fair Play Award – Callum Offer & Lucas Bain

Round 2

Thomsons Tyres 0 – 0 Knockomie Inn Hotel

Fair Play Award – Rory Lynch & Callum Grey

Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses 2 – 0 Keirans Legacy

Fair Play Award – Cameron

Round 3

Grigor & Young Solicitors & Estate Agents 1 – 1 Malones Plastering Services

Scorers – Jackson Slade, Fraser Bradshaw

Fair Play Award – Joe Gardner

Thomsons Tyres 2 – 0 Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses

Scorers – Brodie Ross x2

Fair Play Award – Brodie Ross

Round 4

Knockomie Inn Hotel 3 – 0 Mundole Taxi’s and Minibuses

Scorers – Callum Grey, Fergus Robertson, Kylian McFadden

Keirans Legacy 0 – 4 Thomsons Tyres

Scorers – Rory Lynch, Aaron Barber, Igor Narewski, Adam Bobrus

Fair Play Award – Finn Carruthers & Adam Bobrus

Today’s Football Is Cancelled, Sunday 16th June.

16th June 2024 By Paul Lynch

ALL FOOTBALL CANCELLED

Due to the weather last night and the rain not due to stop today we have taken the decision to cancel today’s football.

We look forward to next Sunday’s Mid-Season Tournament.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.