There will be quite a change in the league set-up for next season with the passing of Play-Off's. The team finishing top of Division Two will be promoted while the team in 2nd will play the team in 3rd in a semi final. The team in 4th will play the team in 9th in Division One, both legs home and away, with the two winners meeting in a 2 legged final. Feeling confused, your not alone. Reaction on the forum is pretty mixed and can be viewed from the link below.

Stirling where today drawn away to Ayr United in the first round of the Challenge Cup which will take place on Saturday 30th July. The Binos played Ayr at this stage in this cup two years ago and eventually went through 2-1 in extra time. To see what the supporters reaction is, then click on the link below.

www.stirlingalbion.com can exclusively bring you the first pictures of the home strip for season 2005/06. Many thanks to the club for letting us put this on the website. Above the badge it says 60 years and underneath 1945-2005.Another picture will be put on the website forum later to show more detail.

Robert Dunn seems likely that he will sign a new contract with the Binos despite interest from Raith Rovers, whilst Paul Hay also looks set to sign in the coming week. Stirling have set up there first pre-season friendly against Hearts at home and this looks likely to go ahead on the 16th July, although this date is still to be confirmed. Stirling will also take part in a 4 team competition in East Kilbride along with Morton and possibly 2 other junior teams. The draw for the Bells Challenge cup will take place on Friday afternoon and hopefully the Binos can get a decent draw.

After the departure of Scott McLean to Stranraer, www.stirlingalbion.com has a short interview with the prolific goal scorer on his move to Stranraer. Trigger played a key part in the third division success a couple of seasons ago and still finished top scorer for the Binos last season despite missing the second half of the season through a knee injury. Many thanks to Scott and Gary from www.stranraerfc.org for helping conduct the interview. We wish Scott all the very best in his time with Stranraer. Click the link below to view the short interview.

Prolific goal scorer, Scott McLean signed for Stranraer today after being offered a contract a couple of weeks ago. Neil Watt had attempted to sign him in the transfer window in January, however, he was unable to get him and the finally got his man after offering him a better contract than the Binos did. McLean scored 35 goals in 57+1 appearances for the Binos which helped the Binos to promotion last season and helped us maintain our second division status this year, despite him being out injured since last year. All at the website team would like to wish Scott all the very best in his new challenge with Stranraer. On other news it looks the Binos have signed 20 year old midfielder, Steven Bell from Queen of the South and are also linked with Brian McPhee (Hamilton) and Ian Cashmore (Kilwinning Rangers). Read all the reaction on the websites forum (link available below)

In a night that Paul Hay swept most of the Player of the year awards, Chairman, Peter McKenzie (pictured left) made an emotional announcement in his annual speech that he will be stepping down as chairman of Stirling Albion football club and is actively looking for someone to take over the club. A pin could have been dropped with the news as Mr McKenzie highlighted he would not let the club go into administration and would do his best for the club despite the club being in a substantial amount of debt. The fans at the POY dance gave Mr McKenzie a standing ovation for his loyal service to the club over the years. He did suggest he had approach several people who have turned down the offer to take over the club and that he is hoping someone will come in for the club in the pre-season. www.stirlingalbion.com would like to thank Mr McKenzie for his loyal and financial support to the club over the last 20 plus seasons and hope that we'll keep on seeing him at Forthbank next season in a more relaxed role. In other news, Allan Moore has signed a contract extension to stay for another two seasons, Kevin MacDonald looks like he's been released by the club and Paul Nugent, Stewart Devine and Chris Aitken have all signed new contracts to keep them with the Binos next season.

As far as stirlingalbion.com has heard tonight, only 4 players have been released by the club today with all the rest being offered some sort of deal. George Rowe, Craig Ferguson, William Ferguson and Barry Neville have all been told they have no future left at Stirling. The biggest shock must be George Rowe (pictured left)who signed at the start of season 2002/03 and has played 97 appearances for the Binos,scoring 10 goals from defence since injuring himself in November. Other big name to leave is Craig Ferguson who was in his second season with the Binos having made about 50 appearances and scored 2 goals. Mark Canning has also been added to the list of players who have been released (12/5/05).

Colin Hamilton has been bringing funny Binos related cartoons all season and has just added a few that incorporates the beach party and the ones that where in the special addition of the paper back Rave On that was given out yesterday. As ever they are extremely funny and well worth a look for all football fans. Clicking on the link below will take you to his own website where the cartoons are on display. Colin also has framed cartoons available to buy from the club shop that would make great gifts for all Stirling supporters. Colin also does private work and all these details are available on his website as well.

The season is at an end once again and I would just like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in the web team. Many thanks to Ian Jones for his weekly match reports, Colin Hamilton for his very funny Albion themed cartoons, Scott Johnstone for his tireless work on the website and the Rave On-Line, Stewarty Mac and Richard Henry for "policing" the forum and Graham Hamilton for his fantastic photos. I also want to thank our sponsors for there financial backing, please visit there websites by clicking on the links at the side and try and support them as much as possible. Also a big thank you to everyone who has made a donation this year,without these people the website would not be able to continue. Most of all I would like thank you, the members, for visiting the website and making it what it is. Even though the season has now finished, the website will still be trying to bring you the latest news from Forthbank and the forum was still as busy as well so keep logging on for all the latest news.

A carnival atmosphere was brought to Gayfield for the first time in years as a large traveling army descended there dressed in there beach wear, lilo's and beach ball's in hands, having consumed a large amount of drink pre-match. The fans where fantastic and sang there hearts out for 90 minutes and most made the effort to dress up and join in. Look out for the pictures in the national papers today and tomorrow, especially the Sunday Mail which has some good photos and a good write up. The fans stayed behind at the end to thank the players and management team for there hard work over the season. On the match front, in came David Forbes, Craig Ferguson and Steven Hutchison to the team in a game that was pretty even. Scorers on the day where Douglas Wilson and Paul Di Giacomo in a game that was pretty much meaningless for both teams.There will be quite a few photos of the fans on the forum later on tonight if anyone wants to see them. Match report available from the link below.

Scott Johnstone brings you this third edition of his electronic Rave on. Rave On was the original fanzine of the Bino's in the early nineties and after consultation with the original creators Scott is now continuing the format on-line.This edition has:

-an interview with Myles Hogarth
- Review of the Season
- Athletic Bilbino Review
- Students Guide to Arbroath
- Beach Party Cartoons
- Competitions
- Programme Review Part 2
- Annfield Albion v Forthbank Binos - The Rematch

The next edition will be available from this website as www.stirlingalbion.com brings on board this very popular fanzine. Many thanks to Scott and the contributors for there hard work. Please click the link below to view the latest edition.