ADAM ON BOARD AT FORTHBANK
Binos boss Young ties down defender on new deal for next season
Andy Murray may be missing from the French Open this week but his big brother Jamie is flying the flag in the men’s doubles at Roland Garros in Paris.
He lines up in the first round alongside regular partner Bruno Soares from Brazil and will meet Israel’s Jonathan Ehrlich and Lloyd Harris from
Defender Adam Cummins is the latest Stirling Albion player to agreed a new deal to remain at Forthbank for the 2022/23 campaign.
The 29-year-old joined the club from Stranraer last summer and made 32 appearances across all competitions last season.
The former Motherwell and Queen’s Park centre-half scored twice – ironically both against his previous side Stranraer – in a 1-1 draw at Forthbank in October and 3-3 draw at Stair Park at the beginning of the year.
Cummins began his career at Motherwell and had a spell on loan at Forthbank when Stirling were plying their trade in League One before a switch to Welsh club Bangor City.
Binos boss Darren Young has already re-signed defenders Paul Mclean, Jordan Mcgregor and Ross Mcgeachie, while Kyle Banner and Aaron Dunsmore can also play at the back.
Three new players have arrived at the club so far – East Fife midfielder Ross
South Africa.
They will be hoping for better luck than last week when they were stunned in the first round by Swiss wildcards Jakub Paul and Leandro Riedi at the Geneva Open when seeded two.
The Murray/soares partnership are seeded No 10 at the French Open.
Davidson, Stenhousemuir striker Robert Thomson and East Fife winger Danny Denholm – while Dunsmore’s loan deal from the Bayview side has been made permanent.
Denholm put pen to paper last week following the departure of Nathan Flanagan. The 31-yearold worked with Young at Bayview and has good experience in a career that has taken in spells with Forfar Athletic, Livingston and Arbroath.
The midfielder made 30 league appearances for East Fife in the season just ended – 23 starts and seven as a substitute – nettingfour times in League One, but was unable to help the Fife club avoid relegation after six years in the third tier.
Meanwhile, Stirling Albion will discover their Premier Sports Cup opponents when the draw for the group stage is made today at 1pm.
It will be shown live by Premier Sports via their Freesports channel. It is available on Freeview HD channel 65, Sky HD channel 422, Virgin HD 553, Talktalk 64 and BT Vision channel 64.
There are 40 clubs in the group stage draw, which will be seeded but not regionalised this season following six years of the north/south split.
Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Dundee United and Motherwell are exempt until round two after qualifying for Europe, but Aberdeen and Hibs are potential opponents for the Binos.
Only the eight group winners and three best runners-up will qualify for the last 16, but Stirling almost made it through their section last season, beating Cove Rangers and Peterhead and defeating Inverness CT on penalties, with their only defeat coming against topflight Hearts.
Matches will be played on July 9/10, July 12/13, July 16/17, July 19/20 and July 23/24, with the new league season starting on Saturday, July 30.
•Numbers drawn on Wednesday, May 18 in the Stirling Albion Supporters Trust lottery were 5, 7, 20 and 30. There were no jackpot winners so it rises today to £3,000.
Three lucky dip winners each received £20.