We welcome Crusaders to East Belfast as they make the short trip across town for this Premiership fixture. The Premier Lounge will open at 12.15pm and will have live coverage of Cambridge v Oxford in the Football League. This will be followed by live and exclusive coverage of Glentoran v Crusaders at 2pm and we finish the day with live coverage of a European qualifier as Scotland face Georgia at 4pm.
Hope to see you all there.
Just three days on from edging Glenavon at Mourneview Park in the league, Glentoran returned to mid-Ulster for a last sixteen League Cup encounter. Both sides rang several changes from Saturday's match and what was to follow was probably the best Glens performance of the season thus far as a Fra McCaffrey hat-trick, Curtis Allen free-kick and Jordan Stewart finish saw the east Belfast outfit run out 5-1 winners against the ten man Lurgan Blues.
Stormont GSC celebrates its 30th Anniversary.
Glentoran recorded their first away league victory of the season with a well deserved 2-1 win over Glenavon.
Supporters travelling to Mourneview Park for today's game - There are road works at the crossroads near the ground (on the Tandragee Road) near the hospital with signs saying road closed to Mourneview Park. Access to the ground would be easiest through the estate or come in through Moira.
We have been informed by the Glenavon FC Health and Safety Officer that no Glentoran supporters will be allowed into the social club at Glenavon FC on either Saturday's Danske Bank Premiership fixture or Tuesday night's Wasp Solutions League Cup match.
One visitor to the Oval last weekend saw the ground and our club for the first time and although we don't often get much good publicity locally, Laurence Reade certainly seemed to enjoy his Saturday.
A review of Laurence's visit can be found HERE
Glentoran Safety Officer, Tommy Campbell has completed 50 years service at the Oval. Tommy became a Steward back in 1964 in over the past 50 years has served Glentoran both in that role and also as Safety Officer.
Following last Saturday's Danske Bank Premiership victory over Dungannon Swifts, Tommy, his wife Margaret, son Thomas, son-in-law James Grierson and grandsons, James & Samuel Grierson were invited into the Oval boardroom when club chairman, Stephen Henderson presented Tommy with an engraved piece of crystal to mark his 50 years.
Marcus Kane has signed a 3-year contract extension with Glentoran.
Manager, Eddie Patterson said, "We are delighted that Marcus, a pivotal member of the squad, has committed his long term future to the club. I'm sure that if we had let his contract enter the final 6 months then many clubs in our league would have been keen to officially talk to him. That is no longer an issue and Marcus can now focus solely on his game."
Glentoran meet Crusaders at the Oval on Saturday 11th October 2014.
The kick-off time for this game has been brought forward to 2:00pm.
This is to facilitate fans who also wish to attend the international match that evening.
We have had a great start to the Friends of Glentoran 200 Club and we would like to thank all of you who have joined up so far. The first draw took place on the pitch on Saturday during half time and the following people where picked out of the box by Glentoran legend, Billy McKeag. Congratulations go to Eddy Patrick and the other 5 winners selected by Billy.
