Jags keeper pens new two-year deal
Strathspey Thistle goalkeeper Willie Ridgers has put pen to paper on a two-year contract extension.
The stopper joined the club from Rothes in the summer of 2010 and his new deal takes him up to the end of the 2013/14 season.
Manager Brian Ritchie is delighted to secure the services of the player who is in his second spell with the club, having originally been at Seafield Park on loan from Nairn County during the 2008/09 campaign.
Ritchie said: "I am very, very happy that Willie has agreed a new deal. It is a major boost for us.
"We are delighted with Willie’s loyalty.
"He said he would stay with us and for Willie to be in goals for a team at the bottom of the league means I take my hat off to him because there were other teams sniffing around him.
"He has great loyalty and commitment and it is fantastic news for the club to get him signed up again.
"Hopefully this will be the start of several other members of our squad agreeing extensions to their contracts.
"Willie is a big player for us, so fingers-crossed other players will look at him agreeing to extend his stay with us and look to follow in his footsteps.
"I would like to keep together the core of the squad we have assembled at the club and tying Willie up for another two years goes a long way to doing that."
There was more postponement misery for the Jags at the weekend with their home clash with Clachnacuddin being called off on Saturday morning.
It was one of just two Highland League fixtures to be hit by the weather, with Nairn County versus Deveronvale also scrapped.
Ritchie revealed: "The game was called off at 10.30am. The top of the pitch was soft enough, but underneath it was just rock solid.
"Calling the game off was a no-brainer because if it had gone ahead, the park would have just been ripped to bits and that would have knocked us back weeks and weeks.
"I think the right decision was made in the end.
"We left it as long as we could to try to get it on but there was the danger that someone could have suffered an injury on the pitch."