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I get called into the Board Room and I am presented with another runnerup manager of the month award for November. Theres also good news for Collymore as he gets runner up for young player. Its a little compensation over his injury.

The month opens with an away fixture against Albion Rovers and we fail to perform against our lowly opposition and suffer a rather embarrasing 1-0 defea.

10th December sees us travel to Morton in the Scottish Cup 2nd Round and we fail to get out of the starting blocks and go down 3-0 against our higher league opposition. The only benefit of the game was the £20,000 prize money, although we could do with a little more being injected into the club.

12th December and Henry Brown returns to full training following his 1 month on the sidelines, he has been a good asset to the club netting 7 goals in 16 appearances.

The news gets better for Stenhousemuir fans as they quickly tie up the contracts of Lee Collymore and Lee Collins until 2007.

17th December 2005 - Home V East Fife. We are involved in a 10 goal thriller with Henry Brown netting 4 goals in his first match following his injury. I hope he maintains this form and its pleasing to note that Colin Cramb gets his first goal for the club, and he knows that he is only temporary replacement for Collymore unless he finds the net more often.

Robbie Henderson signs a contract until 2007 and Andy Green makes a surprise free signing from Cowdenbeath in the name of Robert Downs who has limited first team experience.

Boxing Day and the players looked like they were suffering from major hang overs as we fail to score against Queens Park and the fans would be dissapointed about the score line of 0-0. We were lucky to get a point and now its 3 league games without a win

Andrew Green comments; "We are struggling at the moment, we have managed to cope without our leading scorers for so long, and we are a little slow in getting forward now and again but I am so glad that the Christmas period is over with and we can get going in the New Year. Lets hope that Stenhousemuir seasons tickets are on the top of everybody's christmas list for next year."

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4th Jan 2006

Henry Brown nets 2 goals as Stenhousemuir defeat East Stirling 2 -1.

It was a comfortable victory and this latest result sees Stenhousemuir in 2nd place but a mighty 12 points behind runaway leaders Arbroath.

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8th January 2006

Berwick fancy their chances against 2nd place Stenhousemuir. Nerwick are tucked in nicely in 3rd place waiting to overtake whenever the opportunity arises.

2 goals from Gareth Hutchinson ensured a 2-1 vistory for Berwick with Colin Cramb replying for Stenhousemuir. Arbroath look to far in front for anybody to challenge them.

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14th January 2006

We face Montrose at home knowing that nothing less than a win would be good enough, we were now lying in 3rd place with loads of catching up to do.

Henry Brown and Michael Renwick put us ahead 2-0 after only 25 minutes however we seem to take our foot off the gas especially as they have a player sent off as early as the 23rd minute.

In the last 20 minutes Montrose miss a penalty and score a wonderful strike and we manage to hold on somehow for a 2-1 win. This is unconvinving football and we don't deserve to be where we are.

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We travel to bottom of the table Elgin City expecting to pick up 3 points how wrong was I. I 2-0 drubbing and the team's performance was dire.

We slip a further place down the table and will be lucky to finish half way the way they are performing at the moment. I'm not saying the side revolved around Lee Collymore but we have played poorly since he got injured.

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Transfer Rumours

It is rumoured that 2nd division sides Alloa and Stirling are tracking Stenhousemuir leading scorer Henry Brown, both offering £1,000 and a player for the player who joined Andrew Green at the beginning of the season.

Senhousemuir have offered Brown a new contract and are awaiting a response from the player as to whether it is acceptable or not.

Green states "We are not going to accept any offers for Henry he is too good of a player to let go, we need a good strike force and we will have one when Lee joins back up with the squad"

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East Fife are the hosts for our next game, and they have a new manager. Henry Brown is in sensational forms netting another hat-trick, fingers crossed that he signs the new contract offer. Michael Renwick also scores a goal. to ensure a 4-0 win and a small rise up the table back into 3rd place.

Following the match Andrew Green is offered a 3 year extension to his contract which he duly signs immediately, the players and board are happy with the committment shown to the club and they hope that he can bring success to the club soon.

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More good news just in from Stenhousemuir Henry Brown signs a new 1 year contract.

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Henry Brown has signed his new 1 year contract and has also been awarded 3rd plance in the January young player of the month. Our next league match sees us travel to runaway leaders Arbroath a must win game if we are to have any hope of catching them.

Its not a good performance we have Renwick sent off early in the first half and Robert Downs dislocates his jaw and will probably be out for 1 month.

Henry Brown had injured himself in training so a new strike force was in operation for Stenhousemuir but it didn't work as the score finished 4-1. Arbroath are guranteed 2nd division football albeit they collapse in financial ruin. The battle for the runners up position hots up.

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11th February 2006

Home V Cowdenbeath

Cowdenbeath were on a roll and confidence was high they had made a slow rise up the table, and the pressure was on Andrew Green as the fans had been used to the team occupying 2nd place all season, a little blip in form sees them fall to 4th.

The press comment on the superior finishing as the differene between these two sides as runaway with a 2-0 win. An own goal and Colin Cramb scores a rare goal to ensure victory. Stenhousemuir also miss a penalty.

Andrew Green comments to the press following this victory. "Things are going well, you have to remember this is my first year here, and we have had numerous changes, injuries are hindering our progress at the moment but the new guys are holding their own, we have to keep up or risk being stuck in mid table, I have faith in the guys"