This is a list of players who have left the 1997s side and moved on to professional clubs youth teams.
Mark McNaught- Falkirk F.C
NathanGallagher- Falkirk F.C
Hussain Kaware - Rangers F.C
Robbie Mitchell- St Mirren F.C
Daniel Brown - Aberdeen F.C
Jaime Gallagher- Queens Park F.C
Daniel Lightbody- Dumbarton F.C
Jordy Edgar- Aberdeen F.C
Robbie Mitchell won the player of the year for the north side by recieving the most man of the match awards from the opposing teams coaches he also finished top goalscorer and Alan Halliday won the most improved player`s award from the coaches.
Kevin Lavelle was player of the year this season for the first team which was voted for by the parents of the players. He also won an award for top goalscorer.
This season was to be our last for both teams competing in the Dunbartonshire football development league and both sides went through the entire season losing only one game each.The first team was coached by Kevin Lavelle and Stevie Gillespie and they were able to strengthen the team by adding a couple of good new players to their squad and continued to develop and encourage the teams passing game .The north side was coached by Stephen Cluness and Alan Halliday and the players were attracting scouts from various clubs with robbie mitchell and hussain kaware being invited to train at murray park for 3 months and hussain went on to sign for rangers. The team had some good fortune when mark mcnaught was released by falkirk f.c and decided to come back to his old club and they nearly finished the season unbeaten but lost to local rivals antonine on the final game of the season. The season finished with both teams playing in some trial matches as the start of the following season would see the two sides merge together.
The two sides went into this season with a squad of about 30 players between them with the north side attracting new players and a new sponsor they had about 17 at the start of the season. Competing in the DFDL league again the team were now at u10 age group and both sides were now evenly matched in ability with 4 players from the north side selected for trials with Falkirk F.C .Suprisingly Kevin Johnston quit halfway through the season and Kevin Lavelle took over the side who went on to win their own tournament at the Donald Dewar and the north side won all their games at the first touch tournament at cappielow beating Kilmarnock pro youth in a 3-2 cracker.Two players left the club to sign pro youth with Falkirk ,first was nathan gallagher and also mark mcnaught from the north side left but robbie mitchell declined.Finishing the league strongly both sides lost hardly any games all season and the young players were steadily improving in their football development.
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