Atougher Test First Divsion First Divsion Gretna Are Targeting a Record Three Consecutive Promotions, but the Step Up This Season Will Be Much More Challenging. Rowan Alexander has Slight Doubts and His Side Will Have No Shortage of Competition for the Title, Finds Stewart Fisher

Sunday Herald › July 31, 2006

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GRETNA were affectionately adopted as plucky underdogs in the Scottish Cup final back in May, but for promotionchasing first division clubs this season they could prove to be as cuddly as a rottweiler.

The village that used to be renowned for its Old Blacksmith's Shop and its shotgun marriages, but is now famous for hosting the big guns of the Scottish lower divisions, awaits as the local team set their seemingly unstoppable sights on their next attempt for a niche in the history books. Even upwardly mobile predecessors Livingston and Inverness Caledonian Thistle were unable to make it from third division to the SPL in back-to-back campaigns.

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Atougher Test First Divsion First Divsion Gretna Are Targeting a Record Three Consecutive Promotions, but the Step Up This Season Will Be Much More Challenging. Rowan Alexander has Slight Doubts and His Side Will Have No Shortage of Competition for the Title, Finds Stewart Fisher

Since we saw them last, club owner and philanthropist Brooks Mileson has been checked in and then back out of hospital, after undergoing surgery to prevent internal bleeding, the club have visited Austria for a pre-season fitness camp, and on Friday manager Rowan Alexander was in Nyon to see his team drawn against Derry City in the second quali...

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