- Tain Thistle FC
Infobox Football club
clubname = Tain Thistle
current = Tain Thistle F.C. season 2008-09
fullname = Tain Thistle Football Club
nickname = The Jags
founded = 1996
ground =Grant Park ,Tain
capacity = All Standing
chairman =Niall Harkiss
mgrtitle = Manager
manager = Robbie Ross
captain = Paul Cowie league =North Caledonian Football League
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leftarm2=ffffff|body2=FFFFFF|rightarm2=ffffff|shorts2=ffffff|socks2=ffffff|Tain Thistle Football Club are a football club playing in the
North Caledonian Football League inScotland . They play at Grant Park in the town ofTain in theScottish Highlands .The club was formed in 1996, and joined the Ross-shire Welfare League in 1997, where they have played for 11 years. The club was accepted into the North Caledonian FA League in June 2008 and will compete in league matches during the 2008/09 season, becoming the first Tain team to do so since the demise of Tain St Duthus three years prior.
The team is currently managed by the team of Robbie Ross and Rob Nicholson. The team won the 2007 Pattison Cup and finished 2nd in the 2008 MacLean Electrical Ross-shire Welfare League.
Achievements
League
The club have played in the Ross-shire Welfare league since 1997, and while the club typically finished bottom of the league throughout it's early years, they finished their 2008 Ross-shire Welfare campaign, after 12 games, in second place. The club have entered the North Caledonian league for the first time this year.
Cups
The club won it's first and only trophy in 2007, under the management of Arron Christie, defeating Ross-shire Club to lift the Pattison Cup.
Current squad
As of
21 September 2008 .External links
* [http://www.tainthistle.co.uk/ Official website]
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