Gordon Connelly Appointed as New WAFC Manager

Gordon Connelly Appointed As New Wick Academy FC Manager

Wick
Academy FC is pleased to announce the appointment of Gordon Connelly as
the new Manager of Wick Academy FC. Gordon will take charge of the senior
team with immediate effect with Richard Hughes (Tichie) as his assistant Manager.

The
Club offered the position of Co Manager to Tichie and Gordon; however
Tichie intimated to the Club that he would prefer to remain in his current role
as assistant Manager.

After
Gordon had a spell at English club Burnley FC; he joined Jim
Leishman's golden era at Dunfermline which saw them rise through the
divisions to reach the Scottish Premier League before Bobby Wilson took
him North to Ross County where he spent 11 seasons helping County rise
from Highland league Minnows, to Scottish League football in 1994.  He played over 300 games for County and
scored over 100 goals from midfield and then in 1993 he was enrolled into
the Ross County Hall of Fame.

In August 1997 he
joined Wick Academy as a player where he made 28 league appearances before moving on to
Forres Mechanics, first as a player and then as player manger, winning 3 HF
League Cups in succession during seasons; 1999, 2000 and 2001 before illness
took him away from the game for a period of time. He did however return to play
for several further HFL clubs before he joined Derek Adam's Ross County
backroom staff during their rise to the SPL.

Gordon returned to
Wick Academy FC during the 2012-13 Season to become a member of Barry Wilson's
background staff.

Ross started his football career as an
apprentice at Ross
County FC
in 2008 playing for the Under 19 Squad before injury forced him out of football
for a spell in May 2010. He returned to football in the SHFL for a short spell
with Brora Rangers until he sustained a bad knee injury which ended his
football career. None the less this didn't deter Ross and he decided to become
a football coach undertaking various SFA coaching badges at various levels and
this led him to becoming a part-time coach in Aug 2010 working with Ross County
FC, Scottish Football
Association and Wick Academy FC.

In April 2012 Ross moved to the Massachusetts in USA after successfully applying to
become the Mass Premier Soccer (MPS) School of Excellence Director (SOE) where
he successfully guided two of their youth teams into 1^st place in
their respective soccer leagues.

He returned home to Scotland
in November 2012 at the end of the Soccer Season and was once again offered
part time coaching positions working for the SFA, Ross County
FC and Wick Academy FC as
well as helping Halkirk United in the North Reserve League. 

Ross started his new post as Wick Academy FC
Club Development Officer on the 3^rd Feb 2014.

Ross is currently working towards his UEFA B
licence and hopes to add that to his already impressive Coaching CV.

Alan
Farquhar
Wick Academy
FC
Interim Chairman/Secretary