Gardner Speirs

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Gardner Speirs
Personal information
Full name	Walter Gardner Speirs
Date of birth	April 14, 1963 (1963-04-14) (age 45)
Place of birth	Airdrie, Scotland
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
	St Mirren → Kilmarnock (loan) → Dunfermline Athletic (loan) Hartlepool United Airdrieonians Bathgate Thistle East Stirlingshire	90 (16) 05 0(0) 04 0(0) 01 0(0) 09 0(1) 0? 0(?) 19 0(2)
Teams managed
1996–1998 2002 2005–2006 2008-	Clyde Aberdeen (caretaker) Ross County (caretaker) Queens Park
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Walter Gardner Speirs (born 14 April 1963 in Airdrie, Scotland) is a Scottish former footballer and manager.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Playing 1.2 Managerial 2 Notes 3 External links

[edit] Career

[edit] Playing

During his playing career, Speirs played for St Mirren, Kilmarnock (on loan), Dunfermline Athletic (on loan), Hartlepool United, Airdrieonians, Bathgate Thistle and East Stirlingshire.^[1]

[edit] Managerial

He was on the coaching staff at Clyde, and from 1996 to 1998 held the position of Manager. Subsequently he joined the coaching staff at Aberdeen, eventually taking the role of assistant manager and in December 2002 was briefly named caretaker manager following the resignation of Ebbe Skovdahl.^[2] He worked as caretaker manager of Ross County in October 2005 until the end of the 2005–06 season.^[3] He became assistant manager of Partick Thistle in May 2007.^[4] He is now Head Coach at Queen's Park FC taking over from Billy Stark in 2008.

Gardner Speirs was very close friends with Ian MacCall and John Henry at Partick Thistle, and hopes to keep in touch with them even though he's moved to Queens Park. He also has one mean handshake and he WILL crush your hand.

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Gardner Speirs management career stats at Soccerbase

v • d • e Clyde F.C. – Managers Moreland (1930's) • Thomson (193?–37) • Travers (1938–56) • Haddow (1956–63) • Prentice (1963–66) • White (1966–67) • Wright (1967) • Robertson (1968–73) • Anderson (1973–76) • Clinton (1976–77) • McNeill (1977) • Brown (1977–87) • Clark (1987–92) • Smith (1992–96) • Speirs (1996–98) • McDonald (1998) • Maitland (1998–02) • Kernaghan (2002–04) • Reid (2004–05) • Roberts (2005–06) • Miller (2006–07) • Hendry (2007-08) • Brown (2008-Present) •

v • d • e Aberdeen F.C. – Managers Philip (1903–23) • Travers (1923–38) • Halliday (1938–55) • Shaw (1955–59) • Pearson (1959–65) • Turnbull (1965–71) • Bonthrone (1971–75) • MacLeod (1975–77) • McNeill (1977–78) • Ferguson (1978–86) • Porterfield (1986–88) • Smith (1988–92) • Scott (1988–92) • W. Miller (1992–95) • Aitken (1995–97) • A. Miller (1997–98) • Burkinshaw (1998–99) • Hegarty (1999) • Skovdahl (1999–2002) • Speirs (2002) • Paterson (2002–04) • Calderwood (2004–)

v • d • e Ross County F.C. – Managers Wilson (1987–96) • Cooper (1996–02) • Smith (2002–05) • Robertson (2005) • Speirs (2005–06) • Leitch (2006–07) • Campbell (2007) • Adams (2007–-) •