Gardner Speirs

Gardner Speirs
Personal information
Full name	Walter Gardner Speirs
Date of birth	14 April 1963 (1963-04-14) (age 48)
Place of birth	Airdrie, Scotland
Playing position	Midfielder (retired)
Club information
Current club	Queens Park (manager)
Youth career
-1980	St. Mirren B.C.
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1980-1989	St. Mirren	90	(16)
1988	→ Kilmarnock (loan)	5	(0)
1989	→ Dunfermline Athletic (loan)	4	(0)
1989	Hartlepool United	1	(0)
1990	Airdrieonians	9	(1)
1990-1991	Bathgate Thistle
1991-1992	East Stirlingshire	19	(2)
Teams managed
1996-1998	Clyde
2002	Aberdeen (caretaker)
2005-2006	Ross County (caretaker)
2008-	Queen's Park
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

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

He is currently manager of Glasgow amateurs Queen's Park.

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

Career

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]

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 became manager at Queen's Park after taking over from Billy Stark in 2008, and extended his contract at the end of the 2009-10 season for a further two years.^[5]

Notes

^ "GARDNER SPEIRS". Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database. http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player1/gardnerspeirs.htm. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
^ "Dons appoint Speirs". BBC Sport. 5 December 2002. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aberdeen/2546037.stm. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
^ "County stick with interim Speirs". BBC Sport. 9 March 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/ross_county/4790440.stm. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
^ "McCall outlines new Partick plans". BBC Sport. 30 May 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/partick_thistle/6700451.stm. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
^ "Manager Gardner Speirs extends Queen's Park contract". BBC Sport. 20 May 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/q/queens_park/8695489.stm. Retrieved 21 May 2010.

External links

Gardner Speirs management career stats at Soccerbase

Queen's Park F.C. – current squad

GK Parry GK Strain DF Baillie DF Bradley DF Brough DF Gallacher DF Little DF McGinn DF Meggatt DF Sinclair MF Anderson MF Capuano MF Kennedy MF Lachlan MF Murray MF O'Hara MF Quinn MF Stewart FW Burns FW Daly FW Longworth FW Murray FW Smith FW Watt Manager: Speirs

Clyde F.C. – managers

Jack (1905–09)
Thompson (1922–34)
Moreland (1934–37)
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)
C. 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)
J. Brown (2008–09)
McCormack (2009–10)
Millar (2010–11)
Duffy (2011–)

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 & Scott (1988–91)
Smith (1991–92)
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 (2004–09)
McGhee (2009–10)
Brown (2010–present)

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 (2007–10) McStay (2010–11) Calderwood (2011) Adams (2011–)

Queen's Park F.C. – managers

Turnbull (1963–65) Davis (1965–68) Duncan (1968–74) McParland (1974–76) Gilroy (1976–79) Hunter (1979–94) McCann (1995–97) Elder (1997–98) McCormack (1998–2002) Brannigan (2003–04) Stark (2004–08) Speirs (2008–)

Persondata
Name	Speirs, Gardner
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	14 April 1963
Place of birth	Airdrie, Scotland
Date of death
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