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Watt Wins Award

STRANRAER manager Neil Watt rounded off a highly successful year for the club when he was named Bell's Third Division Manager of the Year last week.

Having led the Stair Park club to the Scottish Third Division title at the first time of asking, picking up five manager of the month gongs along the way, Watt was rewarded at a swanky awards dinner in the Gleneagles Hotel on Thursday.

After receiving his award from host Jim Delahunt of STV and Lord and Lady MacFarlane on behalf of sponsors Bell's, Watt paid tribute to his squad of players. He said:

"This is all very flattering and I am delighted to receive the accolade. But I see it more as a team award.

"The players have been fantastic this season."

Watt, a director with a Glasgow property firm, played for Stranraer in the late 1980's and was installed as manager last May after the resignation of Billy McLaren.