Alex Meechan Signs
ALEX JOINS ROBINS
Altrincham FC have signed striker Alex Meechan who spent the last six months of last season with Stalybridge Celtic where he netted ten times in approximately 30 appearances.
Stalybridge Celtic say that "Alex started as a trainee at Swindon Town, signing professional forms in 1997, aged seventeen. Playing mostly for the reserves, he made one substitute appearance, before signing at Bristol City in 1998. During his two year stint at Bristol, he made sixteen appearances and scored four times. His best period came when he joined Forest Green Rovers in the Conference in November 2000, where he went on to make a hundred and thirty-six appearances and score forty-two goals. A couple of loan spells, one to Yeovil and one two Dagenham before he was released to join Leigh RMI at the start of the 2004/05 season. He was ever-present for Leigh, making fifteen appearances and scoring once before signing for Halifax in November 2004 for the remainder of the season. First team appearances were hard to come by, and he re-signed for Forest Green at the start of the 2005/06 season, making another seventy appearances and scoring a further seven goals. In the January transfer window of 2007 he joined Chester to the end of the season, but did not get a good run in the side, and at the start of the 2007/08 season joined York, scoring once in his seven appearances". The website at Forest Green quotes from “Something to Shout About, The History of Forest Green Rovers AFC” (Tempus Publishing Ltd ) - "Heroes of the new millennium - Steve Perrin, Alex Meechan, Jim Harvey... Another great servant to the Club this decade was Alex Meechan, currently the Club’s leading scorer in the Conference and with most appearances as well. Alex always promised much and was a handful going forward, and scored some memorable goals in a Rovers shirt since joining in 2000".