Stuart Millar (born 16 May 1965), is a Scottish former

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player and

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who is club ambassador at

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Career

Millar was born in

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. He began his playing career with his home town club

, where he scored on his full debut at 17 years of age. He then joined

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, where he failed to make the breakthrough to the first team. He moved onto First Division club Montrose. He then signed for

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, becoming Craig Brown's last signing as Clyde manager. He enjoyed the best spell of his career with Clyde, playing over 100 times for the club in four years. He then moved on to play for

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and

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. Stuart also had a successful spell playing in Cyprus with 1st Division club

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. Whilst he was there the Cypriot club qualified for the

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. Following successful spells in junior football management with Carluke Rovers and Cumbernauld United, where they won four promotions, he became assistant manager at

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, under

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. They were at Stair Park from 2003 until 2006. Highlights included winning the Third Division title in their first season, followed by a further successive promotion from the

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to the First Division. A record of their time at Stair Park is in Stuart's charity book - Stranraer FC - "The Neil Watt Years", which was published in 2009. Millar was the chief scout at Ross County, a position he held from October 2007 to April 2010. Millar was appointed head coach of

, but on 2 February 2011 he was sacked by Clyde. Millar returned to his former position at Ross County in the summer of 2011. Millar resigned in the wake of manager

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and director of football George Adams being sacked. He was appointed to a scouting position with

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in October 2014. He joined

as chief scout in 2015, before leaving the club two years later to join Stranraer as head of recruitment. Millar then took up the position of Director of Football from April 2018 to March 2019 and was Director of Football at Airdrieonians until February 2021. He became a scout at

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in September 2021.

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