One of the only teams to respond to my gumtree advert with an astonishingly similar history to ourselves, Wester Hailes Baptist Church made the trek out to Fisherrow to be welcomed with a brilliant and balmy East Lothian night. A totally unknown side to anybody they only started up at the end of 2008 and [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 25, 2009
Match Reaction vs Haddington Athletic FC Juniors 24/3/2009
The recipe for an entertaining football match would presumably consist of all the factors present last night. Take 1 promising team of underdogs, mix with one fine established team in a well lit grassy surfaced sprinkled with a salty gale and bake for 90 minutes.
March 23, 2009
Match Report vs Teuchters FC 22/3/2009
With the fixtures drying up and a fairly fruitless search for new opposition I turned to the ever faithful Richie from Teuchters if they would fancy a match. Despite the fact their previous three games had been against us they kindly obliged to keep us in games. The games close proximity to our showpiece fixture [...]
March 16, 2009
Fixture Rescheduling vs Haddington Atheltic FC
Due to the short notice Fisherrow was already booked up further in advance than I had previously envisaged, unfortunately this means we have had to reschedule the game for Tuesday the 24th. Also got a fixture to announce, to give us another game and keep the ball rolling I’ve arranged a fixture against Teuchters FC [...]
March 15, 2009
Fixture Announcement vs Haddington Atheltic FC
Alright folks, after putting out a post on gumtree looking for opposition for friendlies I recieved some very positive responses. The most effective of these game from Haddington Athletic, a team in the East Region South Division of the Scottish Junior FA set up. Essentially what we’re dealing with here is a team from the [...]
March 9, 2009
Latest News 9/3/2009
Alright, not really much to report but felt a wee update was necessary. Feedback from the Witchery game is 100% positive. Everybody was wholly able to walk away from the game with head held high and the progress from the last match is truly massive. Consensus is that we are building up a good head [...]
March 4, 2009
Match Report vs 1811 Witchery FC 3/3/2009
With two different groups to prove a point to we were massively fired up for the big rematch we had all been waiting for. Primarily we were out to settle the score from the last match where we were drubbed 8-0 on the astroturf at St Daves. Secondly after some intense and seething criticism from [...]
March 1, 2009
Line Up Announcement 1/3/2009
An idea of Owen’s was to put up the starting 11 on the website to avoid any issues with people claiming they didn’t know they were playing and hence not bringing their match fee with them and other similar nonsense. So for the first team here’s the VAFC starting line up for the game on [...]
March 1, 2009
Team Update 1/3/2009
Alright, just a quick shout. Firstly to say that instead of going to the arctic wastes of Craigmillar to watch the Witchery I stayed in bed, both yesterday and today. In my defense I was working till about 3am on Saturday morning, and as for this morning I had to get stuck into some of [...]
