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Fixture Announcement vs 1811 Witchery FC

treestump89 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:02:38 +0000

Alright, finally managed to pin down a decent fixture against the Witchery this sunday up at St Daves. Unfortunately its on astro but should be a quality game. Keeping this post brief because I’m cripplingly exhausted.

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Apologies 27/10/2009

treestump89 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:55:06 +0000

Sorry for the extremely long break, summer came along, pitches dried up, and numerous other shenanigans. The Owen Coyle Super League title still lies undecided, but will come to a resolution shortly. One extremely outrageous development over this break was the decision by East Lothian Council to only allow one pitch at Fisherrow to be used each night. This was in response to feedback from users that the pitches got wrecked because of overuse. I don’t know what users, because they sure as hell didnt ask me. The problem last year was inclement weather, not overuse, and this situation has left us scrambling for pitches and having to use Monday nights for our next two games. However, at least we’ve got fixtures lined up now. The first of which a friendly against Owen Coyle Super League opponents Sykes FC. A match hotly awaited after Sykes extinguished our hopes of the title in their victory at the hallowed grounds of Fisherrow. Our second upcoming fixture is against longtime rivals 1811 witchery that promises goals galore as our first encounter saw a horsing at Fisherrow but a 30 yard goal for VAFC, and another outing resulting in a 4-4 draw. Hopefully everyone’s fired up for these games and haven’t developed any variety of belly in the long break between games.

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Credit Crunch Hits Community Football

treestump89 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:03:25 +0000

Bit of a crisis, new york mellon bank let go of several members of the football team and made them redundant. Unsurprisingly they are not up for representing the very institution that has shamelessly cast them aside. However all is not lost, I am working hard to find another team at outrageously short notice and will keep everyone up to date with the situation.

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Fixture and League Announcement 26/5/2009

treestump89 — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:33:48 +0000

Some major developments in the footballing world in the past couple of days. Firstly the pressing on of establishing the much lauded summer league. After only managing to find 4 teams ready to aprticipate its a little poor but still proves a vital chance for VAFC to scoop some early silverware. The confirmed teams are us, Teuchters FC, Dunbar FC, and also Sykes FC, a building works team based in Sighthill. As i said before everyone plays each other twice on a fortnightly basis, home and away. The fixture list is not completed as of yet, but our first fixture is against Sykes FC at Peffermill on the 4th of June, 7pm Kick off. Unfortunately we couldn’t get Fisherrow as in their infinite wisdom and continuous support for community football the council have chosen as usual to close both pitches over summer. However this shouldn’t prove too much of a deterrent as VAFC march their way to league glory.

Myself and Richie have been searching for a name for the league, with his best suggestion being the MILF league(MIdLothian Football League), a good one of mines was the BEER League (Best of Edinburgh and East Region League). However due to revelations from my trip down to Wembley to follow the Clarets I have decided that it shall be known as the Owen Coyle Super League until anybody suggests otherwise.

Doo doo doo do Owen Coyle.

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Fixture Announcement 20/5/2009

treestump89 — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:49:39 +0000

Howdy, everything went quiet for a bit there but after a successful gumtree ad campaign managed to pick up a couple contacts and potential games. One of the teams to get back to me was Blackhall St Columbas who play in the same league as the infamous Westerhailes Baptist Church. We’ve arranged a fixture for the 28th of May with a 7.30pm kick off, usual story, players turn up at 6.30pm for warm up and nets. Staggs fans have been allocated 25,000 tickets for the showpiece fixture with Blackhall fans asked by Fisherrow stewards to occupy the north ‘cooncil hooses’ stand.

In all seriousness it would be quality to get some folk along to this so i may stick up a poster in the pub.

See you there

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Fixture Announcement 3/5/2009

treestump89 — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:16:03 +0000

Finally. After weeks of footballing disappointment ranging from a truly dire lack of fixtures, a truly mediocre string of performances from an Edinburgh team beginning with H, and disastrous cancellations I have managed to book us a good solid fixture etched into stone. However this was not without problems.

Firstly as you know the Westerhailes squad diced with death with an eleventh hour fixture cancellation to watch a fairly drab encounter between Man Utd and Arsenal on tv. Fair play if they actually had tickets to sit next to Fergie or were on the squad list for either team, but the stone cold reality is they were collectively screaming at a picture of Manuel Almunia being fantastic.

But anyway after much wrangling over the date it has been set in stone, Monday the 11th of May at Meadowmill with a 7pm kick off. This unfortunate location has come about due to Fisherrow being totally booked up, presumably due to a backlog of various league fixtures. But however it’s not a massive problem and we’ll try and organise as many cars as we can to take us there. Westerhailes have insisted on supplying the ref, but I’ve been warned by Amos of the Witchery that in a 6-2 Westerhailes pounding of them that the supplied ref was fairly questionable, its fairly obvious how to deal with this and like a professional manager/captain/secretary/president I will fully respect the official in question.

Anyways, see you at sunny Meadowmill.

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Outrageous Cancellation! 28/4/2009

treestump89 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:15:16 +0000

I am absolutely outraged! Let me make it clear that this is in no way Kevin of Westerhailes fault. It is his ridiculous players fault who have decided today that they’re going to watch the champions league tomorrow instead of playing for their team. This is pretty irresponsible as it was them that picked the date and knew the fixtures were on this week. Completely and utterly out of order and its cost Kevin 20 quid in a cancellation fee for the ref so I can only assume this tripe will never happen again. Once again, I am outraged.

Fixture Announcement 25/4/2009

treestump89 — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:34:31 +0000

Howdy, I’ve finally returned from most rural spain, and after enjoying copious amounts of chorizo and taking in Valencia vs Sevilla im now ready for a glorious return to business. While I was away I managed to organise a fixture against Valencia Reserves at fisherrow on Wednesday at 7.30pm. But unfortunately they’ve crumbled under the weight of our reputation and Westerhailes Baptist Church FC have stepped in to fill the shoes of David Villa’s underlings. They did want us to go out to the Gyle but they have decided its for the best to come to Fisherrow because of the floodlighting. However they have insisted on supplying the ref, which is pretty much fair enough. So it will be the usual arrangement, all the lads get there for 6.30pm for a 7.30pm kick off. Should be a pretty exciting encounter after we beat them last time and we need to really hit them for six this time and give them the beltage.

On another issue myself, Owen and Clarky fired through to Dunbar last night to turn out for Teuchters against Dunbar F.C. Was good to get a run around after a long break, but unfortunately we succumbed to a 4-0 defeat that saw a small ginger striker from Musselburgh put a penalty astray (his identity remains unknown).

After almost a month off its going to be brilliant to get back into the famous green and purple and bang in the goals again. I look forward to seeing you there.

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Fixture Jiggery Pokery 7/4/2009

treestump89 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:05:28 +0000

Right, no fixture this week. Essentially the main trouble is too short notice, being in Shetland, or being in Plockton. However there have been plenty offers for next week from 1811 Witchery FC, Arthur’s Feet FC, and also Wester Hailes have asked us to make an epic trek to the Gyle for a game. Not entirely sure about that proposal as it is gonna be played on a pitch without floodlights at 6.30, a definite gamble there. Most likely solution is a game against either Arthur’s Feet or 1811 Witchery. Will of course keep you informed as always.

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More Fixture News 6/4/2009

treestump89 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:19:10 +0000

Unfortunately due to the promising start 1811 Witchery FC aren’t able to get a squad together for Wednesday. Gordon’s Napier mate is also unable to get a team together due to them losing their league on the last day of the season. So now I’ve opted for the last resort and asked Wester Hailes if they fancy another crack at the famous Deuchars and Fags. Hopefully I’ll be able to confirm in the next 24 hours but as you can now come to expect time will only tell.

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