Author: Broxburn

Our reward for our William Hill Scottish Cup first round win is a trip to Football league side Cowdenbeath away from home on the 19th of October . Another top match and a tough one that we will welcome .The players will relish putting their efforts against a league side .A big day for the club ,a big day for the town and all ready it looks like a big support will follow us over the bridge .More details on entry monies and match details will be posted in due course .

Tonight on the BBC Scotland channel at 7-15pm we will find out who we play in the second round of the cup . The goals from all of yesterday’s games will also be shown as the camera’s were at all the first round matches .

What a cup tie and the scenes at the third and final whistle were very pleasing to the eye .A great game with both teams giving their all to achieve their passage into the next round draw . Three goals from Alexander Miller the third after East Stirlingshire had got back on level terms through Evan Horne on 45 minutes and Andrew Rodgers on 84 minutes made a dramatic finale to the game .A full match report is on the website under matches courtesy of Kieran Polland who studied media studies at college and is looking to get a move in to sport’s reporting ,we thank him for his report . Match programmes were sold out on Saturday we intend to approach our printers Currie print to see if it is possible to get some more .If this is possible we will advertise on the website and our media streams .

The third round of the SFA South Challenge cup was drawn today and Broxburn Athletic were drawn away to Dunbar United  which is scheduled to be played on Saturday the 12th of October with a 2-30pm kick off . The full draw is as follows    PENICUIK ATH V HILL OF BEATH ; CIVIL SERVICE STROLLERS V KELTY HEARTS ; BLACKBURN UTD V EAST STIRLINGSHIRE ; CAMELON V HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY ; UPPER ANNANDALE V TRANENT ; BONNYRIGG ROSE V THREAVE ROVERS ; BSC GLASGOW V GALA FAIRYDEAN ; NITSDALE WANDERERS V BONNYTON THISTLE ; EASTHOUSE’S V EAST KILBRIDE ; CUMBERNAULD COLTS V JEANFIELD SWIFTS ; HESTON ROVERS V LINLITHGOW ROSE ; SPARTANS V UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING ; CALEDONIAN BRAVES V MUSSELBURGH ATHLETIC ; CRAIGROYSTON V PRESTON ATHLETIC ; DUNBAR UTD V BROXBURN ATHLETIC ; DUNIPACE V GLENROTHES .  Ties Scheduled to be played Saturday the 12th of October subject to clubs ground sharing .

A good win over Lowland League opposition was  ideal tonic as our depleted squad turned up for the match today . Goals from Scott Richards , Greg Binnie and an own goal  set us up for a third round tie that will be drawn in Dumfries tomorrow afternoon .Edinburgh University did get one back to make it 2-1 almost half way through the second half but I don’t think they will have any complaints about the final result .

A narrow but comfortable 3-2 win at Blackburn was a much better overall performance than the previous week with a three goal lead through Craig Scott, Ross Nimmo and Greg Binnie had us very comfortable . Two late goals from the home side made what was a comfortable afternoon a bit nervy we certainly deserved our win . Full report in matches in due course .

The Development 20’s had two games last week and had a creditable 2-2 draw away at Kelty Hearts  despite through injury were down to ten men with 20 minutes to go and 9 men with 15 minutes and only lost a equalising goal for the home side in the 7th minute of injury time .Friday night’s game was a bit different at home to Camelon at Clifton Hall .We lost 6-0 to Camelon development 20’s with us losing our centre half at 0-0 for a goal scoring opportunity tackle that saw him see red after 15 minutes making it tough for the tem men . We learn from every game and with no game this week we can regroup at training and get over some of the injuries before the next challenge .

Kristopher Goss has at last been cleared by the English  F.A. to play his football in Scotland .Kristopher has moved into the town from the North East of England where he played up front for Washington A.F.C. We welcome the big striker to the Albyn park and wish him well at the club where he has been training for the past fortnight while waiting for clearance .On Tuesday evening experienced central midfielder  John Grant signed for the club and will bring a wealth of experience and we welcome him to the club . His former club was Spartans amongst others . We are sure these two will enhance the squad and they go straight into the squad for Saturday’s away match at Blackburn United .