We have set up three friendlies for pre season so far and they are as follows .
Saturday 13th July home to Civil Service Strollers 2-30pm kick off
Tuesday 16th July to be confirmed
Saturday 20th July away to Clydebank 2-30pm kick off
Tuesday 23rd July home Whitehill Welfare 7-30pm kick off
The season starts on Saturday the 27th of July
On Friday evening the players are having an end of season night out in town .Prior to this they will meet at the Albyn park for some thing to eat . After they have eaten , the Player of The Year presentation will take place ,after the presentations the players will be in the big room for a couple of hours to meet and greet any supporters and sponsors that wish to attend . All supporter’s of the club are welcome and the bar will be open for a couple of hours .Hope you can attend the players would like to see you there too .
Re signing talks have went well and the following have all re signed for season 2019 / 2020 .
Connor Wallace , Gordon Donaldson , Jack Beesley , Craig Scott , Chris Townsley , Shaun Harrison , Craig Purves , Nicholas Locke , Gavin Grant , Michael Linton , Alexander Miller , Connor Kelly , Ross Nimmo , Andrew Gillen and Greg Binnie . Dominico Gibson and Cameron Ross have another year on their existing contract . .
New faces are being actively sought and there will be moves as soon as contracts are completed and season ends .
The format for the league set up for 2019 / 2020 , has been decided by the board and is as follows . The Premier League will consist of BLACKBURN UTD , BONESS UTD , BONNYRIGG ROSE/WHITEHILL WELFARE (subject to any appeal by Bonnyrigg Rose ) , BROXBURN ATHLETIC , CAMELON , CROSSGATES PRIMROSE , DUNBAR UTD , DUNDONALD BLUEBELL , HILL of BEATH , JEANFIELD SWIFTS , LINLITHGOW ROSE , MUSSELBURGH ATH , NEWTONGRANGE STAR , PENICUIK ATH , SAUCHIE AND TRANENT .
The First division will be split in two with both leagues playing 17 games each home and away as follows they will play each other in their own conference league home and away once ,they will also play every club in the other conference only once either home or away but will be of equal standing .
CONFERENCE A BURNTISLAND SHIPYARD , CRAIGROYSTON , DUNIPACE , EYEMOUTH UTD , HADDINGTON ATH , HERIOT WATT UNI , LEITH ATHLETIC , LOTHIAN THISTLE HV , OAKLEY UTD , ORMISTON , PEEBLE ROVERS AND ST ANDREWS .
CONFERENCE B ARNISTON RANGERS ,COLDSTREAM , DALKEITH TH , EASTHOUSES LILY , EDINBURGH UTD , GLENROTHES , HAWICK RAU , INVERKEITHING HILLFIELD SWIFTS , PRESTON ATH , STIRLING UNI eos , TWEEDMOUTH RANGERS AND TYNECASTLE .
At the end of the season the bottom three in the Premier League will be relegated with the two First Division champions promoted .the runner’s up in the First division Conference leagues will play off home and away to gain the third promotion spot .
The League will start on Saturday the 27th of July with league games as the East of Scotland Qualifying league will be suspended for the season and the East of Scotland league cup will be a knock out competition played in the spring with no seeding .
This will be ratified at the East of Scotland A.G.M. on Thursday the 6th of June
Like several other clubs when the Lowland League asked for applications, if there was an imbalance at the end of the season a club may have been able to join the Lowland league by applying . Today it was confirmed that with Berwick Rangers being relegated to the Lowland league and no club with license being promoted then no club would be relegated from the Lowland league the Lowland League would have it’s full compliment of 16 clubs including Whitehill Welfare resulting in no applications were being accepted at this time . .
This week’s Key draw was won by Iain Fairlie c/o Response Building Maintenance and he collected £50 but failed to pick the right key to open the jackpot box . Next week;s draw on Sunday the 19th of May will have a jackpot of £1050 and only 6 keys left to pick from to open the jackpot box
A disappointing way to end the season knowing we can play better than we did today and ultimately ended our season sooner than we would have liked .We would like to thank our support that has followed us in numbers this season and hopefully will continue to grow next season in the new Premier league in the East of Scotland league .We would like to thank our sponsors and all the helpers with whom not we would not be able to compete at this level and higher in our ambitions .Hard work starts now to gather in sponsorship and funding to help us be challenging next season .If you know of any company you may think can help we have a range of packages to suit .Please contact the committee in the first instance ,once again we thank you .
Broxburn Athletic Football Club have been granted SFA membership and with it we will be issued with our entry level Licence .This will be ratified at the SFA AGM on the 12th of June . I big thank you goes out to all involved with the processing in getting everything in place to satisfy the licence criteria . Well done to all with a special mention to Alan Cunningham and Christopher Townsley who worked tirelessly to collate all the material and documentation in place for our application .This gives us the opportunity to go forward and will be doing our utmost to improve and successfully lead the club to more success and build on our achievements this season .With your help we can make it happen so keep “Backing The Burn ” .
This week’s keydraw was won by Andrew Reilly c/o The Greentree who won £50 but failed to pick the right key to open the jackpot box and next week’s draw on Sunday the 12th of May will have a jackpot of £1000 with only 7 keys left to pick from to open the jackpot box
So near yet so far ,when up 2-0 we were in a great position but credit to Bonnyrigg who never gave up and their ten men secured the title in the last ten minutes . We can be proud of the effort of the players this season and giving us the dream . We will be playing in the newly formed premier league next season which everybody knows will probably be a better league to play our football in and competition will be better for the club. Yes we would have took the promotion but it is not the end of the world as expressed earlier . We can still win silverware with Tranent in our way next week at Forrester’s park in the third round of the King cup with a Trip to Newtongrange in the quarter final awaiting the victors .
