Category: Club News

Broxburn Athletic  have added to the club , a club chaplain  . Our chaplain is a local lad Andrew MacPherson who has been trained by the S.F.A Chaplain Mark Fleming who organises all chaplain’s for all the clubs in Scotland .Andrew is in fact the grandson of one of our follow us everywhere supporter’s Jack Rutherford . Andrew was introduced to the senior players at Tuesday’s training and starts his role with immediate effect . Andrew will be a confidant to all at the club should they wish to use his service ,with any problems that life can throw at them in this day and age .We welcome him to the club and hope he does not have too many problems to deal with .

.Andrew in the middle with coach Brian McNaughton and Sport Chaplaincy organiser Mark Fleming .

Some details on Sports Club Chaplaincy

History of Sports Chaplaincy Scotland
Sports Chaplaincy Scotland effectively began in 1998 when Mark Fleming was appointed as chaplain to Partick Thistle FC. His appointment came in the aftermath of what was probably the most turbulent time in their history when the club had just been saved from extinction by their fans’ fundraising efforts. At that time four other Scottish clubs were known to have chaplains.
John Boyers, chaplain to Manchester United FC and founder of SCORE (the original name of Sports Chaplaincy UK) made regular trips up North to encourage his Scottish counterparts and suggested that Mark start to visit other clubs to offer to source and train chaplains for them. In 2004, Mark appointed chaplains at Kilmarnock FC and St Mirren FC respectively.

From 2008 Mark was invited by the Scottish FA to deliver a seminar on the basics and benefits of chaplaincy within football at the UEFA A Licence coaching course. By the following year, the number of chaplains in SPFL clubs grew to 22 and by 2011, 36 out of the 42 SPFL clubs had chaplains (the number now stands at 40).
By this stage clubs from the Highland League, Lowland League, Women’s Premier League and the Junior Football Association also began to make enquiries about having a chaplain and by 2014 Mark became full-time in his role as pastoral support director for Scottish football in order to continue to lead the way forward.
Today there are upwards of 100 chaplains at football clubs in Scotland and Mark also serves as chaplain to the Scottish FA.

Catriona Lamont is Sports Chaplaincy Scotland administrator as well as being chaplain to Hibernian Women FC.

 

Broxburn Athletic Football club have applied for their club Licence with the S.F.A. . We have got past the first hurdle with the Licence committee putting our application forward to the S.F.A board and we await the next board meeting .This has been a costly exercise undertaken by the club itself with no effect on the community club business . We have opened a Go Fund Me page and would appreciate if you could go to the link and donate as much as you can to help raise the funds needed to complete the works needed to gain the licence  Any donation will be greatly appreciated and we can look forward to entry into the Scottish Cup and avenues for grants etc once the licence has been granted .Once again we would like to thank you in advance for your continued support that will set the club up for future generations to come .

 

LINK     www.gofundme.com/BroxburnAthleticFC

All ways going to be tough these fixtures as we are there to be knocked down. We were comfortably well ahead in the first half . The penalty save in the first knockings of the second half gave St Andrews a lift all though they rarely threatened.  Two goals from Ross Nimmo and Christopher Townsley in the first half proved crucial as an own goal from Shaun Harrison gave the visitors a life line but we kept calm and seen the game out for three important points . Their goalkeeper had an inspirational afternoon with a few superb saves never mind the excellent penalty save and on an other day the win could have been more comfortable.

The draw for the League Championship play off’s has been made and is as follows  ;-

SATURDAY 27TH APRIL : WINNERS OF LEAGUE A V WINNERS OF LEAGUE C

TUE 30TH APRIL OR WED 1ST MAY : WINNERS OF LEAGUE B V

WINNERS OF LEAGUE A

SATURDAY 4TH MAY  : WINNERS OF LEAGUE C V  WINNERS OF LEAGUE B

Games will be played over ninety minutes with usual three points for a win , should there be a draw at the end of ninety minutes a penalty shoot out will take place for a extra point to try and avoid any stale mate at the end of the round robin matches .

What a result against one of our rivals for the Conference “C” division title and a big step to our destiny. Two first half goals from Alexander Miller and Cameron Ross with a counter for Jeanfield Swifts from Rhys Davies gave us the slight edge on the first half . Jeanfield got on level terms within a minute of the restart  .To set up an edgy second half but a goal from Cameron Ross with four minutes sealed the win and the valuable three points .With Linlithgow Rose dropping points at home in a 3-3 draw with bottom club Ormiston  it leaves our fortune in our own hands . As long as the players keep their feet on the ground and continue to play the way they have been doing with great determination we wont be far away at the end of the season . The player’s will note the result at Prestonfield and not take anything for granted as it could come back to bite them .Keep up the good work boy’s . (full report on website under matches )

We have been issued with fixtures up until the 20th of April 2019 .This includes all our remaining league matches  they are listed below and include the two cup ties we have to play also .

SATURDAY 16TH FEBRUARY

BROXBURN ATHLETIC V JEANFIELD SWIFTS  LEAGUE “C”  2-30PM

SATURDAY 23RD FEBRUARY

BROXBURN ATHLETIC V ST ANDREWS UNITED   LEAGUE “C” 2-30PM

SATURDAY 2ND MARCH

BROXBURN ATHLETIC V DUNIPACE   KING CUP 1ST ROUND  2-30PM

SATURDAY 9TH MARCH

BROXBURN ATHLETIC V STIRLING UNIVERSITY (eos) LEAGUE “C” 2-30PM

SATURDAY 16TH MARCH

ST ANDREWS UNITED V BROXBURN ATHLETIC  LEAGUE “C” 2-30PM

SATURDAY 23RD MARCH

BROXBURN ATH or DUNIPACE V DUNBAR or COLDSTREAM KING CUP 2ND RND

SATURDAY 30TH MARCH

CRAIGROYSTON V BROXBURN ATHLETIC  LEAGUE “C” 2-30PM

SATURDAY 6TH APRIL

DUNBAR UNITED V BROXBURN ATHLETIC LEAGUE CUP 1ST RND 2-30PM

SATURDAY 13TH APRIL

ORMISTON V BROXBURN ATHLETIC   LEAGUE “C” 2-30PM

SATURDAY 20TH APRIL

STIRLING UNIVERSITY (eos)  V BROXBURN ATHLETIC LEAGUE “C”  2-30PM

As we thought this game was tough with the home side felling disappointed they lost by a 4-1 score line  .It was an uncomfortable afternoon with the conditions playing a big factor with strong winds blowing all day . Two first half goals from Scott and Nimmo  set us up .But Inverkeithing got a goal back on the hour mark through a cracking free kick from Francis . It took a penalty from Cameron Ross with two minutes remaining to relieve the pressure and an injury time Greg Binnie counter made the score respectable if not flattering . Full report on the website under matches . I will take results like this until the end of the season if it means bringing silverware to the club and in the end that is our target .