Saturday, December 31, 2005
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Goal Scoring To Date After 12 Games
LIAM CRICHTON - 12 GOALS
RYAN KELLY- 12 GOALS
SCOTT MITCHELL - 11 GOALS
SAM HILL - 8 GOALS
JACK KERR - 6 GOALS
DREW WATSON - 5 GOALS
DARREN SMITH - 3 GOALS
THOMAS MCGUIRE - 3 GOALS
ROSS MCDONAGH - 3 GOALS
CAMERON GIBSON - 2 GOALS
GARY MCCULOCH - 1 GOAL
SCOTT GRAHAM - 1 GOAL
DEAN ARROL - 1 GOAL
Played 12 - Won 12 - Lost 0 - Drawn 0 - Scored 68 - Conceded 29
RYAN KELLY- 12 GOALS
SCOTT MITCHELL - 11 GOALS
SAM HILL - 8 GOALS
JACK KERR - 6 GOALS
DREW WATSON - 5 GOALS
DARREN SMITH - 3 GOALS
THOMAS MCGUIRE - 3 GOALS
ROSS MCDONAGH - 3 GOALS
CAMERON GIBSON - 2 GOALS
GARY MCCULOCH - 1 GOAL
SCOTT GRAHAM - 1 GOAL
DEAN ARROL - 1 GOAL
Played 12 - Won 12 - Lost 0 - Drawn 0 - Scored 68 - Conceded 29
Partick Thistle 2 EKYC 4
The match was a 12 o c'clock kick off on the astro grass at the Firhill Complex, Maryhill. The only player missing was John Dingwall who has broken his arm and will be out till into the New Year. Everyone wishes him a speedy recovery.
The game was played in freezing conditions. The pitch was great, but a little frosty down the left hand side.
EKYC started playing some great football, and the passing was great to see. RYAN KELLY scored the opening goal with a great finish, after some nifty footwork down the left hand side. We had Thistle hemmed in their own half, and some poor finishing kept the score down, and in their first attack, which was a long hopeful punt up the park, YC defenders were too slow to react and the centre forward ran through and beat James Kinniburgh with a shot low into the net.
At the end of the first period it was 1-1, and some changes were made replacing Liam Chrichton who had hurt his back with Ross McDonagh, Cameron Gibson on for Darren Smith, Thomas McGuire for Jack Kerr and Lee Elliot for Gary McCulloch.
Within a minute ROSS MCDONAGH had charged down a short back pass to the Thistle keeper and rolled the ball into the net to make it 2-1.
Thistle again pulled a goal back this time from a short kick out by Kinniburgh, the striker took a touch and then fired it high over James' head and into the net.
A couple more changes were made and we continued to press with some good link up play with Ryan Kelly and ROSS McDONAGH resulting in the latter getting his second of the day with a cool finnish.
We then had 2 goals ruled offside, hit the post and the keeper had a great save before ROSS McDONAGH completed his hat trick with a tap in.
This was a great display on a big park, the boys played some excellant football and kept possession well.
We will try to arrange some games during the festive period.
The game was played in freezing conditions. The pitch was great, but a little frosty down the left hand side.
EKYC started playing some great football, and the passing was great to see. RYAN KELLY scored the opening goal with a great finish, after some nifty footwork down the left hand side. We had Thistle hemmed in their own half, and some poor finishing kept the score down, and in their first attack, which was a long hopeful punt up the park, YC defenders were too slow to react and the centre forward ran through and beat James Kinniburgh with a shot low into the net.
At the end of the first period it was 1-1, and some changes were made replacing Liam Chrichton who had hurt his back with Ross McDonagh, Cameron Gibson on for Darren Smith, Thomas McGuire for Jack Kerr and Lee Elliot for Gary McCulloch.
Within a minute ROSS MCDONAGH had charged down a short back pass to the Thistle keeper and rolled the ball into the net to make it 2-1.
Thistle again pulled a goal back this time from a short kick out by Kinniburgh, the striker took a touch and then fired it high over James' head and into the net.
A couple more changes were made and we continued to press with some good link up play with Ryan Kelly and ROSS McDONAGH resulting in the latter getting his second of the day with a cool finnish.
We then had 2 goals ruled offside, hit the post and the keeper had a great save before ROSS McDONAGH completed his hat trick with a tap in.
This was a great display on a big park, the boys played some excellant football and kept possession well.
We will try to arrange some games during the festive period.
Monday, December 12, 2005
EKYC 4 Strathclyde United 3
At last, after 5 weeks of trying, a game on a Sunday morning. Some late call offs from Lee Elliot, Jamie Cunningham and Liam Crichton left EKYC with a pool of only 14 players to pick from. The pitch was heavy and the conditions were very windy.
We started off the game and it was noticeable that the boys had not played for a while, the usual slick passing and movement was not there. We did have Starthclyde Utd penned back in their own half for long periods but could not take advantage of some great work by the tireless Sam Hill.
Eventually, SAM HILL took the matters into his own hands and scored a great individual goal by firing the ball high into the visitors net from outside the box.
Gary McCulloch was the removed from the field after agravating his back injury, which meant some re shuffling of the team.
Going into the second half 3 changes were made and John Dingwall, Thomas McGuire and Cameron Gibson entered the game.
CAMERON GIBSON added to the scoring to make it 2-0,early in the 2nd half.
The boys seemed to tire a little and allowed Strathclyde back into the game, and after slack defending a soft penalty was awarded for a trip by Scott Graham. The United striker made no mistake and hammered the penalty low past James Kinniburgh to his right.
This seemed to give our opposition hope and a couple of minutes later were awarded another penalty after handball from Darren Smith. this time the taker changed sides and equalised by scoring low to James's left.
At the start of the 3rd period, another mistake in the defence this time from a corner led to United taking a 3-2 lead, and at this time there only looked like being one winner with EKYC looking tired and beaten.
On a rare break, and the first piece of football played all day EKYC got the equaliser and good work from Dean Arrol and Scott Mitchell played SAM HILL in and from a tight angle he rolled the ball into the net.
This seemed to give the boys new hope and after some good work down the right Sam Hill crossed the ball deep to the far post for RYAN KELLY to make it 4-3.
The remainder of the match was played in the United half and once again the team showed good charchter to come back from being a goal down, although the defence mistakes will need to be cut out.
Man of the Match went to the tireless SAM HILL not just for his 2 goals but for his all round play.
The team that started was;Kinniburgh,Arrol,McCulloch,Smith,Graham,McDonagh,Kelly,Park,Kerr,Hill and Mitchell.
We started off the game and it was noticeable that the boys had not played for a while, the usual slick passing and movement was not there. We did have Starthclyde Utd penned back in their own half for long periods but could not take advantage of some great work by the tireless Sam Hill.
Eventually, SAM HILL took the matters into his own hands and scored a great individual goal by firing the ball high into the visitors net from outside the box.
Gary McCulloch was the removed from the field after agravating his back injury, which meant some re shuffling of the team.
Going into the second half 3 changes were made and John Dingwall, Thomas McGuire and Cameron Gibson entered the game.
CAMERON GIBSON added to the scoring to make it 2-0,early in the 2nd half.
The boys seemed to tire a little and allowed Strathclyde back into the game, and after slack defending a soft penalty was awarded for a trip by Scott Graham. The United striker made no mistake and hammered the penalty low past James Kinniburgh to his right.
This seemed to give our opposition hope and a couple of minutes later were awarded another penalty after handball from Darren Smith. this time the taker changed sides and equalised by scoring low to James's left.
At the start of the 3rd period, another mistake in the defence this time from a corner led to United taking a 3-2 lead, and at this time there only looked like being one winner with EKYC looking tired and beaten.
On a rare break, and the first piece of football played all day EKYC got the equaliser and good work from Dean Arrol and Scott Mitchell played SAM HILL in and from a tight angle he rolled the ball into the net.
This seemed to give the boys new hope and after some good work down the right Sam Hill crossed the ball deep to the far post for RYAN KELLY to make it 4-3.
The remainder of the match was played in the United half and once again the team showed good charchter to come back from being a goal down, although the defence mistakes will need to be cut out.
Man of the Match went to the tireless SAM HILL not just for his 2 goals but for his all round play.
The team that started was;Kinniburgh,Arrol,McCulloch,Smith,Graham,McDonagh,Kelly,Park,Kerr,Hill and Mitchell.
EKYC Crowd Go Wild As Pitch Is Declared Playable !
EKYC fans emotions boiled over, as the picture above shows as the game against Strathclyde United passes a late pitch inspection.
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Friendly Match v Partick Thistle arranged 17/12/05
This Sunday is our last LYFDA fixture before Christmas, so we have arranged a friendly for the following SATURDAY 17 DECEMBER.
The game will be against Partick Thistle and will take place at the Firhill Complex, which is an astro grass pitch, in Maryhill near to Partick Thistle' ground.
We will be meeting in Hairmyres Car Park at 1100 to travel through for a 1200 kick off. Hopefully everyone will be able to make it.
Our last indoor training session of the year is in Clairmont High School on Tuesday 13 December.
We are tring to arrange some games and training venues for during the holidays. It may mean meeting some afternoons at Dunedin Playing Fields if the weather is okay, but we hope to keep the boys ticking over and playing football, so that when the new fixtures for 2006 come in, we are not rusty.
The game will be against Partick Thistle and will take place at the Firhill Complex, which is an astro grass pitch, in Maryhill near to Partick Thistle' ground.
We will be meeting in Hairmyres Car Park at 1100 to travel through for a 1200 kick off. Hopefully everyone will be able to make it.
Our last indoor training session of the year is in Clairmont High School on Tuesday 13 December.
We are tring to arrange some games and training venues for during the holidays. It may mean meeting some afternoons at Dunedin Playing Fields if the weather is okay, but we hope to keep the boys ticking over and playing football, so that when the new fixtures for 2006 come in, we are not rusty.
Monday, December 05, 2005
EKYC at Murray Park - 4th December 2005
This Sunday the boys had thier Christmas treat a wee bit early.The boys were taken to Murray Park the training ground of Rangers. They had a tour of the facility and a 1 1/2 hour training session with a coach on the outside astro grass. Yet again the boys excelled themselves, with a few catching the watching eye of the coach. As always they behaved themselves well and were a credit to the club and their parents.
As well as football coaching, they were giving advice on dynamic warm ups and eating habits.
The session was extremely worth while, as everyone, no matter what team they supported(including Queen of the South!!!), enjoyed it.
Hopefully we can do it again in the near future.
Quarter Atletic v EKYC - Match Cancelled
Due to a waterlogged pitch at Hamilton Palace, Sunday 4th December's match versus Quarter Athletic was called off at the last minute.
This Sunday's match is against Strathclyde United at Ballerup Pitch no 1, with a 1000 kick off. We will be meeting at 0915 to enable nets and and corner flags put up in plenty of time.
This Sunday's match is against Strathclyde United at Ballerup Pitch no 1, with a 1000 kick off. We will be meeting at 0915 to enable nets and and corner flags put up in plenty of time.
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