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.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Goal Scoring To Date After 10 Games
After 10 games - & LYFDA and 3 friendlies our record is as follows ;-
LIAM CRICHTON - 12 goals
SCOTT MITCHELL - 11 goals
RYAN KELLY - 10 goals
SAM HILL - 6 goals
JACK KERR - 6 goals
DREW WATSON - 5 goals
DARREN SMITH - 3 goals
THOMAS McGUIRE - 3 goals
GARY McCULLOCH - 1 goal
CAMERON GIBSON - 1 goal
SCOTT GRAHAM - 1 goal
DEAN ARROL - 1 goal
Played 10 - Won 10 - Lost 0 - Drawn 0 - Scored 60 - Conceded 24
LIAM CRICHTON - 12 goals
SCOTT MITCHELL - 11 goals
RYAN KELLY - 10 goals
SAM HILL - 6 goals
JACK KERR - 6 goals
DREW WATSON - 5 goals
DARREN SMITH - 3 goals
THOMAS McGUIRE - 3 goals
GARY McCULLOCH - 1 goal
CAMERON GIBSON - 1 goal
SCOTT GRAHAM - 1 goal
DEAN ARROL - 1 goal
Played 10 - Won 10 - Lost 0 - Drawn 0 - Scored 60 - Conceded 24
EKYC 2 Partick Thistle 1
The game was played in freezing conditions, which made the surface very slippy, but we decided to continue with the match to give the boys some much needed match practice.
The game was played over 2 half hours, at 9 a-side on the astro turf at Ballerup.
All the players were given the same play time. The team that started was ;
KINIBURGH, ARROL, McCULLOCH, GRAHAM, CRICHTON, KERR, KELLY, HILL and GIBSON.
The boys struggled to cope with the slippery surface early on and were a goal down within 10 minutes. As they got used to the surface they started to play some good attacking football and some of the passes were great to see. The boys never looked like they had not played for 4 weeks, and were soon keeping Thistle penned in their own half.
After 20 minutes SCOTT MITCHELL was brought on as a sub and with his first touch of the ball he hammered it low past the diving keeper to equalise. Trialist Ross McDonagh was then introduced, and he showed some great touches, and did not look out of place. The half finished with an entirely differant side with the exception of James Kinniburgh in goals.
In the second half, it got colder, if that was possible, and the boys were rotated contstantly. These changes did not alter the flow of the game and DEAN ARROL then scored his first of the season, with a run from his own half, as the defenders backed off, he fired a shot low into the bottom left hand corner.
The remainder of the game was fairly even, and towards the end the ground conditions worsened, but still we tried to play the passing game.
This was a great result considering we had not played for 4 weeks and the conditions.
Hopefully, we will have a game this weekend, weather permitting.
It is a 1000 kick off against Quarter Athletic at Hamilton Palace.
The game was played over 2 half hours, at 9 a-side on the astro turf at Ballerup.
All the players were given the same play time. The team that started was ;
KINIBURGH, ARROL, McCULLOCH, GRAHAM, CRICHTON, KERR, KELLY, HILL and GIBSON.
The boys struggled to cope with the slippery surface early on and were a goal down within 10 minutes. As they got used to the surface they started to play some good attacking football and some of the passes were great to see. The boys never looked like they had not played for 4 weeks, and were soon keeping Thistle penned in their own half.
After 20 minutes SCOTT MITCHELL was brought on as a sub and with his first touch of the ball he hammered it low past the diving keeper to equalise. Trialist Ross McDonagh was then introduced, and he showed some great touches, and did not look out of place. The half finished with an entirely differant side with the exception of James Kinniburgh in goals.
In the second half, it got colder, if that was possible, and the boys were rotated contstantly. These changes did not alter the flow of the game and DEAN ARROL then scored his first of the season, with a run from his own half, as the defenders backed off, he fired a shot low into the bottom left hand corner.
The remainder of the game was fairly even, and towards the end the ground conditions worsened, but still we tried to play the passing game.
This was a great result considering we had not played for 4 weeks and the conditions.
Hopefully, we will have a game this weekend, weather permitting.
It is a 1000 kick off against Quarter Athletic at Hamilton Palace.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Friendly match v Partick Thistle - 29/11/05
On Tuesday 29 November, a friendly has been arranged with Partick Thistle under 12's to be played at Ballerup astro turf between 8pm and 9pm.
Tarining will be as ussual at Clarmont, starting at 6pm but will stop at 7.30pm. We will then travel the short distance to Ballerup for a 8.00pm kick off.
The match will be on a half pitch, and will be 9 a side, with the 7 a side goals. It has been arranged to let the boys get back into playing out doors again, due to the recent matches being cancelled.
If anyone cannot make it then it is not a problem.
Tarining will be as ussual at Clarmont, starting at 6pm but will stop at 7.30pm. We will then travel the short distance to Ballerup for a 8.00pm kick off.
The match will be on a half pitch, and will be 9 a side, with the 7 a side goals. It has been arranged to let the boys get back into playing out doors again, due to the recent matches being cancelled.
If anyone cannot make it then it is not a problem.
Netherton(claret) v EKYC - Sunday 27 November
This Sundays game against Netherton(claret) has been arranged with a 0915 kick off away at Shields Road, Wishaw, which is the pitch we played the Netherton(amber) side on at the rear of Muirhouse flats.
We will be meeting at 0815 at Hairmyres Train Station Car Park. Anyone travelling straight to the ground, be there for 0845.
Hopefully the game will be on, but due to the weather I ask that everyone checks in on Saturday night.
We will be meeting at 0815 at Hairmyres Train Station Car Park. Anyone travelling straight to the ground, be there for 0845.
Hopefully the game will be on, but due to the weather I ask that everyone checks in on Saturday night.
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Christmas Night Out
As you will have seen from the recent letter we sent out, the boys will again be attending Murray Park, the training ground of Rangers FC for their Christmas treat. This will include a tour of the facilities and a 1 and a half hour training session with a club coach. It was a great success last year, and I hope everyone will be able to make it again this year.
Matches Cancelled Re Bad Weather
The recent matches against Baillieston Juniors and Claremont AFC were both cancelled due to the frozen state of the pitches at Hamilton Palace and Brancumhall. We have tried to arrange mid week matches but due to block bookings on all the local astro pitches it has proved impossible. The boys must be very frustrated as the past 2 Sundays have been very late call offs.
This week we are due to travel to Netherton to play Netherton(claret). Lets hope the cold snap ends and allows us a match.
This week we are due to travel to Netherton to play Netherton(claret). Lets hope the cold snap ends and allows us a match.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Aston Villa Colts v EKYC - Match Cancelled
Due to the bad weather, this Sundays match against Aston Villa Colts due to be played at Hamilton Palace has been called off. Training will be as usual on Tuesday 6-8pm at Clairmont High School.
Monday, October 31, 2005
STILL GAME
Still Game starring Gary McCulloch as Winston, Sam Hill as Navid, Dean Arrol as Jack and Cameron Gibson as Victor. PURE QUALITY MAN !!
Sunday, October 30, 2005
EKYC 4 Holytown Colts 1
An early 0900 kick off on the synthetic grass at Bent Playing Fields in Hamilton was the order of the day for todays match against Holytown Colts.
Cameron Gibson started partnering Sam Hill up front after his impressive display in last weeks match against Baljaffray.
We were one up straight from kick off, in probably the quickest goal of the season. Holytown took centre and passed back to defense, but the pace of SAM HILL closed the ball down and forced the Holytown player into an error, Sam ran into the box and picked his spot in the bottom corner, one nil after 10 seconds, pretty impressive.
Holytown were penned in their own half for much of the period and our pressure told when Dean Arrol's clearance found CAMERON GIBSON in the clear, his pace outsripped the Holytown defence, and Cameron scored from just outside the box with a powerful finnish. It was 2-0 at the end of the first period.
Thomas McGuire, Lee Elliot and Jamie Cunningham then replaced Cameron Gibson, Gary McCulloch and Chris Park. Holytown started to look a strong team and we could not clear our lines and the ussual good passing moves that have been our trademark this season were missing. We seemed to weather the storm however, and in a rare break away JACK KERR added a third, and performed his ussual jubilant celebration. The third period ended with us 3-0 up.
A couple of more changes were made at the start of the third period and we gained the upper hand again. LIAM CRICHTON finished a great run down the right wing by chipping the out rushing keeper to make it 4-0. Holytown were the awarded a free kick 20 yards from goal which the taker expertly put over the wall and into the net leaving James Kinniburgh with no chance, to make it 4-1.
An injury to Darren Smith weakened the side when he had to limp off, but hopefully it won't be too bad and Darren will be fit for next week. Holytown continued to press until the final whistle but could not add to their tally. At the end it was a hard fought 4-1 victory.
The boys will admit it was not their best performance of the year, however with such an early start and on a surface they don't like, to continue their unbteaten run was impressive.
Next week we have Aston Villa Colts at Hmilton Palace with a 1000 kick off.
Cameron Gibson started partnering Sam Hill up front after his impressive display in last weeks match against Baljaffray.
We were one up straight from kick off, in probably the quickest goal of the season. Holytown took centre and passed back to defense, but the pace of SAM HILL closed the ball down and forced the Holytown player into an error, Sam ran into the box and picked his spot in the bottom corner, one nil after 10 seconds, pretty impressive.
Holytown were penned in their own half for much of the period and our pressure told when Dean Arrol's clearance found CAMERON GIBSON in the clear, his pace outsripped the Holytown defence, and Cameron scored from just outside the box with a powerful finnish. It was 2-0 at the end of the first period.
Thomas McGuire, Lee Elliot and Jamie Cunningham then replaced Cameron Gibson, Gary McCulloch and Chris Park. Holytown started to look a strong team and we could not clear our lines and the ussual good passing moves that have been our trademark this season were missing. We seemed to weather the storm however, and in a rare break away JACK KERR added a third, and performed his ussual jubilant celebration. The third period ended with us 3-0 up.
A couple of more changes were made at the start of the third period and we gained the upper hand again. LIAM CRICHTON finished a great run down the right wing by chipping the out rushing keeper to make it 4-0. Holytown were the awarded a free kick 20 yards from goal which the taker expertly put over the wall and into the net leaving James Kinniburgh with no chance, to make it 4-1.
An injury to Darren Smith weakened the side when he had to limp off, but hopefully it won't be too bad and Darren will be fit for next week. Holytown continued to press until the final whistle but could not add to their tally. At the end it was a hard fought 4-1 victory.
The boys will admit it was not their best performance of the year, however with such an early start and on a surface they don't like, to continue their unbteaten run was impressive.
Next week we have Aston Villa Colts at Hmilton Palace with a 1000 kick off.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Baljaffray BC 6 EKYC 8
A tough friendly match was played today at Bearsden & Milngavie Sports Ground with an 1100 kick off . We kept our winning run going but only just,after our usual slow start, and yet again after only 10 minutes we were 3-0 down.
We stormed back to 5-3 up with 2 goals from SAM HILL, 2 goals from RYAN KELLY and one from LIAM CRICHTON. Our opponents brought it back to 5-5, before another goal each for SAM HILL and LIAM CRICHTON and an eighth from DARREN SMITH made it 8-5. Baljafray then scored a 6th to make it an exciting end to a great game.
Man of the Match was shared by DEAN ARROL and CAMERON GIBSON, the later gave a great performance moving from centre half to centre forward and assisted in at least 4 of the goals.
Next Sunday we are at home to Holytown Colts with a dreaded 0900 kick off on the Bent 3G Astro Turf in Hamilton. Remember only moulded studs and astro trainers are allowed on the surface(NO BLADES).
We stormed back to 5-3 up with 2 goals from SAM HILL, 2 goals from RYAN KELLY and one from LIAM CRICHTON. Our opponents brought it back to 5-5, before another goal each for SAM HILL and LIAM CRICHTON and an eighth from DARREN SMITH made it 8-5. Baljafray then scored a 6th to make it an exciting end to a great game.
Man of the Match was shared by DEAN ARROL and CAMERON GIBSON, the later gave a great performance moving from centre half to centre forward and assisted in at least 4 of the goals.
Next Sunday we are at home to Holytown Colts with a dreaded 0900 kick off on the Bent 3G Astro Turf in Hamilton. Remember only moulded studs and astro trainers are allowed on the surface(NO BLADES).
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Friendly match arranged for Sunday 23 October
A friendly has been arranged for Sunday 23 October 2005 away to Baljaffray Boys Club in Milngavie. We will be meeting at Hairmyres Station at 0945 to travel to Milngavie for a 1100 kick off. Baljaffray have arranged for refreshment for parents and anyone wishing to stay behind after the game.
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