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Transfer news

Whitburn have signed midfielder Kevin Donnelly from Bo'ness United.

This brings the number of new recruits this summer to five.

Friendly Results

Tuesday 5th August

Whitburn 5 Armadale 0

(half time 1-0)

Willie Johnstone Memorial Trophy

Scorers - Doig, Roberts(2), Hannah, McGurk

Saturday 2nd August

Whitburn 4 Ballingry 2

Ballingry opened the scoring with an early goal, but Andrew Doig equalised shortly afterwards. Doig put Whitburn ahead midway through the half, then Alex Lurinsky made it  3-1 just before half time. Kenny Hannah scored the fourth goal shortly after half time after Roberts was brought down in the box. Ballingry pulled one back near the end.

Sunday 27th July

Blantyre Vics 1 Whitburn 7

Whitburn enjoyed an easy victory against hosts Blantyre Vics in the 3rd place play of in Blantyre’s pre-season tournament. Andy Roberts opened the scoring in the 10th minute with a glancing header from a Scott Murphy corner kick. John Murphy scored the second with a shot that found the top corner from the edge of the box in the 20th minute after Mackay’s long range shot had come back off the post.

Three goals in the final five minutes of the half made the half time score 4-1 to Whitburn, Dolan with a free kick and Lurinsky were Whitburn’s scorers.

On a very warm day, it was good to see Whitburn looking for more goals in the second half, with Andy Roberts and a David Murphy double completing the scoring.

Saturday 26th July

Bellshill 1 Whitburn 1

Bellshill won on penalties. The Whitburn scorer was Andrew Doig.

Whitburn now meet Blantyre Vics at 12.30 pm on Sunday 27th.

The two winners, Campsie Black Watch and Bellshill, play at 3.00 pm.

Tuesday 22nd July

Whitburn 2 Kilsyth 1

Whitburn get off to a winning start with both goals coming from the new signings. All the goals came in the second half. David Murphy opened the scoring, turning home a cut back from Strickland from close range. Kilsyth equalised then Andrew Doig scored the winner with a 30 yard strike that found the net off the underside of the bar.

Transfer news

The latest news on this front is that Kenny Hannah has signed on for another season.

Joe Mbu has signed for Cowdenbeath. In his 3 seasons with Whitburn, Joe was capped twice for Scotland Juniors, and was Player of the Year in twice.

Darren Moonie has been transferred to Penicuik.

Club captain Iain Ramage has been transferred to Musselburgh Athletic where he will take up a player/coach role.

"Rambo" had two spells with the club. He joined from North Merchiston juveniles in July 1995 before going senior with Berwick Rangers after 3 seasons. He signed again in July 2001.

He has been Player of the Year 3 times, Player's player of the Year 4 times and even had a season where he was joint top goalscorer.

Last season he played 40 out of the possible 41 games and scored 5 goals. His totals for the club are 372 games played and 111 goals scored.

The Supporters Club would like to wish Iain every success in the future.

New players coming to the club are central defender David McGurk from West Calder, Christopher Dolan, a left sided defender/midfielder from Fauldhouse, Andrew Doig, a central midfielder/defender from Whitehill Welfare and David Murphy a midfielder from Armadale.

The 2008-09 squad so far

Stewart Walker

Richard Carson

Jamie Mackay

Alan Mooney

Colin Leiper

Scott Murphy

John Murphy

Alex Lurinsky

Andy Roberts

Colin Strickland

Stewart Kenny

Kenny Hannah

Paul Taylor

David McGurk

Christopher Dolan

Andrew Doig

David Murphy

Kevin Donnelly

Opening League Fixture

Whitburn will open their league campaign at home against Glenrothes on Saturday 30th August. See below for other league fixtures as well as the dates for friendlies and League Cup games.

 

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Sponsors wanted

In order to increase revenue available for the running of the Football Club, Whitburn Junior FC are looking for people who would be willing to sponsor a player for the coming season.

The cost is £75 for the season, and the scheme is open to individuals, groups or companies.

If you are interested and would like more details, please contact Ralph Murphy on 07894 584598,  or by e-mail at

 

 

Another option is to participate in the debenture scheme, whereby a direct debit is set up for you to automatically donate as little or as much as you like each month.

 

 

If you are interested in either of these schemes, or in helping in any other way, or if you would just like more details, contact any of the Football Club committee, or contact me and I will pass on your details.

Player of the Year

At the recent Player of the Year function, the awards were as follows

Player of the Year - Colin Leiper

Player's Player of the Year - Colin Leiper

Committee Player of the Year - Stewart Walker & Alan Mooney

Top Goalscorer - Alex Lurinsky

Congratulations to all winners.

League Cup fixtures

These are in a section format involving the same teams as last season, with teams playing each other once and venues reversed from last season.

Saturday 9th August

2.30 pm kick off

Whitburn v Fauldhouse

Wednesday 13th August

6.45 pm kick off

Stoneyburn v Whitburn

Saturday 16th August

2.30 pm kick off

Whitburn v Blackburn

Wednesday 20th August

6.45 pm kick off

West Calder v Whitburn

Saturday 23rd August

2.30 pm kick off

Harthill v Whitburn

Opening league fixtures

Saturday 30th August

2.30 pm kick off

Whitburn v Glenrothes

Saturday 6th September

2.30 pm kick off

Tayport v Whitburn

Saturday 13th September

2.30 pm kick off

Whitburn v Hill o Beath

Saturday 20th September

2.30 pm kick off

Bonnyrigg v Whitburn

East of Scotland cup 1st round draw

Oakley v Whitburn

Change of e-mail address

We have changed the e-mail address of the website. If you have been trying to contact us and have not had a reply, please try again by clicking on the following link:

 

The new address has been set up to reduce spam caused by programs that trawl webpages looking for e-mail addresses. You must click on the link to contact us. Copying the text shown, or typing it into your e-mail address line will not work.

The old address (dialstart) will no longer be used.

Website Man of the Match awards

A Man of the Match is selected by supporters after every game throughout the season. Here are the final results:

10 awards - Colin Leiper

 

5 - Alan Mooney

     Stewart Walker

 

4 - Joe Mbu

 

3 - Kenny Hannah

      John Murphy

 

2 - Alex Lurinsky

      Iain Ramage

      Colin  Strickland

      Scott Murphy

      Andy Roberts

 

1 - Jamie Mackay

Well done to Colin for an excellent season