Saturday 21st November 2015
Scottish Amateur Football League Premier Division
Goldenhill AFC v Oban Saints AFC
Clydebank High School 3G
Janetta Street
Clydebank
G81 3EJ
Kick off 2pm
Referee Mr. Gordon Hay
Last Saturday Saints secured their place in the fourth round of the West of Scotland Amateur Cup with a 6 - 1 home victory over Springhill of the North & South Lanarkshire Amateur Football League Premier Division. The reward for this seventh consecutive victory in all competitions is a home tie on Saturday 12th December against either fellow Scottish Amateur Football League Premier Division club Shawlands FP or New Farm Loch of the Ayrshire Amateur Football Association 3rd Division.
This Saturday Saints return to league business and take their winning streak to Clydebank where they will face Premier Division new boys Goldenhill. "The Gowdie" are on a remarkable run of good form which has seen them win all ten of their competitive fixtures so far this season scoring forty nine goals in the process and conceding twelve. The winning run puts the Gowdie through to the Semi-Finals of the SAFL Centenary Cup where the defending Champions will face St Joseph's FP or East Kilbride FC Amateurs; the fourth round of the West of Scotland Cup where they will face Lochan or Carrick (both of the Ayrshire Amateur Football Association); and the fourth round of the Scottish Amateur Cup where they will face Erskine of the Greater Glasgow Premier League Division One.
Goldenhill arrived in the Premier Division on the back of three successive promotions have made a perfect start to their first season in the Scottish Amateur Football League top flight where they currently occupy fourth place, one point behind Saints but with three games less played. With league leaders St Joseph's on West of Scotland Cup duty and second placed Inverclyde without a fixture Saints and the Gowdie will see this as an ideal opportunity to make up some precious ground on their rivals in the league title race.
On the team news front Myles McAuley remains someway short of a return from injury while Marc MacCallum is on holiday in Venice. Allan Mackay returns to the squad after a two week absence where he will fill the seat on the bench vacated by Marc MacCallum. Otherwise Saints will remain unchanged from last weeks squad and, barring any last minute hiccups, Manager Alex Craik will name the same starting eleven for what looks likely to be an extremely difficult fixture for the dark blues.
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| Two goals from Donald Campbell and a hat-trick from Ross Maitland helped Saints to last weekend's 6 - 1 West of Scotland Cup victory over Springhill |
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| Also on the score sheet for Saints last week was Martin Bonar pictured here against St Joseph's last season |
Goldenhill's SAFL Premier Division results so far this season:-
5th September 2015 Inverclyde AFC 2 - 4 Goldenhill AFC
10th October 2015 Goldenhill AFC 3 - 2 Campbeltown Pupils AFC
24th October 2015 Goldenhill AFC 2 - 0 East Kilbride FC Amateurs
Goldenhill's SAFL Centenary Cup results so far this season:-
1st Round Bye
2nd Round 12th September 2015 Finnart AFC 1 - 6 Goldenhill AFC
Quarter Final 7th November 2015 Goldenhill AFC 4 - 1 Neilston AFC
Goldenhill's Scottish Amateur Cup results so far this season:-
1st Round Bye
2nd Round 3rd Ocotber 2015 Dean AFC 2 - 5 Goldenhill AFC
3rd Round 31st October Gryffe Thistle AFC 1 - 2 Goldenhill AFC
Goldenhill's West of Scotland Amateur Cup results so far this season:-
1st Round 19th September 2015 Mill United 1 - 11 Goldenhill AFC
2nd Round 17th Ocotber 2015 Lomond Vale AFC 1 - 9 Goldenhill AFC
3rd Round 14th November Kilbarchan Thistle AFC 1 - 3 Goldenhill AFC
Goldenhill's recent SAFL finishes:-
2012 - 13 Division One Promoted and Coronation Cup Winners
2013 - 14 Premier Division Two 2nd Promoted
2014 - 15 Premier Division One 4th Promoted and Centenary Cup Winners
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| Goldenhill AFC SAFL Coronation Cup Winners 2013 |
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| Goldenhill AFC SAFL Centenary Cup Winners 2015 |
Scottish Amateur Football League Select
The Scottish Amateur Football League Select will face the Ayrshire Amateur Football Association Select this Sunday in the Quarter Finals of the Scottish Amateur Football Association Inter League Trophy. The tie will be played at Dalziel Playing Fields, Motherwell with a 1.15 pm kick off. The other quarter final ties between the Caledonian Amateur Football League and the Lothian and Edinburgh Amateur Football Association, and the Strathclyde Saturday Morning Amateur Football League and the Central Scottish Amateur Football League will also be played at Dalziel Park at 1.15 pm. The winners of each tie will join the Aberdeenshire Amateur Football Association in the semi-finals.
With Lewis Cameron, Myles McAuley and Marc MacCallum all unavailable Saints only representative in Manager Richard Bryers' Scottish Amateur Football League Select is Donald Campbell. Good luck to Donald and all others selected for what looks like a very difficult match.
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