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Casey Jones

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4 hours ago, jc1 said:

I've got to praise the efforts of the committee at the club for their constant work on the pitch to get it ready for Saturday

BBC weather forecast for Friday doesn’t look great for Fauldhouse. Hope it’s wrong, as want the match to go ahead. Go the Committee!

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PastyMan

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7 minutes ago, jackjarviscraiglang said:

Pitch has been verti drained, all surface water gone. Pitch will be soft but is playable. Hopefully no rain today and no inspection needed in the morning but we will keep all your people up to speed. Hopefully see yooz all tomorrow.

It's been raining in Fauldhouse this morning, a few heavy showers. Skies are grey, it's cold and there's a breeeze blowing. Just a typical summer's day in Fauldhouse :)

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Firstly I want to praise BOTH sets of players and the REF for an excellent game in testing conditions they deserve all the praise as do my committee for getting the game on personally I feel a draw was a fair result. Imo that was a great advert for our league that 2 teams came out and had a go at each other

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Excellent advert for Junior Football and great value for money. Fauldhouse were dominant in the first half with a few one on one’s with the keeper, dissapointing to go in at 0-0 . Musselburgh showed their quality in the second half and seemed to be galvanised after the equaliser. End to end stuff refereed very well. JC Hutchison had approx 4 breathtaking saves deserved MOM, Aiden Ward fitness levels and desire are a joy to watch, Superb to see Jack Currie grabbing the goal, he gives 110% every game.

Outwith the game today, special mention to committee member Garry Greenhorn. I have been bringing my six year old son to the games, Garry made a young lad very happy today when he was given an official FUFC badge followed by a wee tour of the facilities in amongst, players, manager and officials. He’s desperate to get to school on Monday to tell all his wee pals... Excellent public relation skills. Lovely touch - much appreciated.

 

 

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Excellent advert for Junior Football and great value for money. Fauldhouse were dominant in the first half with a few one on one’s with the keeper, dissapointing to go in at 0-0 . Musselburgh showed their quality in the second half and seemed to be galvanised after the equaliser. End to end stuff refereed very well. JC Hutchison had approx 4 breathtaking saves deserved MOM, Aiden Ward fitness levels and desire are a joy to watch, Superb to see Jack Currie grabbing the goal, he gives 110% every game.
Outwith the game today, special mention to committee member Garry Greenhorn. I have been bringing my six year old son to the games, Garry made a young lad very happy today when he was given an official FUFC badge followed by a wee tour of the facilities in amongst, players, manager and officials. He’s desperate to get to school on Monday to tell all his wee pals... Excellent public relation skills. Lovely touch - much appreciated.
 
 

Great to hear he enjoyed his day and hopefully gets to come to more in the future
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2 hours ago, PJS said:

Excellent advert for Junior Football and great value for money. Fauldhouse were dominant in the first half with a few one on one’s with the keeper, dissapointing to go in at 0-0 . Musselburgh showed their quality in the second half and seemed to be galvanised after the equaliser. End to end stuff refereed very well. JC Hutchison had approx 4 breathtaking saves deserved MOM, Aiden Ward fitness levels and desire are a joy to watch, Superb to see Jack Currie grabbing the goal, he gives 110% every game.

Outwith the game today, special mention to committee member Garry Greenhorn. I have been bringing my six year old son to the games, Garry made a young lad very happy today when he was given an official FUFC badge followed by a wee tour of the facilities in amongst, players, manager and officials. He’s desperate to get to school on Monday to tell all his wee pals... Excellent public relation skills. Lovely touch - much appreciated.

 

 

I have known Gary for 30 years now. Going by the amount of hair he has on his head and the amount on mine, you could be thinking that I was his teacher at primary school!

However, not to be. Gary was my manager all those years ago, was a gentleman then and still is. Showed a lot of values that I try to replicate even now, and one of them is his dedication and ownership of which ever company or project he is involved in, including still being a committee member of Fauldhouse after all these years.

Your comments of this man, will be appreciated. Ithink this is just an accurate example of the man himself, and Gary is a credit to Fauldhouse! 

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COPY OF MATCH REPORT POSTED BY CASEY JONES ON MUSSELBURGH FORUM.........(VERY FAIR REPORT IMO)

Musselburgh seem to have picked on its best 11 or 12 players, according to the management team, with Jed Davie being the absent 12th man! I wouldn’t argue with the majority of these players, though I would always have Skip in my team! 

Anyway, when the match kicked off, for the first 10 minutes, it all seemed to be Musselburgh as the dominant team. Then, the lights seemed to go out, with the rest of the half going to Fauldhouse. 

Although Musselburgh had most of the initial play, the first real chance fell to Fauldhouse, in around 10 mins, with their number 11, Bennett, having a great chance to put The Hoose 1-0 up, but Ally Adams, dived to his left for a great save. A couple of minutes later, another shot but this time, the ball went soaring over the Burgh bar.

Musselburgh’s first real chance came in 16mins when from a corner kick, the ball came to Jonno, but with the ball hitting either his head or chest, the shot went just past the post.

By this time, Fauldhouse were on the ascendancy, and in 18minutes, from the Fauldhouse keeper, ball went up left wing, and the no. 9 had a shot which went across the penalty box; and a minute later, the no.6 got the ball passed the Burgh defence, but hit his shot straight to Ally.

In 25 minutes, a throw in from Michael, the ball came to Matti, who hit a shot, but keeper was close by, and put it out for a corner. From there, ball played to Brad D whose shot went way over bar.

In 30 mins,  a breakaway up the field by the Hoose,  ball to Bennett, for shot which Ally dived for an easy save.

A couple of of shots by opposing sides, saw shots again go over the bar. Game was fast flowing now, and in 41minutes, the no. 5 met the ball from a cross, when just about on the couch line, but his header went just by the wrong side of post for the Hoose. A couple of minutes later, and another attack by Fauldhouse, but from within the penalty box, the ball again went over the bar.

So, half time, and perhaps one of the Burgh’s poorest 45mins of season, And Fauldhouse must have wondered how the match was still 0-0. Had they had their scoring boots on....?

Second half was much better for Musselburgh.  However, first chance again went to the Hoose, who should have went 1-0 up but the no.7 hit a poor shot straight to Ally. 

Musselburgh had a couple of shots, again both going over the bar, and then came the first goal of the game. Ball came to the Hoose, no.9, in the box, who turned the defender, shot past Ally’s right had side and inside the post to go 1-0 up.  However, this was shortly follwwed by an equaliser by the dependable Matti, who rounded the keeper and shot to make it 1-1. Matti was as animated as I have ever seen him, as were a number of players, which showed just how much the equaliser meant to the team.

In 60minutes Gary C went off for Skip, and soon after Bradley W had a shot which brought out a great save by the Hoose keeper. 

In 62mins, their no.7 was needlessly booked for staying to close to the ball when a free kick was awarded. 5 mins later and sub for the Hoose- no. 12 on for no. 10.

71mins saw Matti with another chance, but blocked by defender; then soon after Stephen made good move up left hand side, and ball into Matti, whose shot made a great save from their keeper. Matti then went off injured with Ralton replacing him.

In 78 mins, in quick succession the Hoose’s no. 7 & 11 had chances but nothing came of either.

Then in 82 mins, Musselburgh hit the bar, from a shot by Michael, following good play on the right hand side. A couple of minutes later Skip on left hand side had shot saved by keeper. In 83minutes, The Hoose had a good move down the left hand side, but in the penalty box, Brad made a great saving tackle. Then up the other end, Ralton ran into the box, with keeper coming out to make a sliding save. With 3mims left, same player had another shot which went just wide.

in 88 minutes, the number 3, for the Hoose, Brown, who for me was their best player, was subbed, with the no. 14 coming on. This was soon followed with Michael being booked for a late tackle.

Final whistle went with score 1-1. Not sure what was said at half time, but what an improvement in the 2nd half for Musselburgh. At half time, you would easily have said if there was going to be a winner, that the boys in Red would be victorious. Overall, I would say that a draw was the right result, and with 3rd place Haddington also drawing, no change in the top 3 of the premier league. 

Some supporters were saying that the pitch was probably too heavy for the match to have gone ahead. I say, that whilst not vintage football; given the amount of shots by both sides, albeit that most didn’t hit the target, and the fact that the ball went from end to end so many times, that the right decision was made. Well done to the committee, and well done to both teams for putting on a good match. 

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Great report Casey, sorry I didn’t get to meet you today, met Benny the Fish lol. Great junior match played on old fashioned heavy but payable pitch. 90 minutes of enjoyable tussle. Fauldhouse should have been out of sight by half time but second half different story. Great game enjoyed by supporters of both plus neutrals. Hope yooz all got all got back to the seaside from the freezing land that is Fauldhouse lol. Enjoyed the banter. Hope we both get the promotion slots.

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7 hours ago, PJS said:

Excellent advert for Junior Football and great value for money. Fauldhouse were dominant in the first half with a few one on one’s with the keeper, dissapointing to go in at 0-0 . Musselburgh showed their quality in the second half and seemed to be galvanised after the equaliser. End to end stuff refereed very well. JC Hutchison had approx 4 breathtaking saves deserved MOM, Aiden Ward fitness levels and desire are a joy to watch, Superb to see Jack Currie grabbing the goal, he gives 110% every game.

Outwith the game today, special mention to committee member Garry Greenhorn. I have been bringing my six year old son to the games, Garry made a young lad very happy today when he was given an official FUFC badge followed by a wee tour of the facilities in amongst, players, manager and officials. He’s desperate to get to school on Monday to tell all his wee pals... Excellent public relation skills. Lovely touch - much appreciated.

 

 

Agree entirely, great game today, great atmosphere as well without ever getting testy.

Love going over to Fauldhouse, great club and good people.  Hope we both go up this year, day like today was an advert for the junior game.

Gary took a bit of tracking down mind, collecting badges myself and the Fauldhoose yin's a guid yin.

 

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