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8 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:

Saturday 1st January 2022
Thornton Hibs P-P Kirkcaldy & Dysart

Tuesday 4th January 2022
Dalkeith Thistle P-P Arniston Rangers
Dunipace V-V Edinburgh United

Wednesday 5th January 2022
Leith Athletic 5-0 Craigroyston


Leith close gap.

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Leith close gap - albeit having played one more game than Haddington. A good ding-dong battle between the top two teams, who have still to play each other home/away in League. 

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Saturday 8th January 2022
Craigroyston 2-11 (eleven) Dunipace
Edinburgh United 1-1 Leith Athletic
Kennoway Star Hearts P-P Thornton Hibs
Kirkcaldy & Dysart 3-1 St Andrews United
Ormiston P-P Coldstream
Tweedmouth Rangers P-P Haddington Athletic
Rosyth 4-2 Dalkeith Thistle


Leith lost at home to Edinburgh Utd in October, and their bogey team status was confirmed by a draw today, meaning that while Leith regained top it's only on GD having played 2 games more than Haddington. Eyewatering scoreline in Warriston, while Rosyth put vital daylight between themselves and the chasing pack.

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Saturday 15th January 2022
Arniston Rangers v Rosyth (2pm)
Coldstream v Haddington Athletic
Edinburgh United v Craigroyston (2pm)
Kirkcaldy & Dysart v Kennoway Star Hearts (2pm)
Leith Athletic v Dunipace (3pm)
Ormiston v Tweedmouth Rangers (2pm)
St Andrews United v Thornton Hibs

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Saturday 15th January 2022
Arniston Rangers 1-1 Rosyth
Edinburgh United 2-2 Craigroyston
Kirkcaldy & Dysart 2-0 Kennoway Star Hearts
Leith Athletic 2-0 Dunipace
Ormiston P-P Tweedmouth Rangers
Coldstream 0-1 Haddington Athletic
St Andrews United 0-2 Thornton Hibs


Leaders grind-out important wins. Meanwhile a "battle royal" developing from Rosyth (4th) down to Thornton (11th) for 4 or 5 places. Craigroyston drew and Ormiston waterlogged.

Clearly title lies between Haddington and Leith who as it happens meet on the last day of the league season. Early indicator could come next weekend when they play in an EOS Qualifying Cup R3 tie.

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Saturday 22nd January 2022
Arniston Rangers 1-1 Coldstream
Dalkeith Thistle 2-1 St Andrews United
Kennoway Star Hearts 0-1 Thornton Hibs
Kirkcaldy & Dysart 4-1 Dunipace
Ormiston 1-3 Rosyth


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Tuesday 25th January 2022
Coldstream v Tweedmouth Rangers



Saturday 29th January 2022
Coldstream v Thornton Hibs
Craigroyston v Haddington Athletic (2pm)
Dalkeith Thistle v Kirkcaldy & Dysart
Dunipace v Arniston Rangers
Kennoway Star Hearts v Ormiston (2pm)
Tweedmouth Rangers v St Andrews United (2pm)

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Tuesday 25th January 2022
Coldstream 4-2 Tweedmouth Rangers


Topsy turvy match before a strong crowd. Visitors struck on break... fell behind to a corner, rebound, and penalty... but hit back with a screamer from ko. HT 3-2. Lead extended by centreback's 'balletic run' late 2nd-half. FT 4-2.

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Saturday 29th January 2022
Coldstream 0-5 Thornton Hibs
Craigroyston 2-5 Haddington Athletic (2pm)
Dalkeith Thistle P-P Kirkcaldy & Dysart
Dunipace 2-0 Arniston Rangers
Kennoway Star Hearts P-P Ormiston
Tweedmouth Rangers P-P St Andrews United


Big win for Thornton in safety 6-pointer and Arniston's defeat also helps. Haddington go top again.

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Saturday 5th February 2022
Coldstream v Craigroyston
Dalkeith Thistle v Arniston Rangers
Ormiston v Thornton Hibs (2pm)
Tweedmouth Rangers v Kirkcaldy & Dysart (2pm)

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Saturday 5th February 2022
Arniston Rangers 4-0 Dalkeith Thistle
Coldstream 6-3 Craigroyston
Ormiston 2-4 Thornton Hibs
Tweedmouth Rangers 1-3 Kirkcaldy & Dysart


Coldstream vault ahead in battle for safety.

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Saturday 12th February 2022
Arniston Rangers v Edinburgh United (2pm)
Haddington Athletic v Leith Athletic
Kennoway Star Hearts v Dalkeith Thistle (2pm)
Kirkcaldy & Dysart v Coldstream (2pm)
Ormiston v Dunipace (2pm)
Rosyth v Craigroyston
Thornton Hibs v Tweedmouth Rangers (2pm)

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Haddington Athletic 0-2 Leith Athletic

Leith proved so "mentally drained" they scored 2 goals, kept a clean sheet, inflicted Haddington's first home league defeat in over 2yrs (Saturday 25th January 2020), plus first home or away in almost as long (Saturday 22nd February 2020). Indeed since the national emergency started they had only lost competitive games to Formartine and Brechin in the Scottish Cup, plus Spartans in the South Challenge Cup.

It was a generally pleasant afternoon at Millfield peppered with occasional heavy rain showers. There was a bumper crowd I'd guesstimate just short of 300 there to see it.

Leith had much of the play during opening 45mins but Haddington had the best chances, whistling a few long-rangers wide and forcing some excellent cat-like saves from the Leith goalie. Then the visitors took the lead shortly after HT blasting home the ball at close range after it was put across the face of goal. They weathered heavy pressure thereafter before hitting another similar for 0-2 then saw out the game.

Visitors were unsurprisingly jubilant in a victory which turbocharges Conference A's explosive title race.

Both sides are now locked on 53pts with Leith having 6 better GD albeit having played 1 game more:

Leith's remaining league games... St Andrews (A), Tweedmouth (A), Kirkcaldy & Dysart (H), Ormiston (H), Thornton (H), Kennoway (A), Haddington (H)
Haddington's remaining league games...
Rosyth (H), Dalkeith (A - date tbc), Tweedmouth (A - date tbc), Arniston (A), Kirkcaldy & Dysart (H), Kennoway (A), Edinburgh Utd (H), Leith (A)

As it happens Leith v Haddington is the last game of the season... so I think we can officially declare a cracking finish to the campaign looks in store.

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Saturday 12th February 2022
Arniston Rangers 2-1 Edinburgh United
Haddington Athletic 0-2 Leith Athletic
Kennoway Star Hearts 3-0 Dalkeith Thistle
Kirkcaldy & Dysart 4-2 Coldstream
Ormiston P-P Dunipace
Rosyth 2-3 Craigroyston
Thornton Hibs 1-0 Tweedmouth Rangers


Leith threw the cat among the pigeons at Haddington - while in race for top half there were good wins for Arniston, Kennoway and Thornton and bad losses for Edinburgh Utd, Coldstream and Rosyth... remarkably just 4pts separates 5th from 10th with Kennoway + Thornton moving into safety today while Coldstream + Edinburgh Utd dropped into danger.  What drama.

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27 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said:

Haddington Athletic 0-2 Leith Athletic

Leith proved so "mentally drained" they scored 2 goals, kept a clean sheet, inflicted Haddington's first home league defeat in over 2yrs (Saturday 25th January 2020), plus first home or away in almost as long (Saturday 22nd February 2020). Indeed since the national emergency started they had only lost competitive games to Formartine and Brechin in the Scottish Cup, plus Spartans in the South Challenge Cup.

It was a generally pleasant afternoon at Millfield peppered with occasional heavy rain showers. There was a bumper crowd I'd guesstimate just short of 300 there to see it.

Leith had much of the play during opening 45mins but Haddington had the best chances, whistling a few long-rangers wide and forcing some excellent cat-like saves from the Leith goalie. Then the visitors took the lead shortly after HT blasting home the ball at close range after it was put across the face of goal. They weathered heavy pressure thereafter before hitting another similar for 0-2 then saw out the game.

Visitors were unsurprisingly jubilant in a victory which turbocharges Conference A's explosive title race.

Both sides are now locked on 53pts with Leith having 6 better GD albeit having played 1 game more:

Leith's remaining league games... St Andrews (A), Tweedmouth (A), Kirkcaldy & Dysart (H), Ormiston (H), Thornton (H), Kennoway (A), Haddington (H)
Haddington's remaining league games...
Rosyth (H), Dalkeith (A - date tbc), Tweedmouth (A - date tbc), Arniston (A), Kirkcaldy & Dysart (H), Kennoway (A), Edinburgh Utd (H), Leith (A)

As it happens Leith v Haddington is the last game of the season... so I think we can officially declare a cracking finish to the campaign looks in store.

Good wee note there HJ. Crowd around 20 more than you est. Thought there would have been more there, but weather may have put some fans off.  Thought first half was quite even and agree Haddington had better chances. I would have given Leith keeper, McLellan man of match.

Great save with a couple of minutes of first have remaining; when A Jones long range shot looked destined for the net, only you for McLellan to turn it by for a corner. Didn’t see disallowed goal which many Haddington fans were confussled about. Prior to be of these, it looked a shocker of a tackle in the first half which say Robertson replaced shortly after.afterwards.

Leith’s no. 4 and 5 looked comfortable in their play, but as captain, the big no.5 let himself down (he would probably laugh at that), with his antics of kicking the ball away to waste time, when 2-0. All teams do it to degrees, but loads of young football kids there watching. As captain, you expect players and fans to look up to you, but not today. 

McLellan, however, endeared himself by having a wee chat with a couple of Haddington youngsters, in their team’s football strips; asking them about football and whether they had played this morning. 

Leith needed the win. Anything less and perhaps curtains for them. The win will boost Leith’s chances of the league, but I’d still put my money on Haddington to top league come end of season.

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The disallowed Haddington goal was a perfectly good header. The lino saw something (push? handball?) which chalked it off to my and others bemusement 

Mention of Leith's No 5 as captain is amusing as last night Stirling's No 5 was their captain against Edinburgh City and he was the biggest looney on the pitch.

Here's a nice rainbow:

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12 hours ago, tamthebam said:

The disallowed Haddington goal was a perfectly good header. The lino saw something (push? handball?) which chalked it off to my and others bemusement 

Mention of Leith's No 5 as captain is amusing as last night Stirling's No 5 was their captain against Edinburgh City and he was the biggest looney on the pitch.

Here's a nice rainbow:

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Nice, normally I charge to have my photo taken though. Are you selling copies? I’ll take a key ring. 

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Leith definitively deserved their win, they were hungrier and battled for everything. Scott probably should have kept his mouth shut but some of the comments from Leithers have been embarrassing and rather strange. A complete exaggeration and misinterpretation on what was said. 

Last game of the season could be a bloody cracker.

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