Season 1983/84 The dual aims for season 1983/84 were to return the club to a firm footing and to improve fortunes on the field. With the aid of the returning Jim Irvine, the latter was achieved, in part, but the former continued to cause a deal of concern. The future of the club was shrouded in doubt as the season drew to a close, apathy in the town seeing the club committee dwindling back to just five members. Back on the grass, top scorer Rab Krendler departed for pastures new with Robert Smillie signed from Whitburn as a replacement. The new boy weighed in with a respectable ten goals. Although a leaky defence was also worrying, the league campaign was a vast improvement on the revious season, but 5-1 and 6-2 defeats by promotion chasing Sauchie showed that there was still a long way to go. Indeed, the team was so short of players for the match against Bonnybridge in April that club President Arthur MacDonald had to play, and he apparently missed two sitters!!! The Cup forays were, as in the previous few seasons, over before they really began. |
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Season 1983/84 The dual aims for season 1983/84 were to return the club to a firm footing and to improve fortunes on the field. With the aid of the returning Jim Irvine, the latter was achieved, in part, but the former continued to cause a deal of concern. The future of the club was shrouded in doubt as the season drew to a close, apathy in the town seeing the club committee dwindling back to just five members. Back on the grass, top scorer Rab Krendler departed for pastures new with Robert Smillie signed from Whitburn as a replacement. The new boy weighed in with a respectable ten goals. Although a leaky defence was also worrying, the league campaign was a vast improvement on the revious season, but 5-1 and 6-2 defeats by promotion chasing Sauchie showed that there was still a long way to go. Indeed, the team was so short of players for the match against Bonnybridge in April that club President Arthur MacDonald had to play, and he apparently missed two sitters!!! The Cup forays were, as in the previous few seasons, over before they really began. |
Season 1982/83 Ex-Shotts Bon Accord player Eddie Roberts takes charge to become the fifth manager at Murrayfield Park in three seasons and after two reasonably encouraging seasons in the Juniors, the club were optimistic about fortunes for the coming season. Perhaps it was previous manager John Jamieson's decision to join Shotts Bon Accord after the final match of the previous season or perhaps it was the will he/won't he retirement saga surrounding Alex McMichael, no one really knows, but the campaign lurched from one disappointing performance to another. The fact that the team hadn't changed a great deal from the previous term only added to the feelings of surprise and disappointment. Things certainly weren't looking good with only 5 people on the committee and Secretary Pat Whelan had to make an appeal in the local paper for more people to come forward. As for the football, our only league win came on the last day of April at West Calder United where a Peter Dunn brace helped pip the home team in a five goal thriller. Still, bottom place in the league was already assured, which made our run to the 3rd round of the Scottish Brewers Cup, with victories over Tulliallan and Lochgelly Albert on the way, all the more surprising. |
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