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CLUB STATEMENT | Ormiston Primrose Football Club
Ormiston Football Club are delighted to announce as from the beginning of the 2022/23 Season, the club will revert back to their original name Ormiston Primrose Football Club.
🏴🏳️ ✍🏻 We would like to welcome local lad Sean Brown to the club. Sean has signed from Musselburgh 20’s. Being a Ormiston lad we are delighted to have him at the club as we have kept an eye on his progress for a few years. Welcome to the club Sean.
SQUAD UPDATE | Jay Murray Signs
Murray puts pen to paper giving Weir’s squad a solid attacking presence. With a strong record of scoring goals we’re delighted he has made the transition from Sundays with
@HaddingtonTown
to Saturdays at Recreation Park
Welcome
@JaymurrayyX
FULL TIME |
@ThorntonHibsJFC
1-2 Ormiston Primrose
Brilliant game of midweek football. With Matty Underhill getting 2 goals we take the 3 points back to East Lothian!
C'MON THE ORMI!!!!
#Ormi
#yeslads
✍🏻 news. Tonight seen young lad Danny Worobec sign. Danny has played the past 2 games for us and impressed hugely. At the young age of only 17 there is loads of potential. Danny was playing for Tynecastle 20’s who recently folded. Welcome to the club.
🏴🏳️SEASON 2020/21🏴🏳️
Next up, Reece Cochrane will be adding to his 64 appearances for Ormiston. Reece returns for his fourth season with the club. He brings with him experience and hoping to add to his goal count.
Next ✍🏻 news sees Kenny Hall sign on the dotted line. Kenny played for Dunbar last season but missed most of it due to injury. Kenny is also a former winner of the EOS league with Leith where he was club captain.
✍🏻 News as promised. We welcome Steven Glynn to the club. Steven previously played with Leith and joins us after a year out traveling. Steven has won the EOS league and will bring some much needed experience to the club. More ✍🏻 to follow.
Tonight sees Sean Ballard sign on again for another season. This will be Seans 3rd season at the club. After an injury hit season hopefully behind him he should be back training in the next few weeks.
We also welcome local lad Charlie Wilson to the squad. Charlie signs from Tranent 20’s where he was a key player for them. Charlie has shown good qualities during pre season and long may it continue.
Yesterday saw the end of season awards day down at the club. A brilliant day/night was had ball. 1st award was Players player of the year and it went to Sean Ballard. His fellow team mates said he had been outstanding all season and deserved the award.
🏴🏳️SEASON 2020/21🏴🏳️
We can announce that Kacper Korpalski will be extending his time at Ormiston. Kacper, joining us for his third season, first signed for Ormiston in October 2018. In that time he has performed well and is a good character around the club.
Lastly tonight sees Gary Sutherland join the coaching staff. Gary has had a long and fruitful footballing career including Hearts, Cowdenbeath, Whitehill, Edinburgh City, Craigroyston, Dalkeith and a few more. Gary brings a wealth of knowledge with him.
🏴🏳️SIGNING NEWS🏴🏳️
Look who’s back!
We would like to announce the re-signing of Sean Ballard after a short spell away from the club.
He will continue to be sponsored by John Morgan, ex player and assistant manager.
#BallardsBack
#MorganCurseNoMore
#AlwaysOrmiston
FULL TIME | Ormiston 3-2
@CraigroystonFC
We take the biggest 3 points of the season!
Unbelievable game of football this afternoon! It all goes down to the wire next week when we play Lochgelly.
#ormi
#nevergiveup
#letsdothis
Marc Reid has put pen to paper and sogned on for the season. Reidy played as a trialist on Tuesday night. He’s no stranger to the club having been on loan at the club for part of last season.
All at the club would like to extend our Congratulations to our goalkeeper Kieran and his wife Jayne on their marriage yesterday.
Wishing you both a lifetime of happiness.
FULL TIME | Ormiston Primrose 1-0
@edinburghunited
Brilliant game of football this afternoon, but we take the full 3 points. Good luck to Edinburgh United for the remainder of the season.
Sean Ballard with the goal in 70 mins from a corner!
✍🏻 news.
Tonight saw Daniel Nichol sign for the club. Daniel was playing for Bonnyrigg 20’s and will be too old for them next season so he took the chance to move on from them now rather than at the end of the season.
Welcome to the club Daniel
Tuesdays seem like a good night for signing news!
Welcoming Lewis Jarvis to the club tonight. Lewis was with Longniddry, moving to Preston last year. After already scoring his first goal with Ormiston on Saturday, we look forward to seeing his performance this season.
ANNOUNCEMENT | New Signing
Euan Mitchell has joined us from Arniston. His previous clubs also include yesterdays opposition, Dalkeith, & Haddington. Euan has done well in training, showing good quality. Due to illness he has not had much game time but looking to rectify that.
Our Sports Therapist
@ttonirosss
has decided to move on to pastures new. She is taking up the same role at Musselburgh Athletic. We would like to thank her for everything she has done at the club over the last 4 seasons on and off the pitch. She will be a massive loss to the club
Ormi Primrose would like to wish all the very best to Kacper Korpalski leaving to go to Australia.
We thank you for all your time and effort you have given this club.
Good luck in your future endeavours!
FULL TIME | Newburgh Juniors 0-1 Ormiston Primrose
Another huge 3 points this afternoon for us, absolutely brilliant result!
Matty Underhill with the goal.
#ormi
#3points
#neverstop
#winning
MAN OF THE MATCH | Ormiston v St Andrews United
After a hard fought battle against St Andrews today, Man of the Match was awarded to Sean Ballard.
Every player gave 100% today in 26° heat but Ballard’s stand out performance has earned him the spoils today.
ANNOUNCEMENT | New Signing
We can announce Robbie Carter has signed, previous clubs include Peebles, Preston & Whitehill. The 23yr old striker uses the ball well in tight spaces. His experience will help younger strikers & his style of play brings players to the attack
Welcome!
We are deighted to announce that we will have an saturday amateur team from next season. Tranent afc sunday ams will be coming in as our new saturday ams team. They were officially accepted into the league tonight. We welcome them to the club and look forward to working with them
TEAM NEWS | Contract Extensions
We are pleased to announce that Kieran Beveridge, Guy Kerr, Kacper Korpalski, Adam Dougan, Josh Winnik, Ben Maxwell, Chris Hogg, Dylan Hamilton & Matty Underhill have extended their contracts until 2024!
More to be announced in the coming weeks!
We’d like to wish Danny all the best in his departure from the club.
We’re sorry to see a good player go but Friday nights are calling him! Go smash it Danny!
FULL TIME | Newburgh ⚫️ 0-4 🟡 Ormiston
What an outstanding performance this afternoon from the lads, we take home all 3 points to East Lothian.
Goal Scorers:
Reilly 25'
G. Kerr 41'
J. Reilly 51'
C. Wilson 76'
'Mon The Primrose!!
Tonight we finally managed to pin down Gary Hunter for his mug shot. Gary joins the coaching staff with a mass of experience from teams such as Musselburgh Windsor, Easthouses, Cavalry Park and Tynecastle.
The club is pleased to announce that Mani Ashraf has signed on loan from
@PenicuikAth
until the end of the season.
He played with us during the 2021/22 season.
Please give him a warm welcome back to Ormi Primrose!
FURTHER SQUAD UPDATES | Guy Kerr joins!
Heading into the final week of preseason, we thought we’d better share some more updates for our new look Primrose squad. Ex Pro Guy Kerr puts pen to paper giving Manager Richie Weir’s squad a solid back line!
Please welcome
@guykerr88
FULL TIME | Stirling University 4-5 Ormiston Primrose
What an afternoon of football that was on display, end to end and 9 goals in total!
We take the 3 points home to East Lothian and start our 2023/24 campaign with a victory!
Better late than never. Young lad Daniel Mair signed a few weeks ago. Daniel is still only 17 and still at school but doesn’t show his age when on the pitch having had some good performances so far. Welcome to the club Daniel
MATCH UPDATE | Full Time
Whitburn 1-4 Ormiston
⚽️⚽️⚽️ Sean Brown
⚽️ Adam Dougan (
@SerotoningFit
)
Ormiston progress to the next round of the Alex Jack Cup!
✍🏻 news. Scott Hunter signs on after playing 3 games as a trialist. Scott joins us from the recently disbanded Tynecastle 20’s. Scott has impressed over the last few weeks at training and matches. A youngster in years but doesn’t show it on the pitch that he’s only 17 years old.
Please join us in wishing Ormi primrose club Secretary John Greenhorn a very happy birthday. Your 8 decades means you’re no longer just a vintage, now you’re a classic.
CLUB STATEMENT |
Its an exciting time to be at the club on and off the pitch. Changing the name back to Ormiston Primrose is something that has been talked about for a few seasons and im happy to be part of the new exciting future of the club.
Ritchie Weir
Manager
Full time at New Recreation Park and we keep the 3 points in Ormiston this afternoon.
Chris 'Hoggy' Hogg & Charlie 'Chaz' Wilson with the goals!
Best of luck to
@EdinCollegeFC
in the rest of the season!
Today
@scotgov
announced 2103 confirmed coronavirus related deaths.
Each of those 2103, a person, a life, more than a number.
We as a club will be running/cycling 1 mile for each of those lives over 2 weeks.
50% of total to NHS Lothian, 50% Club Funds.
After finally receiving photographic evidence the club would like to forgive our captain for being unavailable at the weekend …
A huge congratulations to Adam and his wife Rebecca on finally getting their wedding day! All at the club wish you every happiness for the future.
ANNOUNCEMENT | New Signing
The club are pleased to announce the signing of Sulaiman Ashraf from Leith Athletic. The 17yr old forward has impressed in preseason, scoring in our first friendly. Mani has integrated well & we look forward to seeing his progress! Welcome Mani!
We would like to congratulate Reece and his wife Mikala on their marriage this weekend. We hope you had a wonderful day!
Wishing Mr & Mrs Cochrane a lifetime of love and happiness from everyone at the club.
Even though the season has finished, the hard work continues behind the scenes. All hands on deck at Ormi Primrose today, some much needed maintenance getting done whilst taking advantage of the cracking weather. Have a good one folks ☀️
FULL TIME | Linton Hotspur 0-2 Ormiston Primrose
Good game of football this afternoon but we've got the job done and through to the next round of the Alex Jack Cup!
Pol Adrian 54'
Jonathan Mainds 84' ⚫⚪FIRST GOAL FOR THE CLUB! ⚪⚫
We are delighted to get Daniel re signed for the season ahead. Daniel was a vital part of last seasons squad and the management are very happy that Deej has chosen to play his football with the club again.
Good battling performance today. Stuffy game on a very bumpy pitch. Hit the post 1st half and the bar 2nd half. Played some good football and got what we deserved in extra time. On to the Quater finals we go. 🏴🏳️
GOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE GOAL FROM MURRAY! PAST THE KEEPER AND FROM A TIGHT ANGLE HE PLACES IT IN THE NET!
ORM 2-2 TM
80 mins played
FINAL SCORE
Ormiston 6-1 Dumfries YMCA
⚽️⚽️ Kyle Forbes
⚽️ Chris Hogg (Sponsored by Neal Black)
⚽️ Anes Subasic (Sponsored by Dinos)
⚽️ Sean Brown (Sponsored by The Coalgate Ormiston)
⚽️ Connor Scott
🏴🏳️ ✍🏻 News ✍🏻 🏴🏳️ Tonight at training we captured the signing of local lad Andrew Horne. Andrew has been training with us for the last few weeks and we are delighted to have got him to put pen to paper. More ✍🏻 to follow.
We managed to capture two of our goals from yesterday’s 4-3 win against Easthouses Lily.
A free kick and a penalty from Chris Hogg (Sponsored by Neal Black).
FULL TIME | Ormiston Primrose progress to the next round.
Goals from Murray and Walker secure a fantastic comeback for The Primrose!
Quick turnaround as we face Edinburgh United on Tuesday … details to follow.
🏴🏳️SEASON 2020/21🏴🏳️
Our sixteenth player for season 2020/21 is Jonny Crutcher. This season Jonny managed to tuck away some goals before having a spell of injury. He’s now fighting fit and excited for football to return.