Scotland Cup 19th Land O’ Burns Festival, Old Racecourse Ayr, 7th & 8th August 2010

Ages 13, 14, & 15’s will play three games on Saturday and two games on Sunday. The second game on the SUNDAY being in either the Cup, Plate or a Place Final

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An incredible feat completed by the team and the management. Well done to the team for winning the league as unbeaten champions and by a margin of 11 points, for winning both West of Scotland Youth Football League cup competitions at their age group and for taking the Scotland Cup at their home tournament. A truly fantastic seasons work - well done again.

The team’s outstanding roll of honour this year in detail is:

• 2009/2010 West of Scotland Youth Football League Champions (Played 14 Won 13 Drew 1, Points 40)
• 2009/2010 William Nisbet Trophy Winners (Irvine Thistle 0 – Ayr Boswell Thistle 6)
• 2009/2010 President’s Cup Winners (Ayr Boswell Thistle 2 – Valspar 0)
• 2010 Scotland Cup @ Ayr International Winners (Ayr Boswell Thistle 1 - Dean Thistle 0)

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Following our performances on Saturday the U13′s found themselves out of the reckoning for the Scotland Cup at the Ayr International Youth Football Tournament. However on Sunday, and thanks to much better performances, they beat Ballymoor BC from Northern Ireland 5 – 2 in the Semi Final of the Ayr Cup and were into the Ayr Cup final (4th Cup Final of the year) against Cookstown Youth.

Boswell raced to a 3-0 lead scoring 3 goals in the first 10 minutes (Houston 2 and Croke) but let Cookstown back into the game by conceding a silly penalty for hand ball. This gave the Irish team some confidence and they soon scored a second to get it back to 3-2. Boswell had stopped playing and it wasn’t long before the Irish come back was complete as they equalised just before half-time 3-3.

In the second half the boys continued to press and won a penalty which Forwell converted to go back in front 4-3 and should have added more but Henderson put his shot just wide of the post. The boys hung onto their lead and finally, in their last competitive game of the year, won the Ayr Cup.

Ayr Cup Final, Final Score – Ayr Boswell 4 Cookstown Youth 3  ( Houston 2, Croke, Forwell)

The U13′s Scotland Cup was won by Tass Thistle who won 4-2 against Petershill BC at Dam Park on the Monday. The Boswell U14′s, U15′s and U17′s also reached their respective Finals, well done guys.

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Boys Aged 10 -11 from 10am – 12pm, Saturday 12th June

Boys Aged 12-13 from 1pm-3pm,  Saturday12th June

Girls Aged 10 -13, 10am-12pm, Sunday 13th June

Scottish FA coaching staff will lead the skills challenge events where you can be measured on your technical abilities, with the chance to progress to the Scottish FA national finals and the prospect of becoming Scotland’s first ‘Skills Challenge’ winner.

Boys and Girls ages 10/11 years and 12/13 years are invited to apply to attend these events. Places are free and limited on a first come first served basis – apply here http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/contact_scottish_fa.cfm?page=1616

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On a scorcher of a day it was fitting that the league would be decided against the 2 only undefeated teams in the league, both undefeated in the previous 21 games. With a large support on both sidelines it was Boswell who took the lead through Houston when he crashed home the opener high past the Southside keeper, however the lead was short lived as straight from the kick off a defensive lapse allowed Southside to equalise with a low drive from just outside the box that beat Lyle in the bottom corner. Games between the two clubs in the past have been hard fought affairs and this one was no different though Southside were playing the better football and seemed to settle better than Boswell as nerves took hold. Southside took a deserved lead to go 2-1 in front with an unstoppable shot into the top right hand corner. Boswell got to halftime without conceding another and knew in the second half they would have to push men forward to get the victory as a draw was no good.

Boswell started the second half much better and began to pressure the Southside defence and midway through the second half were awarded a penalty when Henderson was fouled in the box by the Southside keeper. The penalty was the turning point in the game, score and who knows what might happen, unfortunately the Southside keeper guessed correctly and saved to his right and to make matters worse we didn’t follow up the loose ball and missed the rebound. From then on Boswell had to push an extra man forward by going with 3 at the back and Southside took advantage of this scoring 2 goals in the last 5 minutes to see out the game 4-1 and win the league on the last day.

Congratulations to Southside FC on their success, they were the better team on the day and probably played their best game of the season when it really mattered.

We have had a fantastic season and we should not forget that. To reach 3 cup finals and finish runners-up in the league, where we were undefeated in 21 games is a great achievement. Of the 16 squad members we have had 9 of them since they were 6 years old, and to have coached and developed all 16 of them to where they are today is an extremely proud achievement for the club.

The season is not over yet and the team will be participating in the 33rd Ayr International Youth Tournament 28/31 May 2010. Lets hope we can finish off the season with a trophy and some winners medals………for a change.

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As always in games against Ayr Juniors, Boswell were slow to start and Juniors should have taken the lead early on when their striker mistimed his header at the back post after being given too much space and it went wide. With the game being fiercely contested both teams had chances to take the lead but with half-time approaching it was Juniors who took the lead when their captain scored with a good drive from just outside the box that beat Lyle low to his right hand side. Half Time 0-1

In the second half our opponents looked like they wanted to close the game out quickly and having hit the bar in the first half rattled it again early in the 2nd. Boswell just couldn’t make their chances count and halfway through the 2nd half Juniors scored again to make it 0-2. Juniors rattled the bar again not long after making it 2 and with Boswell having to get something from the game they changed formation with Houston going to centre half and pushed another into midfield in an attempt to get back into the game. With about 10 minutes to go time time running down the boys started to press and force the juniors into mistakes and with 5 minutes left Pinkerton scored a well taken goal from the edge of the box to get 1 back, 1-2 Juniors.

With Southside winning 3-0 on the adjoining pitch against Valspar it looked as though we would be going into the last  game 3 points behind, but the boys showed that they are never beaten and with the game in injury time, Robbie pounced on a knock on from a throw in to score with what was nearly the last kick of the game and sent the Boswell sideline mental!

Final score Ayr Boswell 2 Ayr Juniors 2

And so the league would now be decided on the last day of the season with a title decider against  Southside FC. The draw against the Juniors put them 4 points ahead of them with 1 game to go but to secure the league Boswell must win as they are 2 points behind Southside.

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Ayr Boswell 6 Carrick Colts 0

8 May 2010

Ayr Boswell 3 Valspar FC 2

15 May 2010

Valspar Colts 0 Ayr Boswell 11

With 2 games left in the league we face 2 difficult games v Ayr Juniors and then Southside in our final game of the season. The game v Ayr Juniors is on Wednesday 19th May at KGV Ayr 6.30 kick off.

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The team started well with a convincing 10-3 victory in their opening game and followed that up with a 2-0 win over Carryduff Colts to guarantee them a semi-final place. On Sunday morning their final group game was against Spartans fc from Edinburgh to see who would top the group. Boswell came out on top 5-3 in a superb game to top the group and set up a semi-final clash with Loughside fc from Belfast.

In a pre-season game back in August 2009 Boswell had ran out convincing winners on the day 7-1 but this was to be a different game and we soon found ourselves 2-0 down going into the 2nd half. unbelievably Boswell got it back to 2-2 but almost immediately Loughside went ahead again 3-2 with about 3 minutes to go. Boswell flung everything at Loughside and with literally the last kick of the game Kerr got the equaliser for 3-3 and send it straight to penalties.

Boswell triumphed 3-1 on penalties amid great scenes from all the players and supporters and we were into the final againbst Bertie Peacock Youth. I dont know if the semi final took it’s toll on the boys but we were over run in the final against a fantastic team, the best we have seen at this age group, and lost 7-0 in the final.

Well done to the boys and a special thanks go to Deco and Hoppy for coming in to assist us over the weekend as guests from Tass Thistle Rovers. They are a credit to their club and got on well with all the boys and played their part in helping us get to the final.

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Pictures here are from the semi final played out against KSC Dynamo where Boswell ran out 5-3 winners to meet Valspar in the final as well as the team pictured at the final at Dam Park.

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