Category: Management News

New Management Announced

Camelon Juniors Football Club is delighted to announce the appointments of Andy Colley and Dave Strathie.

Chairman Gary Clark commented; “Their combined depth of experience and qualifications coupled to an established and impressive reputation now provides Camelon Juniors Football Club with an excellent opportunity to develop and move forward. Once approached we had little hesitation in reaching a decision to appoint. Both Andy and Dave are highly focused, professional and possess an unrivalled attention to detail. They are aware of the job they have on their hands going forward and I wish them all the success in trying to achieve this.”

The club will also be announcing the new management teams back room staff over the next few days as well.

Welcome to the Mighty Mariners guys.

Under 20s Staff team News

Camelon Juniors FC and Under 20s Development Squad are pleased to welcome Gordon Wilcox as the Assistant Manager to our Under 20s.

Gordon brings a wealth of experience and a strong background in coaching. We look forward to Gordon coming onboard at the Under 20s.

Gordon joins Sean Roycroft (Manager), Allan Morrison (Secretary/Coach), Thomas Hunter (Physio) and Michael Simpson (Coach) as the full Under 20s staff team for the coming season.

The squad will play in the Lowlands Development League East Conference A. You can see who they’ll be up against here.

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Partnership with Player Data Ltd

Camelon Juniors FC are delighted to partner with sector leading analytics company Player Data Ltd.

Every first team player will be tracked and monitored during training and games using the very latest GPS technology.

This will take us to the next level in terms of professionalism, injury prevention and player accountability.

This is a hugely exciting development and a clear indication of our on pitch standards moving forward.

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New Main Sponsor Announced

Camelon Juniors FC are delighted to announce that Express Taxis will be the clubs main sponsor for next season. Their logo will be proudly displayed on the front of the home and away shirts in our centenary season.

Club Secretary Tony Smith commented “We’re delighted to announce this new exciting partnership and are really grateful to Express Taxis for their support. This is really massive for the club in the current times that we’ve been able to partner with such a well known local business that shares our community values.”

Andrew Buchanan, Manager of Express Taxis, said “It is with great pleasure that Express Taxis can announce that we are now the main sponsors of Camelon Juniors Football Club. Covid-19 has presented an unprecedented and unforeseen challenge to our business, but when the opportunity came along to be able to sponsor a club that has done so much good work for the local community, it seemed like a perfect match for us to get involved. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our fantastic drivers that have continued to work at this time and of course all our loyal customers that have stood by us. We hope it won’t be too long until we can all enjoy getting back out to support our local teams.”

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New Signing – Stephen Docherty

Camelon Juniors are pleased to announce the signing of Stephen Docherty from East Kilbride FC.

The forward featured a number of times last season for the Lowland League club and had various clubs interested in signing him.

Stephen is no stranger to Camelon, having played against the Mariners in a cup tie last season, plus he will have heard all about what it’s like to play for the club from older brother Alan, who was our top scorer last season.

Manager Gordon Herd said “we’ve been after Stephen for a wee while and are delighted he agreed to come despite strong offers from other clubs. He will add another dimension to the side as we work towards winning the East of Scotland League. Hopefully him and his brother Alan can spur each other on!”

Welcome to the Mighty Mariners Stephen!

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You support us – now it’s our turn

Club statement

As you may know, 1920 was the year that Camelon Juniors Football Club, as we know it, was founded. As a committee, we had grand plans to celebrate it and hopefully we will still be able to do these down the line.

However, in the midst of a global pandemic we’ve found a new way to mark the occasion. Many of our players, coaches, volunteers and staff are now helping to distribute food to the most vulnerable in our community, in partnership with the Camelon Community Hub. We are also going to be helping to look after the children of front line staff over the Easter break by delivering sporting activities at the local hub school with Falkirk Community Trust.

Our community has stood with us for 100 years and now we stand with them. I can’t think of a more fitting way to celebrate our club centenary than this.

Taking this one step further, the committee have decided that NHS staff will receive free entry to all our games next season. Simply show your ID badge, come in and be part of our family. It’s just a small thank you from us to you.

Stay safe – stay home.

Tony Smith
on behalf of the CJFC committee

Breaking News. Huge News. Exciting News.

All of the above and more! Read on……

In recent months, Camelon Juniors FC have been assessed against the Entry level criteria of the SFA Club Licence, as part of the club’s application to become a member of the Scottish FA. The club are delighted to say that today we passed the audit, with the Licensing Committee confirming that we meet all the necessary requirements.

Club Secretary Tony Smith commented: “On behalf of the committee, we’d like to express our sincere thanks to all the people who have worked incredibly hard over the last two years to make our vision a reality. This achievement is down to the determination of people who love their club. With sponsors, fans, committee members, local businesses and our management team all pushing in the same direction, we’ve achieved something that previously seemed impossible. I can’t begin to say how proud I am of the club and everyone who has taken part in this massive project”

This has probably been the biggest team effort in 25 years – maybe even in the Clubs history – and is a huge achievement for this community focused club. This is a huge boost as Camelon Juniors FC will now celebrate its centenary next season with the addition of a Scottish Cup place.

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Alex Jack Cup Presentation

Following the well documented issues around the Cup Final that never happened (that we won’t go into again here!), on Saturday we were presented with the Alex Jack Cup. Whilst it wasn’t the way we wanted to win, it didn’t dampen our celebrations. For the record, our route to the final, after a first round bye, took us past Sauchie, Dalkeith Thistle, and Broxburn Athletic.

So, following our league win over Inverkeithing Hillfield Swifts, the Alex Jack Cup was presented by Andrew Renwick and Ian Jack to our Captain, Don Morrison.

While being cheered by the rest of the team, Don lifted the trophy high infront of the waiting crowd while Kieran Anderson, fresh from scoring four times in the match, cracked open the celebratory bottle of champagne.

They then gathered as one team in front of the fans to pose for a history making team photo.

Everyone then took their turn to pose with the photo for their own social media etc but we’ll leave this post with the people who have made this all happen. Firstly the management team that helped shape these players into what they are now – Gordon Herd, Eamon Fullerton and John Miller, then the very serious looking committee (they are happy, honest!), who have brought vision and resources to push the club onwards – Eric Henry, Tony Smith, Allan Morrison, Gary Clark and Paul Cosgrove.

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Alex Jack Cup – WINNERS!

Many of you will have seen the following statement last week from the East of Scotland Football Association:

Alex Jack Cup
The office bearers of our association met after it came to light … that both Haddington Athletic and Bo’ness United had fielded ineligible players in their semi final tie played at Haddington last Saturday. It was decided Bo’ness should be expelled from this season’s competition, while Haddington are debarred from participation in 2019/20. The clubs have the right to appeal these decisions.

It goes without saying it’s extremely disappointing this situation has arisen. It cannot be adequately emphasised how vital it is for clubs to take every step to check the eligibility of their players, in order to ensure the integrity of our competitions. Having won last Saturday’s tie Bo’ness were scheduled to meet Camelon Juniors in the final on Sunday 25 November – that this game won’t now go ahead is greatly regrettable on many levels.

Since its publication, there have been countless discussions behind the scenes to clarify and confirm the outcome, before the committee were comfortable with making any statement.

That process is now complete so we are now very happy to announce that we have won our first silverware since our transition to a senior team this season.

Camelon Juniors Chairman, Eric Henry, said “it’s a strange way to win a cup but the performance from the whole team in the Semi Final win over Broxburn was worthy of winning any cup final. They should be very proud of the result and the performance.

We now need to focus on achieving our pre-season objective of qualifying for next years William Hill Scottish Cup for the first time in the clubs history. One route for this to happen is, having won the Alex Jack Cup, to go on and win the South & East of Scotland Cup-Winners’ Shield. I look forward to seeing all our fans in Lockerbie for the final against either Bonnyton or Mid Annandale, in what could well be one of our biggest ever games.”

So the celebrations below, captured by Dan McMenamy following our semi final win against Broxburn, become the celebrations of the Alex Jack Cup Winners 2018. As soon as we know, we will let you know when we’re to be presented with the trophy.

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First Team Staff News

Camelon Juniors are sad to announce the departure of Jason Bolam from our coaching staff.

Jason has been an integral part of the club development over the past 2 seasons and has always looked for new training methods for the lads during the week. He often came to training sessions fresh from coaching young players in the Little Kerse family, but tirelessly went from one group to another, always giving his all.

In announcing the change to his coaching staff, manager Gordon Herd said, “I’d like to thank Jason for his efforts over the last two seasons and wish him the best on whatever he does next.”

Going forwards, Gordon will continue to work with Eamon Fullerton and John Millar, with the assistance of Ali Jenkins for goalkeeper training and Emma Harper as physio.

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