FUNK SAYS SORRY FOR CUP STUFFING.SCARBOROUGH Athletic manager Rudy Funk apologised to the fans after last night's dismal 5-1 North Riding Cup defeat at the hands of Guisborough Town.Funk's heavily altered side were comfortably second best on the night, but the Borop chief did manage to grab a positive or two.

RUDY'S ARTICLE FROM TONIGHT'S LOCAL PAPER.SCARBOROUGH Athletic chief Rudy Funk has promised to ring the changes after hIs side's disappointing defeat last night.Funk was less than happy with a number of his team's displays during the 2-1 home loss against title-rivals Staveley.He said: " I'm not happy with it because we just seemed to go through the motions.

• Just looked at the stavely website ahead of tonights game and the clubs sponsors are providing free luxury transport for their fans wishing to travel, so we could be in for a rare treat and actually have a number of away fans tonight in side queensgate.
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Staveley MWFC have been provided with the opportunity of free luxury coach hire for players, officials and supporters for the forthcoming away game with Scarborough Athletic FC at Bridlington FC on Tuesday 15th November 2011.

TOP OF THE NCEL PREMIER DIVISION AS OF TODAY 14/11/2011.
BRIDLINGTON TOWN Played 15 Points 33
RETFORD UTD Played 16 Points 33
TADCASTER ALB Played 14 Points 32
BORO Played 13 Points 29
STAVELY MW Played 13 Points 27


TUESDAY NIGHT GAMES;
BORO v STAVELY
SELBY v BRID' TOWN


So tomorrow night if Scarborough Athletic manage to defeat Staveley at Queensgate then they will move up to 3rd place, on goal difference over Tadcaster Albion.

Nice article from the local paper giving boss Rudy Funk's opinions on the Retford v Boro match.
SCARBOROUGH Athletic boss Rudy Funk was delighted with his side's last-gasp point on the road at NCEL Premier title challengers Retford United.He said: " I'm delighted, but it is nothing more than we deserved .

Luke FletcherMidfielder Luke Fletcher has become the latest acquisition for Scarborough Athletic.
Luke has joined us from Stavely Miners Welfare, he had joined Welfare from Parkgate at the start of this season.
Luke is 25 years of age and actually played against Boro in the opening game of the season.

Match Report from the Thackley website following their 5-0 defeat at the hands of Scarborough Athletic.By Thackley Webmaster | Sunday 6th November 201105 NOV 2011 - THACKLEY 0 SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC 5STEVE PALEY and the rest of the Dennyfaithful saw a very disappointing display by the Dennyboys – an afternoon and a match to put behind them.

Just read this article from the Thackley website, Looks like they are looking forward to our visit on Saturday.Expect fireworks (of the legal and enjoyable kind) as the Seadogs hope to rocket up the league and the Dennyboys look to avoid a damp squib.Whilst there is still the League Cup to play for, the mantra of "concentrating on the league" is perhaps uppermost in Thackley minds as they look forward to entertaining Scarborough Athletic on Saturday.

Scarborough Athletic travel to the West Riding on Saturday, where Thackley will be their hosts.
Thackley (The Dennyboy's) will be looking forward to a run of 5 consecutive home league fixtures, ours being the first.
Following the game against Boro on Saturday, the Dennyboy's will entertain Hall Road Rangers, Bridlington Town, Armthorpe Welfare, who incidentally knocked them out of the WRC Cup last night thanks to a 35th minute own goal from James Firth.

Scarborough Athletic moved up two places into 4th position of the league table thanks to their last gasp winner at home to Hall Road Rangers yesterday.That game I predicted correctly.
Bridlington Town won 3-1 away to Long Eaton United, I guessed that would be a very close game and forecast a draw.

AT A VERY WINDY QUEENSGATE SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC STUTTERED TO A 2-1 VICTORY AGAINST A FAIRLY CAPABLE LOOKING HALL ROAD RANGERS OUTFIT.
BORO STARTED THE GAME IN A CONVINCING MANNER BUT THIS ROBUST START WAS TO BE SHORTLIVED AS IT WAS RANGERS WHO WOULD HAVE THE LIONS SHARE OF POSSESSION THROUGHOUT THE OPENING FORTY FIVE MINUTES.

"RAISE FUNDS FOR 'BORO' BY SHOPPING ONLINE"Don't forget you can raise funds for Boro while shopping online. Go to the Scarborough Athletic official site and click on the"online shop" link at the right hand side of the page.
Click on the link below the news items "Shop with over 150 top retailers and raise funds for us at the same time".

Boro's progress in the FA Vase was halted by a combination of cheating opponents and a referee (Mr D Hunt) who should not be allowed anywhere near a football pitch again after this performance. I am used to seeing inept officials in this league, but yesterday's was I have been told by many fans the worst yet to officiate a Boro game.

SCARBOROUGH ATHLETIC TRAVEL TO SOUTH YORKSHIRE TOMORROW TO FACE RAWMARSH BASED 'PARKGATE' IN THE 1st ROUND OF THIS SEASONS FA VASE.
INCLUDED IN THE BORO SQUAD FOR THE 2nd TIME WILL BE DEAN WINDASS, I FEEL SURE DEAN WILL BE GIVEN A RUN OUT AT SOME STAGE OF THE GAME, THOUGH I EXPECT BLOTT AND BERNARD TO LINE UP IN ATTACK FROM THE KICK OFF.

On Thurday, the Boston Aztec took one more step toward a return to the WPSL title game with a 4-0 win over the similarly-monikered Boston Aztec U-23 squad in the WPSL regional playoffs. The win delivers the Aztec to the WPSL semifinals for the second year in a row, as the 2010 WPSL champions will face off against the Orange County Waves in Chicago on Saturday, July 30th.

In 1988 Scarborough FC were the first club in the UK to sell stadium naming rights to its frozen food sponsors, and the Athletic Ground became the McCain Stadium

Tadcaster Albion beat Pickering Town with two goals in the dying minutes. Pickering were 2-1 up when in the 88th minute Albion's Marc Thompson equalised for his team and then in the final minute Albion were awarded a penalty and Carl Stewart stepped up and hit the winning goal for Albion.
At Queensgate Bridlington Town kept up the pressure on Farsley and Parkgate at the top of the table as they defeated Maltby Main 4-2, Town took the lead in the 2nd minute and never looked in danger of losing the match, ex Scarborough Athletic players were on target for Town, Craig Hogg scored from the penalty spot on 21 minutes and late in the game Scott Phillips scored the 4th goal for Town.

Not much action for the Boro thanks to waterlogged pitches again, so I thought I would give a mention of the excellent Scarborough Under 16's girls team who play in the 'City of York Girl's football league'.
Last week the team increased their lead at the top of the league with an excellent 10-1 victory over their opponents 'Tockwith'.

Listen to the Scarborough Athletic v Parkgate game live on 'SEADOGS LIVE', tomorrow afternoon, just click on the link in the sidebar.Excellent commentry and also chat feature available.
UP THE BORO....................................

Scarborough Athletic have signed experienced midfielder Nick McNamara from rivals and landlord's Bridlington Town.
Town signed Nick from Rushden and Diamonds in the pre-season. He played 10 games for Diamonds last season in the Blue Square Premier league, he had been a Diamonds player since joining them from Hull City at the end of the 2008/09 season, he played for their Reserves and Under 19's.

In a very one sided game, Scarborough Athletic ran out comfortable 7-1 winners last night in South Yorkshire.Dinnington were a very poor side but that does not take anything away from what was a great team performance from the Boro. Ryan Blott opened the scoring after just 9 minutes and Bill Law doubled the lead just 3 minutes later, Ryan struck again on 18 minutes and a whitewash looked to be on the cards.

Scarborough Athletic beat Tadcaster Albion 1-0 in their local derby at Queensgate last night, I had to be content with listening to the game on Seadogs live along with around 80 other liseners. It was Ryan Blott who grabbed the all important goal for Boro and it was a special goal for Ryan as it was his 100th from his 123 appearances for the club.

Notts County and former Scarborough FC player Neal Bishop gave Notts County an early lead against big spenders, Manchester City in todays FA Cup 4th round tie at Meadow Lane.
County played well and were well worth their lead but City did eventually scrape back an equalising goal and now County will have to face City at their place in the replay.

ONE TIME SCARBOROUGH FC MANAGER RUSSEL SLADE'S LEAGUE ONE SIDE LEYTON ORIENT HAD A MAGNIFICENT VICTORY IN THE FA CUP 4th ROUND TODAY AWAY TO CHAMPIONSHIP SIDE SWANSEA. RUSSEL MASTERMINDED THIS FAMOUS VICTORY WHICH SAW THE ORIENT REACH THE 5th ROUND OF THE CUP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 29 YEARS. SYMPATHY HAS TO GO TO SWANSEA CAPTAIN ALAN TATE WHO'S OWN GOAL IN THE 88th MINUTE OF THE GAME SEALED A 2-1 VICTORY FOR ORIENT.

Scarborough Athletic's trip to Dinington Town has been called off because of overnight frost in South Yorkshire, so I thought I would take the 10 minute walk up the road to watch the Reserves in their Humber league match against North Cave, as I passed the ground on my way home from Scarborough earlier I noticed the nets were in place and I was looking forward to the game, but I have checked on the official website and found that this game has also been cancelled because of frost, strange decision really as the sun is shining, the frost has gone and the game had a 2.

Tonight I intended going to watch Scarborough Athletic away at Nostell MW, but thanks to working late I now had the choice of a comfy chair by the fire and Arsenal v Ipswich on the tv or the short trip to the less glamorous surroundings of Queensgate and Bridlington Town v Armthorpe Welfare, EASY CHOICE, Queensgate it was.

It's time for a bit of a non-league round-up (as is our wont at this time of the week), with highlights of three matches from the last couple of weekend's worth of matches. First up, we're taking the opportunity to catch up with one of the matches from the weekend of the 15th of January, with the FA Trophy Second Round match between Blyth Spartans.

Nathan Hotte has left Scarborough Athletic to join Bradford Park Avenue and will actually play some part in their game tonight against FC Halifax.
Nathan has shown excellent form for Boro, especially recently when the team has been struggling and he will be badly missed.
Rob Northern has also informed the club that he wishes to leave and does not want to be considered for future Boro matches.

For anyone wishing to take in Scarborough Athletic's NCEL Premier game at Nostell Miners Welfare FC on Tuesday evening here are the directions to their ground.
The ground address is:
Crofton Community Centre,
New Crofton,
Wakefield,
WF4 1LB.

Scarborough Athletic's match with Arnold Town has been covered in my last post, that is one game to be forgotton about in all honesty, meanwhile as the Boro fans were being bored to tears with the game at Queensgate our landlord's Bridlington Town did well to gain a point away to Armthorpe Welfare, Town were 2-0 up at half time but Leo Fortune West pulled a goal back for Welfare and then just 6 minutes from time Joe Wilcox equalised for Welfare earning his team a share of the points.

At a bitterly cold and windswept Queensgate Scarborough Athletic got back to winning ways, but it was painful to watch, more like a Sunday league game than an NCEL Premier fixture.
As usual Boro squandered what few chances came their way, but in about the 40th minute of the game skipper Nathan Hotte got the ball and went on a determined run towards the Arnold goal, after skipping over desperate tackles from the Arnold defence he crossed the ball to Ryan Blott who made no mistake in putting the ball into the back of Arnold 'keeper Lance Walker's net.

Scarborough Athletic were beaten 2-0 at Selby Town on Tuesday night, one goal in each half was enough for Town to take all 3 points following a lack lustre display by the Seadogs, First half Boro played reasonably and had their chances but failed to take them, something that is becoming all too common in games,but the 2nd half saw a different performance, we played badly and could have no complaints about the final outcome.

NEW TEAM SPONSOR FOR RESERVES.Boro have secured a sponsor for the Reserve team for the rest of this season, and hopefully beyond. The new sponsors, Dave and Kerry Woodhead of Pinewood Holiday Park in Scarborough, said: "We are proud to be the new sponsor of SAFC Reserves, and are looking forward to a long and successful partnership with the team.

TORONTO, Ont. Toronto FC captain Dwayne De Rosario will not be extending his stay with the Scottish Premier League team he's been training with since December, the club announced Friday. Reported to be unhappy with his TFC contract, De Rosario's future with the club has been the subject of debate and conflicting reports since [.

According to Major League Soccer Soccer headlines, MLS teams are starting to assert themselves against their eternal enemy, their players.
Here's Frank Klopas, who according to the headline, is wielding the hammer:
Quote: "Klopas: Castillo Will Report To Preseason Camp.

Scarborough Athletic may be languishing down in 14th position of the NCEL Premier division, but we have a massive 7 games in hand over league leaders Farsley AFC, the team we play on Saturday.
If we were to win the 7 games in hand then we would be in 2nd place just 1 point behind the leaders.

Hallam fightback
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Hallam may just have pulled off a result that could well turn around their season and help them pull clear of the drop zone. Kenny Geelan's side found themselves 4-0 down at in-form Scarborough Athletic early in the second half. But in one of the comebacks of the season the Blues scored four times in the last 20 minutes including a stoppage time equaliser to earn a 4-4 draw.

Scarborough Athletic's Richard Medcalf is top scorer in all NCEL competitions with 17 goals. He is also joint top scorer in the NCEL Premier division only along with Brighouse Town forward Nathan Cartman, both are on 13 goals.

Tomorrow will hopefully see Scarborough Athletic back in league action when we are due to play at Tadcaster Albion, but we have had another layer of snow fall this evening and it is snowing now at 9.30 pm on the eve of the game so I am guessing there will be a late pitch inspection sometime tomorrow.