The Club is delighted to announce that Ross Cormack has been sponsored by Scots Bearings.

The Scots Bearings group of companies was formed in Aberdeen in June 1986. Since then they have become Scotland's largest independent bearing and power transmission distributor with outlets in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Inverness & Irvine.

They are also the main distributors for FAG Bearing Company, one of the world leaders in bearing manufacture.

Broughty Atheltic Football Club is delighted to be in partnership with Scots Bearings and thank them for their sponsorship of Ross. For more details about Scots Bearings please go to www.scots-bearings.co.uk/

Becoming a Broughty Athletic player sponsor - and Ross’s sponsorship means that only two players (Garry Munn and  John Farquharson)  remain unsponsored - has never been easier and player sponsorships can be obtained directly from the online shop.

For those who require further information about the benefits of becoming a sponsor please see the Commercial Page on the left hand menu or contact Club President Gordon Deuchars on 01382 770820 or 07788 750760.

On the North End website - http://thedokens.webs.com/ - Dokens’ boss Dave Martin (pictured left) gives a remarkably frank explanation of his approach to yesterday’s GA Engineering Cup tie and the satisfaction he drew from the performance of his team.

“I went with a game plan today, and I felt it worked. We had to give Broughty respect, because not only are they at the top end of the table, but in their last two games they have scored eleven goals!

“I apologise if our football was not too pretty to watch today, but I felt we had to nullify Broughty, to try and wear them down by closing every door on their attacking path.

“I agree the game may have looked a bit scrappy but we had to keep it tight and try and counter them. They did have a lot of territorial advantage, but I thought my boys were disciplined and they did everything I asked of them.

“On the positive side we have now had a five game run without being beaten in normal time and I can see the team progressing. Ironically the last team to beat us was Broughty!!

“That’s us out of the GA cup now, so I will be trying out a few different things with my young guys. Next week we have East Craigie away, so fingers crossed there.”

This week’s terrific North End match photographs were taken by Craig Lafferty, nephew of Club President Gordon Deuchars. We thank Craig for doing such a great job.

West Super League outfit Largs Thistle, late 3-2 winners over Broughty Athletic in the third round of the Emirates Scottish Junior Cup last November, yesterday travelled to Meadow Park in Irvine to meet the cup favourites in the quarter finals of the national competition.

Watched by a healthy crowd of 824, Largs were a goal down to the “mighty Medda” at half-time but grabbed a second half equaliser to take the tie back to Barrfields Park next Saturday.

We wish the “Theestle” well.

Manager Kenny Cameron spoke to the website immediately after today’s hard-fought cup tie.

"North End made life difficult for us today and we struggled to break their defence down throughout the course of the game and gave away an extremely poor defensive goal from our point of view.

“Special mention however goes to goalie Alan Cormack who once again pulled off two fantastic saves in the penalty shoot-out.

“Bottom line is that we are through to the semi finals of the cup and it goes without saying that we are all delighted with the result."

Broughty were at home this afternoon when they welcomed North End to Whitton Park for a GA Engineering Cup quarter final tie.

Broughty had won both their previous meetings with North End this season, although a tighter game was expected with a semi final place on offer to the winners.

Manager Kenny Cameron made two changes to the previous line up, with Graham Allan and Josh Perera replacing Robert Smith and Brian Craik in the starting line up.

Broughty kicked off in near perfect conditions and Kelly was forced to run from his line and gather a through ball in the opening minutes.

In the tenth minute of the game some good link-up play from Perera and Gray resulted in a shot hitting the side netting.

The North End keeper Kelly was the busier of the two goalies in the first twenty minutes but was never really tested with all the shots coming from distance.

Hoy had the visitors’ first chance of the game in the twenty-fifth minute but Cormack dealt with his shot from outside the box.

Four successfully converted penalty kicks put Broughty through to the semi-finals of the GA Enginneering Cup this afternoon at Whitton Park, after the ninety minutes’ play had produced a 1-1 draw with North End.

In the other quarter final tie played today involving an East Region club Arbroath Victoria defeated Aberdeen-based Glentanar by 3-0.

In the other two quarter finals Hermes beat Lewis Utd 3-0 and Sunnybank beat Culter 2-1 to join both Broughty and Arbroath Vics in the semis - and the draw is due to be made in Aberdeen at the next North Region meeting in around ten days time. 

The Club is again pleased to acknowledge the interest shown in the Broughty Athletic lapel badge by members of the Association of Football Badge Collectors.

During this week alone we have sold seven Broughty badges to Association members in Dunfermline, St Andrews, Luton and London – and one gentleman also bought a Broughty satin fabric pennant (pictured left).

We thank them all for their interest in, and support of, the Fed. The full range of Broughty Athletic items can of course be viewed and purchased from the online shop – please see the panel above or at the side of this opening page.

Since 17 October, Broughty and North End have played in a total of five ties to reach the quarter finals stage of the 2009-10 GA Engineering Cup.

Preliminary Round
Scone Thistle 0              Broughty Athletic 1 
First Round
Dundee North End 2       East Craigie 1
Broughty Athletic 6        Luncarty 0
Second Round
Stonehaven 0                 Broughty Athletic 0 (Broughty won 6-5 on penalties.)
Deveronside  1               Dundee North End 2