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AUCHINLECK TALBOT -.. ..I e I . ' ( Scotland's Best Selling Dark Rum Secretary's Slant Firhill which housed last season's Final is this year not only again home to the OVD Cup Final on May 23rd, hut is also playing host to hoth semi-finals. We are took advantage rif Partick Thistle's Premier Division clash against Aberdeen having heing hrouRht forward because of Scotland's World Cup QuaLifying march in PortugaL this week to stage the Glenafton v Lesmahagow semi-Jinal on a Saturday. The other semi finaL goes ahead this evening. joe Black The advantage to aLl the club's reachinR the penultimate rourul is that they will have an opportunity of playing on the ground where the Final is to be staged next month. Like the meeting of Glenafton and Lesmahagow tonight's clash is of rwo clubs heavily involved in the race for their respective League titles cmd promises to he an intriguing tnatch hetween two clubs with vastly different cup traditions. For Auchinleck Tal hot. rh is is their seventh semi .final in the la.\·t ten years <1nd they are seeking their secf,)nd hat-trick of-Junior Cup triumphs in the Last eight competitions. · '·--~ ·· By conTra\·t their opponenT\· are only compering in the Junior Cup for the third rilne, hut hav_e.: progressively improved each season to arive a1 Firhil/ for their first ever semi final. They are ~ reigning Tayside League Champion() and look certain to rerain rhat crown this season and have already sever<1l notable scalps in the cup to their credit arul will undouhtedl_v prove opponents for the side who last _vear won rhe OVD Cup }"or a record sixth time. I'd like to Iuke this opporruni~v of wishing both sides the very best of luck in what I hope will be uruJther match like Saturday's match which illustrated the quaii(v (if the Junior game. Once UJ.;ain the Assocition's thanks nzust he extended to our sponsors OVD whose very welcome sponsorship of the Junior c·up now extends hack some five _vears. FiiUllly. I rnust thank Partick Thistle for their assistance in allowing us to stage both semifinals and the Firu.1l of this :vear's competition on their ground. PREVIOUS FIRHILL SEMI-FINALS Although Firhill housed last year's OVD Final, this is the first year a semi-final ~. as been staged at this ground for quite some time. Kirkintilloch Rob Roy v Shettleston in 1977 was the last semi final to be played here. Co-incidentally that same season Lesmahagow played Kilbirnie in the other semi and, of course, it was the saane Ayrshire side which the Gow put out in a replay this season to make it through to last Saturday's tie. Although Firhill was often the venue ror Junior semis from just before the First World War until the last War, since 1945, the ground hasn't figured nearly as regularly. Here is a list of all the post war semis. 1946 Polkemmet 3 Arthurlie I (Arthurlie protested and won replay at Hampden 3-1) 1953 Ann bank United 4 Arniston Rangers 2 (After 2-2 draw) 1956 Lugar Boswell Thistle 3 Broxburn Athletic 2 1958 Shotts Bon Accord 2 lrvine Meadow XI I 1959 lrvine Meadow XI 2 Carluke Rovers 1 1960 Greenock Juniors 2 Ardeer Thistle 0 (After 3-3 draw) 1962 Renfrew 4 Newburgh 0 1963 Glenafton Athletic 3 Bonnyrigg Rose 2 (After 1-l & 2-2 draws) 1964 Cambuslang Rangers 2 Irvine Meadow XI 0 1967 Kilsyth Rangers 4 Carluke Rovers 3 1969 Cambuslang Rangers 2 lrvine Meadow XI l 1972 Cambuslang Rangers 3 Johnstone Burgh 0 1973 lrvine Meadow XI 4 East Kilbrtde Thistle 1 1974 Cambuslang Rangers 2 Glasgow Perthshire 0 1977 Kirkintilloch Rob Rov 2 Shettleston 0 The Ayrshire club's phenomenal success during recent years has ' tended to obscure the fa~t _ that for the l?ast 82 years_Talbot have been a ! vital part of the local m1n1ng communtty. Formed tn 1909 they joined 1 the Cumnock District Leag.ue in 1909, but two years later, that body 1 found itself in trouble, pla)'tng only two league games before chasino ! no less than seven knock-out trophies in 1911-12, triumphing in thre~ ; of them. There were no further league affiliation until 1919-20 when : they joined the stronger lrvine District League. However, Talbot failed ' to complete their programme in the newly formed league and the following season joined the South Ayrshire League. Talbot played away in the small local league oblivious to the growino dark clouds over junior football. In 1927 the intermediate dispute~ which was a fall out between Junior and Senior clubs over the snatching of players, started. By the end of that dispute in 1931 the AUCHINLECK South Ayrshire League. was down to seven clubs: Kello, Talbot, Cranberry, Glenbuck, Lugar, Glenafton and Cumnock. The TALBOT F.C. depression was taking its tolL and already in 1929 Tal bot had to shut down due to the lack of finance.Also in this year the mighty New Formed 1909 Cumnock United went to the wall, but was replaced by Glenafton Ground BEECHWOOD PARK Athletic. Seeino that the Southern Avrshire Leaoue was in its last throes of Colours BLACK & GOLD 0 ~ 0 death, Kello,Glenafton and Tal bot applied to join the Western League. Alternative BLUE & WHITE In the 1932/33 season Talbot played a total of fourteen games, five of President these friendlies. By the start of the 1933/34 season the Western League IAN MORRISON finally took a change of heart and admitted their southern cousins\ who Vice President were joined by Cumnock the following year. Tal bot's first year in the MATIHEW KIRKPATRICK mighty Western League didn't bring them many friends when their fans Match Secretary rioted at Troon in a Moore Trophy Final. This led to more protests to HENRY DUMIGAN remove the south~rn clubs but they were there to stay. 16 Main Street. Auchinleck They were Western League Southern Section Champions in 1939/40 Tel: 0290 21785 and 1947/48. In the latter season they also claimed the Western League Treasurer Cup; lrvine District Cup: The Moore Trophy and most significantly DAVID LOY their first triumph in the West of Scotland Cup against Blantyre Celtic. Minute Secretary A year later even greater achievement was to be theirs as they battled ROBERT WALLACE their way to the Final. Petershill were clear favourites. Tal bot were 3-1 Promot1ons against, but 68,837 saw Talbot cause an upset and defeat Petershill 3- 2. McKie (2) and Galloway were the Ayrshire marksmen in what has JIM PURDIE- 0290 23264 been described as one of the best ever Junior Finals. DAVID GIBSON - 0290 22536 Although now an established force, it wasn't until 1977 and the Match Programme Enqu1ries appointment of present manager Willie Knox that Auchinleck became JIM McAULEY so dominant. They were Ayrshire League Champions in three 27 Greenbraes Drive. New Cumnock consecutive years and again in 1985/86 and 1986/87. Their West of Tel : 0290 32221 Scotland Cup record bordered on the incredible with seven trophy wins between 1978 and 1986 and a National Dryburgh win over Bonnyrigg MAJOR HONOURS confinned their right to the title of Scotland's kings of Junior football. Scorttsn Jumor Cup Wmners 1 94 9. 1 986. , 98 7. , 988. , 99 , . , 99 2 Of course, they were also in the middle of triumphs in the Scottish West of Scotland Cup Winners Junior Cup. In 1986 came the first of that treble, facing Pollok. another 1948. 19 79' , 980. 1981 . 1982. of the great names in the junior game, they repeated the 1949 scoreline 1984, 1985. 1986. 1988. 1989 by coming from behind to win 3-2 at Hampden. A year later at Rugby Ayrsh1re Cup Wmners Park an all Ayrshire clash with Kilbirnie Ladeside ended l-1. but 1920, 1939. 1956, 1979. 1980, 1982, 1983. 1988 I Tal bot won the replay 1-1 thanks to a John McCool free-kick. To Scarlett Cup Wmners achieve immortality and win the Cup for a third time, Talbot fitti~gl.Y 1978. 1990, 1991 had to beat Petershill, their 1949 victims, in the 1988 Final. Agatn It Ayrshlfe Otstnct Cup Wmners was at Rugby Park.and Tom McDonald scored the winner Linlithgow 1981, 1983, 1985. 1989. 1992 Rose and Hill O'Beath applied 5th Round KO's in 1989 and 1990, but Ayrshtre OlvtSIOn One Champ1ons 1978, 1979. 1980, 1986, 1987, Talbot won the trophy again in 1991 with a 1-0 win o~er 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992 Newtongrange Star and then comfortably won last year's aJI Ayrshtre National Oryboro Cup Wmners- 1987 fin~l, beating Glenafton 4-0 with Gordon Mills grabbing a hat-trick. CDV Cup Winners- 1991 Thts season Auchinleck have been slow starters, but they have alrea~y Ayrshire Consolation Cup Winners - 1931 won the Jackie Scarlett Cup, beating Irvine Meadow 4-2 on penalties tn Moore Trophy Winners - 1948 lrvme District Cup Winners - 1948 the final and are chasing Glenafton in the League, but first they h?pe Vernon Trophy Winners- 1955 create history by setting up a repeat of last year's final by beating Western League Cup Winners - 1948, 1950 Tayport tonight. ,.fhe 'BOT Squad He has just returned from career with Dalry and turned Ally Wilson (Goalkeeper) InJury. senior with Airdrie, before Age 31 A long serving Tal bot Alan Pirie (Full - returning to Abbey Park three regular since 1983, he has back/ Mid_field) Age 27. Re years ago.