This page will be updated with all the latest news regarding POSTAL ALC

18th June 2008 - Pre Season Dates

Pre-season for season 2008/2009 will start Monday the 7th of July - 6.45pm at Westfield.

5th June 2008 - Promotions and Relegations decided

Champions Banchory and 2nd place Bon Accord will be promoted from division 1 East this season with University Strollers, Rattrays and Glendale going down.

Postal finished in a dissapointing mid table position but given the losses to the squad at the beginning of the season and as the season progressed possibly not unexpected.

Hopefully the management will add new faces to the squad for next season as Postal look to put in a more consistant challenge.

17th April 2008 - AFC opponents - Glendale

Postal's last chance at silver ware this season sees them take on Glendale at home.  The date for the fixture is still to be arranged.  If Postal make it through to the quarters they will play either Bridge of Don or Bon Accord.

9th March 2008 - White Cup Semi final opponents - Theologians

Theologians scored late in the game on Saturday against Glendale to clinch their place against Postal in the Semi's of the White Cup.

Postal have a decent record against Theos this year with a win and a draw but recent league form must make Theos optimistic.

3rd March 2008 - Thomson scoops sweeper

Postal full back Martin Thomson will surely be splashing the pints for all his team mates this weekend after scooping £4500 on the Ladser Sweeper.

Thomson had actually ticked the "No Publicity" box on his sweeper but not many people read this news section anyway.

When asked about his win, Thomson was quoted as saying "It's just not sunk in yet, I'm the happiest person in Invergordon". 

Seriously Marti, it's 4 grand, not 4 million buddy, I think you'll still need to go back to work. 

30th Jan 2008 - Latest Signing news

Postal have again added to their squad with the signing of Dougy McKerron.  The ex Sunnybank Juniors and Walker Road Amateurs player made an immediate impact as a trialist last weekend when he scored on his debut at Johnshaven.  The 28 year old will add experience and quality to the squad for the second half of the season.

10th Jan 2008 - AAFA Meeting news

News tonight from the Amateur meeting:

Postal will take on Rothie Rovers away in the AFC Trophy.

Millburn have dropped out of the league.  It now means 3 teams will be promoted from the 3rd division.

Match Secretary Bobby Clark anounced his intention to resign.

All amateur teams will be required to provide a representative to a sports injurty course on the 1st and 2nd of March.

19th Dec 2007 - Postal look to the South.

The Postal management are delighted to announce the signing of Colin South from Premier high flighers Cove Thistle.  Southy is comfortable in defence or midfield and signs on at a great time in the season when the Posties are looking to boost their squad for the second half of the campaign.  Look out for more new signings over the festive period.

2nd Dec 2007 - Newcaslte Photos loaded.

Some pictures of the Newcastle trip now loaded.  See link in Photographs section of the site.

2nd Dec 2007 - Christmas Night/Day out.

Captain Wood has anounced that the anual Postal Christmas Night out will take place on Sunday the 23rd of December.  Hopefully most of the boys will have the day off on the Monday (Xmas Eve) and will be able to attend.

1st Dec 2007 - Scottish Cup Fine

Postal have been hit with a rediculous £250 fine for failing to fulfill their scheduled game away to Renfrew in the Scottish Cup.  Postal had a number of players away for the Newcastle trip and did everything in their power to change the date of the fixture, so to get fined this amount of money seems harsh in the extreme.

15th Sep 2007 - New Training Facility

Postal have secured the "Let" at the new Astro Turf pitch at Tullos field for the coming season.  Training will be from 8 till 9.30 every Tuesday night.

13th Sep 2007 - Change to North of Scotland Cup draw

The North of Scotland cup draw has been re-drawn.  Postal were due to play Bridge of Don but will now play University.

5th Sep 2007 - New Links Added

New Links have been added, these are:

AC Mill Inn AFC Official Website (AC Mill Inn are in Postal's league this year).

New Official Scottish Amateur Website.

Strikers 5 Asides Official Website.

31st Aug 2007 - Cup Draws

The draw for the North of Scotland Cup was made last night at the Amateur meeting.  Postal will take on Bridge of Don Amateurs at Westfield.

The draw for the Scottish Cup was also made this week with Postal drawn away to FC Polska......Note this does not mean we need to book flights, I believe they have a pitch at Aultons.  Scottish Cup game is scheduled for October 6th.

11th July 2007 - Comings and Goings.

Mikey Forrestor has signed on again for the coming season.  Mikey left last year to pursue burds.......sorry an education at Uni in Glasgow but has since rejoined the land of the 9 to 5vers and will hopefully quickly recapture his form of last season for the Posties.

4th Aug 2007 - Wood Scoops main prizes at awards dinner.

Postal Captain Davy Wood scooped the Players Player and Committee player of the year at the awards dinner this year.  Chris Turbine took the top goal scorer medal with Davy Gall picking up Clubman of the year.  See the pictures below of the winners.

30th July 2007 - Comings and Goings.

The following new signings have been made:

1.  Neil Summers

2.  John Cumming

3.  Scott Norval

4.  Ross Johnstone

5.  Andrew Green

The following guys have left the club, Postal wish them well for coming season:

1.  David Gall

2.  Andrew Allan

3.  Steven Anderson

4.  Steven Combe.

29th June 2007 - Preseason Friendlies announced.

This year Postal ALC will take part in a Friendly tournament organised by all the teams associated with Aberdeen Lads Club.  MS United have declined the invitation and are therefore replaced by Viva Dons on this occasion.

Proposed Fixtures;

 Saturday 21^st July 2pm

 Lads Club v Frigate                  Postal ALC v Viva Dons

 Wednesday 25^th July 7pm

 Frigate v Postal ALC                Viva Dons v Lads Club

 Saturday 28^th July 2pm

 Viva Dons v Frigate               Lads Club v Postal ALC

29th June 2007 - AGM News

News from last nights Amateur AGM.

Postal will be in Div 1 East this year (see below).

Two new teams have been added to Div 3 FC Polska (a team with Polish players) and Viva Dons

Season starts this year on Aug 4th.

21st June 2007 - New Sponsor

Postal ALC would like to thank local Bridge of Don firm "Absoft" for very kindly making a contribution towards club funds for the coming season. 

Established in 1991, Absoft is one of the largest and longest-established independent SAP consultancies in the UK.  The company is a SAP Services Partner and an accredited SAP Business Partner for mySAP All-in-One® solutions, specialising in the upstream and downstream oil and gas sectors and mySAP Human Capital Management. Absoft is also a value added reseller of SAP Data Management products for California-based Gamma Enterprise Technologies.

Absoft specialises in solutions for the oil and gas industry and its SAP customer base includes the majority of UK-based exploration and production companies, and an increasing number of service sector organisations. Absoft is also active in a number of other vertical markets, including high technology, defence, electronics, consumer goods, higher education and construction.

21st June 2007 - Sponsors Page

A new page has been loaded up showing the current sponsors of the club for season 2007/2008 with links to their websites.

8th June 2007 - Sweeper Stats

Kenny has kindly collated the Sweeper Stats for the season.  These are now in the Stats section for 2006/2007.  Davy Gall was the outstanding seller of the year with £998 sold.  Mackie gets the "Hang-your-head-in-shame" award with only £137 sweepers sold.  This from a man with 10 houses collecting £500/month in rent from Polish people throughout the city.

15th May 2007 - Website back up and running

Apologies for lack of info recently on the website.  We are now back up and running.  Look out for any news and training schedules over the close season.

2nd April 2007 - Ex Posties Captain Ties the Knot

Ex Posties captain Greig Patterson tied the knot last weekend at a ceremony in Brisbane Australia.  The best man speech was, according to the congregation, the best and funniest they'd ever heard.  As can be seen below, Greig forfeighted the kilt for some traditional Ozzie attire.

All at the club send Greig and Jacinta our best wishes.

5th Feb 2007 - Cameron Off?

It looks very much like Postal striker Roddy Cameron has left the club.  As the transfer deadline in the juniors closed on Wednesday it looked as though the veteran striker was going to sign for Premier side Formartine.

Cameron is reported to have said he couldn't take the emotional heartache of seeing the Highland Hotel waitresses every Saturday after a very public falling out.

The club wish him and his broken heart all the best.

24th Jan 2007 - New Photograph in "Wee bit of History"

A new photo has been posted in the history section showing a young John from 1983.

13th Jan 2006 - Newtonhill game cancelled

Todays game against Newtonhill was cancelled due to no referee turning up.  With both teams out on the pitch stripped, they were let down by the ref who didn't even bother to phone.

19th December 2006 - Pitch Change

This weekend's home game against Nicolls Amateurs may need to be played at Hazelhead due to Westfield being unavailable.

2nd November 2006 - Scally combines day job as part time model.

Graham Scally has obviously not been wasting his Saturdays off.  It looks like he has taken to the role of male model after this advert was seen doing the rounds in the local rag last week.

12th October 2006 - Forrestor packs bags to become oldest student in town.

Left midfielder Mike Forrestor has decided to up and leave Aberdeen to go to College in Glasgow.  With a blatant disregard to his team mates, Forrestor has decided to put nights out with long haired goths and nubile young Glasgow sorts ahead of Postal's push for 1st Division respectability.

Everyone at Postal wishes him all the best and a wip round will be gathered to make sure his student loan doesn't run out too quickly.

4th October 2006 - Latest Cup Draws.

The draws for the Association and AFC Cups have been made.

In the AFC Postal are at home to Grampian Police.

In the Association cup,  Postal have a harder game of it against Premier Division Stoneywood Social club.  No dates have been advertised as yet.

23rd September 2006 - Manager breaks bone.

While attempting to keep fit in a non-contact sport, Colin (brittle bones) Patterson has fractured the 5th Metatarsel in his left foot.  He will be in a cast for 3 weeks and out for at least 5.  Moral of story, never play squash with Andy Allan, boys an animal.

22nd September 2006 - Training Disaster

Just found out that we did not get our Let renewed by Aberdeen City council for the Training facility at Rubislaw.  Will work to get something more permanent sorted out this week.  Training on Wednesday the 27th will be indoor at Alex Collie Sports Centre in Bridge of Don at 7.00.

Please keep an eye on this news page for Training until something permanent is found.  Thanks.

 17th September 2006 - Stephen Shield results.

Ferryhill and Newmachar also progressed to the 2nd round of the Stephen Shield - see below for details.

Ferryhill beat Johnshaven

Newmachar beat Old Aberdonians

1st September 2006 - Scottish Cup 2nd Round Draw

Postal have recieved a bye to the 2nd round of the Scottish Amateur Cup where they will meet Trophies International at Westfield

Trophies are currently riding high at the top of Div 3 so a tough game is expected.

Postal also recieved a bye to the 2nd round of the North of Scotland although the draw for this game has not been made.

27th August 2006 - Cameron Breaks Duck

Just when the Postal support thought it was never going to happen, Roddy Cameron scored his first Postal goal on Saturday.  It just shows what can happen if you keep believing.

Neil (Bunny) MacDonald was seen to ask Cameron after the game how he did it.

15th August 2006 - Awards results

The awards for 2005/2006 were handed out at the anual race night.  The awards were presented as follows:

Top Goal Scorer - Chris Bews

Club Man - Wayne Keith

Committee Player of the Year - Davy Gall

Players Player of the Year - Davy Wood.

6th August 2006 - Cameron Signs On.

Ex Culter Juniors player Roddy Cameron became Postal's 5th new signing of the season today.  Cameron was quoted as saying he can't wait to pull on the famous red and black strip and add to his numerous "League Medals Hanging on the Wall". 

Cameron will be available for selection for Monday nights game at Feughside.

1st August 2006 - Latest Signing

Mike Forrestor is the newest recruit to the Postal cause.  Mike looks to be a valuable asset to the team after moving to Aberdeen in the summer.

Mike becomes our only ginger player this year following the departure of Queetsy and the rapid greying of Davy Wood.

26th July 2006 - Latest Friendly Arrangments

Saturday 29th of July 2 p.m K.O at ALC Woodside

Friendly - Frigate V Postal ALC

Monday 31st of July 7 p.m K.O at Kemnay

Friendly - Kemnay V Postal ALC

Wednesday 2nd of Aug  K.O TBA at Woodside

Friendly - Great Western United V Postal ALC

9th July 2006 - New Signings

Pre-season started yesterday with an encouraging 16 bodies starting the slog back to fitness.  New signings included the following boys:

Neil McDonald from Portlethen United, Ryan Hunter from Woodbank and a return to Postal for Craig Pirie.

Next Session on Monday night at Westfield 6.30.

9th July 2006 - Player of the Year/Race Night - 12th Aug

The date of the Player of the Year/Race night has been anounced.  This will take place at the Holburn Bar Function Suite on August the 12th.  Tickets are priced at £3 to cover the buffet and it will be £5 to buy a horse and give it a name for the night.

Lets get selling the tickets early doors please.

30th June 2006 - Fits Yer Beef Disaster

Don't know what I've done but I've managed to somehow delete the forum from the Host Server.  Will attempt to get it back up and running ASAP.

Update - My intellect was sadly not up to the task and have had to create a new forum.  You will need to set up your details again.  Sorry for distruption.

30th June 2006 - AGM News

News from last nights Amateur AGM.

Postal will be in Div 1 North this year (see below).  Player of the year from our division last year was Richard Cameron of Bankhead.

Two new teams have been added to Div 3 Hazelhead Utd and University Colts.

Season starts one week early this year on Aug 5th.

28th June 2006 - NEW LEAGUES WILL BE ANOUNCED THURSDAY NIGHT.

The New Leagues will be announced tomorrow night at the Amateur AGM.  I will update webber on Friday.

27th June 2006 - POSTAL KEEPER GETS READY TO GO UP THE AISLE

Postal's Andy (Smee) Smith ties the knot this weekend and you can see looking at the picture below just what the future Mrs Smith sees in our very own Greek God.  All the best for the big day from all at the club.

15th June 2006 - WEBSITE UPDATE

Website has now been updated to show a new "Latest News" page and some stats from previous years.