Welcome and best wishes for a successful future with the club to Michael McTavish. Michael (18), formerly of Colony Park Boys' Club, has signed a 2 year contract and is eligible to play for the Under 19 Development Squad.

Formartine's pre-season efforts have given them a decent work out: after a 7-1  win against Rothie Rovers and a hard worked but well deserved 4-3 against Carnoustie Panmure [recent former winners of Scottish Junior Cup],they ventured South of the Border to tackle South Shields and Consett. in successive days.  They lost both games  [3-1 and 4-1] but have learned in the process. According to reports recieved they gave a good account of themselves with young Atholl Cadger taking the eye up front. but lacking pace at the back, they were at times, exposed there.

 The trip gave great opportunity for team bonding, showed strengths as well as weaknesses and forms a firm foundation for next week's opener, at home against Brora Rangers.

Season tickets for season 2010/11 are now available.

The prices are £110.00 [standard, adult]

                    £60.00  [OAP, student and other concessions]

For those who are interested in becoming a season ticket holder for the first time, an open house will be held on the morning  [10a.m. - 12-30pm] of our first home game against Brora on  31/7/10.  If you can turn up to this not only can you purchase a season ticket, but also try out the view from the position of the available seat of your choice. Existing season ticket holders can retain their seats if they chose. They will be contacted directly by the club.

You will find an application form on this site by clicking on club and then going to Tickets 2010. You can complete it and e-mail it to corporate.fufc@btinternet.com.

 You can also enquire further at the same address where you can get information about a range of sponsorship opportunities such as access to sponsors' lounge, corporate events, match day and match ball  sponsorship and more.

Herewith details of pre-season friendlies. Accurate as of 5/7/10.  You will be aware that because of groundworks in connection with SFA application, all of these are away fixtures.

Sat 10th Jul '10		Rothienorman	Friendly	2:00pm
Sat 17th Jul '10		Carnoustie Panmure	Friendly	3:00pm
Wed 21st Jul '10		Hall Russell United	Friendly	7:00pm
Sat 24th Jul '10		Consett AFC	Friendly	3:00pm
Sun 25th Jul '10		Morpeth Town	Friendly	11:45am

Midfielder, Patrick Vigurs has been sold to Inverurie Locos. There was a fee involved but this has not been disclosed.

Here is a brief summary of the Agm held on Tuesday night

At last night's  [29/6/10] AGM, the Club decided to raise ordinary admission charges to £7.00 [Concessions £4.00] but also to end the £1.00 supplement for stand admission - hence the cost of admission to ground and stand combined remains at £7.00.  A knock on effect is that season tickets are now fixed at £110.00 [£60.00 concessions]

Remember that cup games [such as they are without SFA membership] are not included in season ticket prices because gate receipts have to be split with the visiting side and are calculated on a head count. This is standard practice more or less throughout Scottish Football.

Central defender James "Sivvy" Seivewright has been transferred to Culter FC for an undisclosed fee.

After a recount, prompted by an unknown SHFL fan from Elgin it is now confirmed that Barry Somers is joint top scorer in Highland League for Season 2008/9. His superb hat trick  in the abandoned game against Strathspey [one with the left, one with the right and one with the head] had been deducted twice from his total [at the time and at the end of the season].  He was therefore due 3 goals on his total. That has now been done and he shares the award. Congratulations!

We are now paying Consett instead of South Shiels  in the first game of our mini tour.  The second, still against Morpeth has been shifted from a 10-3- to an 11-15 kick off inorder to allow any sair headed and dehydrated supporters a slightly longer window of opportunity to aid recovery from celebrating the previous day's victory..

I know the Aberdeenshire cup draw has been made and fairly widely publicised, but the exact dates of the ties have yet to be fixed. Once that happens, they'll go up on the site pronto.