Ian McG

Blackburn United have made attacking midfielder Nathan Donnelly-Kay available for transfer. Nathan is a young player who came through the youth academies of both Dunfermline Athletic and Hibernian. This post does not give permission to contact the player directly and any interested parties should contact Club Secretary Paul Meechan in the first instance.

Blackburn United have made attacking midfielder Nathan Donnelly-Kay available for transfer. Nathan is a young player who came through the youth academies of both Dunfermline Athletic and Hibernian. This post does not give permission to contact the player directly and any interested parties should contact Club Secretary Paul Meechan in the first instance.

Blackburn United have made striker Andy McQuillan available for transfer. Andy is a proven goalscorer who has also been with Fauldhouse United, Pumpherston and Whitburn. This post does not give permission to contact the player directly and any interested parties should contact Club Secretary Paul Meechan in the first instance.

Blackburn United have made striker Andy McQuillan available for transfer. Andy is a proven goalscorer who has also been with Fauldhouse United, Pumpherston and Whitburn in the Juniors. This post does not give permission to contact the player directly and any interested parties should contact Club Secretary Paul Meechan in the first instance.

Blackburn United have made striker Andy McQuillan available for transfer. Andy is a proven goalscorer who has also been with Fauldhouse United, Pumpherston and Whitburn in the Juniors. This post does not give permission to contact the player directly and any interested parties should contact Club Secretary Paul Meechan in the first instance.

Due to league and cup fixture schedules this weekend, Blackburn United have Saturday 21st September free and hope to host a 1:00pm friendly at the Purdie Worldwide Community Stadium. Any side interested in providing the opposition for such a friendly should contact club secretary Paul Meechan in the first instance.

Due to league and cup fixture schedules this weekend, Blackburn United have Saturday 21st September free and hope to host a 1:00pm friendly at the Purdie Worldwide Community Stadium. Any side interested in providing the opposition for such a friendly should contact club secretary Paul Meechan in the first instance.

Blackburn United have made full-back George Bonnar available for transfer. George is an experienced defender who has also been with Harthill Royal, Armadale Thistle and Bathgate Thistle in the Juniors. Any interested parties should contact Club Secretary Paul Meechan in the first instance.

Blackburn United have made full-back George Bonnar available for transfer. George is an experienced defender who has also been with Harthill Royal, Armadale Thistle and Bathgate Thistle in the Juniors. Any interested parties should contact Club Secretary Paul Meechan in the first instance.

This type of thing is always a disappointment to read, although I really should be inured to it by now as it seems it has always been difficult to obtain a degree of respect for Blackburn United’s off field achievements from many within and without the game. All too often these achievements are summarily dismissed in just such an offhand and dismissive way. I don’t wish to list on a public forum all that has gone into taking Blackburn United from a one team Junior side playing out of a dilapidated and unfit for purpose old ground to the multi-team, all-inclusive Club that it is today, playing in what I hope might be thought of as one of the best facilities in West Lothian and, perhaps, further afield too. What I will say is that it has taken a dozen plus years of a small core of peoples time to arrive at where we are today and there has been no little sweat spilled and there has been no little tears – tears of frustration and tears of sadness too. Fortunately there has been no blood spilled – as far as I’m aware! My username isn’t a pseudonym and I’m contactable directly through the club website so please do so, if you wish, and I would be happy to arrange to meet you at New Murrayfield Park to give you just a flavour of the efforts that small core of people have put in and what that small core have had to sacrifice to achieve what we have at our club. If it was as simple as “filling out forms” then I might just have had a much less stressful time over the years.