HAPPY BIRTHDAY
80 today ? On 17 January 1939 Haddington Athletic were founded at a meeting in the Town House, bringing to an end a near thirty year spell where the town had no Junior football club. Six months later the team were up and running, competing for most of...
HiHi’s lose at Bonnyrigg
Conference B leaders Bonnyrigg Rose proved too strong for Haddington when the sides met in front of an excellent crowd of 361 at New Dundas Park last Saturday. Manager Joe Hamill's side were up against it as the loss of Andy Jones, Hamish Law, Declan Quinn and Grant...
Unlucky Hi Hi’s lose derby
The Hi Hi's lost out by the only goal of the game when they met neighbours Tranent in a Conference B match at a murky Millfield on Saturday. A good crowd saw Haddington create a number of opportunities and hit the woodwork twice before the break. Andy Jones missed two...
A BIT of HISTORY
Hi Hi's v Tranent - historical record update Yesterday's derby was the 205th on record since we played our very first game against Tranent, a 5-1 home defeat on 29 July 1939. After an unbeaten run of nine games lasting almost six years we've now lost the last four...
SQUAD UPDATE 1
Squad update # 1 Our top goalscorer Grant Rose was due to end his loan spell from Berwick Rangers tomorrow, but personnel issues at Shielfield saw the arrangement end slightly prematurely in order for Grant to take a place on the substitutes' bench for Berwick's...
SQUAD UPDATE 2
Squad update # 2 We registered Diste Camara Sylla as a Haddington Athletic player just after Christmas, a couple of weeks after he'd put pen to paper - unfortunately the 17 year old midfielder is out of action at present after picking up an injury in our friendly...
SQUAD UPDATE 3
Squad update # 3 Gary Nicholson put pen to paper on a deal which will see him a Hi Hi's player until the end of the season after yesterday's game. Gary, 24, belongs to Penicuik and showed up well in a number of trialist outings since making his debut as a second half...
HAPPY NEW YEAR
We'll start our first post of the new year by belatedly wishing everyone all the very best for 2019 - hope it's a good one for all reading this. Fixture news received from the East Of Scotland League the other day included new dates for our Conference B games against...
Match abandoned at Denny
Haddington's target of taking full points from their final two league matches of 2018 came unstuck when first their match at Eyemouth was called off due to Health and Safety reasons, and last Saturday the Hi Hi's match against Dunipace at Denny was the only East of...
Young Hi HI’s edged out
Conditions were far from ideal, when the under 20s met Cove Rangers in the fourth round of the Scottish Youth Cup at Whittingehame Drive last Friday. A gale force wind made conditions difficult for both sides but to their credit, both teams tried to play football....