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Hawick do have a gap for 2019-20 (as 2020-21 was null & void); albeit wasn't actually possible to go down that year, and did come 2nd bottom! Vale got kept up in 2019-20 and struggled since: 4pts from 119 games (19pts won but 15pts deducted) 5 wins 4 draws 110 losses 77 goals for 548 goals against -471 goal difference (not including expunged 0-6 and 0-2 defeats v Rosyth) 2019-20 Lowland League 2020-21 Lowland League 2021-22 Lowland League 2022-23 EOS Premier Division 2023-24 EOS First Division (to date) (not including expunged 0-6 and 0-2 defeats v Rosyth)

Brechin basically suffered 3 consecutive between 2018 and 2021 allowing for disruption in 2020... Hawick got relegated from LL to EOSL in 2018, to First in 2019, Second in 2022 and Third in 2023 = 4.

Yousaf's constituents react to resignation Catriona Renton - BBC Scotland reporter It started to pour with rain here in Humza Yousaf’s Glasgow Pollok constituency in the minutes before he resigned as first minister. I broke the news to several of his constituents. It came as a surprise to some but no great shock to others who have been following the events of the past few days. It would be fair to say that many of those I spoke to were not particularly engaged with what is happening. Others did not even know he was their MSP.

Since returning to Hampden in 2016 the Amateur final AFAICS mostly got to use the day after the Scottish but it's now used for Womens... last 4 will have been midweek (Wed, Tue, Wed, Thu).

Occurs to me that as English clubs were banned from preseason friendlies until 1961 (for Scottish clubs 1966 and not at home until 1967): it also was about only chance to meet on a weekend.

Still, at least Jenny Gilruth gives a clean break from Sturgeon-Yousaf continuity and Green beholdenness, a high public profile, and successful record in her 1yr at transport + 1yr at education...

Sunday 15th February 1981 - St Mirren 2-3 Arsenal (9,389)... for the Provan Jewellers Challenge Cup ! EDIT: interestingly moved back 24hrs from Saturday over SFA objections it might suppress attendance at Morton v Aberdeen (which drew 8,350).

If anybody is wondering how both clubs had a free Saturday in February - they'd each exited the FA and Scottish cups at the first hurdle: Liverpool at Bolton; St Mirren at home to Motherwell. It was quite common from 1950s to 1970s for such clubs, if lacking a scheduled league game or an outstanding game wanting rescheduled, to arrange "Anglo Scottish friendlies" - often on Friday night once floodlights became widespread (perhaps as many fans headed for a cup-tie somewhere else on Saturday?). Sometimes these became mini-tours. On this occasion Scottish Cup R2 was actually the week before... St Mirren and East Fife advanced their league game to free themselves for a jaunt. St Mirren went on to lose 3-2 at Leeds on the Monday: Third Lanark lost 1-0 at Accrington on the Saturday... but East Fife jammed in 3 games, losing 4-1 at Accrington on preceding Monday, then winning 4-1 at Carlisle on Tuesday, before losing narrowly 2-1 at Manchester City on the Saturday. There are probably more. Saints headed back down on QF day losing 2-1 at Portsmouth: It was rare for English sides to come here.

54yrs ago: Celtic prepped for European Cup Final v Feyenoord, at... Fraserburgh. All bar 1 crew of lifeboat Duchess of Kent drowned when it capsized responding to a callout in a January storm. Fraserburgh Lifeboat Disaster Match Tuesday 28th April 1970 Fraserburgh 0-7 Celtic Milne (own goal), Wallace, Craig, Hughes x2, Auld, Hood 6,500

Could be some clubs (e.g. out West) who applied before licence application moratorium and happen to reach approval in May or June? Otherwise as you say looking at 5-7 qualifiers for 1-3 ties in PR1.

They currently have league fixtures upto and including Saturday 8th June. Also in SFs of North Junior Cup. Lost in North & Tayside Junior Cup SFs yesterday. I hadn't noticed there now were playoffs in North Juniors. What's the format... 2x SFs > Final? 2 legs or neutral venue? Nairn don't finish league games until Saturday 8th June and 'on paper' can catch East End for playoff.

Correct. They got 1.66% in 2021 Scottish Parliament election... 0 seats. They got 0.7% in 2022 local council elections... 0 seats. (West Dunbartonshire, British Unionist and Rubbish parties won seats but Alba didn't).

Bump. This week - Tuesday to be precise - marks 100yrs since Coldstream lifted the inaugural EOS League title: They won 2-0 v Selkirk at Ettrick Park to pip Berwick Rangers by 1pt: This was their season schedule... note they also played in no fewer than 7 cups - winning the EOS Consolation Cup, visiting Hampden in the Scottish Amateur Cup, plus reaching the Scottish Cup for the first time (posting Home Park's record 4,000 attendance v Armadale):