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The ludicrous booking Craig Beattie picked up for simulation in the Elgin match has now been rescinded.
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A club will only get Gold or Silver licensing if it meets all the criteria for the level. The Bronze/Entry criterion for 'Protected Access' is Clubs must give consideration to the way in which players access and leave the field of play but for Gold/Silver it is There must be protected access to the playing field for teams and match officials. The access to this area must be strictly controlled. Tynecastle etc will be Gold standard in this case but the ground misses out on other criteria.
Many grounds have a single access point for players and the stewards and officials block this to the public when the players are entering or leaving the field. At Ainslie Park this is in front of the pavilion, where stewards stop spectators going to/from the refreshment kiosk until the players are on the park. In others, such as Tynecastle, the route onto the pitch is blocked off to spectators at all times.
You can see the ground criteria in Section 5 of this SFA document - https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/2881/scottish-fa-club-licensing-manual-2018.pdf
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The proposed new stadium is fine for playing football - as the attached newspaper link says, it has been designed to meet licensing Bronze standards. The problem is that it is garbage as a place to watch football. If the plans stay as they are, the ground will be an even worse spectator experience than the stadium which is being demolished.
All the artist's impressions are careful not to show what the new stand will look like. It will look like the stand at K-Park, East Kilbride, but with only three rows of seats rather than four, and with the park separated from the stand by a concrete circulation area, an eight-lane running track and a long-jump pit. There will be no standing inside the track as was done at Stirling University when they still played at Gannochy, and there will be no safe standing areas behind the goals because the pole vault area will be at one end and the high jump at the other. In fact there will be no standing, anywhere. Where the dug-outs are going to go is anyone's guess.
The Council are quite clearly startled by our reaction. While the athletes at Meadowbank kick up hell on a regular basis, the football club has tended to deal privately with Edinburgh Leisure to get problems settled; but the problems presented by these plans cannot be fixed by a few bits of tape and opening another gate.
Whoever designed and agreed these plans has obviously never been been to a football match in his or her life. The dressing rooms might have five shower-heads to meet Bronze licensing standards, but the players will still have to thread their way through spectators going to the toilets or the cafe. Although I doubt we'd have any spectators a few weeks after the season starts. Once they've queued for 15 minutes at the single turnstile to sit in a wet seat to watch a match where the nearest touchline is thirty yards away, they will soon find other things to do with their Saturdays - even though the referee's room has a toilet to meet Bronze licensing standards.
"Council Officers will arrange to meet with the football club to discuss their statement." Good. If Council Officers had listened to a single word we said at several previous meetings, there might not have needed to be a statement.
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Pleased for Beattie, have to be honest, don’t know much about McDonaugh.
He was assistant manager at Falkirk, and before that head of coaching at the Hibs Academy.
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New management team announced - James McDonaugh and Craig Beattie, with Colin Jack as first team coach.
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City play Stenhousemuir in the Cup and that match will be on Friday 13th. Spartans v Clach is on Saturday 14th.
The City v Annan match is a League game and will be on Saturday 21st. Spartans play Ormiston in the South Cup on Sunday 22nd.
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Why the hell would the Council deliberately avoid the need for a fire certificate? Especially after the Grenfell tower block disaster.
I understand it's to do with having a qualified safety officer rather than a fire certificate.0 -
Unbelievably a steward has asked Falkirk to stop broadcasting it appears! [emoji16]
There shouldn't be a problem with this. I have asked the chief steward and he doesn't know anything about a ban. He is investigating.0 -
New kits, courtesy of FootballNation and FNteamwear. Very understated, but kinda wish the sash was kept in some shape or form;
Would have liked that as well, but all teamwear catalogues now have a date beyond which a strip will no longer be produced. When we had a white Nike kit with a black chevron a few years back we had to find a replacement for a damaged shirt, and Nike had none left. It took the chairman almost a fortnight to trace one in a sports shop in Bournemouth. To continue with the black diagonal would mean ordering bespoke designs, and we can't afford that.
The new second kit looks good, yellow shirt with white details.0 -
Four in Hand is still going strong.
My mistake. I was in Easter Road last week and I didn't notice it.
Edinburgh has so many pubs that if I walk into one and it looks like a shitehole then it's easy just to about turn and there will be something better a few yards away.0 -
Worst 2 I've been in were both before gigs.
Went to Pixies at Meadowbank (2004) and ended up in The Station Bar just along from Meadowbank (towards the city centre). Locals seemed to have more teeth than brain cells, although it was a close run thing. Not so much a spit and sawdust place, but only because they couldn't afford sawdust. Utter shitehole.
I was also at a gig at Barrowlands a couple of years ago. Meeting a couple of folk from work before the gig. The Old Tollbooth. Fucking hell. Handful of oddities in there on a Friday early evening. One guy sat and pissed himself rather than leaving his pint and going to the toilet. He then sat in his pissed trackies like it was the most normal thing to do, finished his pint and bought another one.
The Station Bar was done up a few years back and is now called the Safari Lounge. The clientele has changed although a few of the older guys are still there, despite the hike in prices. Good food and excellent ale.
It's 20 years since I lived in Easter Road and there have been a load of changes in the boozers in the Easter Road/London Road/Meadowbank area. The Terrace Inn, Albion Bar, Four In Hand, Marionville Bar and Golden Gates have all gone. The Crown & Cushion and Jock's Lodge were formerly good bars which turned into dives but have apparently come up in the world once more. The Regent used to be a grim bikers' bar but is now gay-friendly - and if you're not homophobic, it has a pleasant atmosphere and very good real ales. The pub variously known as ETs and the Thistle is now gentrified as the Mash Tun and is another real ale place.
Pubs like Middletons, the Artisan and the Hoppy don't seem to have changed at all.1 -
Any truth in the story I heard about City only being able to use the stand side for games at Ainslie Park next season?
Stand side and the paved area behind the pavilion end goal. Apparently grass slopes can't be used for SPFL matches, but we're waiting for confirmation of this. All parts of the ground are ok for the Scottish Cup.0 -
See Beattie has signed a 1 year extension.
How many other City players were 'out of contract' at the end of the season?
All of them apart from Marc Laird and Josh Walker. Signing talks are on going for some of the others.0 -
Why would we get rid of Beattie for another player in his mid 30s who was playing junior football and last season and the last few years.
I hope we don't take this gamble because hes been around for ages and not scored many or made many appearances at all
Beats has signed for another season [emoji4]. He will also become a player - coach.0 -
I remember watching the 86 games on the telly was too young for the 70 ones.
Not only been watching football at Meadowbank for more than 42 years - I was at the opening ceremony for the 1970 games, and at the inter-scholastics at Meadowbank some months before that.
f**k, I'm old. [emoji17]0 -
What will Meadowbank look like after?
A housing scheme with a minor athletics venue in the middle. Sports Centre will be along London Road, all the landscaping removed; and houses behind the goal and along the far touchline in place of the former bench seating. 3G pitch inside the track, so all the javelin, hammer, shot-putt etc moved to a separate enclosure. Worst of all, a 500-seat stand centred on the finishing line of the track rather than the halfway line of the pitch.
These are only the initial ideas anyway - there have been no plans drawn up yet. The club want further meetings with the Council and the architects. What is being proposed wouldn't meet our needs if we were still in the Lowland League.0 -
It wasn't you I was talking about, it was Bairnardo having a go at people ordering half pints.
The only time I ever saw you with a half pint glass it had vodka in it.0 -
City will face Lothian Thistle Hutchinson Vale in the final of the East of Scotland FA Cup (aka City Cup) at Meadowbank Stadium on Wednesday 19th April, kick-off 7:45 pm.
Prices £5 adults, £2 all concessions and under-5s free as usual. Season tickets not valid tomorrow.0 -
11 minutes ago, Brewing up a storm said:
(I suppose some Brake Club might also have been there for the Celtic cup game)
I was at the Celtic match in name only - they were wanting names and addresses for people to get tickets, and as I wasn't on the 'banned' list I gave my details and passed the ticket on to someone who wanted it. Possibly a couple of dozen travelled. I think I was at Dalkeith Thistle that day.
The whole Hunter episode soured me for supporting a club, and if Edinburgh City hadn't come along I would just have become a non-aligned football watcher - not a groundhopper, as in the final season and before I started watching City I picked Junior or Senior matches which looked interesting rather than trying to tick off new grounds. Even after my first City match (27th April 1996) it was a couple of seasons before I was going regularly to away matches.
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Just a very minor point. I can't remember more than one or two Brake Club members attending the final ever Thistle game at Morton. In fact, very few of them attended games at all in the last season from what I can remember. I know they were involved in some of the work against Blobby but those doing the actual protesting that year were Supporters Club members...
I agree that Brake Club involvement at home matches was practically non-existent - many were banned and most of the rest of us were trying to hit Hunter in the pocket by boycotting home matches. Personally I didn't attend many away matches either, but I was at Greenock and to the best of my recollection the Brake Club coach was full.0 -
No lucky when your player kicked out and tried to swipe Josh Walkers feet away from him and only received a yellow card. Very lucky IMO to be on the park.
We've not been getting a lot of that sort of 'luck' in recent weeks. Paul Watson's goal for Montrose was phenomenal but he wouldn't have scored it if he had got the straight red he deserved in 9 minutes for an atrocious foul on Ian McFarland.0 -
Nice to finally meet Mr Blobby from here in person[emoji4]
The proverbial game of 2 halves Cowden better 1st City in the 2nd. Twice we've scored injury time equalisers this season done the same at Berwick. Renton likes scoring against the City[emoji38]
I noticed. [emoji35]0 -
The pictures that HJ posted looks like it retains some terracing, is that an option?
No, not as things stand - all the area behind the goal and along the far side is earmarked for housing, and there is no provision for standing accommodation. It's not really terracing anyway - there were wooden benches there which rotted away and were removed a couple of seasons ago. The steps are too high for safe terracing, and in any case there are rusty metal fittings all over them.0
Junior football, what is the future?
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