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9 hours ago, Slabs said:
The decision should be taken away from individual leagues and the SFA should be making the decisions
Think the move from the regional FAs and Leagues at the Lowland level to the SFA is often where the problems start.
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Think if anything else and judging by that picture your 3 points in the bag indicate the decision was wrong and you were lucky in that.
Them's the breaks but you don't really understand the difference between correct and genuine error do you?0 -
5 hours ago, grinderbrokeyourhearts said:
That’ll happen at some level though. I think we need to stop talking about league and non league too.
There’s next to no difference from League 2 to the East and West Premier and it’ll be great when it eventually all joins up for all the clubs involved imo.They talk about Non League in England, they sell a paper called Non League that covers the bottom to where the league starts, happily and informitavely.
Can't reallly see the issue with how the levels are framed and named, the issue is workable structures.0 -
11 hours ago, grinderbrokeyourhearts said:
Nonsense. There’s a series of 20 team leagues below League 2 which is basically a relegation feeder to those leagues now. That needs to come to the party and become a 20 team league with a two or three down.
Just delaying the inevitable just now which is to the detriment of the game.Highland and Lowland are 18. Could become 20/21 in LL if, not inconcievably, Albion, Cowden and Stirling took the plunge with 3 down. with HL either cut in size or looking for new recruit(s) to cover for the reduction on their side That's not nonsense to see a disparity there. English pyramid below the national league is in a constant state of flux but they had developed a starting framerwork at least.
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16 minutes ago, parsforlife said:
Have you completely forgot about the LL?
Sorry, should have been play-off a level up. Can't see how we can cope if we're looking to promote one from LL and HL and we had to place, say, Cowdenbeath and Albion Rovers in the non-league structures.
SoSL probably isn't at a level with the EoS and WoS as well, St Cuthberts in the LL would be something of a farce at the moment. Organisation as it is currently isn't really helping anybody but then neither is Brechin having a 215 mile trip to Wick.
We're always going to have to compromise to some degree in Scotland, can't see even the bigger clubs being happy with a national league to feed into the SPFL and really that's probably the only seamless way of achieving a true pyramid.-1 -
2 hours ago, grinderbrokeyourhearts said:
Is that not League 2 though. It’s a nonsense and there should be two down from League 2 into with the HL and LL champs going up.Always going to be a problem but more so when there is no regionalisation in the SPFL. Where do the teams relegated get allocated?
Bit of a stretch last year for Brechin to be regarded as 'Highland', don't know how the club/fans have felt about playing there this season.
It's one step up from non-league in England's pyramid, from National league into the EFL, we don't have a national league, would say that a straight set of play-offs for SOSL, WoSL, EoSL and HFL with the winner going up without the need for compromise of a play-off against SPFL bottom club is likely the best solution for now.0 -
2 hours ago, imho said:
Whole thing is a shambles. Pyramid my arse. A round Robin, 3 league winners only one gets promoted,4 or 5 teams going down from the Premier depending if Tranent win or not ,Bonnyrigg playing Fraserburgh with the winners playing Cowdenbeath,so possibly another 2 league winners not getting promoted to a team who finish bottom, some teams will be gutted.
Problem is that you can set up LL East and West to feed into a premier meaning you could automatically guarantee promomotion/relegation spots from the SoS, EoS and WoS but there's always going to be playoffs between LL and Highland League unless clubs feel a top feeder league which could stretch from Wick to Lockerbie is a goer.
No ideal solution at the moment.0 -
On 25/04/2022 at 08:58, Ann Dan Otherthing said:
Totally agree! If he was onside 3 frames prior then clearly the lino should have clocked that! At 60fps that’s a whole 20th of a second.
Linesman got it wrong, he should have got it right. Them's the margins and the breaks and I do have sympathy with the linesman, undoubtedly a difficult job but it is an annoyance when your team falls victim to duff calls twice in one game.
Being sarky about it isn't helping.0 -
Nice one, probably still try and get up soon, rather wait for a game Michael McKenna is available, started off with us and his dad and family are featured a lot in Athletic's recent history. Thanks mate.
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12 minutes ago, Lichtie78 said:
If we go up?probably have a few pints
Sorry, wasn't very clear, will Arbroath ground share or can they use Gayfield.
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I've never been to Gayfield and it's one of only 3 SPFL grounds I've got to get to.
What are Arbroath doing if they go up? Wouldn't want to miss it when I've been in Arbroath so many times but there' been no game on.
Mulling over coming up on Wednesday.0 -
The positive is that in this division PTB, in fiba' terms anyway, nobody ever turns up to a guaranteed three points, it's very well matched the premier.
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Don't think anybody had an issue with the venue, the EoSFA and league are implicitly fair to me, we benefited last year given we had an easier trip up to Nitten, less convenient for Oakley, no argument on my part at all if we have to face Oakley at a neutral ground again it should be a Fife ground.
Crossgates benefit here at Leith's expense to some degree but all credit to Leith, no complaints and in fact here there's Leith guys saying they're happy with it here.
EoSFA are a great organisation for the clubs and try to take into account supporters as well, had my doubts when we moved over but all been eclipsed. We are far better off in the EoSL and it's difficult to see a position happening where we'll play at a ground nearer to our opponents and then be asked to do the same if the same fixture were to require a neutral ground again a couple of years later, I'd expect some balance.
Want an example of this being idiocy then you'd only have to look back to us being allocated Rugby Park by the SJFA for both Scottish finals in the Juniors, RP just about has an Auchinleck postcode FFS, 20 minutes with yer bus pass!
Difficult to see the EoSFA being that thoughtless, disappointing today but faith in the EoSFA making this a success when it is played, I'll be there, up the Leithers! (Best wishes to Crossgates as well mind).2 -
Wouldn't be betting against Hill o' Beath yet after watchng today's game.
Decent performance and the keeper in particular kept them in it with a great save when we were pushing them.
Not entirely sure why they've been getting doings having watched that.0 -
9 hours ago, Casey Jones said:
Penicuik Athletic v Musselburgh Athletic 1 December 2020.docx 15.35 kB · 2 downloads
That is my original note of 2nd match against Penicuik. Gave you the link to the Cup tie note on Friday.
Wouldn't rise to it CJ. Committee's OK'ed you to go along and do a specifc task at games, none of his business, he's at the wind-up.
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3 hours ago, Halfwit8 said:
So why did Blackburn have to isolate and your lot ignored it and went training instead ?
You miss the 'I don't know exactly what happened' comment?
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The amount of work CJ puts in around the club I'd be pretty comfortable with him attending games, he's all but a commitee member other than he doesn't have a vote in meetings etc. Many clubs would be happy to have a guy like him around their club.
I don't know exactly what has happened with the positive Covid test so can't definitively answer what has occured but I'd be massively surprised if any guidelines were'nt followed as we've got an honest and attentive committee and one that has a goood relationship with the EoSFA (as pretty much every club seems to) that they wouldn't want to risk by even pushing the boundaries here.
As usual here (been guilty of it myself) rumour fills in any gaps that a club wants to keep in house, as has been said, unofficial site, everybody's entitled to put their thoughts forward, doesn't invest them with any truth though.1 -
2 hours ago, Halfwit8 said:
That's not what he asked !
Fair play.
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4 hours ago, PastyMan said:
Do you know what the story is at Musselburgh on this?
If Blackburn players and coaches from the game on Saturday have been told to self isolate surely it's the same situation at Musselburgh?Only that Halfwit8 is an erse.
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1 hour ago, Halfwit8 said:
Musselburgh don't play by the rules .
Grow up.
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6 hours ago, Passthebaw said:
I admire your faith, Rob, and I do genuinely hope you are correct. Integrity in sport is crucial.
But defending the SFA in this is difficult. No plan B! It seems it's a get it played at whatever cost, at whatever inconvenience and at the worst time of the year. Why not switch the tie? Why not insist on a neutral venue? Why not insist on a playable surface? Because they don't care? It's very disappointing.
Wouldn't defend the SFA in the slightest. We have never had any difficulties in the admin from the EoSL at any time as far as I can make out, they've been immaculate, soon as anything falls under the auspices of the SFA though......
Every point in your secnd paragraph there I'd agree with.0 -
Just not really wanting to cast aspersions on another team particularly when the weather was brutal up there last Friday (we heard from somebody now staying up that way that it was hellish), ,maybe being too trusting but they've had a midweek game cancelled as well, kind of balances things a wee bit.
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All undoubtedly brutal but with the nature of this seasons tournament with Wick and ourselves entering in December there was a good chance that fixtures would fall to the weather.
If we had to play away at Wick in a regular season then it would be in August, lot less likely to be called off. Fair chance Cowden could be called off Boxing Day as well, not unknown for a frost to bite in Fife in December.0 -
4 hours ago, traffordab said:
Shock horror an official using his position to benefit his club.
It's happening all over scottish football hardly crime of the century.
Mr Chisholm has done a good job in the west juniors for a while now as has Mr Fyfee.
Don't think this article is providing much earth shattering news.
Niot at all, the WRJFA/JFA bend over when Auchinleck demand, hardly news right enough.
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The Premiere Division 2021-22
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And that could potentially happen almost every season given the majority of clubs are central belt. Why should the HL face a less demanding position than the LL?
That level in the pyramid, if you relegate willy-nilly (beyond the bottom 2/3 down) creates an uneven balance in what clubs have to achieve which won't be down to ability but geography.