LongTimeLurker

Your happy enough to take the subsidy drip feed from revenues generated primarily from the viewing habits of armchair fans of the Old Firm. That inflates your clubs financially well beyond what they could do if left to their own devices so there's a reasonable enough argument to be made that you should put up with a few colt teams in exchange if it really does aid the transition of top prospects. Doing it at tier 5 instead this season is asinine though. Genuine top prospects should be moving well past Dalbeattie Star level by 18 or so.

...but playing Vale of Leithen and Gretna would be? I could live with more of a German or Spanish style approach to U-23 teams in lower divisions if it was the price for prizing open the Club 42 playoff and getting rid of a tier or two of national divisions but there's clearly no way anything radical is ever getting through the SPFL's voting structure at this point so maybe the clubs mentioned need to find a way to design an elite fully professional reserves set up that does work for them in terms of that transition?

To do a similar sort of job for the Old Firm to Jong Ajax or Benfica B the teams would really need to be entering at the Championship level. It's difficult to see what is going to be achieved at LL level beyond the blazer politics angle of getting them in somewhere to set some sort of precedent.

Stick to that and don't engage me in conversation in future. Assuming all goes well on Monday at the SFA AGM there will no longer be a reason to fact check the drivel that was getting posted on here about the PWG process because the pyramid will finally be an established fact, so doubt I'll be wasting much time with this subforum in future.

You deliberately and maliciously twisted my words and ignored links I provided you that clearly demonstrate otherwise. 8MileBU had you sussed ages ago. Should have took note of that more quickly than I did.

^^^but don't suggest Faroese/Norwegian style fixed links such as a tunnel from Skye to Lewis might be the long term solution. You'll be portrayed as a nutter despite the way > 200 mill per year are now being spent annually on ferry subsidies. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-41667403 https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/tunnel-plan-for-benbecula-to-skye-like-a-magic-carpet-for-islands-3189976

Previously at Lithgae Rose on loan apparently: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/livingston-keeper-brian-schwakes-loan-22611171

They had one at Maryhill. Would it have been that hard to help improve the drainage there rather than move to Alloa?

Kilbride Thistle's amateur team appears to have transitioned across to being Ardeer Thistle while another amateur club Tass Thistle is stepping in to be Kilbride Thistle in Ayrshire amateur terms. Given how Ardeer Thistle have been struggling in recent seasons, the previous committee may have been happy to step aside and let another group take it on lock, stock and barrel. Seems to me that having a struggling WoS club and ambitious youth clubs amalgamating their efforts would be a better outcome than having a second WoS club emerge in Saltcoats.

^^^The ignore function is there for a reason. If you don't like his posts they would be easy enough to consistently avoid if he wasn't changing aliases all the time.

Former coalfields from Stirling to Leven should all be in along with the Vale of Leven. Bit dubious on how Ayrshire and Lanarkshire are being handled. Coalburn, Lesmahagow, New Cumnock and Dalmellington are more central belt than Wemyss Bay, Cumbrae or Turnberry.

It will quickly become obvious what their strategy is and what sort of budget they have once signings start to be announced.

Thought you would be going for someone that knows the HL inside out and would shift the recruiting focus to the Aberdeen area. Strange pair of appointments unless there's somebody stepping in to bankroll a central belt based team in a big way to do promotion in a single season given the way most of Levein and Kirk's contacts will be at the upper end of the range in SPFL terms.

...and that although their results count towards the league table for the 16 LL members the Old Firm B teams do not get included in the final league table. A lot of people on here argue from the standpoint of what they want to happen and then will relentlessly try to assert that posture is what will happen regardless of what the rules actually say. I don't think the LL should have entered into this agreement but there is no evidence that it has any impact on promotion/relegation issues where the SPFL and tier 6 are concerned and can be used in the ways that are being described.

...we've already been told recently by a WoS officeholder on here that there are active discussions where a national nonleague cup is concerned. Might track down the post in question later Edit:

A question that would only be worth exploring if the arbitration had found in Brechin's favour.

It's the SFA that runs the HL vs LL playoff. There's no role for the SPFL in determining how the clubs in question became champion. They only get to determine whether the clubs nominated as champions by the leagues meet SPFL membership criteria.

Mon the BUs!

Think Easthouses probably counts as part of Dalkeith? Pumpherston and Livingston might be another given the way the new town swallowed up the former.

Bat soup was alleged to be a local culinary delicacy but that's subsequently been called into serious question.

...and the North Region Challenge Cup only lasted two seasons and was abolished in 2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFA_North_and_South_Region_Challenge_Cups so extending an invite to the remaining junior clubs in the soon to be sanctioned Midlands and Grampian leagues to effectively recreate what the SJC used to be and change the name to Scottish Regional Challenge Cup or whatever is fair game, even if the HL and NCL aren't interested in participating initially.

The SPFL's rules are difficult to amend because of the league's voting structure so anything that isn't specified as being at the Board's discretion is probably going to be in place for a very long time.

There was a chance they could have got the boundary shifted because of the way the blazerati operate in Scottish football but it looks like they blew it with what happened on the 2019-20 Club 42 playoff. They had a way out on a technicality because of how the rules were drafted but having it applied created a lot of bitterness against them across both portions of tier 5.