LongTimeLurker

The development league is a good concept. Might be a way for the EoS to try to get more Borders clubs on board again along with Letham and the usual suspects in speculation terms like Cupar Hearts.

...so the Jock Stein Centre in Hillhouse (Hamilton rather than Blantyre) will probably eventually have a team and earlier posts regarding that were on topic.

^^^that crest lower right for Finnart = Bridgeton Cross

Think Finnart play at Glasgow Green and Harmony Row is more Braehead than Govan.

Interesting snippets from the WoS subforum: on queries as to whether the last one is a BSC Glasgow reserve team it was clarified that these would be separate clubs:

If Kilbride Thistle are still one of the clubs in talks my money is on Strathaven Dynamo to be the other but not expecting parkcircus to reveal that.

Not just that. They are playing in a development league in 3G cages for the most part. They haven't exactly been Barcelona over the years in playing strength terms so it remains to be seen how easily they can play their way out of this fifth tier to have games against clubs their fans would actually have heard of.

Something strange going on with the name if it isn't. BSC were behind the first failed attempts to form a WoS with a pro-pyramid breakaway group from the west region.

From Bearsden apparently: https://westertonunitedfootballclub.weebly.com/

...and Brechin can always train in Aberdeen somewhere through the week rather than at Little Kerse in Grangemouth if they are in the HL.

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Vote was only indicative apparently so yes.

Good to see Bo'ness United were in the No camp: Think we can be confident that Kelty abstained given their playoff participation so the recent ex-SJFA trio appear to have had a different outlook from the LL clubs that have little or no long term committed fanbase. Any expansion to 18 for next season by application should have been to open the door to the WoS and EoS clubs that missed out on progression through no fault of their own due to null and void.

Hooray for Harold Lloyd...

No way to shift the LL as they have a veto on any change to the Club 42 rule. After the league has had an enema through five to ten year's worth of relegation, things should improve.

...and that's with the parachute payment.

Looks like their money man may have departed if 3k means that much to them.

Kelty as they hope/expect to be SPFL2?

...the future's a Bo'ness United away jersey from a couple of years back. Think this is a bad move and that what they should be doing is inviting applications to make up for the nulls and voids in the WoS and EoS so they can still inject more strength in depth from below. Turkeys don't vote though as they know what would happen with a subsequent move back to 16 Something to ponder is if this is really to emulate what Ajax and Benfica are doing how does a game against Vale of Leithen compare in player development terms for possible future internationals as opposed to a game against a fully professional second tier club in the Netherlands or Portugal?

Understand that it is viewed by Italians much the way we would regard mixing whisky with coca cola but don't mind a slice of Hawaiian pizza from time to time. What I find truly horrific on pizza is avocado.

Wait until he does that to you 50 times in a row. What the people that matter on this need to grasp is that this colt team thing can't just be the Old Firm if it's going to gain anything close to consensus acceptance and that you can't parachute them into a division in a way that hinders other clubs from progressing without generating a massive backlash. You would have to be remarkably tone deaf not to have realised that by now but still they push this relentlessly with all the tact of a bull in a china shop.

...it's been a while so would need to do some googling to refresh my memory on all the gory details. Bottom line is that the mainstream Unionist trio probably wish in retrospect that they had imposed an ongoing cordon sanitaire on the SNP in a mainstream German parties with the AfD sort of way.

A Labour-LibDem coalition government could have continued as a minority if it could survive votes of no confidence but the Tories decided they preferred to have the SNP in there instead.

Does a bear defecate in the woods. Using devolution with a d'Hondt system to put the genie of nationalism back in the bottle worked about as well for Labour as posle Tita, Tito (after Tito, Tito) worked for the Yugoslav League of Communists. Suspect what the other parties also very much regret is giving the SNP a crack at it as a minority government in 2007. Hand the irrational nat nuts enough rope and they will hang themselves was no doubt the mentality but instead by being more competent than Labour (not exactly difficult) the SNP and by extension further constitutional change lost a lot of the fear factor that had previously been involved for a sizable chunk of the electorate.