LongTimeLurker

Pretty sure the HL have a rule about how far clubs can be expected to travel for a midweek game so there's very little chance of Wick Academy and Lochee United ever actually having to do that. http://www.highlandfootballleague.com/history/item/constitution and rules.pdf When required the Secretary will seek the Office-Bearers’ approval to arrange mid-week fixtures to be played on Wednesdays. No League games will be scheduled for mid-week if the Clubs are more than 110 miles apart unless the Clubs concerned are mutually agreeable. Also think ratification by the clubs on the Midland League as a feeder is something that won't happen until the HL's AGM so Wick may not hold the opinion that is being ascribed to them. A similar rule for maximum midweek travel distance would be sensible in a WoS context.

I was on a fishing trip to see if anyone in the know would divulge more info. Hopefully we get back to that after the world record attempt immediately above for how often you can use the word Catholic in the same sentence.

Don't know for sure what the outcome was but I assumed that one would get knocked back as a club can't have two teams in the EoS at the same time.

Think it's safe to assume that's Harthill Royal.

So the 12 that will be voted on are as follows? Edinburgh College, Edinburgh City Reserves, Syngenta, Bo'ness Athletic/Thistle?, Bathgate Thistle, Armadale Thistle, Whitburn, Fauldhouse United, Stoneyburn, West Calder United, Livingston United, Pumpherston

Seems a bit strange: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_College but their fitba team appear to be quite good in uni and college terms: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Park_Shield

When and why did it stop being the Communist Party of Great Britian would be up there on the list of questions I don't need an answer to. Bloated candidate lists are probably a sign that they need to raise the deposit a bit.

Sure bud whatever.

Not saying they shouldn't be allowed in. Only pointing out that there is a very real issue with midweek games.

I think some people don't fully grasp the distances and travel times that are potentially involved with a game against a team at the foot of the Kintyre peninsula. Check it out on Google Maps and you get Auchinleck to Campbelltown (169 miles - 3 hr 41 min) as opposed to Nairn (208 miles 3 hr 57 min) for an SJC game. Even Oban (128 miles - 2 hr 46 min) is comparable to the most distant Tayside juniors clubs such as Brechin Vics (144 miles - 2 hr 37 min) in that context.

It's the grouse I feel sorry for.

My understanding is that wasn't happening even when they were supposed on paper to be part of a shared Bo'ness United pathway. This is a rival club with relatively strong financial backing, so it's not a safe assumption that they will always be multiple tiers below Bo'ness United.

Takes a year to kick in. Not sure whether that is at the start or the end of the AGM the following year after getting voted in at the previous one. The EoS constitution does not appear to be online unlike the LL one.

Another way of looking at that is that being in the HL and LL isn't the end of the world and not as different from following a club in League 2 as some people seem to think.

The point is that the existing members don't actually need a basis to decline an applicant beyond simply not wanting them in the league. It's a simple yes/no majority vote so no reason for a no vote needs to be formally recorded. That aspect of the rules along with a lack of understanding that the "Midland League" = the east region (continuing) of the SJFA would feature prominently in a list of relatively simple concepts than many posters in these threads fail to grasp.

The existing member clubs ultimately get to vote on this. It isn't only a box ticking exercise by the league's board, so if the member clubs don't want to set a precedent of having an existing club forced into an unwanted groundshare in case it happens to them as well some day down the road they can reject the application at the AGM.

Only OK if the other club involved approves of the arrangement and isn't having it foisted on them.

Brora already were doing that for Scottish Cup related reasons.

AFAIR there were chat group messages from a WoS officeholder about 11 applications having been received so far with one involving a mega bus trip. It's a reasonable inference that mega bus trip = Argyll. This assertion is not correct. The WoS membership would get the final say on new members and if they collectively don't want an Oban, Lochgilphead, Campbelltown etc team on board then a club like that wouldn't be able to get in. It's entirely reasonable to speculate as to what conditions would be needed to make the participation of a club like that viable in logistical terms because it's not something that could be imposed on the existing WoS clubs by diktat. My guess would be that the way to do it successfully would be to allow them in for league games only so they would be playing fewer games than other clubs that could be kept to weekends only except in extremely exceptional circumstances.

Da Roost off Sumburgh Head can't be too far behind. Big problems convincing the environ-mentalists will be all the pylons needed to get the power to the central belt and lots of moaning about the effect of new pump-storage hydro in or near the Great Glen that would be needed for storage and delivery at times of peak demand given the tides won't always coincide properly with that. Hopefully at some point they will grasp that biomass = Amazonian wood chips and hence not something to be encouraged just because it has a less visible impact on the UK's landscape than that.

Should ramp up considerably to the point there is no waiting list needed when more vaccines get approved for use.

No I am explaining why there might be a reluctance to do so.

...in a league with floodlights universally available and no culture of cramming in multiple fixtures per week late in the season to clear fixture backlogs related to having multiple cup competitions. The main issue with a very remote Argyll club is it would probably force changes to how the league does its entire fixture list when > 67 clubs could easily operate more flexibly if they were not there.

...depending of course on the current league position of Blackburn United relative to the promotion or relegation places

Which begs the question why they would not be allowed a grace period like Thornton, Kirkcaldy YM etc received given their setup didn't look drastically far off. That's plenty for Perthshire beyond the Ochils now given how far it is to drive and given there's no longer a danger of the east region becoming an LL feeder may be lurking in there as well. Would it be reasonable for the EoS to object to ERSJFA/ML entry for Letham after rejecting them? Will be interesting to see what unfolds.