LongTimeLurker

That might lead to some interesting blazer politics but if Scone are sticking with the ERSJFA/ML there is already a Perth area club on board.

Why would the east region south clubs not simply be leaving the SJFA to join the EoS instead as was the case when clubs left in previous seasons? You can be a member of both the WoS and the SJFA, but no such rule change has ever been made for retaining SJFA membership in the context of the EoS. Losing the West Lothian clubs is what has made it possible for what remains of the east region to become an HL feeder.

The SNP of yesteryear talked up fighting "a Winning campaign" during the Falkirk West by-election to try to tap into the Section 28 backlash kicked up by a certain now deceased rabble rousing cleric and a former bus driver who at times has been one of their main financial donors. The low lifes that would go along with that sort of thing without complaint figure prominently amongst the older cohort of SNP activists that have been joining the Alba party.

By all accounts the LL board had to be told that they couldn't nominate a champion for a season after a null and void.

It has been made abundantly clear that it was the SJFA that contacted the HL about the remainder of the east region becoming a tier 6 feeder. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/highland-league/3023221/relegation-play-offs-look-set-to-be-introduced-to-the-highland-league-from-next-season/ Talks have been ongoing between the Highland League and the Scottish Junior FA to create a formal link between tiers five and six of the Scottish football pyramid for the 2021-22 season. From next season the team finishing bottom of the Highland League could find themselves in a play-off against the champions of either the North Super League, the East Super League or the North Caledonian League....

Do we know for sure what the east region's deadline is for applications for 2021-22? It won't necessarily be March 31st given this falls under the SJFA rather than the SFA. Syngenta still got into the juniors after an EoS rejection in the recent past. It also isn't a safe assumption that east region ground requirements match those of the EoS or would be applied as strictly. Several NCL teams use unenclosed public parks and that league is about to be a tier 6 feeder to the HL.

Because certain people went off half-cocked about what happened last season and still won't accept that the SPFL were able to do what they did because we were in the middle of a national lockdown that made it legally impossible to play any games at the stated timing when they had to be played. If they really had broken their own rules at that point an appeal to the SFA would have been successful.

There's a reason why I used the phrase "much the same" rather than "the same thing" Einstein.

If a club like Harmony Row can apply for entry into senior football by using a 3G cage in Braehead for WoS, why is it that BSC Glasgow can't do much the same with the 3G cage at the Scotstoun sports centre that they have been using for some of their other teams?

League champions have been provided by the HL and LL after advise on how to do this in an appropriate manner from the SFA. The HL and LL are competitions that the SPFL already approved for this purpose from 2014-15 onwards. The next step in the process is for the SPFL board to determine whether the two champions meet the membership criteria of the SPFL related to matters such as home ground and floodlights etc. There is no reason to believe this is anything other than a formality in the context of the licensing system, which is why Ken Ferguson decided his priority should be making sure Brechin City are not Club 42.

Then you recall incorrectly. I posted at length arguing that there should be a requirement for all new clubs to have their own grounds within a fixed period after initial entry to avoid absurdities like the BSC Alloa scenario.

A complete non-sequitur.

Most current EoS members were not members of the EoS prior to 2018 so it's not clear what your point is.

It may not be relevant in terms of a box ticking exercise but we'll see whether EoS clubs think they should take the wishes of a fellow EoSFA member that can trace a history of using the ground back to 1886 into account when they vote on it. Ultimately the clubs get to decide based on a majority vote.

Can you point us to the specific rule in question?

Is that aimed at me? What a completely bizarre comment. The opposition of the EoS to the east region getting in as a second east feeder to the LL is well documented and not some secret conspiracy. Check all the leaked PWG minutes that were posted on here.

Mission accomplished for the EoS once there was no longer any danger of what remains of the east region being an LL feeder. They would only have taken Dundee/Angus into their catchment as a way to prevent that from happening. Now they don't have to.

Hopefully that last bit will be what happens.

They are clutching at straws basically. The royal funeral at 3pm next Saturday is exactly the sort of scenario that the SPFL website story was describing as making it impossible for the SPFL to set fixed dates for the playoffs yet as any postponements would complicate reaching 18 game in time to do the extra four they had planned. https://spfl.co.uk/news/ken-ferguson-steps-down-from-spfl-board ...A spokesman for the SPFL said: “Given that there are a number of uncertainties, including whether League 2 clubs will play 22 or 18 games this season, we are not in a position to announce dates for Pyramid Play-Off ties this season...

There's nothing obvious in there that they can go after. People need to keep this factual rather than paranoia driven. The main angle of attack if you read what supporters of potential Club 42 candidates are posting elsewhere appears to be that the LL supposedly broke its own rules by declaring a champion based on PPG but as far as I can see from reading the constitutions it's not the SPFL's job to determine that it would be the SFA's and the SFA are known to have actively advised the HL and LL on how to end their seasons in a way that would provide a valid "League Champion". There's also the small matter of the SPFL having already accepted League and Challenge Cup entrants from the LL on the basis of last season's PPG outcome.

Largely agree but a lot of the depopulation happened through the emergence of sheep farming and grouse moors so radical changes in land use are probably still the key. Too many people think the Highlands are a wilderness when it really isn't. Lynx is more or less doable with the amount of forestry that's available and wild boar and beaver have already happened but wolf and bear are a long way off from happening without very big changes in how the landscape is managed that are unlikely to happen in any of our lifetimes.

Keep things factual. From what I remember he was arguing through the media that the SFA were in control of the Club 42 game when according to the rules it does get organised by the SPFL rather than the SFA. The SFA didn't pursue the matter last year after all the noise George Fraser made because the SPFL were actually within their rights to do what they did and could have been challenged legally by Brechin if they tried to do anything else. The LL board don't have the greatest track record on understanding what's happening. The handling of who was the bottom club after Selkirk's record got expunged, the conferences debacle on WoS when it was already well documented that the SFA were opposed to having more than 16 clubs in a tier 6 feeder, and having to be told that the U20 league wasn't covered by the professional exemption being other recent examples. Having to be told by the SFA that they couldn't nominate a champion for a season they were about to null and void and that they had to do it by PPG to meet the rules that are in place really takes the biscuit though.

...the Ken Ferguson story on their website can be read in a way that suggests they are doing just that. I don't think George Fraser did the LL any favours last season by tilting at windmills over the playoffs being cancelled for COVID related reasons. Doing that has left some people with the impression that the SPFL can bin the playoffs on a whim. They can't.

...but one side has played in since 1886 if you trace it back through one of the two clubs that amalgamated in 1945 to form Bo'ness United.

Can you point us to the specific line in question so we can all see its exact content? If an argument is ridiculously poor it won't stand up to appeal.