LongTimeLurker

Claim to fame is that Bertie Auld played for them.

This was talked about at length on the Albion Rovers thread in the LL subforum recently. Conclusion from a poster with family ties to Govan and the Ants who will probably be along at some point was that Benburb were founded by Roman Catholics from that part of County Tyrone despite later generally being viewed as Rangers aligned in Rangers supporting circles. Years back I remember a thread on another forum about Dumbarton Harp that reached the conclusion that club may have moved in the opposite direction from that in terms of being founded by people linked to the shipbuilding industry who may have been from a Protestant background. Could have been complete bollocks though.

Getting things back on topic if/when there are five of the leading Midlands League clubs licensed (Lochee United, Tayport, Broughty Athletic, North End and Carnoustie Panmure) that should be good for at least three Dundee area clubs entering the HL over the next 5 to 10 seasons if what used to happen in the east superleague is anything to go by. Strathspey Thistle are likely a definite goner but after that there's at least another ten or so clubs that are one bad season away from the NCL or north superleague (including the nouveau riche former basement dwellers like Rothes and Brora if the money dries up).

^^^have repeatedly had to put this guy on ignore because of this kind of bullshit. Pointing out that a rule is clumsily written is not a conspiracy theory. Caledonian Braves had a reserve team in the SoS up to last season so have had an ongoing association with an "other comparable league". The rule could be tweaked to the likely intended meaning by adding "or SPFL" to "a member of the SLFL at the time of the formation of the League" and changing the start of the last sentence to "Any other club...".

^^^usually better not to engage with this guy, but worth noting that "a member of the SLFL at the time of the formation of the League" * works for East Kilbride but not for Albion Rovers, Broomhill, Cumbernauld Colts and Edusport/Caledonian Braves. While the last mentioned has been a member of another tier 5 league, the only implication for the other three appears to be that the move to WoS premier wouldn't be "automatic". The phrase highlighted above does appear to imply that Caledonian Braves are not eligible for membership in the WoS if they are viewed as the same club as Edusport. Clumsily drafted rules can lead to unintended consequences so that rule should probably be carefully redrafted. Edit: * - guess that could also be read as member of the LL at the time of formation of the WoS if "the League" has been defined in the preamble that way but that doesn't encompass Albion Rovers and it's not clear that supercedes the implications of the following sentence given the "Any clubs" bit at the start.

That phrasing could have interesting implications for Caledonian Braves.

Was going to post that at least they don't have to worry about another upstart club locally taking their glory hunters away but then it dawned on me that Kelty is only a hop, skip and a jump away.

Think that only ever happens on the very busiest lines in Tokyo but can confirm that it definitely does having been shoved in like that. Don't think my fellow passengers were too impressed about having a six foot three Scotsman with a kerryoot joining them but most Japanese people are too polite to complain about something like that. Fun part is avoiding getting shoved out the door again by the tide of humanity at the next station.

Downfield are the obvious absentee from that list amongst the likely title contenders, who unlike East Craigie should already be able to tick a lot of boxes with their ground. Vaguely remember them having a new player manager a season or two back, who soon left, who was talking about possible promotion to the Highland League in a newspaper article.

Guess if they have floodlights to install etc to go for licensing it could have put a dent in their budget for the team.

Edinburgh Emmet would have been named after a famous Irish nationlist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Emmet

It's difficult to have the rest of Solovyov's panel guests and the host himself looking askance at you as if you are the one that is the complete nutter but this Belarusian dude manages it in this clip by suggesting Wagner should be allowed to attack the main NATO airbase in Poland that is supplying Ukraine:

Elsewhere: Cowdenbeath lost 1-0 to St Mirren and Albion Rovers lost 3-0 to Dunfermline.

Posts like this could come back to haunt you in 12 months time.

My experience of working with lots of Poles over the years and having some relatives who are part Polish is that they have no problem harbouring animosity for more than one of their neighbours and that something you definitely would not want to be if you were living in Warsaw is a gay Jewish communist. The people that live in present day western and northern Poland were mostly originally from Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania ancestrally and got moved there courtesy of Stalin's border changes at the end of WWII so if anything they are the ones that are more likely to be anti-Russian. The main football clubs in Szczecin and Gdansk have the same names as pre-war Polish clubs from Lviv in present day Ukraine because that's where a lot of their supporters wound up after the ethnic Germans that lived there previously got expelled.

Welcome to my ignore list.

Elsewhere: Albion Rovers beat Annan 2-1 in the League Cup, while Cowdenbeath drew 1-1 with Montrose which suggests there is plenty of quality in the LL this season.

Gregor Fullerton? Edit: backup keeper to answer my own question. https://www.bonessunitedfc.co.uk/teams/203221/player/gregor-fullerton-2779551

Maybe Dalziel is more of a supersub type player at this stage of his career?

What they've done with artificial turf as a run off area right up to the barrier shows how you can squeeze in as wide a pitch as possible if licensing criteria are an issue where pitch dimensions are concerned as I suspect would have been an issue for them to achieve a width of 56 metres on entry level.

Another piece of trivia about King William II (to give him his proper Scottish title) is that he set sail for Carrickfergus and the future battles at the Boyne and Aughrim (anniversary is today and it was the original focus of 12th celebrations on the old Julian Calendar) from Hoylake on Merseyside where the Open Championship is being held this year. His choice of destination in Ulster that time probably revolved around where he had the most reliable local support base on the island of Ireland so maybe it was the same with Brixham where the island of Great Britain was concerned.

Robbie Murdoch also mentioned as being signed from last season's U-20 team: https://www.facebook.com/100063628780343/posts/john-spowarts-season-preview-20232024boness-unitedseason-preview-20232024-boness/754901736640779/ Haven't seen that mentioned before.