LongTimeLurker

If the LL are really being threatened with having no League Cup and Challenge Cup entrants over this as George Fraser recently stated then odds on they'll agree to the boundary shift. The apparent change in tack from the EoS where Tayside is concerned when explaining Luncarty's entry makes sense given that backdrop. The EoS can claim the other 15 north of the club 42 boundary clubs could also have applied this season as well and had their applications go to a vote of the membership. What would be interesting is how keen clubs from south of the Forth would be to vote clubs like Brechin Vics and Forfar Albion into the EoS and whether they might prefer the Midland League scenario be pursued instead regardless of whether the LL or HL is involved. The EoS posture in PWG meetings was that there was a need for a WoS and a Tayside league after all.

A lot could depend on whether they were told that verbally in an informal conversation or through an official written communication.

Way too much was being made of the Tay Bridge boundary back in 2018 and 2019 in EoS circles when the reality was that it only applied to the Club 42 relegation scenario and didn't apply to EoS entry.

If the LL accept clubs up to Brechin and Montrose by signing off on a change to the Club 42 playoff rule, the awkward part for the EoS would be explaining why top Tayside clubs like Lochee United and Carnoustie Panmure that think they were blocked from EoS entry in tier 6 conferences back in early 2018 would now have to start at tier 8. The Midland League scenario would solve that and would also help to keep travel distances sensible.

There's still the issue of whether the north section (minus Scone and Tayport) falls under the HL or LL to deal with, so probably not.

Licence compliance gets reviewed every couple of years (?) and licensing is tied into the use of a specific home ground, so a club that lost its groundshare and wanted to play instead in the local park would have a major problem on its hands.

Along with a letter explaining the circumstances for that which was a delayed EGM from what I remember of the related club statement.

Don't think he's the same poster as WhitburnVale (?) who still lives and works in the Whitburn area but seems to also have some link to Banff. Somebody will wind up being the Felix McKenna of the East threatening to lead the movement back to the SJFA over some relatively trivial issue (cue red dot from the Pharoah) after lack of numbers finally forces the last few bitter enders to defect to tier 8 of the EoS. Probably the Armadale twitter guy rather than anybody at Whitburn.

All the LL needs to do is ensure that WoS league and SCC games have to take priority over SJC games unless the LL, EoS and SoS all sign off on a future change on that and it really doesn't matter much who WoSL's officeholders are.

Think the east region messed up by adding the three tribute acts and Syngenta to the so called south premier last season rather than having a single 16 club south division. Having a 10-10 split provided a lower division that was so unattractive to be in that it was no huge shock that a Fife club that was otherwise going to be stuck in it for a second season, Kirkcaldy and Dysart, started the domino effect among the remaining clubs from their area. Maybe Pumpherston will be the next to go in West Lothian now that their two nearest neighbours are going to be in the EoS? After that...

Only need cover for 100 and it doesn't have to be seats.

It only ever applied to clubs changing region and had already been shown to be irrelevant when threats of its application against Kelty Hearts were shown to be empty. Have been trying to work out how the LL's bluff could have been called in any of this? Maybe they agreed to continuing SJC entry to get Pollok and Talbot on board and then found all 63 west region clubs showing up unexpectedly on their doorstep after initially promising conferences with 25-30 applicants in mind based on an earlier wave of expressions of interest? The SFA then later told them to GTF on conferences after tier 6 numbers bloated out to 67 from something manageable from their standpoint? An inquiring mind that doesn't think the sun shines out of either George Fraser or Gordon Ronney's back passage would like to know.

Given Fauldhouse's new manager used to be at Arthurlie recruiting from the west appears to still be very much on the agenda.

Why was Jon Connolly the Fauldhouse manager? Because of his contacts locally in West Lothian or to bring in Glasgow area players to help them win east region trophies? You do realise that it's only around a 30 minutes drive from the city centre in Glasgow to somewhere like Whitburn or Armadale? People are taking this anti-junior thing too far sometimes. The east region south section is clearly in a death spiral now but that doesn't mean that they won't potentially want to sign former Rossvale players.

And would not have been the least bit concerned if it was Hamilton Accies facing that prospect.

It was Jambo'ness that actually got the topic going by questioning what was happening next season with Edinburgh South playing out of town. My take on things was more moderate with the certain length of time bit being added into the mix. Not so bothered about distance if it is only for two or three seasons and there is a clear plan on how to get back to the home area, although clearly you would need to make allowances for something like the Falkirk and East Stirlingshire groundshare. No point pursuing this topic any further as it has degenerated into outright trolling.

If they didn't join this year when they were given one last chance at tier 7 entry, I doubt Armadale will be any more keen next year, but a couple more defections will no doubt lead to a stampede for the exit. Any pretence at having something that can sensibly be labelled a superleague is gone and they are close to the point of no return in numbers terms.

Time to slow that keyboard down and lay off the cocaine because this is clearly nothing more than trolling at this point.

Fernieside has as much of a perimeter barrier as Hillfield Swifts do and the pitch barrier at Inverkeithing doesn't look like something with considerable expense involved. What would be more difficult and expensive would be licensing, which I suspect is the reason they are in Dalkeith.

If you know that ID exists solely for that reason why did you decide to engage him in conversation a few minutes back in another thread?

Which is why I wrote similar rather than identical in the text you quoted and have repeatedly stated that I see no problem with them having a temporary groundshare in Dalkeith or even Blackburn and Denny until they can get this sorted out. The key point here is that coming up with a solution that satisfies the EoS requirements should be feasible without drastic levels of expenditure.

Junior football is being equated in some circles with nasty No voting, Rangers supporting and flute playing proles that can't afford bus fares to Ibrox, so some people have lost all sense of reason on these issues.

A ludicrous and completely pointless tangent given how many times I have painstakingly made clear that I view temporary groundshares for a few seasons while a home ground gets sorted out as being OK.

The way the Labour party in Scotland cosied up to the Roman Catholic church over the schooling issue in the first half of the 20th century was highly abnormal in terms of how socialist parties normally operated in that era elsewhere in Europe. Compare and contrast with how the socialist leaning parties and the Roman Catholic church were getting along in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Spain) End result was that the ancestral religious divide remains more significant than it might have if there had been a more mainstream form of socialist politics happening in working class communities and if that divide still pops up to the surface in a junior football context to some extent people really shouldn't be surprised. The powers that be in Scotland on both the left and the right were happy to have things stay that way.

If that would be enough for EoS entry why would that sort of solution not be sufficient? Coldstream have shown that you can even do entry level licensing with a public park and Thornton Hibs are entering at the same time as Edinburgh South facing similar issues but are not planning to cohabit with Glenrothes or East Fife. The requirements for EoS and entry level are not so onerous that a move away from a club's home area should be anything more that a temporary fix for a few seasons.