LongTimeLurker

This just appeared on the juniors subforum and suggests the two regional divisions thing might be happening:

The full implications of what is being referred to as "East of Scotland, West Region" is the interesting snippet in that.

Was hinted at one here a few pages back, by somebody clearly in the know at Kelty:

Latest from the EoS board:

Would have thought the way to do it would be to have two geographical divisions and a playoff to determine the overall champion during the first season after a massive influx. League positionings for the following season could then be determined by who finishes in the top half and bottom half of each division. Still somewhat skeptical that this will be a problem though. Last season the rumour was three superleague clubs but it wound up being one.

For those that missed it: The east superleague club that have applied and have not been mentioned are probably not Bonnyrigg (yet to have their EGM) or Bo'ness United, so that's a bit of a bombshell. The premier club would be Dalkeith obviously, and the South division club might be Edinburgh United?

Not really arguing with you, if you are the guy that has posted that previously in response to one of my posts on the subject, but what I find difficult to believe with that narrative on events is that it wasn't clarified publicly by the SFA when the media were stating Montrose would wind up in the Highland League if they lost the playoff against Brora Rangers. It makes much more sense to have the boundary just north of Montrose and allow the HL to stick to its original catchment and Tayside clubs to look to the central belt as they have traditionally preferred, so either way it's good that the location of the line has been clarified/modified.

The dividing line got moved to the North Esk, which is a few miles north of Montrose, so all junior and senior clubs in Angus and Perthshire now fall into the Lowland League catchment.

This guy claims to know the score: 4 East SL: Bonnyrigg, Bo'ness United, Hill of Beath? and ??? 3 East PL: Dalkeith, Haddington? and ??? South: Edinburgh United? Just north of the Tay: ??? from the west: Clydebank

When the weather is decent and the days are longer to the point that it never really gets fully dark, there's plenty to see in Shetland. You were there at the worst possible time of year, basically.

What's the club just north of Dundee bit all about? Is that for EoS entry or getting licensed? Given the boundary between the LL and HL has been adjusted to the mouth of the North Esk rather than the Tay all of the senior and junior clubs in Angus and Perthshire are now firmly in the LL catchment.

Bo'ness is short for Borrowstounness and doesn't have a capital N (sorry just needed to get that out of my system as one side of my family was from there and it gets on my nerves a wee bit). I'm not in the loop in Bo'ness United terms but they weren't shy about talking about it in the Falkirk Herald last year and having a meeting with some of their supporters, so I'm skeptical they are a factor at the moment. Think they would prefer to move together with Linlithgow Rose to keep the derby that their season tends to revolve around intact and given we are hearing nothing about EGMs in Linlithgow I suspect the Rose are happy where they are for now given they are already licensed. I suspect Kilwinning Rangers are not a factor as they would be viewed as being firmly in SoS territory and with them it's the new WoS thing that they might be interested in. Don't think Cowdenbeath are a factor as they'll be able to stay in the development/reserve league if they want to, because that's how Scottish football tends to work. So if I were doing the speculating I think the two to three beyond Dalkeith, Clydebank, Bonnyrigg and Haddington (maybe anyway, don't think that's fully confirmed) could be pretty much any of the other east region clubs that could get licensed reasonably quickly and it may just be clubs inquiring about what's involved with an eye to the future rather than something imminent. For it to fly under the radar it's more likely to be smaller clubs with smaller memberships that can easily be canvassed for an opinion like Blackburn or St Andrews United than one of the big name superleague clubs that need to do a highly visible formal EGM like Bonnyrigg and Clydebank are doing. We'll find out what the story is soon enough.

Hopefully it's good enough that it carries on to an '89 one and the wall coming down. An '86 one looks like filler content to a certain extent and it's often difficult to recapture the magic of something this original.

What's truly sad is that so many people on here don't grasp that all flag obsessions are daft and can only find fault when it's somebody else's flag that is involved. SNP supporters tend to assume that the rest of the world makes this huge distinction between Scotland and Britian in a positive and negative sort of way when in reality if you travel the world a bit and live and work in other countries you quickly find they really don't and that we are nothing like as important or significant to people elsewhere as we like to think we are.

This I take it?

...but they still seem to be able to manage to do it in Norway, Sweden, Finland and closer to home the RoI. There are even parts of Scotland where a summer season is the norm at amateur level. The biggest stumbling block is the upheaval involved with making a change that radical. The format is every bit as feasible as the current one used to be when refs were more reluctant to call games off and games could still be played with puddles on the pitch or with up to an inch or so of snow.

Yes and public transport is reliable enough that it's easy enough to get around the city that way: http://ttc.ca/Fares_and_passes/Passes/Weekly_pass.jsp

Any time I have been in Montreal I tend to stay in the francophone areas in the east part of the island as you seem to get a better price on hotel rooms that way. It's definitely almost always French first with French expected in reply there unlike downtown and the more touristy areas where there is usually no problem using English all the time. Used to quite enjoy using my O grade French and twenty years back could almost sustain a simple conversation but as the years pass I forget more and more of it.

Tell them in French that you can't speak French and most Quebecois will immediately switch to English and be quite friendly about it in my experience. They only usually have an issue, if you make no effort whatsoever given you are in their part of the world and keeping Quebec francophone is a huge emotional issue for them.

Bizarre to see SNP supporters treating a win in Alva and Menstrie as a triumph rather than a cakewalk given it's pretty much ground zero for SNP support in the central belt. The SNP started getting people elected in Alva as far back as 1948, so it's the sort of place that needed to be well over 50% but wasn't for Yes to have won back in 2014. A big chunk of what used to be the SNP vote in council and Holyrood elections is now voting Tory because Union/Brexit motivations now take priority over stopping Labour from winning.

Kilwinning Rangers and ...?

http://www.clydebankfc.com/club-announcement/ The UCS board will now look at different options before a meeting of all members in the near future. Sounds like they will be applying to the EoS, if there are no quibbles over geography, given the "different options" bit can only mean the EoS or SoS as things stand at the moment.

If it was Hill of Beath as they miss their derby with Kelty as the high point of their season in a Bo'ness vs Lithgae sort of way it could create an interesting dynamic in the Cowdenbeath area in the years ahead if Cowdenbeath get relegated this season. If Lothian Thistle get their club licence as Kelty Hearts appear to believe is happening in a few weeks (they just installed cover for 120 spectators to get their ground up to the required standard) and the number of promotion places into the Lowland League each season gets increased as is rumoured to be happening, there is a lot less danger of a logjam of top ex-junior clubs developing at the top of the EoS: Better to be one of the top junior clubs that gets in early than wait until the LL has flushed out all the substandard Borders and Galloway teams it launched with and the EoS has to add a second division again, if a club is going to make the switch.

If that happens, and LTHV get their club licence soon now that they have the covered enclosure in place: the danger of one of the bigger junior superleague clubs getting stuck in the EoS for many seasons if they make the switch is minimised.

Think the key snippet in the tweet is "standing stand".