LongTimeLurker

Sounds promising. Wee bit surprised Barra would be on an initial to do list but I guess they could rationalise ferry provision to and from the mainland if all the populated islands of the Western Isles are linked by road.

Easy to act the hardman when you have a keyboard to hide behind.

Maybe try reading up about it. There appear to be some major gaps in your knowledge about what happened at that point in history. The lunatic ravings in Mein Kampf, the overthrow of democracy through the Enabling Act, the Night of the Long Knives, the Nuremberg Laws and the escapades of the Luftwaffe at Guernica should have been a hint that Adolf Hitler wasn't going to be reasonable.

Assuming the Ardennes was impenetrable is up there as a factor as well. There are people who try to peddle a line that the UK government used the Munich Agreement to buy time for rearmament because that's more emotionally palatable as a narrative than admitting that the Czechs got completely shafted at a time when Hitler probably could still have been defeated relatively easily. Removing the Czech army from the equation and handing over their heavy industry to Hitler meant there was no possibility of easy victory the following year when it was the Polish corridor that became Hitler's new cause celebre. Prime ministers are supposed to make difficult decisions in the national interest. Neville Chamberlain didn't.

Some people have posted about that being placed on the agenda for the next LL AGM but there's been nothing officially announced so far and the LL turkeys still need to vote for an early Christmas.

The bit you left out is that the team at the bottom of the LL do not get relegated if the LL champion is promoted and Club 42 from the SPFL is relegated to the HL rather than the LL. Really should be the reverse scenario of your last paragraph with two clubs from the playoff being promoted but that's not how the rules were drafted.

I know you are probably being ironic with that but effectively handing Hitler the keys to the Skoda works may well have been what tipped the balance in 1940 where the invasion of France was concerned.

Apparently they don't form flocks as much due to the absence of predators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_sheep

Neville Chamberlain

If Bonnyrigg were to go up and Elgin were to be relegated nobody replaces the LL champion at the other end of the table so the EoS/SoS/WoS playoff champion fills that vacant spot rather than taking VoL's.

Sorry to hear the news about SJC. RIP and condolences to the family.

...if your ground is a recent new build with devil's lanterns installed courtesy of the M74 extension. Glasgow Perthshire might view it differently if they give it a go at some point.

With the changes to the Club 42 playoff rules it is only Spartans and EK you really need to be worrying about.

The most mind boggling aspect of the rules is that if an LL club is promoted this season and Club 42 is relegated to the HL, Vale of Leithen will avoid being relegated. Cowdenbeath are showing some signs of life in recent games so that's far from inconceivable if Elgin City have a bad run of form through to the end of the season.

^^^link has changed as described in the earlier post by Clockwork. I assume this is what it's all about? https://extra.ie/2022/01/14/sport/soccernews/joe-gorman-apologises-tweet-portadown ...Gorman, who was 19 at the time and playing in the youth team for Scottish side Inverness Caledonian Thistle, was suspended by the club after posting a sectarian tweet. ‘Ross Kemp in Belfast talking about the Troubles. Wouldn’t you just love to open up on all them Orangemen,’ Gorman wrote in the tweet, which was later deleted.... How could he even think about playing for Portadown of all clubs after tweeting something like that? Something you would maybe want to mention to the other party before the signing announcement.

Morbid curiosity similar to somebody rubber necking a car crash would be my guess. First game with the new hybrid full-time approach is mildly newsworthy.

Extended highlights of Craigmark Burntonians vs Auchinleck Talbot finally available:

The SFA appear to have knocked back the concept of having geographical conferences at the same tier inside the WoS. If that's accurate and there's no way to get around that, there probably wouldn't be much apetite for a change in SoS circles. The way to do it might be to split the WoS into two separate leagues, so that a new league formed by the lower division WoS clubs has the same status as the SoS and feeds into the tier 6 league that contains the upper division WoS clubs. Suspect we are stuck with the SoS at tier 6 though.

The post I responded to suggested entirely the opposite. She was active in the Labour party in London in the 1980s at a time when Ken Livingston and Jeremy Corbyn were cosying up to Sinn Fein. Seriously doubt that made her flavour of the month with the DUP at a time when their politicians were literally putting their lives on the line to campaign to keep NI in the UK. People have characterised her pro-Brexit views as being some deep Machiavellian way to collapse the GFA but it's quite possible that she's always basically just been completely bonkers.

She was a Trotskyite back in the 1970s and was an MP for a Labour party which viewed the SDLP as its sister party during the Troubles so the idea she is some kind of uberProd is well wide of the mark.

There was the Sandy Stables plan a few years back that would have split the HL into two divisions similar in size to Leagues One and Two in the SPFL. Got rejected probably in part because of a bonkers 18 league games angle. https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/sport/stables-highland-league-plan-falters-100975/

The problem was that politicians believed the apocalyptic modelling predictions and thought they had to clear hospitals ASAP for an imminent catastrophic IFR = 2% scenario that never materialised. The more rational approach would have been to try to shield the elderly and immuno-compromised who were actually at high risk in the hope a vaccine or antiviral treatments would eventually emerge but keep the rest of society as functional possible and build up herd immunity among the younger age cohorts. Hindsight is 20:20 though and people who were at very little risk got it into their heads that COVID-19 was much more of a risk to them than it really was because of the initial over the top lockdown policies.

Think they would receive £20k next season rather than the initial £40k. Third season it drops to zero. Judging by who they brought in for this season people linked to the club are pumping money in above and beyond that, but you could say the same for how Brora, Rothes and Formartine feature at the top end of the table. East Stirlingshire found out the hard way in the Lowland League that recently relegated former league clubs can wind up being outspent even when they find a sugar daddy.