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If they are still carrying the number of signed players they used to they could field 4 teams!

Your post reminds me of the blocks that say "Ah canny remember doing that ah was that drunk "

When you get top professional clubs in Scotland team lists reading like a League of Nations reserve team meeting, you realise why it is sinking in quality. At least the South League doesn't fill Their teams with unknown and second-rate overseas players

Leave Wigtown to sort their situation out themselves. They had their glory days not too long ago and enjoyed them. They are now going through a bad patch and unless the keyboard critics are prepared to go and help out or offer HELPFUL advice they should back off. Anyone who has been associated with non-league for a decent length of time will have seen clubs come and go. Non-league football is not for the faint-hearted or glory hunters. The auld dog for the hard road the path for the pup!

The South of Scotland league has been going for a long time and almost without exception, every club has had its dark patch. Some have fought through it and are still in the league; others have folded.It says a lot for this sparsely populated region that the league have always kept going. If you keep plugging away you will get through.

The fault here surely lies with the rules. I always thought the rule was: suspended from all football: I stand to be corrected but if this was done "legally" surely the SFA should change it.

Over the years, I think Stranraer FC have (rightly or wrongly) concentrated on getting players from the Central Belt and doing their training up there. Over the years they have missed out on some good South players, so there hasn't been a close contact between the two teams. Stranraer won the South League under Stranraer Athletic and at that time there was definitely no connection between the two However Since Alan Jenkins took over the two teams seem to have moved closer which is a good sign.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

The logistics for a south team playing in the Lowland league have been referred to here before and adding in the lack of big sponsorship I think it is prudent for clubs to at least give very hard consideration to moving up. The promised land of financial success is, if it ever was, a long way up the Scottish food chain. Enjoy the level of football you can financially sustain. It is not as if any one club has dominated this season. Roll on next season!

Dalbeattie can take comfort from the fact that the same doom merchants also predicted they would stroll the South League. Congratulations on their win but well done Creetown and Newton Stewart and all for providing such a close finish, Roll on next season!

Saints lost the town, as have other clubs in the past when they were able through some good money sponsorship to pay the best players in the area. Unfortunately in the South, the money does not last for long and when you lose the locals both players and spectators it is very hard to get them back. there are .for the population of the south of Scotland a lot of teams and relatively few long-term sponsors. This situation will I think be with us for the foreseeable future.

Glad to see you love living in the country and like the residents so much!!!

Aye, I hear there was a localised frost at Creetown and it burst the water pipes in the pavilion.

We can, quite rightly, discuss the East. West and South leagues till the cows come home but having been involved and followed area football for over 50 years the facts, for various reasons, have changed dramatically and will no doubt continue to do so. the South never had Junior football but at one time there was Stranraer and District Sunday League, Stewartry Amateur League and Dumfries Sunday League all running at the same time as the South of Scotland League. Indeed some players played Sat and Sun when the seasons overlapped. They must have been hardier then! I don't think the population of football-playing men was any bigger there were just fewer distractions available then. Also, I don't think you would get retired pro footballers travelling from Ayr Kilmarnock and even Glasgow to play in the South League for £2 and some new-laid eggs! Reminiscing aside the South of Scotland League in its present form is still fulfilling the function of keeping football alive in this sometimes forgotten area. Keep the ideas coming but remember the grass is not always greener.