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3 hours ago, CityDave94 said:
The whole point might have been all about stopping Brechin from escaping. It should create shudders down the spines of clubs in the SPFL from this half of the country to avoid becoming club 42.
The other half of the country seem to have even more reason to be fearful:. the four south clubs relegated to the LL so far have just finished 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th.
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8 hours ago, greendot said:
The Highland league - sponsored by comedy central!
The responsibility for this farce is with Buckie and/or the SPFL and/or the SFA.
What have the HL done wrong?
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5 hours ago, Skyline Drifter said:
I see they are not compliant on the Diversity and Inclusion point. They have my sympathy. It's an absolute nightmare to comply with that sort of thing and it only came in a couple of years ago and was made far more stringent last year.
Have you actually read the requirement?
"The club shall nominate a Board / Committee member who has lead responsibility for equality in the club.
The club shall publish a public commitment to addressing inequalities and preventing discrimination. This should be published, as a minimum, on the club website.
The club shall establish and implement a policy for equality, which shall include provisions dealing with harassment and unfair treatment. This policy shall be communicated throughout the organisation."
So, they need to nominate one individual, and do a bit of cutting and pasting of other folks' policies. Hardly a nightmare, is it? Maybe a couple of hours work?
Also, it's the same requirement for entry level, so they should already have done it.
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On 20/04/2024 at 02:01, Eednud said:
More Motherwell connections Down Under. Dixie Deans and Jumbo Muir with Adelaide City in 1978. This was an away game at Footscray JUST that City won 1-0. Dixie Deans scored 30 goals in 3 seasons with City. Jim Muir played 5 times for Australia in 1980 (England, Northern Ireland 3, Mexico). The same pen picture of Jim Muir was used in programmes for all the games).
I love that "has added considerable toughness to the defence".
I suspect they mean "thug".
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Buckie have won the HL
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On 12/04/2024 at 20:52, Swello said:
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There are other rules about carrying dayglo vests, warning triangles and first aid kits but I've got no clue if this is enforced much. Also - Germany's border with France and a bunch of other places will have controls, so I assume that might cause delays.
Are you sure? They have this dreadful thing called the EU, and for most of its members the Schengen agreement. means no border controls.
I can't remember the last time I saw any passport or customs checks within Western Europe.
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On 16/04/2024 at 08:34, An Absolute Imposter said:
On same day we had league games and other cup games scheduled, some were called off because of the weather, but the Cip Final does deserve some respectful treatment from the fixture schedulers.
Don't blame the fixture guy - he only works within what the rules dictate. If the clubs want the final to have a clear day, they just need to vote for it.
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19 hours ago, Quentin Prankett said:
I was thinking it’s time for a new cup as the leagues are about to end after a lot of rain and yet May, a traditional football month goes unused. Through my analysis I note that the B teams aren’t in the Lowland League cup so I’ll keep them out and the league champs have SPFL playoffs as do the Highland League champs. That leave 15 LL teams and 17 HL teams, or as I like to say 32 in total. Obviously to spare costs we need to try to regionalise admitting it will be hard with this distribution. Here’s my idea.
32 teams drawn into 4 groups 8. That means each team gets 7 games with at least 3 at home, we could have it so the teams who get 3 homes games are home on Saturdays and the teams with 4 are home midweek. After that the top 4 of each group propels forward into the last 16.
Teams will be seeded 1-4 based on position so all group winners play teams who came 4th and the 2’s v the 3’s. These ties would be two legged.
From there we have the final 8. At this point these teams are put into a group of 8 teams playing each other once. Then at the end each team has it’s seeding from 1-8 for the quarter finals which goes as follows:
1v8
2v7
3v6
4v5
These would be played over two legs. The semi finals would then be made based on seeding:
Highest seed v Lowest Seed
2nd Highest seed v 2nd lowest seed.
These would be played over two legs.
The final would then be played at Hampden Park Letherby Drive Glasgow G42 9BA.
What an opportunity for all the teams to reach the big stadium for a final and also it means the problem of not enough games is solved.
Can imagine a fair bit of neutral interest in this too.
So, 19 extra games for the finalists. That should put paid to the close season ...
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2 hours ago, Cyclizine said:
The Mallard is the pub at the station in Dingwall
When I was a lad, it was the Station “refreshment rooms”, aka “the Station” or “the Refresh”. It was licensed, at a time when there were only four proper pubs in town, and it was popular with under-age drinkers. Allegedly.
God knows why it was renamed the Mallard, after a locomotive that never came anywhere near Dingwall AFAIK.
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I was there in 1966. We can do it again!
Oh hang on, we lost ...
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14 hours ago, Arthurlie1981 said:
IIRC correctly the West Region Board informed members that they were closing their doors and that unless they wanted to start their own league then they were to apply to the newly formed WOSFL. There was never an offer from the SJFA to do what they did in the Midlands and North so what were the clubs supposed to do?
Too late now, but did the board actually have the power to disband the league without a vote of the members? I doubt it.
Whether they had the power or not, anyone disagreeing (or even just wanting an open debate) could have called an EGM.
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16 hours ago, allyg1977 said:
Wow what a statement to make I think u need to go back to school to learn history talbot has nothing to do with the orange order so I would kindly ask u to remove such allegation
Read his post again. He didn't say Talbot had anything to do with the OO.
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32 minutes ago, Talbotphotos said:
Why not go for WOSFL. EOSFL, HL & LL all at tier 5, HL & LL already tier 5 so why not add in WOS & EOS? Surely that would be the most progressive move?
Winners then enter a mini league and the winner (assuming meets the criteria) face off against the bottom of League 2 for a place in the SPFL.
Having it regionalised tier 5 with the 4 regions makes it a much more attractive pyramid system, instead of paying crazy amounts of money on transport in tier 5, better use of the money would be investing in ground/playing staff? Once or if you reach the SPFL then you need to accept travelling anywhere in Scotland.
1. Exactly what geographical 'region' would the LL cover? How would relegation from or promotion to LL work?
2. Where do you get the "crazy amounts of money on transport in tier 5" from? I've heard no complaints from LL clubs, and the HL have been managing happily with much greater distances since God was a boy.
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35 minutes ago, Spyro said:
Hypothetical questions but, would it make any difference or be easier for Gala to register the new team as Gala Rovers? Continue to use them as a feeder but bring back the old name, Rovers were a biggish deal in the Borders before the merger
And for Livi to maybe bail Livi United out the shit (fk knows what is happening there) and use their registration for a feeder team at that level?
Both I know are not happening but just curious at what the options might be
Careful. If there were nothing to prevent that, then the OF could get their 'colts' into the SPFL as Govan United, or whatever.
Luckily, the SFA Article 13 (Dual Interests in Clubs) seems to close that particular door.
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41 minutes ago, newcastle broon said:
Berwick Rangers had a reserve side in the EoSFL for years.
As had Arbroath.
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1 hour ago, Cowdenleith said:
What are the rules these days if a club cannot continue in the SPFL, therefore creating a spare place?
Easy. Some spiv buys the assets, starts a new club called "The" Edinburgh City, applies for the vacant place and gets in on the nod.
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52 minutes ago, Ginaro said:
There's unlikely to be to an actual sports journalist at the paper anymore, and if no one from the clubs are providing their own match report or pushing for coverage then there won't be any.
A pretty low bar for his next ‘challenge’.
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This is simply typical of the dismal quality of ‘local’ papers, generally now owned by large national groups. TBF they are under attack by the internet, which means fewer readers and even fewer adverts, leading to a concentration on ‘regional’ journalism.
it will only get worse.
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2 hours ago, Darren Adams said:
I'm writing my dissertation on whether Scottish football media should be allowed to be biased or not
So, are you suggesting censorship of the media? Or what?
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3 hours ago, clansman said:
Having taken in St Cadocs what do you think of their novel coaching innovation
All innovations are novel.
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53 minutes ago, wosgroundhopper said:
Being honest, I never knew the drone was St Cadocs, I seen it flying around from time to time however assumed it was perhaps a local resident having a nosey. Never paid a great deal of attention to the St Cadocs bench to notice someone operating it in all fairness.
I personally don't think they should be allowed to use it overhead as it times it was fairly low. Unsure what they are gaining from it. I have never seen them post drone footage of matches. Is it a coaching aid?
I like teams that have media teams etc...best teams in the league for it are Clydebank, Talbot, Beith and Pollok always good seeing clips of games you never went to. I don't agree with drone being flown overhead.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority, it's illegal to fly a drone within 50 metres of people. Measured horizontally, so well outside any football ground.
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25 minutes ago, jaggyness said:
Just out of interest, anyone know which league Jeanfield have nominated as their preference if they are promoted to tier 5?
AFAIK it doesn't work like that. The only route from the EOS is to the Lowland League.
The only way to get promoted to the HL is from one of the three northern Tier 6 leagues
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46 minutes ago, virginton said:
It wasn't a generalisation. It was in fact very specific about the circumstances and requests made to the referee, which were fairly dinghied because their entire day does not in fact revolve around your braying club blazers' convenience.
Unless you are suggesting that the two clubs simply fabricated some claims to support this 'generalisation' purpose, in which case we can still file your weeks of mewling in the bin.
"dinghied"? Was the pitch really waterlogged enough for that?
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13 minutes ago, Casper Wilson said:
Reasonable enough I suppose
But what if the tie is all over bar the shouting as the saying goes after the first leg?
The next home gate will probably be down on the first gate.
That's the price of failure.
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2023–24 Highland League Chat
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