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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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?

  6. 24 minutes ago, EdinburghBlue said:

    Alloa's accounts are a bit difficult to understand. The bottom line was a loss of £190k, and this appears to make the company technically insolvent with net current assets of (£153k). 

    The profit and loss account has no direct bearing on (in)solvency: the £190k loss is irrelevant as it is not a liability.

    What matters is the balance sheet. In particular, whether enough assets are realisable to meet current liabilities by their due dates.

  7. 16 minutes ago, Burnieman said:

     

    Nobody is bypassing anything, since when was it normal to have to join amateur football before becoming a senior club?  If there are vacancies, you accept applications and judge them on merit, whether the club have kicked a ball in anger or not.

    Indeed. It's not so long since the SPFL admitted a new club which had never kicked a ball at all.

  8. 4 minutes ago, ClubFan87 said:

    So if JG admitted it was unacceptable and a line was drawn on the sand why does it affect you so much? He held his hands up for the mistake surely? 
     

    No, Rhubarb said they "tried to draw a line under the sand". Probably didn't succeed.

  9. 1 hour ago, rhubarb1974 said:

    Do you think 3G surfaces are good? If so why a top flights leagues against them i.e. England, Spain, Italy etc...

    I don't think anyone is suggesting that a plastic pitch is as good as a top-flight league one.

    But the top league clubs have the resources to spend a fortune on maintaining their pitches, and generally have the luxury of only using them  once a fortnight.

    It's absurd to compare that with grass pitch maintenance and utilisation at WOSL level.

  10. 2 minutes ago, Thejackdaw said:

    It really does doesn't it . The Title nobody wants to win to get promoted to play utter shite clubs with very little attendances If the play off game Is won v broxburn .

    You may be right.

    Some might think they want to continue the Juniors' century-long sulk, cutting themselves off from the rest of Scottish (and indeed world) football for reasons no-one can remember..

    Like Francis Urquhart, I couldn't possibly comment.

  11. 20 hours ago, rhubarb1974 said:

    Although the drainage is ultimately Darvel's issue I don't think it would be fair to blame the club for this, they brought in a reputable contractor to install the new pitch, the club never cut corners etc...or hired a one man band with no experience in doing the work, if the drains have failed it is fault of the contractor not the clubs. 

    Not necessarily. It depends on what exactly the contractor was engaged to do.

    Were the drains within the scope of the contract? If not, it's the club's fault.

  12. 2 hours ago, rhubarb1974 said:


    Also, is there any real need for the expense of the office etc…if part of the pyramid why do hampden not give office space with the rest of the SFA offices in there? Or is the pyramid only there on paper and no further forward than under the SJFA? 

    Why do you think the SFA would give them office space rent-free? 

    Do the SPFL & SJFA enjoy free offices? I doubt it.

  13. 18 minutes ago, southerner said:

    I agree but just think when the midweek games and the cup semi finals kick in it will be a struggle. All about points on the board at this stage.

    If Talbot are serious about progressing, they need to concentrate on the league and forgo the cups.

    I’d like to see them do that, but otherwise they will be seen as still having the Joonyur mentality.

  14. 3 hours ago, Marten said:

    In case of liquidation, it would have to be irreversible before the start of the season. Otherwise the LL would run with 15 member clubs and the bottom club next season would get a reprieve unless the HL champions get promoted and club 42 are relegated to the LL (and application again possible in the case of LL champions up / club 42 relegating to HL).

    Liquidation is, by definition, irreversible.

    Except in the imagination of Sevco fans.

  15. 2 hours ago, rhubarb1974 said:

    Support us through the season we don't get 5% of what turned out v Aberdeen at our games (150), if you can't be there all season or most games why turn up because we are getting to a final!

    Darvel are apparently in deep financial trouble.  You're suggesting that they should be turning away, or at least discouraging, paying customers.

    I'd respectfully suggest that may not be their best strategy

  16. 3 hours ago, Thejackdaw said:

    Whilst the senior grade killed them and the old club that they used to be  😅

    IIRC what “killed” them was going broke. Mainly because the owner sold the ground without any plan in place for a replacement.

    Nothing to do with the “senior grade”, whatever that means.

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