Stag Nation

Down here in England, it's reported that the government are keen to see football starting again, and the EPL are planning to finish the season during June and July (behind closed doors), and to start next season in late August. Is there any reason that couldn't work in Scotland? Except maybe wee Nicola Krankie imposing different lockdown rules ...

Is there really anywhere outside Scotland where a friendly againt Hearts would be seen as "glamorous"? Come to that, are there any places within Scotland?

But how many of them are still alive?

Sorry, I hadn't realised you were a virologist. Can you explain the difference?

I wouldn't be so confident. Some of the best brains on the planet (and $squillions of investment) have been trying to produce a vaccine for HIV for almost 40 years, without success.

2002, to Airdrie United.

Unfortunately, that doesn't make it legal! It's one of those crimes where the likelihood of being caught is low, but the potential penalties are severe. Just not worth it. What does it achieve?

It would be illegal for the clubs to agree prices or for the league to set them.

More than two. You could be "ex-Juniors". Or change the name altogether, like Sevco or Clydebank.

Fascinating as this ramble through the outter islands has been, it has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of the thread.

Indeed. Postcodes have nothing to do with local government boundaries.

18 months in the planning? And he hadn't noticed it was a Saturday in the football season?

I think the question was about the conferences next season, not the 'permanent' set-up.

But the JB manager seems to thing the SJFA or WSJFA are running the new league. Not sure why he doesn't pick up the phone to someone there instead of whinging to the press.

How does one become an ex-graduate? Has your degree been annulled?

But if you're going to be 'technical', the old boundaries are irrelevant. That's why they're called 'old'. Did Falkirk Council really pay millions for a stadium in another town?

There's at least one club run by chancers (nearly) at the top of the pyramid. They've got to start somewhere ...

All rules can be changed. Especially if they serve no purpose.

We are told (correctly) that in the new WOSL the clubs will make the decisions. Wasn't (isn't?) that the case in the West Juniors? If not, who does make the decisions? And how did the clubs allow that to happen? They seem to have been told - by someone with no mandate - that they had no choice, and they have simply followed like sheep. Don't get me wrong, I think the pyramid is the only way to go, but as you said " internal divisions (clubs forced against their will) has the potential to be much worse of a problem than an external division".

There's nothing to stop them withdrawing their applications ....

Not quite. They have to pay their £35 annual membership fee before the AGM.

Difficult to see how.

THat's ok then. Two wrongs make a right ....

Are the SJFA somehow above the law? Telling the clubs what they must charge is a criminal offence under the Competition Act 1998.

Rather more, as they’re all licensed.