FairWeatherFan

Well it is, because you're looking at this solely from a West perspective. There's 3 leagues going for one spot. Not just the WoSFL. Why should another league's champion face a random team that just gets nominated because of a bit of paper?

The spots get filled already. You just want a participation trophy.

Because there's been a licensed Tier 6 Champion for every completed season since 2016-17. Why should another league champion be undermined because another league can't get itself in order. The whole thing is a nonsense argument about putting in an endless series of caveats because some in the West feel they're being held back. When by the sounds of things, Beith could have ended up licensed if it hadn't been for an extraordinary set of circumstances. Made worse by the SFA freezing applications.

Depends on the SPFL2 Play-off. Club 42 will be a Lowland area team. If the Highland champion wins promotion, two clubs are relegated from the Lowland League to make room.

That's true of this entire thread.

Since the Midlands and Brechin have beem thrown into the Lowland. I'm guessing they've realised the depth of the Highland area has been gutted and doesn't deserve automatic promotion. While the Lowland does. Same prices but increased costs as there’s more games played. Don't see that playing out as imagined.

All gone.

Same was true last season. The response was that the SJFA was losing money on it. Hence, the return to two-legged semi-finals and 60% in the semi-finals and 15% from the earlier rounds leaving 80 teams worse off when compared to the previous model. Don't think anyone would argue that the tournament at the latter stages is still supported better than the other competitions out there. Still leaves the question of whether or not its sustainable.

Club 42 relegated automatically, HL/LL Play-off winner promoted At least two weeks of Tier 5 football that way

Besides Stirling University's run with their EoS side, the recent Reserve teams stints in the 21st Century has been patchy at best. Hope the league gets a decent multi-year bond at least. 4x Berwick Rangers 2010-2014 3x Spartans 2013-2016 1x Hibernian 2013-14 1x Berwick Rangers 2007-08

Its partly because people knew what the WoSFL was being set-up to do and its the only reason why the LL, EoSFL, SoSFL, accepted it into the pyramid.

Year 1 - SJC didn't exactly go in people's favour Year 2 - WoSFL rule change to make sure the SJC is catered to from now on. Year 3 - Still not good enough, need an extra date for the two-legged semi-finals Year 4 - Looks to be undermining the SCC. Which would allow the SJC to pick more favourable dates. As with the Strathclyde/SJC divide. There's going to be teams that pick both or the SCC over SJC. Which just creates an even more cluttered league fixture list. Year 5 - Who knows maybe there is a vote to make the SJC mandatory for WoSFL clubs.

Take 15% off the gate of every game and give it to the Premier clubs in prize money

It's one of the key differences between the "reserve" teams in the pyramid leagues and the B teams that bought their way into the Lowland League. As far as i'm aware all the reserves are full members of their leagues with voting rights. It's just some specific exemptions that prevent certain clubs playing in a competition. Stranraer (SoSFL) don't play in the SCC for instance, as clubs that are a member of the SPFL are barred from the competition. In Stirling University's case they do actually play in all the possible competitions: EoS League Cup, King Cup, SCC, Qualifying Cup, Scottish Cup. Its why I was wondering about Livingston. If they join the EoSFA again it should mean they play in the City Cup, as on paper they are an SPFL team.

They do play in the cups. Just gets more obviously murky when it comes to the Qualifying Cup.

4 games to go to be wrapped up by May 11th should be more than fine.

From gouging gate money from participants. Not the multiple sponsors that were going to somehow fund the £80k prize money that was regularly floated about. Still no one knows if it will be a money loser for the SJFA as its the first season.

To be fair i'd imagine that's Drumchapel's entire existence right now.

They did try and expand the LL. The SFA weren't having it. While people can talk about expanding the leagues, the SFA have seemed to be fixated on 16 team leagues (unless Highland or adding B teams).

Anyone want to try and summarise the video?

Anyone know what the rules are for a postponement these days? Rolls over to the next weekend until its played or rescheduled entirely?

Braves are relegated to the WoSFL. Its been asked multiple times since the WoSFL came into existence. They were a member of the SLFL when the WoSFL was formed. Their status as a former SoSFL doesn't really apply. The wording around that is more to prevent a future SoSFL/EoSFL club getting promoted to the Lowland and being relegated to the WoSFL based on geography.

Actually it does. All their problems. The self-inflicted side-show they've become. There they are as members of the SFA.

We've seen a certain amount of board discretion used in the past in the way the 4th Division was set-up. Plus, we know what happens when a delegate goes into working group representing conflicting interests. Its the whole reason the WoSFL exists. As the SJFA at the time wouldn't let the West Region enter the pyramid on its own while everything else was sorted out.

Think people still wonder why holding an SJFA position would bar participation in the WOSFL, only for that to change.