FairWeatherFan

I don't see them removing reserves or even inviting clubs. There's a mechanism to apply every year and its on the clubs themselves to put the effort in. I just found it interesting as the SoS are seen as quite isolationist. Yet whenever an East Kilbride, original Edusport, Bonnyton and now Edusport reserves have applied they've been accepted. The only trouble I've heard with getting in was actually related to Gretna 2008.

So looks like the SoS remains a 16 team league next year but with an Edusport reserve side replacing Annan reserves. It'll also mean another "West of Scotland" club in the league as Edusport reserves will also be playing out of the new Alliance Park rather than continuing to groundshare down at Annan.

The two things are intertwined but separate. Membership rights are something voted on by members. The licensing process is in the control of the licensing committee & board. Look at how the SPFL board can make up whatever they want with the Challenge Cup but can't push through Colts. One is a delegated responsibility and the other a membership vote.

They've had their agm. 17 team league next year.

Oakley in particular were considered a surprise move last year as I remember they were seen as staunch juniors. It was also about a month or so ago they announced a tie up with a youth club and I believe are looking to put in a u20s LL team. They might not necessarily having licensing in mind but they've been putting those types of moves together which suggests they are happy enough.

I've seen it said Edusport are getting a reserve sides in the league. Does that mean there will be 17 clubs next year and will Edusport reserves keep playing out of Annan for the convenience?

Some might think it, especially after being led to believe it.

Depends on how in the loop they are over the bo'ness & linlithgow junior teams. There's been some confusion over that.

CSS look to be sorted. VoL I'm not too sure on & WW are having to deal with a different kind of uncertainty so there hasn't been much positive news on the floodlights front. All 3 are looking into it as they obviously don't want to lose their licenses.

http://www.bonnyriggrosefc.co.uk/teams/118321/news/crowdfunding-to-install-floodlights-at-new-dundas--2427790.html Apparently already started installing the floodlights. The SFA visit makes sense if they can get the work done in time.

I wouldn't personally.

Anyone the dates of the EoS & SFA agms? With LL's on Monday I had expected them to come out with Whitehill aren't relegated and Bonnyrigg didn't get their license in time. With the Bonnyrigg chat I'm now wondering if there will be any sort of further extension

Not a great thing to see. In amongst the messages of support, there seems to be some offers to help out.

Had it confirmed that the Lowland League AGM is on Monday.

Do you happen to know that they haven't? There was no public declaration of the attempted relegation rule change earlier this year. Or of 14th being "guaranteed" they would not be relegated. Even the extension to the March 31st deadline came through through the East of Scotland rather than the Lowland League.

With BoD the only really candidate to come from outside the pyramid there's no incentive to declare an interest in applying for 2020-21 until the very last minute. The Highland League should set a deadline for applications to force any interested parties to apply early as possible and not just wait until the SPFL2 play-offs have run their course. Right now anyone can apply right up until the HL AGM.

Last year's LL agm was the end of May. Chances are this year's will be this week.

Yesterday I saw one of their just giving pages surpassed its target of £4,500.

I've been reminded. Is there a proposal of changing the rules around gate money in cup competitions?

I'm not exactly holding my breath considering the speculation around how last year's EGM and how it ultimately went.

Basically. April last year TJ went running to the SFA after the original 13 clubs were accepted by the EoS. What happened was the supposedly 'kosher' confirmation that the juniors were in at Tier 6 and there was a moratorium on applications that was only meant to last through the summer of 2018 to sort of the SJFA integration into the pyramid. The person that gets the blame as the public face of the moratorium was interim SFA chief exec Andrew McKinley. EDIT: 19th April 2018 the SFA held a board meeting with the introduction of the juniors into the pyramid a topic of discussion. This was a Thursday, so heading into the weekend during the games it became a massive topic of discussion as TJ sent round his version of events upon hearing what had happened. This is the kosher email which was posted on PnB on the 22nd April. With only one version of events out there, the SFA responded on the 23rd April to clarify the situation.

TJ was the first to announce the moratorium and he mentioned it to everyone in the SJFA as he was still trying to prevent departures to the EoS.

Think part of the issue with committing to tiered divisions right now isn't just number of clubs, but number of games. We could of just had 22 conference games this year but it seems that was thought too few and we got inter-conference play to bulk up the calendar.

Didn't look very hard then. https://www.eosfl.com/ main page gives a list of most recent results and fixtures. Click on the hyperlink of the score https://www.eosfl.com/item.php?pg=matchlge&pd=1044&it=6668

They were given leeway. As we've seen the issue hasn't actually been with them getting "shafted" its that from February to May they and others were "ghosted" by the SFA. If they had found out in February that floodlights were absolutely necessary they would of been even more proactive in getting them in place before the season had ended. Instead they'll get them up during the close season. What's the deal with Rossvale moving grounds to get into the West Premiership? Would they have been ineligible for promotion if they hadn't made the move?