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SJFA questionnaire gave a majority wanted to join the SFA pyramid. SJFA EGM ratified that desire. This thread raises its head again because there's been a meeting of the Pyramid Working Group and news of that meeting is filtering through. A majority of fans might not care about it but the SJFA, SFA and club committees are working on it regardless.

Second place teams or next best finish with a licence can't be promoted. The playoff route is only for the EoS and SoS Champions. If the SoS Champion is unlicenced and the EoS Champion is licenced, then the EoS Champion will be promoted without the need for a playoff. Which is what happened when Edusport got promoted to the Lowland League. There was no licenced EoS Champion, so Edusport were promoted unopposed.

Maybe i'm misremembering with the other leagues but when the EOSL updated their policies page, they removed the text relating to membership and promotion. Not knowing what the rules look like there could be a loophole where you can only nominate one "representative" in a competition which could leave an entry point for teams in different divisions. It's something that I imagine will be formally addressed when the EOSL splits into divisions again.

They cannot as it's against the Lowland Leagues rules

I don't think there will be an issue with the WoS League when the time comes. You're already at least 1 down with Clydebank. As for LL2 and the likes of a WoS being set up at the same time. I think it gets too messy a process to sort through.

SJFA Plan A = Super Leagues at Tier 6 with EoS/SoS. SJFA remains intact. SFA Plan A = Sanction WoS and Tayside senior leagues to allow clubs to access the pyramid if there's enough interest. SFA Plan B = Too few applicants for their Plan A. Create Lowland League Two (2019/20 EoS Premier under a different name) and SoS/EoS can be moved down to Tier 7.

A Senior Tayside League needs East Region Junior clubs to be viable. Candidate clubs like Lochee United and Carnoustie Panmure were somewhat dismissive of clubs leaving the SJFA set up this summer and for geography reasons would rather fit under the Lowland League not the Highland League. Why would those clubs now leave the SJFA for their own feeder league under the Highland League? At the minute, the 100+ SJFA membership is campaigning for the East Region to go in at Tier 6 under the Lowland League. The SJFA plan fails then Tayside clubs could still seek a boundary change before having to set up their own league.

Guessing there's multiple proposals and that's why things might be cluttered. A standalone Tayside senior league doesn't get off the ground without the Juniors involved, and some of those clubs are seen as the most loyal following the departures to the EoS. Doubt they'd give up the SJFA for a crack at the Highland or even the Lowland. Nice to see once again the situation with the North Juniors isn't directly addressed.

Found this on https://kassiesa.net/uefa/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=382588&sid=0a31bf811eb7314a51d61ffb6d07713d#p382588 The promo vid for the ECA conference where the 3rd Competition talk seemed to spout from. With an interesting snapshot:

Think everyone would be tempted by the guarantee over the possibility of qualifying. UEFA probably like it as well from a TV rights perspective in having 20 countries with an active media interest over some bigger countries only engaged casually.

It's up to the Top 20 Leagues being guaranteed group stage football of some kind. So say the 16th ranked league's champion get's knocked out of the Champions League qualifiers, instead of Europa League qualifiers they'd got straight to the Europa/Challenge League Group Stage automatically.

It doesn't seem to be for the Aberdeen's of Europe, but more of a catch all for the Top 6-20 Leagues to get their top sides in group stage football having been displaced by the Champions League/Europa League redistribution so heavily favouring the Top 5 leagues.

There was that sweet spot when the Lowland League was created and took the best sides in the SoS (Dalbeattie and Threave), where it could of been a simple solution to have the SoS fall directly under the Ayrshire District or a blending of the two leagues. It's gotten a little messier with the West Region going region wide at all levels.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/celtic-amongst-clubs-at-forefront-of-organising-uefas-new-third-european-competition/ Two main things that are new to me is that upto the Top 20 League champions could get group stage football. Guessing that'll be with an extension of the Champions Route into the Europa League or this new competition. The other point being that the top countries aren't meant to be getting any more places. I'm guessing the likes of Burnley would get into the group stage of this new competition instead of Europa League qualifiers as an example.

As the last time I saw the Briscoes was at All In against the SCU, I was thinking the exact same thing.

Spartans v. Kilmarnock = 1,078 https://spfl.co.uk/league/league-cup/results/984387 Spartans v. Dumbarton = 245 This games doesn't have an individual page but here's a screenshot from the SPFL's result page it appears on:

I do think 3 tournaments with exactly the same format isn't the greatest. It'll just underline the 1st, 2nd, 3rd nature of it. Wouldn't shock me though if they try and turn the champions league into 4 groups of 8. Increasing the likelihood of Saturday games and could guarantee a English, Spanish, German, Italian & maybe even French team in every group. 20 spots taken up, 9-12 spots to qualify for depending on title holders.

Around the turn of the decade they actually had a reserve side in the NCL, which was middling. With how much may have changed since then I'm not sure how the first team would compare. Especially as they may lose what little they have by dropping down a level.

If this goes the 3x32 way as suggested you're only adding 16 clubs that play group stage football. Just looks like a way to guarantee the likes of Feyenoord, Basel, Burnley, Atalanta and Braga are in the group stage rather than stumble out in qualifying. Bugger all to do with smaller nations

I thought of European club rugby where the 6 nations have the top trophy locked down. Second is a mix of top & the rest and 3rd for the just the rest.

With the creation of tiers, is there something in the rules that prevents 2 teams from the same club participating in the EoSFL?

With more tiers on the way it becomes easier, they just relegate Stirling University EOS to the league below.

In one of the threads covering the topic someone has said that the SFA has appointed another officer to cover licencing. Whether that's as a replacement or in addition to what already exists I don't know. With them already committed to Dalkeith, Blackburn & any other historical commitments they've maybe been caught unprepared and took the summer for a reorganization. The embargo was only meant to last the one pwg meeting (hopefully). Think that was from June and they meet every other month. So ahead of October hopefully they'll have publicly reopened the process.

Who says it's the SoS Champion that would be applying