FairWeatherFan

Because the experience of a league is about more than a single season.

Not that i've seen. Only found out there was one because of this tweet.

Not really. That's always been a given. The rule around the bottom relegation was amended after Selkirk went bust. Given some grace at the time with the expectation wider chances were round the corner that would make it irrelevant. Its been 5 years and counting.

Take it there's absolutely no news on the KRR ground front? It was October when a game was played there wasn't it?

Its not the only way. Club 42 relegated to Highland with LL champion promoted. Bottom escapes relegation.

Its just because of the shading in night mode. When its white background you can see the clearer distinction between 4th top/bottom and the rest. Also helps that wiki has the annotations explaining the difference.

Has there been any real change in Edinburgh City's status? Thought they were looking good to plod on and be favourites for Club 42 in 2025.

I feel Syngenta had their results expunged by this point. At a glance the Top 5 would look like this: Something that I noticed going through this is that Nitten and Whitburn have played Vale of Leithen twice already. The way VoL's form has been it would give the others a 3pt boost

It's an impossible lead to follow. Win the WoS Premier. Be arrogant twats thinking they'll walk the LL Play-off. That sees them withdraw from the WoSFL Cup they happen to still be in. Fail miserably in the play-off. Realise the club is now banned from the following season's WoSFL Cup. Leverage the title sponsorship to try and get back or pull the deal out of spite. Then take up the Junior Cup to fill the void in the fixture list.

The rules until now were that Premership & Championship levels required Bronze. League One and League Two required Entry level and the possibility of some additional features (such as floodlights before they were introduced to licensing and then floodlights to a certain standard). The ability to meet those requirements allowed for waivers. Which is why clubs have been promoted into the SPFL with work needing done and why Airdrie are in the Championship with an Entry level license. Starting this year all SPFL divisions are to be Bronze. With clubs expected to meet that by July. Candidate clubs from Tier 5 are expected to meet Bronze, with a waivers system in place that can allow them to be eligible for the play-offs and promotion.

Bronze doesn't require 500 seats, its only a 100 with 500 total counting as covered. I'm assuming 499 seats + 2 crossing the 500 covered threshold.

If there's 499 seats and Entry licencing requires cover for at least two wheelchair users. Then the 500 by SFA licensing standards should already be met.

It's a minimum of 500 covered, but only a 100 seating. Would they not have an accessible area as part of the stand, where a wheelchair user would be taking up a covered space but not one of the 499 seats?

Maybe best to go to another forum thread? I can't remember how all this started, but clearly ain't about Pollok anymore.

Instead of the waiver/derogation system you would have all of Tier 5 be Bronze licensed as standard then? I'm sure you'd love that when it gets forced on Tier 6 clubs. Waivers/Derogations are going to allow Candidate clubs to still contend for promotion, while Tier 5 as a whole remains at an Entry level requirement. Individual clubs will now aim for Bronze at their own pace. It's not this massive hardship that needs years to address. The only Entry level ground is Edinburgh City, and everyone knew the problems they would have with returning to Meadowbank. There's no reason that a club like Airdrie should be on an Entry license. For a club that should see themselves as a Championship club it's quite shocking they aren't already.

That's no way to talk about Darvel.

Talbot put up a graphic for the Saturday earlier. Arthurlie tweeted Saturday then quickly posted a follow up saying maybe not. I dont know if there's been some confusion. As certainly for one-off semis they tried to keep off the traditional Saturday to maximise casuals.

If there were any doubts about them being over two legs.

The draw's taken place. Talbot v. Darvel Arthurlie v. Johnstone Burgh.

SJFA get a cut of the gate. If they're paying out actual prize money these days, then that money has got to come from somewhere.

Seems to be 13/01/2024 you're talking about. No cup games, all league fixtures. Darvel and KRR left idle. Cumbernauld United were at home. With no cups causing disruption and so many 1st time ties still to played. Most would see that as unfortunate oversight that can be avoided. Not a reason to blanket ban groundshares. Not sure why New Tinto Park was not used, but since https://scottishfootballfixtures.wordpress.com/ has the tie with St Cadoc's reversed in a 1st time league meeting. Something may have prevented its usage.

https://spfl.co.uk/news/spfl-board-elected-for-season-202324 Yeah, it was announced as part of the AGM news. It's something that people directly involved with clubs would be aware. It's just not something that a casual fan would know about, but then they probably wouldn't think about licensing at all. The important part of the article is: Basically, don't take the piss with it and have a achievable action plan to meet Bronze standards a club should be good to go. With Brechin and East Kilbride already at Bronze for their grounds there shouldn't be a problem this year.

The SPFL Membership Criteria has always exceeded the SFA's Entry Level license. Waivers/period of grace has always been built into the set-up. No different than in the SPFL when there was the Championship/Premiership Bronze level divide. I'm not sure where there's a lot of Chicken Littles running around now.

Need to do something to help cover the expenses.

Probably because you're not directly involved. So why should you have seen anything in passing? When the rule passed Iain McMenemy responded on twitter that waiver rules already exist for Tier 5 champions if needed and would continue to do so. There's details on what that would look like in the SPFL docs https://spfl.co.uk/admin/filemanager/images/shares/pdfs/Membership Criteria Letter 2024-25 31 October 2023.pdf https://spfl.co.uk/admin/filemanager/images/shares/pdfs/SPFL Rules and Regulations 26-Jul-23 (MASTER COPY) (2).pdf It's little different to the EoS applicants that have a credible action plan to meet the membership criteria and get in. East Kilbride and Brechin City are already graded as Bronze on the ground criteria. So there shouldn't be a fundamental issue.