superpollok

To be honest, I really couldn’t care about the toilets, pies etc. It’s the fact it’s a shit experience to watch football. View from one side of the ground, that in some places is broken up by 5 aside goals meaning there is areas you can’t stand. Flat viewing which means anyone standing at the barrier blocks the view for anyone who uses the porta cabin seating sections. There is plenty of space behind the fence at the dug outs for money to be spent to at least create elevated standing sections like Petershill have. I believe there was a ‘podium’ for the ref to pick the ball from when players walked out, you have a ‘score board’ between the dug outs, all vanity things, but meanwhile pumping money on players and leaving the paying punter with a shit place to watch football.

100% agree. Give me a trip to Meadow, Arthurlie, even Cumbernauld for all of the problems that is with two teams playing there vs Gartcairns of the world. Embarrassing that you pay to watch football at that place. its a boys club ground at best.

It’s not disrespect. I have seen every team in the league. Beith are better than every team they have left to play. You can down play this all you want, but after today the league is done. Talbot will not win every game between now and the end of the season.

If Beith don’t win the league from here it would be a collapse or bottle job. However Beith will win the league, regardless however you want to believe the difficulties of the remaining fixtures are for you.

There is no way the remaining games for Beith are 50/50, they are comfortably heading to the title and anything else would be a collapse that will not happen. 3 home games and Arthutlie on last day away who will likely be relegated by then Largs away is the tricky tie in the same way teams would have been looking at today. But one tricky tie and 4 bankers.

I appreciate it’s arithmetically possible for Beith not to win the league, however there is zero evidence any of the teams chasing can put the runs together to get a target on the board that would mean Beith couldn’t afford to drop points in their final games

That’s the title today for Beith. Not going to lose 3 games between now and the end of the season and 58-60 points will be enough for them. Fair play on them going back to back league titles. A lot of clubs will definitely feel what could have been if it wasn’t for a few sticky patches in the season. But Beith didn’t really have that and that’s won them the title.

I think the best run of wins this season is 6. Beith at the start, and then Talbot more recently. Would be a surprise if Beith won 6/6 now until end of the season, and equally with Talbots away run would be a surprise if they managed more than 6 wins never mind the full 8. A few weeks ago Clydebank manager said 60 points could do it so he was disappointed at their loss (think v Troon) as 4 wins could have got them to 60, I think he might have been right with that target.

Beiths max points now 66 (6 to play) Talbot 63 (8 to play) clydebank & st Cadocs 57 Beiths to lose still.

Largs won 1-0, up to 4th in the league. Form team now, more points in last 10 games than anyone else In their last 10

I am Happy that Pollok who aren’t as good as Talbot or Darvel keep beating them. Can’t imagine the scores if we were actually better than them both!

Two ties that could go either way. Talbot have history as a club in this comp, but not this current squad. Darvel have a decent record against them. Could see few goals in this game, Talbot more vulnerable at the back than they have been for a long time but Darvel not the same level as they once were either. Prob Talbot just to sneak it. JB v Lie… tough season for Arthurlie this season, but have had some decent results and have some good players. JB have a squad that should be performing much better, it looks like the team that can’t be bothered with the week in week out troubles of playing in the lower league but has a point to prove when it comes to a cup and a chance to play teams in higher leagues. That makes them slight favorites for me, but very marginal.

By the time game comes, Talbot fan’s will probably be 70-80% of the crowd

That could be a big issue, and is one of the problems with two leg Junior cup and a free week before. The cup tie could have been Friday / Tuesday. if the 2nd leg is called off, Darvel already have a midweek semi v Shotts to play as the west final is the weekend after and I assume that’s not movable with it being on a ground that will have been booked out for the final.

You commenting on Pollok, there’s a surprise. Must have taken time away from the ouija board and trying find someone who will let you put up floodlights

I think you have missed the point. Talbot seems to have been allowed to rebuild a team and measure of success allowed to them seems to differ from others. But that’s understandable when English doesn’t seem to be your first language.

It’s interesting how this is something that is often said when it comes to Talbot but not many others. Yesterday Pollok starting XI had 6 players signed by Maxi since the summer. Same for 2 of the 3 subs. With us on course for a top 6 finish too with a final to look forward to.

There is no way the dugout side linesman didn’t see it, he was on the pitch straight away. How from that incident Luke Main could be booked was a joke Thankfully that didn’t cost us. And Luke had the last laugh.

Today’s Talbot V Pollok game played in crazy conditions, at times a lottery where the ball was going to land when cleared. Once Pollok settled after 10 mins we carved open the better chances and took the lead. Then typically for games at beechwood, talbot player strikes a Pollok player on face, putting him on the ground and somehow both players get booked. Second half Talbot started way better and had a very good spell to go 2-1 up. Pollok went to 10 men, and from there were the more dangerous team. What was really evident, playing 10 men and in a wind a football team would have played out from the back, but they clearly don’t have confidence to do that, resorting to kick out from the keeper that played right to Pollok due to the wind. Penalties came down to quality, and 4 from 5 from Pollok was enough A good game from two evenly matched teams in front of a good crowd.

It absolutely is Beiths league to lose. Current league champions, and have wiggle room to drop points and still win the league Your point about needing 8/9 to win the league, this is only true if other teams go 100% from now until end of the season. That’s very unlikely, maybe Clydebank could since only 3 to play. By the time Talbot next play in the league you will have played 4 games. That should see the points on the board to put you comfortably above them. They will likely have a few cup finals to prepare for and I am sure after their start they would have taken a few cups and a top 3 league finish so priorities will shift for them. 60 points will win the league this season.

Seems no one wants to win this league this season. Beith can only throw it away now, overwhelming favourites Max Points teams can reach and games to play and win to reach that (I think may be some miss calculations in this so happy to be corrected) Beith 68 (9) Talbot 63 (8) Hurlford 61 (11) st Cadoc 60 (6) darvel 59 (7) clydebank 57 (3) pollok 57 (7) largs 56 (6)

1-0 Largs full time

The next 3 games will define the league season for Talbot. If they get through that run still in touching distance then I would put them as favourites. Form team in the league at the minute. The last 4 fixtures will likely be against teams with nothing to play for when these games come around. Beith defense is not the greatest, losing McGlinchey would have been a blow plus a few other players rumoured to be leaving. While Talbot seem to have none of that background noise. A lot of teams will look at this season as what could have been. For us to take zero points from Meadow and Glenafton earlier in the year killed us. That was right over a really unsettling period for the club and no doubt it impacted the players. I don’t think this seasons eventual winners will be remembered for being any sort of formidable force, just the ones who had a bit more resilience when it mattered.

Second half was like a basketball game, both teams going for it. Any neutral would have seen an entertaining game. When both sides are disappointed about missing chances or keeper saves to deny a victory, that’s usually the indicator that a draw was a fair result. Leaving the game I couldn’t work out how we didn’t score in the last minute, watching it back in twitter I still can’t believe it!

Not a chance we are involved. We have been better the last few games but not consistent enough to put together a run of wins. 11 games to play and only 2 of them are against teams currently below us. So we will likely have a big say in where the league goes but if we finish top 8 after the way the middle of this season has went that would be an achievement. Talbot look the form team at the minute who will join in with Beith and Darvel as the 3 likely to be in the mix. Would be surprised if anyone else ended up top.