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13 minutes ago, Thejackdaw said:
Great display by beith today and 5 nil up early doors , glenafton finally finishing with 9 men didn't have any real relevance on the outcome at all, one game at a time for us as always and three incredibly tough cup finals coming our way .
You can rest players for the play off and still win the league….
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34 minutes ago, Cairn Cheerleader said:
Ok children calm down...
the below containers have been installed which are toilets and a food cube but not completed yet and more will arrive. The portaloos were taken away due to the fact we didn't have a home game in 7 weeks and now don't have one for another 3 weeks so wasn't much point. The sporty provided toilets for the pollok guys and same for our last game v Hurlford.
full hospitality was given to the committee (who didn't turn up) and the players who we gifted 3 goals lol
see all you lovely people next season where I'm expecting Arthurlie and Polloks grounds to offer sushi or any hospitality for that matter. Well maybe we won't see Arthurlie right enough.
thanks all
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.
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55 minutes ago, Shannon said:
It's a shame that potentially whoever finishes 3rd bottom whether it is Glenafton or Arthurlie or Kirkintilloch Rob Roy will lose their place in the league to a Gartcairn who don't think twice about spending £15-20,000 on a player or two but won't install permanent toilets or won't spent that to have decent catering facilities. Dunterlie may have seen better days but you can get a pie and a refreshment and a really good view of the game & shelter from the elements. All should be normal at our level. The 4g cage grounds are just brutal and I know plenty supporters will just avoid going if Gartcairn/ Benburb / Drumchapel away.
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.
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10 minutes ago, beithboy said:
Your total disrespect for the other teams in the league is astounding, we have to play the team currently sitting in 3rd and the team sitting in 5th away from home. Talbot have proved that they can go on a long run of winning games so I would not count them out.
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.
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46 minutes ago, the nearly man said:
I knew before I had a look on here tonight there would be posts acclaiming Beith as champions, and let’s be honest it’s only said to create pressure on a club/team to get them to maybe believe the hype, unfortunately that won’t happen the league is far from over ,Beith are well aware they’ll need to fight for every point , a very good St Cadocs team to play at home on Wednesday not a gimme by any stretch of the imagination and only when teams start to complete their fixtures we can see what the winning points total will be 60 may win it but who knows
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.0 -
1 minute ago, Thejackdaw said:
League far from over although that was a big three points for us today , every single game remains a 50/50 for me though and to suggest other wise is very derogatory to our opponents as anyone can turn anyone over in this league for sure.
Must admit I was very apprehensive today going to blair Park as we have a horrible record down there historically but we more than deserved it for me.
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.
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26 minutes ago, andy25 said:
Im not disagreeing that Beith will win the League but Talbot could reach 63 points.
Unlikely but still possible.
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 games0 -
1 hour ago, andy25 said:
Hurlford United 1 Beith 2
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.6 -
6 minutes ago, Shanner said:
We can go back to within 3 points of them if we win the games in hand. I can't see us winning all of our remaining games which is probably what would be required to give us a hope.
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.
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Beiths max points now 66 (6 to play)
Talbot 63 (8 to play)
clydebank & st Cadocs 57
Beiths to lose still.
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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
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20 hours ago, BigBo10 said:
And not as good as either of them
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!
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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.0 -
1 hour ago, GIRUU said:
Wouldn’t have thought so, guessing talbot got more than 25% at that level.
By the time game comes, Talbot fan’s will probably be 70-80% of the crowd
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5 hours ago, tyson1909 said:
I think they would need to reschedule it pretty quick. I cant imagine there is much flexibility left in the calander.
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.0 -
20 hours ago, Thejackdaw said:
Pollock are a big club in our grade for sure but their record of landing majors in recent memory doesn't match their status , in saying majors we think of leagues titles and Scottish cup wins,is the west of Scotland cup really a major these days ? I'm really not so sure and i don't think Maxwell can claim his first major in winning the west for me .........
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 floodlights0 -
47 minutes ago, Ben10 said:
Pollok ur serial underachievers. Still kick aboot like the aristocrats of the West.
Even the fact that ye regard that as gid shows how far you’ve let yer expectations drap!
top 6 holy Moses man it’s no the premier league.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.
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3 hours ago, Darvel legend said:
Still be a good season getting to 2 semis and top 6 with a new team
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.
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14 minutes ago, andy25 said:
Neill McPherson was lucky the referee and linesman didn't see it.
It looked like he threw a punch
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 jokeThankfully that didn’t cost us. And Luke had the last laugh.
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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 enoughA good game from two evenly matched teams in front of a good crowd.
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9 hours ago, beithboy said:
As it stands just now we would need 8 wins from 9 games to win league. That just ain’t going to happen when you consider we still have the two teams that won tonight (glens home and away, Largs away ) it is nonsense to say it’s our league to lose there is a ton of football to be played and when you consider we are very inconsistent at the moment….are we favourites probably, but it certainly isn’t our league to lose.
It absolutely is Beiths league to lose.
Current league champions, and have wiggle room to drop points and still win the leagueYour 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.
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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)
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1-0 Largs full time
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1 hour ago, Shanner said:
Talbot will drop some points in the run-in because we have a lot of games including some very difficult ones. We could do with beating Beith but a draw wouldn't be the end of the world.
After slagging Beith and Bankies fans a few months back for playing down their side's chances I will state that despite Talbot's momentum it's 60/40 in Beith's favour because of their lead, already being the champions, and the slightly better run-in (I can't bring myself to count St Cadoc's into the equation - they could very well win the thing but they're a kiddy-on club and it's just such a depressing prospect).
It now feels like a free hit for Talbot because we've salvaged some hope from a doomed-looking season so win or lose there will be a lot of optimism for next season and the management, players and everyone else connected with Talbot will deserve a massive round of applause for the way the ship has been steadied regardless of how it all pans out. The pressure of expectation is probably more on Beith right now because they're the champs and have been pegged back from an unassailable-looking lead.
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.
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