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2 minutes ago, HorseyGhirl said:
For whom?
Lots of us
All the leagues are competitive
With 4 league you get 4 champions , 15 teams in play offs over the 4 leagues and club 42 play off
16 or 18 will result in a lot of end of season drama and jeopardy just going away.
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34 minutes ago, SJFCtheTeamForMe said:
have they been training on the pitch long?
Or only since part of the training pitch started getting work done?
Due to the road works outside Tesco i pass the training pitches just now as things are being set up and its only been this week that ive not seen anything happening so possibly for the last week.
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the changes at Jeanfield and Luncarty are covered in todays Dundee Courier.
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On 12/05/2023 at 14:50, Anychance said:
the story I heard and I don't know how true it is.
jeanfield management work commitments are getting to much to balance the two apparently jeanfield have been wanting the luncarty team for a while but they couldn't leave with the team doing so well.
That is also what ive been told by someone ITK .
The intention may have been to wait until the season was done but it is now for Jeanfield but a few big games for Luncarty.
The Jeanfield manager may be moving to a director of football role .
Luncarty will be an attractive proposition for a good non league manager.
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On 08/05/2023 at 21:06, Marten said:
To be fair, Montrose Roselea joining doesn't change much. With 19 clubs one team is idle each round. The only real difference is that with 20 teams nobody will be idle anymore. But in my opinion, more games should be played midweek early in the season.
Short of starting the season even earlier or playing 3 games a week i cannot see how the teams can play any more midweek games early in the season (Those without floodlights)
If i remember correct by the 5th midweek of the season most teams had played 9 or 10 games, which is 1/4 of the season.
More teams with floodlights would help.
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15 hours ago, The Master said:
No programme tonight for the play-offs is ridiculous, but sadly expected.
Can you imagine the quality updates you would have got from Pat Bonner last night, firstly he would not have been able to find the ground as he sat nav is just following a Celtic supporters bus and secondly he would not have known a single player on the pitch at any of the games, "the boy a has played the ball to the boy b"
Of course he would not be available as he would have been doing his homework on players who may play against Celtic in next seasons Champions league last night.
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I went to Lochore v Preston Athletic last night which finished 1-1
An entertaining game as Lochore battle relegation cutting the gap on Coldstream to 3 points with Lochore having 2 games in hand.
Wednesdays game with Whitehill might be vital for Lochore as a win there pulls Whitehill Welfare back into the relegation fight, conversely an away win should just about make the visitors safe.
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3 hours ago, SandyCromarty said:
For Caley fans driving down Glasgow city will be an LEZ on the 1st of June so do a vehicle check to see if your car complies, if not it is a financial penalty.
If you dont go into the center of Glasgow there are no issues at all.
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15 hours ago, ATLIS said:
I think to get something like that off the ground you realistically need something to aim for:
Expanded top flight, definitive no to B teams, fairer financial distribution of funds throughout the SPFL? It also needs to be something fans of most clubs can agree on and unite behind.You wont get everyone to agree to most of that.
I certainly dont want an expanded top flight, 12 works fine and if you expand it the drop to the second level would be catastrophic.
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15 hours ago, HibsFan said:
- St Johnstone's £30 cup tickets and whoring out three sides of their stadium despite fans' protests
St Johnstone have listened on this, Dundee United asked for the Ormond stand this Saturday and were knocked back, not to say what was done in January was a good idea but the no show of so many fans proved a point to the board
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18 hours ago, Footballfirst said:
Man of the match was the Lochore keeper Dale Wotherspoon(sp?). He got his ample frame behind everything thrown at him and his handling, including cross balls, was excellent.
You are spot on there, he also had words with some of the local school kids who came on the pitch at the end and were trying to wind up the Bo'ness players.
He a good keeper and great at winding the opposition up during the game.
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How many of the division 3 teams play on a plastic pitch? I did wonder if the pitch at Lochore would level things up a bit and it looked like Bo'ness struggled to keep the ball down, especailly early in the game.
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10 minutes ago, HorseyGhirl said:
Are you a politician per chance?
Completely ignoring Cove, Edinburgh and Kelty.
Also how many club 42's have returned.
Closed shop anyone!
Hopefully one in the next few weeks
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On 26/04/2023 at 07:26, AyrshireTon said:
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This started a five year stint in the top flight under Benny Rooney's management. A part time side who briefly topped the Premier League and made three cup semi finals.
Just about every smaller Scottish team has a small window of punching above its weight. Thinking about clubs like East Fife in the last 40's and 50's with league cup wins and Scottish cup final appearances , Dunfermline in the 60's with Scottish cup wins and even Saints with 3 trophies in the last 9 seasons. It must be a bit gutting that that team only has three cup semi finals to its name and the club has been in decline/left behind a bit ever since.
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1 minute ago, IrishBhoy said:
Agree with your point about the 4 home game quota, but it sounds like this is something that comes from the clubs rather than Sky in order to protect the gate. If there was a more even distribution of games shown across the league rather than A.N. Diddy v OF then it wouldn’t be an issue the clubs would need to worry about.
You can guarantee the 4 game quota came from 2 teams that have a "home support" made up of people who need to come to games on ferries etc. The loss in season ticket money to them if all games were open to them is also to much and would be unfair.
There has to be some limit or Sky would just apply for 72 games (2 per weekend when the old firm are playing another team and 1 when playing each other) and we would get 19 home Rangers games 19 home Celtic games , each top 6 other would get 4 home games and the rest 3 with all being against the old firm.
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I am as against this idea as the majority of fans are on here but could not get my head around the small size of this league until last night
They would need it as small as 10 so they can get 4 bigot matches in to then allow those two clubs to recover their entry fees from the 10000 knuckle draggers who will go along to watch their half of the divide against "them" . The rest of the season will be played in front of family and friends yet at the end of the season the average gate will be over 1000 and classed as a success.
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2 hours ago, IrishBhoy said:
A sensible solution would be to end the 4 game quota from each ground
Id just stop at that
With 48 games and the 4 game quota its going to be almost impossible for Sky to get to game 48 if they show one of the rest v Old firm every week for the first 33 game days and then suddenly want to show something else at the end of the season.
They keep back the other games at Celtic Park and Ibrox just in case it goes to the last day or weeks and that can be seen this season.
Which teams have not had their 4 home game allocation used this season?
From memory Saints have just had the two visits from Celtic and one from Rangers covered this season. As usual no away game coverage at all.
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Another good win last night , most of the match with 10 men against a team 2 divisions higher up the system as well.
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ive been to see them twice this season and considered coming down tonight for the cup tie v Kinnoull but have decided to take in Friday nights game
Well worth the admission money on both occasions.
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2 minutes ago, SJFCtheTeamForMe said:
Sally Hotel?
Yup two nights in a row.
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1 hour ago, double deluxe said:
With Saints still having 4 PPV ‘slots’ left, would anyone fancy the United game being moved to, say, a Friday evening kick off?
Me for sure as ive a day invite to a wedding now that clashes with the Dundee United game.
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1 hour ago, Radford said:
It may be illogical but I'm probably as worried as I've been after seeing the fixtures laid out. But it's still exciting.
On the pitch, what would be thoughts/reaction if we played home League Cup group games at another ground? We just need to get that pitch sorted above all else.
I think that might be the case, as i was told by a member of the grounds team that we had already requested the first league game to be away, that would seem a pointless request if there had already been two games played on it in the league cup.
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A few surprise results last night and this shows why the 19 team format is fine for just now.
I was at Scone v Coupar Angus which was a good game. The visitors winning 2-1 despite playing over 45 minutes with 10 men.
1-1 at half time Scone started the second half very strongly and the Coupar Angus keeper kept them in the game for a long time. The visitors were hitting on the break and it was not too much of a surprise when they then took a late chance to win all 3 points.
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An alternative view from Bright's view. I dont know how people like Steve Bright get backed into a total corner over things like this?
https://samuelporritt.wixsite.com/mysite/thecallumdavidsonera
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How do you solve a problem like the Scottish Premiership?
in Scottish Premiership General Chatter
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I personally go to around 100 games a year , with around 50 being in the pyramid at levels 6 and below
From the spring when picking a game i select a game that means something to one of the teams. An 8th v 10th in one of the East or Wesr of Scotland leagues will not be of interest unless its a new ground or the only game on that night. Now ive completed the Midland league with 19 teams its the same.
yes you are correct in that the core of fans will go every week but a standard Dunfermline v Falkirk match will not get the same crowds that all 4 games got this season. There is a danger that bigger leagues will result in smaller aggregate attendances across the 42 teams in the league