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Isa we've all had great memories throughout the years for what ever junior team you support pending what age you are you may have more than others,whether it's been winning umpteen trophies or a giant killing result in the Scottish.The juniors as we know it has been in decline for the past 15-20 years now and all those memories are not going to be lost they will be there to tell the next generation of how good it was back then.Why has our grade slid to the worst in its history is quite a number of reasons there a too many to list our biggest gripe at kilwinning is the lack of a fixture meaning you can't plan your weekend ahead unless your retired if your working then the only games you can plan ahead are senior football.Back to Talbot about losing their identity it makes you sound like the people running the game stuck in a bubble in the past .Talbot should look forward to writing a new chapter in their history and guys like you can tell all the future generations how it was when junior football was alive and kicking.
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On the news tonight dinosaur footprints we're found on Skye they said to be 13 million years old .it's now come to light that they are only 8 months old as Tom Johnstone and Scott Robertson said its was theirs as they we're on holiday last year.
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I have watched the juniors for over 30years from the old north and south divisions in ayrshire then the ayrshire being formed which was great to watch and was dead against the west region being formed.Up to a few years ago I still pinned for the old ayrshire league hoping it would someday return.We now find ourselves changing again .The question we ask why is there clamour for change and the answer is simple we've just now realised we as a country are stuck in the dark ages and always will be and thats why if we don't change and continue to let your scott Robertson's who's stuck in the 70s and Tom Johnstone run our game then it will continue slowly decline .
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16 minutes ago, cmontheloknow said:
What is the purpose of competitive professional sport, Goudie? Why did it start and why does it continue? In almost every avenue of professional sport, clubs and invididuals want to compete at the highest level possible - sometimes that means facing a challenge and y'know, even being beaten. The pinnacle of competitive football in Scotland is the SPFL Premiership. It's where the highest wages are paid, where the best players play, where the biggest crowds pay good money to attend and where the best stadia are found. It cascades downwards from there, until you get towards the bottom of the national leagues and then it's just a big murky mess... teams that should have been relegated out years ago, teams that have well and truly outgrown their pond beneath that but unwilling and unable to escape. Financially, Junior competitions are worthless, extreme latter stages of Junior Cup excepted. Back to my orginal point about competitive professional sport. Junior clubs deny themselves access to revenue that could help sustain them OR help them go to the next level. It's a grade that collectively wishes its clubs to not get ideas above their station and wishes ill on those who dare (the cheek of it!) to look elsewhere for a means of growing their business. Knowing one's place is not really what professional sport is about - to me it is about challenging that notion, disproving it and overturning stacked odds.
The Talbot position, voting against almost inevitable change because they feel it's above them, is that not a bit like Kello or Lugar running out in the "Best Big Team in Ayrshire Cup" at Beechwood and saying to each other, "let's keep it to 5 before half-time lads" - make a game of it, FFS.
This is the first time i have commented on this subject what you have just posted sums up the juniors and scotland well said
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Junior football, what is the future?
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I don't think they will be any panicking in any of the splf board rooms all this nonsense about how junior clubs can compete with splf clubs is a myth aye you might beat them in a one of cup tie but over the season no junior club will last the season if one ever reaches the splf. Unless one club gets a sugar daddy and buys its way through the league's. But at present no junior club can compete with any splf team.