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I was asked by the SFA to offer advice to Pollok but they never contacted me

No, Abbey Park was handed back to the council

The facility is owned by the KSC charity which is made up of all the Buffs teams, part funding for the community hub came from the council, all other projects are self financed by the senior club

The council don’t own The Buffs Park The Buffs are about to finish building there new bar at the park to go along with there 4 new covered areas, new car park, flood lights, Takeaway, 330 seats and media gantry. About to start on their indoor training centre soon as well. Should all be finished and ready for your visit

Like giant airport Toblerone

The 4 southern leagues are at early discussions to see if they are up for opening up the SCC to the Northern teams to form an all in Scottish Pyramid Cup.

In this case this is both clubs permanent home grounds, within both their communities

Probably start looking at it more seriously about March Need to find some partnerships for the West of Scotland Cup and the Non Licensed/Non Junior Cup (I’m sure it’ll get a better name)

I think Div 3 might split at 22+ teams into 2 conferences and then form a proper Div 4 the following year. Div 5 (club dev) should be folded by then and new clubs applying with full criteria from 2023 If say 6 of the 9 clubs pass the AGM and there’s not enough new clubs then they’d have to go amateur or take some time out until they have a fit ground. We’ve previously said we won’t allow ground sharing clubs to get a criteria, maybe that would change but I doubt it. Just my opinion, I missed the last board meeting night. Will hopefully all be resolved over the next few seasons

We are looking at that but will be wait till the end of the season before before making any decision

No, St Peters are already on a 2 years plan, if there wasn’t enough team to form a league they’d need to go back amateur until they pass the ground criteria and then it reverts to would should be the normal process, pass the ground criteria and join the league. the div 4 is only here because of the conferences and the teams that sat out, it’s not a long term solution, although if clubs keep applying it could keep going

That’s right, Although their will be a league winner, all clubs that have passed the ground criteria within the season will be forwarded to the AGM and Div 3.

Actually this is being looked into and will raised at the SSCC meeting this week

Finnart and BSC will be playing at Spingburn until their home grounds pass the criteria

No idea who they are, Stewarton and Kilbride I’m still talking to Blantyre SC were accepted and they withdraw till next year

No, only the local cups, and if their ground hasn’t passed the criteria home ties are automatically switched to the other club

That’s correct, clubs will be given a set amount of time and milestones to meet for the ground Criteria, if they fail to meet them then they won’t be accepted to go forward to the AGM and the league proper, which will be Div 3. Clubs that achieve the ground criteria within the season will be put forward to the AGM at the end of the season.

An issue with where their long term home ground will be but meeting them this week

Yes, BSC Glasgow is changing its name

Clubs accepted as associate members to Div 4 Club Development League St Peters Harthill Harmony Row Kilsyth Athletic Finnart Glenvale Campbeltown Pupils AFC Westerton United Broomhill Sport Club 2 more still in talks with, I’ll post the details of the league later today

The mechanism to allow new teams in is very difficult to get right this season, lots of parts to get right, we are working daily on different scenarios.

We are still working on the best way to allow teams to join the pyramid while also upholding “no team would be disadvantaged for taking a season out” the team are working daily on it, unfortunately there isn’t a prefect solution due to the conferences still in place

You should boycott it

The feeder league is something we are looking into at the moment, as it solves a lot of issues with incoming teams and the current conference setup

Easterhouse have a paused application that we’ll revisit once they have the asset transfer in place and have their new park setup. Finnart are looking to play out of Springburn temporarily with another club, we are talking with Partick Thistle Trust to make sure the parks are available and can be upgraded to suit with Finnart moving back to Glasgow green once it’s ready to pass the ground criteria. Two clubs have passed the ground criteria with others due a second visit at the end of May