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Whitburn v Blackburn Utd OFF either frozen or waterlogged0 -
4 hours ago, FuzzyBear said:
Signed Laurie Devine a striker from Blackburn.
Good luck Laurie, been a smashing player at Blackburn from 20s through to being a match winning senior player. He's got some trickery and enough pace not to need trickery. Here's hoping he can show this at a higher level
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16 hours ago, Burnieman said:
No linesman either, not even club linos?
Aye club linos but I recognised the ref and from past experience he can be just a wee bit "idiosyncratic". Besides the Blackburn lino might have been distracted making sure it was ok to keep the lights on past midnight
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Just Haddington and Blackburn overcoming league status in last night's round of EoS Cup fixtures?
Good performance from Blackburn but probably the biggest talking point from the game was the referee adding 12 and a half minutes in the second half. When it got to 6 added minutes most folk genuinely thought his watch was broken2 -
11 hours ago, tamthebam said:
Edinburgh Athletic and Edinburgh Emmet back in the day too...
Emmet? That's the Cornish word for Ant
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40 minutes ago, archieb said:
Oh I would have LOVED to see the CONference put forward as a business plan on "The Apprentice" and watch Claude Littner & Co tear it to shreds.
Special episode of "Only An Excuse" please BBC Scotland
Was chatting with my laddie this morning saying the same
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7 hours ago, Dev said:
The direct implication is that you are only looking for a very small number of talented players from each year group. The coaches know which ones coming through have any chance to reach that playing standard. They identify that at a very early age for each player. They don't suddenly produce the basic talent at 17 years of age.
This business about players improving if they played for B teams is completely irrelevant to the future success of any national team. it is completely bogus. Either the SFA Board understands that or they don't. Either way they let Maxwell spout this nonsense which has brought the SFA into what many may feel is disrepute. The whole lot should go now.
Time for others who have an understanding of the game to come forward and to take over asap.
A lot (too much!) was made about Croatia and their B teams based on the World Cup. There were 32 teams at the World Cup, 25 in each squad so a total of 800 World Cup players. Of those 800 how many played B team football at 17/18? Maybe the better question to investigate was what football were they playing at that age. I would guess that most would have made 1st team breakthroughs at some level. It would have been a more interesting analysis than pointing to Romeo Beckham at Brentford
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6 minutes ago, Benidorm said:
If the true purpose of this was developing players for European and International level, why not just put the B teams straight into the Premier League? This would surely then deliver the true barometer of whether these players are ever going to be capable of competing at an elite level?
Oh wait, we'd suddenly hear the crocodile tears from the pair of them about the credibility of competition being devalued, as they've been attempting to derail the whole time in the lower leagues.
Or instead of B teams why not try putting put a Scotland Age group team into the Lowland League to play as a squad. Maybe U18s into Lowland League, U19s into L2 and U20s into L1. Not simply for the benefit of 1 or 2 individual clubs and all players (obviously) qualified to play for Scotland
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I fully expect the SFA to learn the wrong lessons from this humiliation.
Nobody, absolutely nobody, in the community that has developed against the Conference has anything but the best wishes for all Scottish football. Those best wishes run from the lowest tier of the Pyramid to the International team itself. The opposition has been to the sheer wrong headedness of the proposal. Everyone would welcome the SFA consulting widely on how best to develop the game in Scotland for the whole Pyramid and also to contribute fully to developing young players to the best of their ability.
Whether Maxwell has the vision, nous, political touch and feel for the Scottish game I would very seriously doubt. Time for him to go.12 -
12 minutes ago, Pyramid Watcher said:
I’m not sure he gives enough of a toss to be worried about it. What I will say is that the incoming president has lost his first meaningful vote on his first first day in charge, not a great look.
Is there much of a precedent for a SFA Board backed resolution which they argued as fundamental to the structure of the domestic game and the future of the International game being rejected by the membership due to its ineptness in form, structure and presentation?
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10 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
RELEGATION…
Saturday 29th April
Blackburn v Inverkeithing
Dundonald v LTHV
Hill of Beath v Vale of Leithen
Oakley v Tynecastle
Penicuik v Broxburn
Tuesday 2nd May
Crossgates v Blackburn
Hill of Beath v Penicuik
Saturday 6th May
Broxburn v Haddington
Inverkeithing v Sauchie
LTHV v Oakley
Tynecastle v Hill of Beath
Vale of Leithen v Blackburn
Saturday 13th May
Blackburn v Tynecastle
Crossgates v Broxburn
Hill of Beath v LTHV
Musselburgh v Inverkeithing
It's a real scrap at the bottom. Credit to the fixture secretary that with only 3/4 games left every candidate for the 3rd relegation spot has it in their own hands to avoid the drop and could go down to the final weekend0 -
Don't know for sure if these are the latest rules on the play offs, but it's just a random draw each year for home and away
https://slfl.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/slfl-rules-v20.pdf
2.1 Three Qualifying Clubs
a) There will be a Play-Off Round Robin organised by the SLFL to determine, subject to these rules, which club
shall be promoted to the SLFL. The champions of the EoSFL, SoSFL and WoSFL will contest the round robin.
b) The round robin shall be played on a home or away principle, with each club playing one home game and
one away game, which club plays what opponent at home and what away being decided by a random draw
supervised by the SLFL Board. Three points for a win and one point for a draw. Where a match is drawn it
will be followed by the taking of kicks from the penalty mark as defined by International FA Board rules, the
winner receiving a further one point. At the end of the competition the club with the highest points total
will be declared winners of the round robin , and, subject to eligibility, will be promoted to the SLFL.0 -
Beith Juniors confirm what most folks have suspected. They aren't in a position to get licensed at the moment so will be ineligible to meet the winners or the EoS or SoS in a play off should they win the WoS. Currently they are 6 points clear with a game in hand and 5 games remaining
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20 hours ago, Andy groundhopper said:
On my way around Easter, is there any way I can get from Glasgow to V of L for a night k.o, apart from hiring a car - or staying over ? Not sure of last Innerleithen last buses yet (Similarly for Dalbeattie)
Traveline Scotland is your friend. Website and app available
https://www.travelinescotland.com/0 -
1 hour ago, cmontheloknow said:
Expect quite a strong reaction from SFA/Maxwell to this. Tell the LL to shut the f%$£ up and it has f$£* all to do with the LL whatever the OF want to do!
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No mention of B teams down South. Interesting just to look at how other manage their Pyramid
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Syngenta still have a better league record than Vale of Leithen
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3 hours ago, RiG said:
Number of B team games played for each:
Ederson - 4
Rodri - 39
Akanji - 21
Gündoğan - 3
Haaland - 18
I suspect that the number of B team games played were not a significant influence on them going on to be top players but better coaching, natural ability and, possibly most importantly, their clubs actually played them instead of leaving them wasting away in youth teams.Here's the nub of the argument.
What is causation and what is correlation?
I suspect (though I only went through a few in the latest Scotland squad) that most players at International level will make a breakthrough into 1st team football at some level between 18-21 and seems to me that " better coaching, natural ability and, possibly most importantly, their clubs actually played them instead of leaving them wasting away in youth teams." is a critical factor3 -
The Power of "B"
Simple answer, rename EVERY team in Scotland to put a "B" after their name
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Clubs and leagues should be getting together their letters of no confidence in that charlatan halfwit Maxwell
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9 hours ago, Burnieman said:
I've now seen the document (it bangs on a lot about B teams being great and wonderful in Croatia), There is no mention in the documentation regarding funding/prizemoney.
3. a new ten-team Conference League to sit between League 2 and the Lowland / Highland Leagues, to include a number of B teams, Lowland League clubs and Highland League clubs. This option would not allow for B teams to be promoted out of the new league (but would allow for promotion and relegation of non-B teams in the usual way).
3. Conference League
Strengths
If established as a separate company, like the Scottish Women’s Premier League, it would not need the high level of voting support that the other two models require
Strengths? Seriously? Think about this for a moment. It is a strength that this Frankenstein can be set up in the face of overwhelming disapproval for Scottish football. These c**** have utter contempt for everyone outside a very select few
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45 minutes ago, norwichbobby said:
Your striker certainly took his chances very well. That’s what we’ve been missing this year, clinical finishes….that and a manager now too
4 different scorers for Blackburn left mid, No 10, striker, right mid . Apart from that Blackburn hit the post and Blackburn keeper had a great save touching over the bar 1st half. Can't think of many other chances in the game tbh
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Penicuik Facebook
"Penicuik Athletic Football Club can confirm tonight that manager Stevie McLeish has resigned.The club would like to place on record its thanks for Stevie’s hard work and commitment during his time at Penicuik Park and we wish him all the very best for the future."0 -
3 minutes ago, superbigal said:
Going well today I see
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Weather watch 30th December
in East of Scotland Football League
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Even the 4G last night at Blackburn U20s was abandoned at HT for a frosty pitch last night