froggie

I think the issue with all of the turkeys who voted for Christmas is that some of us prefer the Junior game to the machine that is ( ho ho) 'senior ' football. Some of us don't worry about the self proclaimed superiority of others, their insistence on commenting on something that is no business of theirs or any of the other criteria that the new 'elite' bestow upon themselves. If it isn't a threat, why comment? If it's not your brand of football, why comment? If it's not your level of football, then why not vent your spleen somewhere devoted to what is? Just saying. If I prefer something, it isn't right or wrong, it's up to me, just as was for the turkeys and the turkeys in waiting.

For a Sunday laugh. I sometimes drift by a website crawling with ultimate anoraks, eager to lend a thousand words to something little more than a park kickabout. Todays gem comes from a contributor describing themselves as coming from The Kingdom of Fife and supporting ' All Fife Teams'. Claiming to support a team and all of its rivals might suggest this oddity is not the full shilling, but this gem was one I thought worth sharing. Commenting on Aberdeen University v Maybole, far more meaningful than the nonsense they get excited over " Maybole were typical of Ayrshire teams- bad losers, mouthy, and generally ignorant " Beware- the genteel darlings of Fife are humourlessly, ignorantly and mouthily unimpressed. I'm sure Ayrshire is heartbroken.

Downfield go two down, scrap one back, all to play for. Straight red for the hosts shortly after, 6-1 to the visitors with the baying hounds less than happy. Weird indeed!

For the most part, journalists are simply wind up merchants, who, to their good fortune, actually get paid to be controversial, purely for the sake of it A couple of years at college doesn't make you an expert on a topic, it just gives a wider audience than most for your opinion. The business is in selling the product and if it's trendy, the rag scribes will champion it, if not, they won't. If you wish to disagree and believe journalists are professionals dedicated to informing and probing on behalf of others, you are, of course, perfectly entitled to do so.

They knocked the ball about with genuine quality yesterday for the majority of the game. Fearful hammerings aren't always a good watch, but this was.

What happened was the hosts chased shadows on a gloriously sunny afternoon. Eleven against eleven, but that was the only aspect in which Kirrie were the equal of their visitors. To be fair, Kirrie did keep going when others might have gone for damage limitation. Some decent goals as you might expect with 8 to chose from, but acres of space to head/ slide the ball in describes the majority, as I saw it.

Too kind, you're too kind

Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'executive box' really, doesn't it?

Might push the local house prices through the hundred quid barrier.

I thought I'd leave that to a corporate whore's customer instead!

Of course it is. Teams are not going to say 'we've cocked up big time' if it all goes wrong, they will claim it's a success whatever happens. Still paying five or six quid? Still happily enjoying a pint on the terrace? Not paying fines for transgressing petty rules that make no sense and nobody but a fart in an FA suit cares about? Being told you've got to pay for unnecessary 'improvements'? Come back in a couple of years when the reality takes over from the speculation it can only be now. That's when you can evaluate...certainly not before the hidden agendas appear and half a dozen 'viable' juniors are given preferential kickbacks and the rest left to rot. We shall see...

Personally, regardless of my own opinion, I don't think anything will be open to any kind of inspection until whatever happens is well underway. Many aspects that, as Juniors, clubs have not needed to be concerned with will now be seen as ' critical' by the lords and masters too. ' Be careful what you wish for' is a saying that springs easily to mind in this chaos in the making, but the truth is that anyone who wants to join the circus isn't going to say a word against it and the brave new world will be declared a 'success', whether it is or not. ( Nobody likes being wrong.) One thing is for certain, if someone is against the change, they are as entitled to their opinion as anyone else. This might seem obvious, but there seem plenty around who seem themselves as 'dynamic' and those who think otherwise as 'luddites'. Still, if it didn't have petty squabbling and name calling in it, it wouldn't be Scottish football, would it?

As a neutral observer, I read your comments with interest. It was, to my mind at least, a good one to watch, but I can see why it would be one to tear your hair out also. Conceding three to a team with a plan A and not much else must be frustrating to say the least, especially as the central point of plan A was at little more than walking pace, if that, for a large part of the game I can imagine some might argue they would almost prefer not to have levelled the game, as it hides some of the woes, but you did, so there you go, Yellow cards handed out like confetti in a game with maybe only two or three worthy ones certainly didn't help the flow and whilst it was very watchable from a drama and calamity aspect, but it did appear that the team and those on the sidelines had a different view of what works and what doesn't and if that's obvious to a neutral, it must be very frustrating to a supporter.

I have paid more at some 4th tier German venues than in the top flight. Best value? On Wolfsburg's title winning run in, I got a terrace ticket for less then £10. I did pay around £50 at Cologne, but the game was basically a sell out and their were just the odd single seats not greyed out on the club's website. Teams regularly get relegated a few leagues for financial reasons and clubs don't always change their prices as you might think they would. (Aachen springs to mind, but they are not alone.) Rot Weiss Essen and Aachen average 7.000 and 6,000 in the forth tier, more than the average for the division above. Aachen charge 10 Euro for fourth tier football, Heidenheim 12 for football two divisions higher.You charge what you think people will be prepared to pay and a big crowd generating an atmosphere is always more likely to see a casual supporter returning

As a matter of interest, do any of those who think summer football is the answer have a solution to how a team like, for example, Saltcoats might get a team out in the SUMMER?