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    Todays scores 28/9

    in Junior Football

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    Actually thought we played quite well today, despite 3 key players being on holiday to add to our woes. Fielded Played  a 15 year old schoolboy and fortunately got no injuries so we didn't have to play one of our youthful subs.  We missed a good few chances and Gareth Hallford was on top form, pulling off several excellent saves.

    Getting a little bit bored reading week in week out you've got players missing, so has everyone.
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    Amateur football is dying

    in Amateur Football

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    It seems to me the issue isn't structural - except the multitude of leagues covering Glasgow is bewildering and surely cannot be efficient.

    Fundamentally the issue is too few players. Some of it might be combated by addressing costs, youth set-up, bureaucracy etc. Some is societal and its difficult to see how you could ever 'adapt' formal competitive club football to cope.


    I'm not sure Under 21 football is necessarily quite the same issue. Ultimately plenty men who play football will want to be playing mens football, not continue in "youth" set-ups until they're 20 or 21; also there's been huge growth in LL & EOS U20s league played on Friday nights, under senior auspices, effectively replacing U21s. Presumably U21s players also get drawn-up into amateur football in the same way people cite amateurs being drawn-up into junior football.

    After SYFA reorganisation in late 1990s/early 2000s the SAFA was supposed to take-on U21s anyway, IIRC. My understanding is U21s football is now basically restricted to Strathclyde?


    People have been calling for "universal registration" - so you can play for any team within a club, or different clubs across different grades - for decades. Authorities always resistant.

    Great post
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