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First two seasons of the 12-team West Region Super League 20 years ago they were 10th and 8th, closest they've come to relegation. http://sfha.org.uk/westregionjrs.htm

Well yeah with a lack of promotion the East Superleague winners were all kept in the league, but now all the past winners are no longer there.

Need a c***s in the jury thread as well, stoner of 30 years turns across ICU nurse cyclist on his way to work but apparently that's just careless. Just get your defence KC to say that you didn't see the cyclist and your jury of driver peers can get you off the dangerous charge. https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-driver-stoned-cannabis-caused-27681871

Same as every other club who isn't competing, they don't have an SFA licence and haven't won a competition to qualify (tier 6 league, Junior Cup, or Cup Winners Shield). They lost in the Junior Cup at the weekend so unless they meet licensing criteria by early spring they won't be in it next year either. Don't think it's a big deal though, they'll be focusing on promotion first.

In a WOS forum thread it was mentioned the "prize money" was being increased, details seem to have made it into the SJFA rules. As I thought, it is a guarantee, though presumably the SJFA will cover any shortfall from the lack of gate receipts. Still not great for those small clubs hosting teams travelling a fair distance. For example, the game above with Nairn v Ardrossan - 60 fans (let's say 50% concessions) means £300, minus £130 for the officials. That's £170 split two ways, but Ardrossan have a £310 guarantee so Nairn lose money. Surely better to spend less on prize money and more on helping smaller clubs... https://www.scottishjuniorfa.com/media/2964/sjfa-rule-book-2023-24-rules-only-v01.pdf 1. The charge for admission to all ties prior to the Quarter- Finals shall be a minimum of £7 and £3 for Children and Senior Citizens and for the Quarter Finals a minimum of £10 and £5 respectively, and the proceeds will be allocated as follows:- (a) In ties prior to the Semi-Final ties, after deduction of the semi’s [referee's] fee, and when appropriate assistant referees fees and expenses the remainder equally between the contesting clubs 15% off net gate drawings to the nearest £1 OR minimum of £10 will be paid to the SJFA. (b) Guarantees will me as follows:- Round Payout Final £20,000.00 Winner Final £10,000.00 Runner up Semi-Final £5,000.00 Runner up Quarter Final £2,000.00 Runner up Last 16 £500.00 Runner up Last 32 £100.00 Runner up Semi-final to be played Home and Away

Audio from some VAR incidents in the Premier League this season, would be good if the SFA could do this at some point. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12955649/match-officials-micd-up-premier-league-in-game-audio-shown-in-new-programme-on-sky-sports

Use https://scottishfootballfixtures.wordpress.com/ instead

For the cups, a page listing the results for each round including the +/- on the ranking points etc, and one for the next round with the rankings and a prediction for the outcome?

Correction - there is no automatic relegation from the LL (there's one scenario with no relegation). I'm fairly sure that the bottom team resigning in that scenario would be treated as a club being relegated/joining from the LL and thus go into the EOS Premier Division.

Car was moved as fast as it could be as it needed a flatbed to lift it. However it couldn't be done within a second formation lap so it made sense to stop the start procedure rather than further eating into the race distance. Plus apparently there was an issue with the start lights.

For an extra hypothetical - what about not allowing those clubs without a licence up into tier 5?

Assume so because Ryan asked for some missing numbers

I think a clearance to say the halfway line is not going to be classed as the same attacking phase, as the attack would basically be starting again from the back having to beat some defenders again, or maybe pass back/sideways. At least that clearance would've reached/gone over the heads of some team mates rather than straight to an attacker in the St Mirren example.

38 league games as well is the most of any non-league division, which doesn't add to the appeal if you're a poorer team, surely something will have to change - whether it's a couple of teams being promoted soon, two divisions, or some sort of split after the first round of games?

Looks to me that St Mirren goal was correctly ruled out, the attacker commits an offside offence however the attacking phase of play doesn't reset before it ends up in the net despite three Aberdeen touches. First clearance goes out to another attacker who keeps up the attack, cross comes in and second clearance goes straight to a St Mirren player who takes a first time shot, which then is saved but goes directly to the goalscorer. These clearances are not a clear change of possession (see tweet image with the more detailed VAR protocol that was available previously). The VARs have a green button where they can mark incidents or the start of the APP which I suppose helps in these situations to work out how far back they have to go.

Well they refer to themselves with "The" in their badge and on their website, same goes for the SPFL and previous the LL, and Companies House, so... (Celtic technically are Celtic PLC and The Celtic Football and Athletic Company)

Well that's all the midweek rounds over with for now, this time last season Lochee were 5-4-1 alongside Broughty so a much better start for both.

What happened to the ball after it touched the referee? Because if it remains on the field and doesn't change possession or start an attack then play continues. And if a manager can't control himself after a yellow card that's hardly the referee's fault is it?

I'm sure the WOSFL dimensions are wider that that, can't find them online but they basically copied the EOSFL ones which are 90x56m minimum.

You'd hope it's just a coincidence, as it seems like for the first 9 matchdays you have the same teams at home with the same teams away swapping each matchday.

tbh I think winning 2 out of their last 12 games was the main reason for Drumchapel missing out on promotion by 4 points...

Ok, last season's rules don't mention it but it kinda makes sense as the SRCC itself is the one paying out travel money.

Since you seem to be in the know - is that actually extra money or is it just the guarantee for each club? Because if you get a decent crowd then the sponsors won't be paying out anything. The South Challenge Cup also shares the gate money after officials but the organisers don't take a %age despite paying travel money.

292 clubs in the senior pyramid this season, versus 262 in 2013-14 (+half a dozen NCL, don't know the exact number) and with U20s for a lot more teams that will surely have something to do with it as well...

Person behind the camera could do well to stfu and just film the action rather than shout into the mic or give us his ill-informed opinion.