Super Saddler
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Hi Walsall fan in peace here. We've just signed Oisin McEntee. What did you make of him on his time with you last season? We got burned with our last player signed from Scotland, the terrible Ash Taylor who was one of the worst defenders I've seen in a Walsall shirt in over 40 years. Oisin on paper looks a much better prospect. All the best next season.
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5 hours ago, craigkillie said:
Ashton "Ash" Taylor has signed for Kilmarnock.
All the best to Ash and Kilmarnock. He hasn't exactly covered himself in glory for us and I was hoping for better from him coming from Aberdeen. Not the most mobile of players.
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Good to see VOL getting off the mark. Probably too little too late, all the best for the rest of the season.
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1 minute ago, d31 said:
Taylor will be a very decent no nonsense defender in that league. Can contribute a few goals too. I'm actually surprised he's not managed to get League One
Hopefully he will be next season with us.
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3 hours ago, Rodhull said:
Big Ash signing up with the mighty Walsall. Obviously didn't fancy the frozen north in Dingwall.
We seem to be making some good signings this year after last season's worst ever finish? Do you think Ash is another?
All the best for the coming season and please finish above sevco.
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18 hours ago, Cptn Hooch said:20 hours ago, Super Saddler said:Hi to all Livingston fans.
Good to see you going great guns at last. How is Jon Guthrie doing? He didn't appear to be the greatest defender when he was with us but seems to be doing a good job for you guys according to the match reports I'm reading. It's always good to see past players doing well even if they weren't so great for us.
Big Bad Jon won our Player of the Year award last season and was an absolute colossus replacing Craig Halkett who we feared was irreplaceable. We started the season pretty poorly as a tean and Guthrie wasn't at his best but in the last couple of months Jack Fitzwater has partnered him in defence and they've looked so strong as a CB pairing. Nicky Devlin is also very well thought of by Livi fans too. Have Walsall got any other rubbish players we could make good?
Oh yes indeed we have
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Hi to all Livingston fans.
Good to see you going great guns at last. How is Jon Guthrie doing? He didn't appear to be the greatest defender when he was with us but seems to be doing a good job for you guys according to the match reports I'm reading. It's always good to see past players doing well even if they weren't so great for us.
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15 hours ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said:
It was a complete irrelevance a lot more recently than the 90's, we live in the same world, you know that's true the same as I do because of your lived experience. Some form of anti-EU party has probably been around since the day we joined the EU.
If there was, they must have been totally irrelevant because no one ever heard of them.
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6 minutes ago, Brechin City FC said:
How Kelty can say that it would rightly see Hearts, Partick and Stranraer saved from any more damage when they are practically begging for a playoff against Brechin who also weren't guaranteed to finish bottom. Hypocritical rubbish.
Sorry but this is not hypocritical rubbish. I have followed Brechin as my favourite Scottish team from the 60's but at the moment Scotland has no pyramid system if the current plan to have no relegation from the SPFL remains in place or two extra paces found for Brora and Kelty. Only the most blinkered Brechin fan would suggest they weren't going to finish bottom. Again this is something to saddens me but that is the reality of it.
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It's a better idea than the Premier League U-21 teams which we have now. I would rather watch the Saddlers against St. Mirren rather than West Brom's kids. Could be some interesting days out.
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Brechin City. Since the 60's when they always seemed to be bottom. Good job times have changed. Doh!
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1 minute ago, Ian38018 said:
Happy to be corrected, but I should imagine for a team like Walsall, the wage bill would dwarf travel expenses.
You obviously haven't seen our playing budget.
You are right about the travel expenses though. The same could be said about Fleetwood too perhaps even more so.
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No! This must NOT happen. It seems strange that this is coming from Fleetwood considering the investment they put in to get to the national leagues. It certainly won't help our cause. Travel will not decrease for us. We would probably be switched backward and forward each season between the north and south which would not help player recruitment. The away support from teams like Plymouth is just amazing considering travelling from Devon & Cornwall. They don't seem to have a problem with it.
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For the sake of your emerging pyramid system there needs to be promotion this season. I can however see this getting squashed by the Premier League which would just be for self-interest reasons. I hope that something gets sorted out to suit all parties.
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10 minutes ago, Footballfirst said:
Currently at tier 7 in the EoSFL, there are 9 Licensed sides out of 24 (or will be once rubber stamped at the next SFA AGM). Three of them came from the East Juniors, Dunipace, Easthouses and Haddington just two years ago. Those clubs showed ambition to progress, improve their facilities and embrace what the pyramid offered.
Alongside them are a mix of similarly ambitious ex junior clubs who are still progressing their licence, such as Dalkeith, Oakley, Edinburgh Utd and St Andrews. Others such as Glenrothes, Kinnoull and Arniston may choose to go down the licence route or they may not. If they don't, then they can still be promoted to the EOS Premier League at Tier 6.
No side has been "cast adrift" or left behind in any other way.
The 8 new ex-East Junior applicants to the EOSFL for next season will join at Tier 7. Each of them will find their level (at tier 6, 7 or 8.) after just one season, but ultimately it will be up to each club how they embrace the new league. If they are comfortable at that level then great. The EOSFL allows clubs to operate at a level that matches their ambitions, but they will still have access to the various competitions that will allow them to face the "Big Guns" with the luck of the draw.
Best thing Perthshire could do is talk to some of the clubs mentioned about life in the EOS. That should settle any qualms they might have.
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1 minute ago, cmontheloknow said:
Junior Cup has far higher profile - live TV coverage since the 70s (?), 5 figure crowds in finals until recent times etc. Not sure that is the debate here though. SRCC is a smaller competition that has raised in profile with the influx of new clubs.
i don't doubt that at all. I have learnt a lot about Scottish non-league football over the last couple of years. My main interest has been the East of Scotland League. Generally down here people don't know about Junior football. Anyway, I wish all of the teams forming the new WOS league all the best for the next season. Just got the North to sort now.
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Perhaps I am the only person on here that until I started reading this thread who had heard of the South Challenge Cup but not the Junior Cup.
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Do I detect a note of cynicism?
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Approximately 48 more than TJ told the PWG would be interested anyway.
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5 minutes ago, Hossy87 said:
What league are these guys going to?
I can just imagine the visiting supporters singing "Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to see 5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers win away". Bit of a mouthful.
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Nice one, Caley.
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2 minutes ago, andy25 said:
It's not expensive to watch professional football
You'e taken that out of context. £20 is probably about right for Scottish Championship games.
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1 minute ago, southerner said:
Not sure your point there as we don’t need to price in comparison to England.The point is that it's not expensive to watch professional football
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2 minutes ago, southerner said:
Pricing in the professional game is another issue, £20 to watch championship level football is far to excessive for the standard you are watching.
£20 seems quite reasonable to me. it costs me more than that to watch L2 football in England.
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Celtic and Hearts B Teams in Lowland League?
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How are crowds doing when proper LL teams play the ugly sisters or Hearts B? Down here in the EFL Trophy, there is a pretty good boycott of games involving U23 premier league clubs leading to some ridiculously low crowds, probably just the families of said U23s.
Neither the SFA or the English equivalent seem to care one jot that generally fans do not want to watch B teams. To misquote Bill Shankly slightly, if Rangers B were playing my garden, I would pull the curtains. I would love to see the end of this experiment as it does your fledging pyramid no favours. Everyone knows it is far perfect yet but it should get there.
I also worry that down here, the english fa (also not the brightest People) decide that we should drop three teams out of the EFL to be replaced by Manure B, C, and D. One in each division as we would apparently be allowed the honour to watch this mighty club(ahem). It's bad enough having Salford in there.
All the best to all the LL teams for the rest of the season. I hope Dalbeattie can somehow stay up.