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Ominous form, reminds me of Nitten last season. Looks decent, scared sides but ultimately kept dropping silly points and only really performed against the better teams while losing to the sides around them. It's going to be carnage at the bottom half of the table this season.

Got to agree, looked a VERY solid keeper and had a couple of excellent saved. The RB was brilliant too, the winger he was up against was good. The one time he was caught out of position and the covering player gave away the penalty. The linesman was a disaster... he should've been on the other side away from the shouts from the stand as he completely shat the bed. Denied Dale a couple of breakaway chances and didn't seem sure himself what decisions he was giving. Never 3 divisions between the teams but we've done the reasons behind that to death now. Tranent never looked like losing it though

Exactly, thank you! You know yourself if HighlandITFC had said Edinburgh, I would've suggested the Costa del Muirhouse to watch the mighty CCS, or for the more sophisticated taste... Tranent Berwick and Gala are decent too.

Something that's only ever said about shite teams...

Any of the WoS premier games will be decent. On a par if not only slightly less standard than the top HL teams, but decent crowds and good support so a chance of anything kicking off if the football is pish at least! Pollok for a big home game is a must if you're going to be in Glasgow, but you're really spoiled for choice compared to up north.

Ore Park looked ok when I last passed, just needs scrubbed up. Dunno if it would be a better option for Lochore or not. I like their ground, great clubhouse and in the middle of town (albeit the wrong one!) but any more development may be tricky due to space and residents nearby. I can't see any new teams emerging though, it's all ready seems saturated in that area tbh

Where about are you based? Might be better following the EoS or WoS leagues, more competitive, cheaper and not full of colt/uni teams who have no following or bring anything special to games. There's some cracking grounds and interleague battles all through tier 6 and below. The LL is still a bit meh, until the deadwood is flushed out of it

Saw something on another club page crying about playing an away game around 40 miles away on a weekday night. "EoS shambles", "wouldn't happen under the juniors", "players working", and my favourite "we would've took a bus on a Saturday" (lol), etc. True, if it was the Juniors, it would've been a 1830 ko not 1930. Even if the home club had lights, they wouldn't be allowed to use them! Some people have short memories...

Should've saved us all the waiting and just announced it before the draw

FTFY

Looks like it

Is this the same League sponsor who threatened to pull out of the colts weren’t voted in?

Brutal for Buckie, Brechin and Cowdenbeath. Midweek away games in empty, nondescript parks playing against a kids’ team… romance of the cup At least the rest got home games, or have already expressed their desire to playing against the reserve/youth teams of their premier league heroes. Throw in the headcases from NI, the Welsh rugby team from England and a couple of bewildered English National League into the next round, then tell me they haven’t completely f**ked this competition. Either do what @The Master says with an open, random draw… or something like the league cup if they insist on seeding the Championship, League 1 and 2 teams

Remember though, NO SWEARING or the Ferry Brae coonsil will have them evicted

Had a look but couldn’t find anything, wonder if they get more than the Colts... I actually thought you had said “they had the TOWN to themselves” but now I’ve read it again, you say they had the NAME of the town. Must have been half asleep last night

Cumbernauld United would beg to differ… and they actually play in the town

Ferrybache have been about for a while, were they not the old AJG team? Sure there was a team called Charlstonia or something like that around too. Noticed there’s no Merkinch ammys anymore too

Exactly, after them both being dragged kicking and screaming to even allow non-league sides to have a chance at gaining promotion and now they are all ears to reconstruction. Couple of absolute shithouses, any respect for any of them out the window now

I can see the report now… £5m Croatian winger mauled down by a motorbike while on a counter attack, the game finally abandoned at HT after the ref loses his temper telling the home bench to stop encroaching the pitch for the 40th time and is set upon by the young team… Glorious

Doesn’t surprise me after the nonsense of the last 2-3 seasons. With Bonnyrigg promoted and the CSS top man leaving because of the distrust in the rest of them, they’ve lost the only 2 people with any bit of credibility. The league is a shambles now

I’ve literally just posted something similar in the Scottish Cup thread! You are right though, fire everyone in the first round draw. It’ll be a laugh…

Roll on Bonar Bridge vs Celtic and the inevitable Motherwell vs Aberdeen alongside a Nairn derby in the first round proper

Tollcross/Tynecastle’s old ground was basically a public park with a container at one end, it looks a lot better now with the new changing rooms. The ground criteria is higher than it was in this league in years gone by so it’ll take a lot of negotiations with the neighbours to make it secure… and they are a precious bunch in Craigour, the ultimate Karens! https://goo.gl/maps/U7uxh4wjwC1Nh9Hv7

Thornton have been probably the biggest disappointment this season. They looked an awesome team in their last season of the juniors, but dallied too long and lost a big chunk of their squad to Burntisland etc