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16 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:
Inverness Athletic are moving to North Kessock after their ill-fated stint at Ardersier last season.
Remember though, NO SWEARING or the Ferry Brae coonsil will have them evicted
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2 hours ago, Hampden Diehard said:
Not sure what you mean. Do United get good or bad crowds?
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
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On 20/06/2022 at 18:52, Hampden Diehard said:
The Colts are hardly pulling them in and they've got the town in their name. You could also argue that Cumbernauld punters didn't seem to embrace Clyde either. Will any of them turn up in numbers to see this mob with a daft name? I think not. As someone so accurately put it, it's a bunch of guys with a bag of strips rolling up. Hard to take them seriously.
Cumbernauld United would beg to differ… and they actually play in the town
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On 17/06/2022 at 18:43, welshbairn said:
I cringe a bit too. Maybe worse is a new amateur team calling themselves Ferrybache.
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
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17 minutes ago, Gordon EF said:
If anyone was wondering why these were the first clubs to get flushed down the pyramid relegation toilet, i think we have our answer.
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
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14 hours ago, mcruic said:
Give Pather and Hillside entry to the Scottish Cup
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
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2 hours ago, Pyramid Watcher said:
I’ve heard from someone who was at last Monday’s AGM that not one person put themselves forward for the 4 available positions to be on the board, they are left with a chairman and vice chairman! How can they possibly operate like this??
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
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On 15/05/2022 at 19:59, AsimButtHitsASix said:
Finland and Estonia... brothers in language and having fucking mental cup competitions.
Why we don't have these sort of shenangians in Scotland is beyond me. f**k this preliminary round nonsense. I want Celtic coming back from a Champions League tie against Real Madrid and having to get ready for Bonar Bridge away in the Scottish Cup 1st round.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…
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2 hours ago, mick90 said:
but nowhere near a real `compeition` as in France, where all clubs can enter, plus those in foreign departments (7307 last season)
Roll on Bonar Bridge vs Celtic and the inevitable Motherwell vs Aberdeen alongside a Nairn derby in the first round proper
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52 minutes ago, Andy groundhopper said:
Find this interesting to see possible new clubs, trying to find old/new grounds to build up to necessary criteria. As I'm not 100% in knowledge of old clubs etc, glad that the P&B members know so much ! Would be great to see old photos one day ! Keenly await my next trip north the end of July.
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!
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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
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3 minutes ago, Footballfirst said:
I think Penicuik might struggle next season.
True, if Jeanfield don’t have another horror start, they should be ahead.
Penicuik haven’t really played great all season but I can’t think of who else in that league can win as many games while playing average stuff
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Early prediction…
Premier Division
- Linlithgow Rose
- Penicuik Athletic
- Jeanfield Swifts
- Musselburgh Athletic
- Broxburn Athletic
- Hill of Beath Hawthorn
- Haddington Athletic
- Dundonald Bluebell
- Crossgates Primrose
- Tynecastle
- Sauchie Juniors
- Oakley United
- Blackburn United
- Lothian Thistle HV
- Inverkeithing Hillfield Swifts
- Vale of Leithen
First Division
- Leith Athletic
- Glenrothes
- Newtongrange Star
- Preston Athletic
- Luncarty
- Whitehill Welfare
- Dunipace
- Dunbar United
- Kennoway Star Hearts
- Kinnoull
- Camelon Juniors
- Kirkcaldy & Dysart
- Rosyth
- Lochore Welfare
- Burntisland Shipyard
- Coldstream
Second Division
- Whitburn
- Syngenta
- Heriot Watt University
- Edinburgh United
- Arniston Rangers
- St Andrews United
- Stirling University EoS
- Easthouses Lily MW
- Dalkeith Thistle
- Thornton Hibs
- Tweedmouth Rangers
- Lochgelly Albert
- Peebles Rovers
- Edinburgh South
- Craigroyston
- Newburgh Juniors
- Hawick RAU
- Ormiston
Third Division
- Armadale Thistle
- Bo'ness Athletic
- Livingston United
- Bathgate Thistle
- West Calder United
- Edinburgh College
- Stoneyburn
- Harthill Royal
- Fauldhouse United
- Pumpherston
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3 hours ago, craigkillie said:
Why would they even want to be back in the league and getting pumped every week for another year?
They’ll still be getting pumped every week in the NCL, but by Halkirk, Invergordon, etc in front of 30 odd non-paying fans.
Or getting pumped every week in the HL again, but with the pay day of having 30,000 Buckie fans after the 7th postponement of their home league fixture…
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The LL will just keep making clubs vote with slightly different criteria until they get what they want. I think this is the beginning of the end of the colts shambles, but you never know with these charlatans
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7 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:
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9 hours ago, Dev said:
12 months ago the WoS received a number of applications from clubs which were amateur or youth based. many of whom didn't have grounds etc which matched the League criteria. They were given two years in which to meet the league's criteria
Now that all the established junior clubs are on board, there’s no need to allow leeway on the ground criteria for any new clubs.
Especially after getting their fingers burnt by Edinburgh South when they were allowing anyone to join.
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It was simple…
CURRENT clubs at the bottom of the EoS were ALL tier 7 this season.
The new set up will have tier 8 and tier 9.
It would be unfair to essentially relegate a current member 2 tier’s to accommodate new members.
The West Lothian clubs were happy enough to play in their own league before so they are happy.
Edinburgh College (and I suspect Letham and others looking to apply) knew the rules at the start of the season.
I can’t see the issue tbh…
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54 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
our understanding of the Highland League rules regarding goalkeepers.
And the fact they had 5 (iirc) signed and had 2-3 eligible to play that they totally forgot about…
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28 minutes ago, Arthurlie1981 said:
I can tell many stories of club officials lacking morals!!
As I said earlier if there is proof that Glencairn colluded with Blantyre and Cumbernauld then my opinion would be different and if you have any proof you want to share then great!
He hasn’t though. He’ll just got round in infinite circles howling at the moon because that’s all he does.
The situation has been clearly explained, no rules are broken and a contingency for next season has been agreed
NEXT…
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9 hours ago, Talbot supporter said:
Ticket only
Maybe they expect a sell-out
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3 terrible goals for Bonnyrigg to lose. They just seemed flat and disinterested, almost like they didn’t do their homework on Talbot then didn’t have a clue what to do once Plan A (tippy-tappy shit) and Plan B (Hoofball) failed to break Talbot down.
Didn’t think Talbot got out of 3rd gear tbh… and what a shite venue for a cup final. Would’ve been much better at a proper non-league ground like Shotts, Whitburn or Pollok. Any one of them could’ve handled the crowd today
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1 hour ago, Burnieman said:
I'm not sure that really helps their issue as if it's the cage, that's not EoS compliant either unless significant work is being done to it.
Don’t want to say it, but Syngenta we’re knocked back for Little Kerse not being up to standard. Tough break but you can only push the rules so far I guess. It’s a horrible situation for Rosyth but they really need something to happen asap
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On 18/05/2022 at 17:21, tamthebam said:
Rosyth are due to move into a cage/ground at Pitreavie in the summer. I don't know how good it is though and it's not the old Jubilee Athletic ground with the stand as far as I'm led to believe.
What is actually happening with the old ground? I’m assuming Lidl still haven’t built on it yet? Google maps shows from 10 months ago and there’s nothing there. What’s the chances of them being able to go back home?
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2022/23 Challenge Cup
in Domestic Cup Football
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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