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17 minutes ago, TheLad said:
You would think he will have to have had some assurances before taking this gig on? Like the majority of players staying on
Bet he can’t believe his luck... the recent news coming from Bathgate doesn’t sound much better tbh
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The Facebook page is unreal. A lot of arse-covering and smokescreens being posted by some committee member... I can smell the shite from here, and I would suggest that the new chairman’s wife needs to stay off social media for now if she can’t control her temper
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Not suspending the individual while the investigation takes place is a little strange. Surely it’s usual practice for a company to suspend on full pay (if applicable) until the investigation is carried out, no matter what the accusations are
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4 hours ago, Burnieman said:
Very bizarre, I've also heard that at least one West Lothian club (not Harthill) still think they have a chance of joining the WoS. I wonder what goes through people's minds at times.
“Delusions of Grandeur”
How ironic...
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44 minutes ago, Eednud said:
Not sure best place to post this so here’s as good as any. Didn’t he also spit the dummy a few years back? https://scottishpyramidnews.yolasite.com
It wasn’t that long ago... or was this another time he’s kicked off here?
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34 minutes ago, Burnieman said:
We need to start again, as does everyone. Not kicked a ball in a year
At least they are still young... some of us haven’t got much playing time left in us. The body will take forever to get back up to speed too!
I just hope there isn’t too many that decide to knock it on the head and stop playing altogether... I’m already noticing at amateur level a lot of players calling it a day
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2 hours ago, Burnieman said:
The U20 development teams will become even more important if transfer windows are imposed on this level from next season.
Having watched the improvement in only 6 months of your own team’s U20’s, it’s already making a huge difference and can only help the 1st team
Giving players who are sometimes “lost” between youth and senior football and giving them a stable league against boys at the same age/level to learn the game from while allowing clubs to hang onto boys who might have been released in the past and giving them another chance to shine.
As a team, you could see the improvement in their match-play and 1 or 2 players coming out their shell and surprising a few folk at the talent they had been hiding
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1 hour ago, Burnieman said:
Point is, it wouldn't do any harm adding Grangemouth, its not as if they have a fan base to piss off by altering their name.
Yes, folk will be amazed at how many potential punters won’t even twig until they say their actual town name written in the lower league results, then realise they have a team on their doorstep...
Maybe Whitehill Welfare need to go back to Rosewell Rosedale to tap into the incomers to the village who have no idea where “Whitehill” is
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2 hours ago, Marshmallo said:
There isn't a single person in Grangemouth who wouldn't go to watch Syngenta but would go to watch "Syngenta Grangemouth". It's been a well known youth team in the area for as long as I can remember, and adding "Grangemouth" isn't going to attract armchair fans to watch non league football.
Maybe not the “armchair” fans, but the completely OBLIVIOUS (edit!) possibly new-comers to the town. You will be amazing at how many people who have an interest in football don’t know they have one on their doorstep and would quite happily pay £6 now and again to see what it’s all about. It’s then up to the club to stabilise and keep them coming
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Don’t know why no one has had a proper go at getting Little Kerse up to standard. Might need another changing room built nearer the pitch but everything else is there
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7 minutes ago, cmontheloknow said:
Are there not still swings in Coldstream's park?
6 minutes ago, cmontheloknow said:Good wee 'before' view of Coldstream
Offt! Flashbacks of a misspent youth
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6 minutes ago, cmontheloknow said:
Hope my info still up to date! It was a point of discussion when they were getting licenced.
I think it’s just an access path that goes through Coldstream’s park, the Peebles situation or even whatever Thornton Hibs and Inverkeithing have had to negotiate is probably more like your situation of upgrading a public park to get round the criteria. I think Craigroyston have the same situation at St Mark’s with dog walkers being allowed to use the land.
EDIT - Coldstream are the ones with a license though
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If Perth can manage 4 teams, I’m sure Bo’ness/Linlithgow could handle 2. Is the Linlithgow Thistle name completely dead or could it be dusted off if things don’t go well with real BU’s
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7 minutes ago, tamthebam said:
I'm not sure if, say, Lochee United could make an argument to join based on the Arbroath A precedent.
No
7 minutes ago, tamthebam said:part of me wishes City were still in the EOSL for all these interesting away days we could have.
Give it time
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3 hours ago, Ginaro said:
A League 2 chairman calling for the resumption of tier 5 - must've been hacked!
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I’ve tried to explain this...
EoS: a league of 14 with potentially 3 borders team, a couple from Edinburgh and Lothians and the rest from Fife
WoS: pretty much the same distances with potentially 4-5 trips to Ayrshire and more clubs from the other side of Glasgow that hardly pull a crowd
Apparently this is absolute rubbish though
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4 hours ago, Darren44 said:
Regional Super League's will come to exist as smaller nations are left behind by the top four(England, Spain, Germany and Italy). And the the European Super League. Its just a matter of when Regional leagues would be formed.
Celtic League(Wales, Scotland , Rep Ireland, N. Ireland.
Benelux League (Belgium, Netherlands , Luxemburg, Austria and Switzerland
Scandinavia( Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Sweden.
Baltic League- Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
Will come as maybe two or three divisions each.
I’m guessing the French, Polish and other Eastern European leagues are just being told to piss off in all this?
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1 hour ago, AlanCamelonfan said:
I'm.actually now in favour of a lowland league 2 once enough weat clubs are licensed I think it would be a quicker way also to getting a flowing lowland league as it would soften the blow for some of the smaller lowland league clubs
Quite possibly the most sensible thing you’ve said. Much more sensible (once everyone is settled with licenses and leagues) to have a 2 tier LL, rather than this LL East and LL West nonsense
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2 hours ago, invergowrie arab said:
That's fine if you ever have more than 1 promotion spot.
Personally I like automatic relegation and HL v LL for promotion and then HL/LL loser v LL runner up to play L2 9th but doubt L2 teams go for that
Using the German example, you would have 2 relegation places then 1 automatic promotion spot for LL and a playoff between 1st in HL and 2nd in LL... or something like that. Good luck sorting that out though!
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20 minutes ago, St-ow! said:
Um - I'm ignorant of the German system, but when I originally came on P+B it was to promote just that type of split for Scotland at tier 3. Needless to say, I had my erse handed to me.
Lol you’ll learn!
The German system keeps the regional leagues in REGIONS rather than a random split wherever the numbers suit...
The more populous regions have more promotion spots available than the less populous areas. It’s not perfect but it’s a lot fairer than having less than 30% of the population having the same amount of promotion places than the other 70%... or even more if the Tayside teams go south
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17 minutes ago, Auld Heid said:
I have said for years that the BUJFC will eventually swallow up BUFC.
They are well run and ambitious and that's qualities that would only be beneficial in the long term. Add in their committee are young and have longevity on their side - a quality often lacking in clubs.
Deary me...
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9 minutes ago, FairWeatherFan said:
Bit more than the Highland League, who at least have the excuse of the Scottish Cup that would give them the same experience as what 90% of the entrants would have in a non-league national cup.
We already know the odd North Region club would sit out of the Junior Cup. Not sure they, the NCL, SoSFL, and some Borders clubs would be thrilled by a competition that extends to the Highlands down to D&G & Borders.
Regionalising the early rounds solves some problems but also erodes the point of a national trophy.
Totally agree with what you say but even if the first 2 rounds were loosely regionalised (North and South for example) then you may get to play against teams from another league and then when the cup goes All-In, it will be Round 3 and the small teams who make it that far will have much more incentive to stretch themselves into playing these games
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4 hours ago, St-ow! said:
This is more relevant to the earlier discussion about dividing our football into a couple of regions, but I enjoyed this article on the i news website about the English experience of the same.
https://inews.co.uk/sport/league-one-two-north-south-sunderland-portsmouth-ipswich-efl-421509
It seems to cover most of the issues that I've seen debated on P+B.
(And keep an eye out for Coventry.)
And then you have Gloucester City playing in the Conference North (National League North).
It’s a silly idea especially in Scotland where the tier 5 split after a few seasons will be straight through the middle of the central belt. I don’t think teams like East Stirlingshire are going to be chuffed playing in a “North” league and travelling 100’s of miles while Linlithgow play in the “South” league!
The English system looks good in paper but simply doesn’t work, we should be looking at the German system and adapting that to suit our own circumstances
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2 minutes ago, rockson said:
Where does their ground sit in comparison to the midline of the Tay Bridge?
(I know that boundary is only defined for relegation into the Lowland League not promotion to it but it's an interesting point.)
It’s close. Think it might be different if you set up the map to true north and magnetic north... cue 3 weeks of debate on whether they are HL or LL now
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Camelon juniors 2020-2021
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It was discussed somewhere on here a couple of weeks ago. I don’t know if anything has changed but Chairman wants out and no one willing to come forward to take over the club. A town the size of Bathgate, Scottish cup winners not that long ago but no one seems to care... I’m not speculating as to why as it has got me in trouble from the man before
