[New clubs in the East of Scotland]

2 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:

If you see Linlithgow Rose under "My Team" it's best not to pay any attention to what is being said on any topic related to Bo'ness. The two towns have a longstanding rivalry and they are green with envy right now about being stuck in tier 6 while the BUs are in the Lowland League. There should be no concerns over the level of ambiton of Bo'ness United. The stated goal is the SPFL in the next 5 years and the BUs are well on the way to being in a position to achieve that while Linlithgow's club languishes at a lower level with promotion playoffs against the WoS champions making the path to the LL very challenging now if there are no rule changes (turkeys don't vote etc).

The emergence of this second club will in all likelihood prove to be no more than a temporary irritant as they are not likely to draw fans away to any noticeable extent. If anything, there was a lot more danger of that happening previously when they were Bo'ness United JFC and were entering the junior cup and had derby games against a Linlithgow Rose branded "tribute act" because those had always been the main focal points of interest for the two or three games a season type fanbase. They did comically badly in the SJC getting knocked out by a north region team called Ellon United and the Linlithgow Rose "tribute act" were playing in a 3G cage so that never materialised.

Key thing to bear in mind is that it's how Linlithgow Thistle went about barging their way into Newtown Park to ultimately become Bo'ness Athletic that is the main issue in all of this. If they were claiming to be a second Bo'ness club while playing their home games somewhere like Little Kerse, there would be a lot less animosity.

Nothing wrong with Ellon United, they were my local team when I was growing up.

[Kelty Hearts lowland league quest]

All the best to the Hearts today.

[Winter Break]

18 hours ago, jimbaxters said:

Notionally perhaps. The weather makes it moot.

Nobody controls the weather, but EoS and Wos at least have season fixture lists rather than the Juniors idea of making it up as they went along.

[Winter Break]

On 14/05/2021 at 15:17, Tutankhamen said:

A season long fixture list would be nice, in yer own time.

This isn't the juniors. By the time season 2021/22 starts there will be a season long fixture list out.

[Edinburgh City vs Dumbarton/Dumbarton vs Edinburgh City]

13 hours ago, TxRover said:

16 previous meetings noted here: https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=871&team2_id=832&teamTabs=h2h

All pre-WWII, Second division.

So the answer is no,as the Edinburgh City of today is not the same as the Edinburgh City of pre-WW2

[EoS Structure for 2021/22]

17 minutes ago, Truthteller said:

How can you promote Leith and Heriot Watt if the season has been declared null and void ? BELTER 

Need to do something. Can't have another season of conferences. The sooner we get a premier-1st-2nd-3rd structure in place, the better.

[EoS Structure for 2021/22]

57 minutes ago, nomorekelso said:

Edinburgh City getting rid of their 20s side and putting a reserve side into EOS league I believe.

They applied, nothing to say they will be accepted.

[New clubs in the West of Scotland]

Just now, jimmycouch said:

Thanks for the tip...I will try to contact Coldstream to discuss this. That’s why these forums are so valuable.

Peebles is the same.

[New clubs in the East of Scotland]

3 minutes ago, FairWeatherFan said:

The basic point around a LL2 is that it would remove the bottle neck between Tier 5 & 6 in the Lowland as you could have 3up/3down like most divisions in the same league set up.

Whereas Lowland with WoS/EoS/SoS underneath is unlikely to see 3 teams promoted from the Tier 6 leagues anytime soon.

 

Then you'd have a bottle neck between tiers 6-7 if you had a LL2.

[East Region Juniors]

4 minutes ago, FairWeatherFan said:

While I think that's right. Since it was even considered feasible under the Junior structure 20 years ago. I would probably have the 1st Division be split North/South.

There's the numbers there that would have the South Division go no further North than Aberdeen. Then the North Division would cover the same area that the North Juniors do at present.

Otherwise a 2nd Division would largely be trips to Moray and lower level Tayside teams. Meaning the smallest teams make the longest trips.

I actually meant to say that, 1st division north/south don't know why I typed 1st and 2nd divisions.

[East Region Juniors]

Simple solution, Tayside clubs join with the North Region, making 3 divisions  for a new "NoSL" .

Premier Division,1st and 2nd divisions. Premier winners then playoff against NCL champions for promotion to HFL. Of course it will be a few years until any playoff winner is licensed and eligible for promotion.

EDIT: or a standalone Tayside league where the winners then playoff against the North region and NCL champions.

[Highland Pyramid]

17 hours ago, prodcast said:

sos vs wos and eos vs nt? Why should the wos get the "easy" game? Make more sense to have a 4 team round robin.

[New clubs in the East of Scotland]

7 hours ago, Ginaro said:

Steady. Inch Park is half an hour away from Dalkeith on a direct bus or half that by car, hardly west Glasgow to Alloa.

It's not even half an hour if you get the number 3 bus.

[New signings....]

Ryan Sclater is back at Edinburgh United.

[New signings....]

Craigroyston have made some cracking signings. they've signed Ryan Currie from Leith Athletic who will be a great addition . Kai Wilson another decent signing.

[Conference B]

1 hour ago, Bakkali said:

We could've got landed with a better league travel wise but looking forward to it. 

Having moved back to Edinburgh six months ago I'm looking forward to even longer journeys just to get to home games at Merksworth Park.

[Early Predictions Who Will Be The Conference Winners]

A Arthurlie

B Dalry

C Petershill 

[Conference Call]

38 minutes ago, juniorjunior said:

The structure is already in place? I must’ve missed that statement?
 

So how many teams get relegated in year 1?

Do the 3 conference winners get automatically promoted? 
 

Do the winners of the premier get automatically promoted to the LL or is there a playoff ? 

I can answer your last question.....No they won't be automatically promoted. Do the EoS or Sos champion get automatically promoted? No they have a playoff,the same thing will happen with the WoS champion, Something we have known for ages.

[Season over]

At the end of the day there is more important things in life than complaining about ppg. Let's just look forward to next season (whenever that may be.)

[Woohoo ...]

1 hour ago, Killiepiyo said:

Conferences are100% avoidable when you only have 4 new teams entering

You don't though, you have 67 new clubs in a NEW league.

[Summer 2020 transfer thread]

4 hours ago, HaroldWilson said:

I know it’s off thread but are Drumchapel sharing with Maryhill? 

That's what I've heard.

[New clubs in the East of Scotland]

1 hour ago, BMan said:

They wouldn't know the answer unless they had applied..........30th April is the EGM to consider new applicants.

All the same, the tweet posted is clearly answering the question asked. Not a statement saying they've applied. Once again I'm not saying they haven't applied, they probably have.

[West of Scotland Football, What Is The Future?]

48 minutes ago, honestly united said:

I dont think its anything to do with number of SPFL relegation spots, its more to do with having licensed teams able to get promoted. Without checking I think there has only been 1 promotion play off since the LL started (Kelty vs Threave) and on a fair number of years no licensed champions of EoS or SoS. Im fairly certain if there were license teams missing out on promotion year on year due to the play off they would do something about it. 

Also Bonnyrigg 

[New clubs in the East of Scotland]

52 minutes ago, Ginaro said:

Looks like Luncarty have confirmed they've applied

 

Really? Looks to me they're just answering a question. That's not to say they haven't applied.

[Junior football, what is the future?]

3 hours ago, Duraglit shareholder said:

Again the treatment of Bonnyrigg doesnt fill me with hope that the Lowland  league will be considered as an equal partner on the pyramid scale.With Hearts, along with Partick and Stranraer all potentially facing relegation, how are Brechin safe from dropping out of league 2.I would be seriously unhappy for fans and players at Bonnyrigg who could still have won the division with 5 home games to play and one in hand.Its the same old story of the top leagues protecting what they have, and my fear it will continue when more ex junior clubs reach the Lowland league.Relegation from league 2 must be changed to at least 2 up 2 down, to make pyramid fairer.

Because Brechin are not in a relegation spot, they're in a playoff spot. Since playoffs have been cancelled in all division then they cant be relegated  who would be promoted? LL champion or HL champion?