Myles Offside
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8 hours ago, Born To Run said:
Thomas Collins just went to East Fife from us and will make an impact at that level.
Other than him? Jamie McCormack and Tam Orr could do well IMO.
Haven't McCormack and Orr both already played at SPFL level?
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Not sure if AsimButt's caveat re foreign cultures is intended to apply or not but I'll post this anyway;
https://qldlionsfc.com.au/player/nathan-shepherd/
(And believe me, Australia IS a foreign culture...)
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On 26/05/2020 at 16:44, jimbaxters said:
That's quite something. What stopped you from going?
Followed Shire home and away so never really got the chance. Also left Falkirk just after leaving school so if Shire didn't have a game there were closer options to get to than Camelon. Then of course I migrated out here which added to the travel difficulties.....
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Despite walking past Camelon Juniors ground every day for years on the way to and from school, I've never been to one of their games. Only Junior game I've been to (as a spectator) was the Bo'ness semi final at Brockville on their way to winning the Scottish in 1984. Only went because my Physics teacher played for them. And the only two other Junior games I've been to was as a linesman.
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On 15/05/2020 at 19:41, Ian38018 said:
I have vague memories of attending a Five a Side tournament at the Kelvin Hall in the early 1980s.
It was either the year before, or the year after the Tennent's Sixes began (1984).
My sole recollection is of Celtic and Rangers being eliminated at the semi-finals stage, and a pair of lower league sides (?Airdrie & ?Dumbarton) contesting the final.
Does anyone know anything about this tournament? Was it a yearly thing, or a one-off?
Pretty sure that's the same one I was at, Clyde v Berwick Rangers in the final if I remember correctly.
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"let's please not have any flaming &/or ad hominem attacks, okay?"
"Get yersel tae f**k. "So much for that....
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19 hours ago, Dev said:
Maybe the Bookies could broadcast one game each weekend? Get the Lowland pyramid hugely sponsored by some Betting outfit and have a You Tube or something Channel whicvh could also be logged into by Football Scouts or viewers from anywhere in the world. How many Scots Fitba Exiles are there out there?
Does anyone understand how difficult or easy something like this would be to physically do e.g. at games, getting it onto the internet, etc?
The Shire have been doing it this season for overseas fans., all of their home games and one or two away. So it's definitely feasible. I've watched about 12 games out here in Aus via a website called mycujoo.tv Works pretty well apart from some serious buffering on the first game.
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23 hours ago, AlansHotBath said:
At the moment I dont think 2 down from League 2 will work - with current sizes that is 1/5 of the league automatically down, which is too much imo. It would also likely drain the Highland league of teams in a few years. (There's also zero chance of League 2 teams voting for it).
If both of those problems could be sorted then I'd back it.
At the moment automatic relegation for team 42 and a LL/HL playoff to replace them is the best solution.
I'd also back expanding the LL and upping the relegation places from it.
I'd also then have a play-off between team 41 and the LL/HL losers. Keeps the format consistent across the four SPFL levels.
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15 hours ago, Bestsinceslicebread said:
Can I ask for the East Stirlingshire people
What was your view of the lowland league when you were relegated or even before, ( was it looked at as all doom and gloom if relegated) ?and what is your views now having been involved in it, trying to get back to SPFL?
Do you think it works well and do you think there should be a straight two team relegation from the SPFLPersonally, it was a bit of a relief that there was actually somewhere to go. We'd been staring at oblivion for years through the £10 a week era and for a long time it seriously looked like we'd cease to exist. First season in the LL was obviously the time to win it and get straight back up, there was only us and East Kilbride in it, but typical Shire, blew it big style. Seriously wonder if we'll ever get out of it now with the way it's going, obviously it's only getting stronger with time. I won't be too despondent if this turns out to be our level, but I'd fear for our future if we were ever relegated to the EoS.
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Connor Greene leaving. We're going to miss him.
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14 minutes ago, The Reverend said:
I should have posted a list of the West of Scotland's tier 6 clubs, basically the Premier League:
Will all of the West of Scotland clubs enter the Scottish Cup next season? That'd be good.
No, they won't.
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14 hours ago, AML67 said:
They appear to have an excellent youth set up coming through the age groups but we didn't see it transpire into support for the senior team ! They certainly had several good players but in all honesty having seen our team play Linlithgow Rose , Culter , East StirlingSHIRE , Beith , Kelty and Glenafton in recent seasons they most certainly aren’t anywhere near that level and they’ll almost surely struggle unless they manage to add quality and in numbers to the guys already there !
FTFY
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18 hours ago, cmontheloknow said:
SoS is anything from Champ to L2. Mostly L1/2.
Bonnyton lost players to the likes of Craigmark, Maybole and Girvan in the summer. That's their market and level at present. Lot of young players too from their youth system.
Dyer to Drum - not sure what they're getting - he was a bit part player for East Stirlingshire last season. Injuries?
Dyer picked up a serious injury in our second pre-season friendly. Got back to fitness and into the team in October, played about three games and injured again. He was back in the team and looked like becoming a regular before C-19 brought the season to an end.
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17 hours ago, Tutankhamen said:
Old established league clubs, for instance Clyde, are quite rightly terrified of the future. A couple of bad seasons and they face playing Rutherglen Glencairn in a New Years game. What a come down that would be for Clyde. There's a good chance many of these old Senior clubs wouldn't recover from dropping into the LL. I have doubts Berwick Rangers or East StirlingSHIRE will ever regain the heady heights of SFL2 ever again. Certainly not with a whole group of organised ex Junior clubs coming towards them.
FTFY
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15 hours ago, GNU_Linux said:
In EOS clubs can charge as they wish as theres no max/min set but all clubs off top of my head are between £5-£7 & Stirling Uni's EOS 2nd xi is entry by donation of your choosing. Some of the ex-juniors have increased from £6 but that's fair & understandable given the investment clubs have put into infrastructure etc.
Lowland League is in the same range price wise with outliers in East StirlingSHIRE at £8 & Berwick Rangers at £10.
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Found this thread from last year with a price breakdown
FTFY
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9 hours ago, G4Mac said:
So because the west juniors are on board the whole footballing map has to change for the lowland area?
As I said to you on the LL forum let's wait and see if some of these 'bigger and better' wosfl clubs can: a) get to the LL, b) manage to remain in the LL and c) manage to form a title challenge like Kelty and Bonnyrigg have.
Any split is less likely to come at tier 5 and is more likely to come at tier 6 in the formation of a licensed LL2 East and West, essentially what we have now but for licensed clubs only.
Not only won't the LL want a split at tier 5, the spfl clubs won't want a regional set up directly below their own bottom league.They already have a regional set up directly below their own bottom league.
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On 18/04/2020 at 10:11, Tutankhamen said:
There was 16 teams from the EoSL and 4 teams from the SoSL in this year's Scottish Cup
All licensed clubs qualify automatically. If a non licensed club wins the EoS or SoS, they also qualify. As only two WoS clubs are licensed, the only way any of the other 65 can qualify is to win the WoS title.
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2 hours ago, no-brainer said:
Am I right in thinking that the South of Scotland League and West Juniors will fit in underneath the new/mooted tier 6 West of Scotland League?
Because I take it that the West of Scotland League will cover the entire west and south region in the same way that the tier 6+ East of Scotland League (debatably) covers the entire east region, with the Highland League covering (albeit at tier 5+) the north region?
So promotion to the Lowland League will come about through winning the West and East regional tier 6s, rather than a mishmash of South, West and East and possibly West Junior leagues all promoting into the Lowland League (since we know that the South isn't all that strong, and the juniors may deliberately not meet licencing criteria causing blockages, etc).
SoSFL will remain Tier 6. West Juniors will have nothing to do with the Pyramid.
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Many thanks gents, much appreciated.
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10 minutes ago, Gordon EF said:
No and they'd generally don't play for Scotland either.
The question is about whether a regionalised tier 3 would make the national team more competitive.
If you want to know whether supporters want regionalised tier 3, I suggest you start a poll. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like the results.
No, the question is Junior football, what is the future?
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20 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:
There was recently a book published on Junior internationals:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/douglas-gorman-and-tom-mcgouran/junior-scotland-1889-to-2019-the-players-and-matches/paperback/product-24374426.html
John D McQuade (Neilston Vics) played in 1 'international' and 2 other matches:
17th Jan 1920 ... Stirlingshire Junior FA 1-1 Scottish Juniors (at Forthbank)
28th Feb 1920 ... Scottish Juniors 3-1 [Northern] Irish Juniors (at Firhill: att 17,254) ... scored 2nd goal
20th Mar 1920 ... Fife Junior FA 2-2 Scottish Juniors (at Dunfermline)
It doesn't list him as having played against Irish Juniors in 1913.
As you say G v I is almost certainly Glasgow Junior FA v Ireland.
I'm sure they had regular matches. Indeed the IRA bombed a tram leaving such a match in Belfast the following year:
It's worth saying the opposition was often billed as a national team when it wasn't.
"England" was actually the Birmingham County FA or at one time the Northern League. "Wales" was actually the North-West Counties FA.
"Northern Ireland" was at certain the times the Irish Intermediate League - including that bombing in 1922 - or the Mid-Ulster FA.Thanks
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Junior football, what is the future?Just reminding everyone what this thread is supposed to be about. Don't think there's an on topic post in at least the last three pages.
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An ex-pat Pommie friend of mine out here in Australia visited his cousin on a recent trip home. Cousin's husband showed him the caps in the attached pic which had belonged to his grandfather, John McQuade, who played for Neilston, Arthurlie and St Mirren. He asked if I could find any details of what games they might be from. I've found from the SFHA that the 1920 SvI is from Scotland Juniors v Ireland; John McQuade of Neilston Vic played and scored in a 3-0 victory. Scotland also played Ireland in 1913 but the team listed in SFHA doesn't include McQuade so I'm not sure how it came to be in his possession. Finally, GvI 1920-21 is a complete mystery. Could "G" be Glasgow? Any help that anyone can provide would be much appreciated.
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2 hours ago, Bestsinceslicebread said:
I will never condone any team, no matter who they are who are trying to progress and hopefully improve to become bigger.
it should be commended, whether your for the juniors or the pyramidCondone and commend mean the same thing.
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North Caledonian League Expansion
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Since the HL are currently, in effect, a team down, they may allow the first NCL champions (if eligible) to be promoted with no team relegated to even up the numbers.