Burnieman

As an outsider looking in, that would appear to the the best option of a long-term future home. Look at what Kelty have done with their ground which was little more than a grass pitch and a pavilion. OK, helped by a sugar daddy but no reason why you can't pursue a link-up with the towns youth teams and develop a basic 3g facility and then add to it with seating, terracing, hospitality etc through time. Appreciate it's easy to say, harder to do, but it has to be a better option than a decaying Central Park which you pay through the nose for and dont even own.

I see that he also scored on Saturday. Hopefully good for both parties.

I can assure you results do matter to these B teams, and no I can't see how "the whole thing" is strange & open to abuse. These are the largest professional clubs in Scotland, do you seriously think they deliberately field weakened B teams to manipulate results/votes? Re the Broomhill result, I saw them in their first match of the season at Broxburn and they were OK but very much a work in progress and a bit weak, it was a whole new team. What I saw on Friday was a much more resilient team who carried a bit of a threat, although Hearts had two goals wrongly ruled out for offside. Broomhill won't finish bottom and Zander Diamond will get them a bit further up the table IMO, as much as I'd like to see them go down.

Good to see that Marcus Miller has been loaned back to Blackburn, any idea how long the loan is for?

What situation? looking at the line-up it's probably the strongest they could have fielded in the circumstances. Pollock went off to Raith Rovers on loan in the week (and scored yesterday) and there's 4 or 5 on the injury list. Jamie MacDonald was also injured so one of the U18 keepers played. Doesn't look like Naismith was including any B players in his matchday squads this season. Nothing to see here, players leave and teams get injuries.

People stand out is the pishing rain at all games under their umbrellas when there's a nice dry stand or cover available., I'm sure you'll have noticed that. Spartans have seating for 700, fowk still stand in the pishing rain on the grass bank behind the goals. It's human nature. Cover for 500 is not required for crowds that barely exceed that.

What?

Actually plenty people at games stand out in all weathers regardless of availability of cover, no different from people preferring to stand instead of sit. I'm sure you've seen it yourself. I think offering some cover, some seating, all round hard standing and modern toilet/catering facilities covers the basic's. Having cover which could be more than the actual average crowd is maybe an uneccesary expense. It's not all one-way though, perhaps there should be seating at Entry to cater for those who can't stand for 90 minutes. That would be a good, practical move, even just a small 50 seater stand. On the flip side cover for 500 at Bronze? for me 100 seats and cover for 100/200 is more than enough alongside the other facilities.

Agree. You won't get many clubs going for Bronze as it's a good positive thing to do, they'll only do it if they have to. I don't think for example you'll ever see too many at tier 6 going for Bronze unless somehow it ever became a requirement of LL/HL entry. It's that which shows that maybe the licence process needs overhauled.

I think the licencing system needs reviewed, and I say that as someone who went through the process of obtaining one for a club as well as several annual audits. Entry level is enough for tier 4 and below IMO and should never have been changed to Bronze for L2, do we really need to mandate for 500 covered spectators, or trained safety officers and club doctors etc for crowds that in many cases are not significantly more than HL/LL/EoS Premier/WoS Premier? IMO no. There needs to be a review after a decade of licencing and some common sense applied to where we are and what is realistically required at these levels. For example, how often is a licenced safety officer or club doctor required at L2 level, versus lower levels where trained first aiders and physios are deemed sufficient, or the safety officer who has done a basic online course. Why do we need cover for 500 when crowds in L2 are 300-600 in the main? The original purpose of licencing was "to improve the playing and spectating experience", but I'm not sure many who sit on the licencing sommittee have a grasp of watching football at that level to understand what is required and what isn't. Bronze is more about being a convenient blocker for L2 than anything else really and so we have clubs who only go part way to achieving it and then hold back.

Good for you, have a greenie

A surprise, but good to see the likes of Dalkeith getting their day in the sun.

I red dotted your predictable rant about B teams amongst the other shite being posted, you red dotted me on SFA payments and Bronze licences. As I said, grow up and disappear by to the Junior leagues

You're "getting me back" by red dotting posts that have nothing to do with B teams? "you asked for this" f*cking grow up son

Our mad Dutch pal Marten seems to have taken a dislike to my posts and gone on a mad red dotting frenzy. Oddball.

That's the sensible way to approach it, do the easy/low cost stuff but stop short until it looks like you may have to go for it, which kinda demonstrates that it's not setting out to do what it should be doing if clubs deliberately hold back until absolutely neccesary.

Those are the usual minimum's, but it some years they've paid as much as £12k to Entry. In recent years there have been a bonus payment on top as a result of Euro qualification and hence more money into SFA coffers.

An Entry level licence gets you SFA membership and therefore Scottish Cup entry. You don't need Bronze for that.

Well if people were concerned they could have a look around the internetty and find out. Calum Sandilands has a knee injury and presumably is out for a while. James Wilson was in Spain with Scotland U19's by the looks of it. Nae idea about Pollock or Tait. I think there's also another 2 or 3 on long term injury list. Looking at the line-up it was consistent with the Gretna one where they were pumped, but no complaints then and yes, Hearts are pretty consistent with their line-ups when everyone is available, amongst the most consistent in the league.

Not sure why yer asking me, I was in Lisbon and have no idea who played in that game. Looks like the usual tired moans that hold no water though.

No shit sherlock

Crikey, and double crikey.

But you do know the league takes in £100k from the B teams every season, plus have Parks Motor Group as the headline sponsor via a "five figure deal"? There's even some Yank sponsoring matchballs. Maybe the Cowden guys can tell you how that income is distributed. I guess the clubs decide what happens to it.

How much is it in the WoSFL out of interest?

You're a bad man, haven't we done that one already? I don't think we have done the relegation/promotion issue between tier 5 & 6 for a while though. Personally I'd like to see a deep dive into Caledonian Braves following that Yanks spearing of them on YT, maybe a doorstepping of Chris Ewing in Paris?