Ocelot1877

There’s self preservation in every league. Look at the lowland league one team goes down into one of three feeder leagues. Should be 3 down and the champions of east, west and south get promoted but that doesn’t happen. The champions of those leagues need to play in a round robin to see who gets promoted, creating a bottle neck of teams who want to kick on and gain promotion. The same thing the lowland league clubs and fans complain about the top 42 doing to them Those teams also need to have an SFA in order to enter the playoff for promotion. You can apply your same logic to that. There’s no need for an SFA license for a game which will have a hundred folk at it. Point is all clubs have been made aware of the requirements and have been told they can apply for grace periods. Buckie didn’t and aren’t fighting the decision. Maybe because they don’t actually want to come up but that’s speculation

A B team can’t be named champions and therefore can’t be entered into the playoff from the lowland league. Would be interesting to see the situation if it should arise where a 2nd or 3rd placed team are named as champions and put forward for the playoff If Brechin were to be made eligible for the spot they would need to be named champions of the Highland League.

The pedantic reasoning is that the playoff is to be competed by the lowland league champions and the highland league champions. B teams can’t be named as champions of the lowland league therefore the highest placed non B team would then be named as the lowland league champions in the situation a B team finished top of the league. this is covered in the rules and was agreed by all parties There are no rules in place that say a league can nominate a non champion team for a playoff spot or that if a team is not eligible for promotion it gets passed on. Same issue happened last season in the west of Scotland premier where Beith won the league but don’t have an SFA license so couldn’t compete in the playoff round robin for promotion to tier 5. Looks like they will win it again this year and the same thing will happen again. WOSL premier also don’t have the power to nominate the highest ranked licensed team although that may be the way forward.

Don’t think so. We currently have a silver license

Looks like if we finish bottom it will be EK we are playing. Buckie not allowed to compete as they don’t meet minimum license standards

900 p/w from a club he hasn’t played for?

Last update was that we are continuing to look in the east end of Glasgow with some positive news in the summer before the start of next season. Since then our chairman has announced he is leaving in the summer weeks after getting re elected at the AGM, so I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one. The issues with the stadium is just one of many at the club and why we have been circling the drain. We put a lot of resource into the Crownpoint bid and we came up short, that resource was maybe better spent elsewhere. Hopefully with a chairman who is competent and not a complete wet blanket we can get our act together including a stadium of our own.

It’s only paranoia when it’s not true Jimmy

I’m convinced half the Clyde accounts on here is just the same guy replying to himself.

Hiya Jimmy, Hiya Pal

Ok dad

Appreciate your point and I agree. I called out Scullion in my post previous to the post you quoted. He’s acted poorly and there’s no doubting that, however the difference between him and the fan is that you can almost understand his actions in the heat of the moment as an act of retaliation despite still being wrong. The same can’t be said of the Bonnyrigg fan, he’s acted like a cretin and escalated the situation. Which is why it’s weird people are trying to make this Scullions fault

There are some absolute clowns in our support who act like idiots granted, but you can’t justify a Bonnyrigg fan spitting on a Clyde player and make it about Clyde fans causing trouble

The fan that spat on him caused the issue. If he hadn’t of done that and took his medicine after giving it tight to scullion during the game nothing would have happened . Unless you are saying what Scullion done means he deserves to be spat on by a fan, in which case I ask you what level of abuse or what would have to be said by a player to a fan to warrant being spat on by an opposing fan? We have all shouted stuff sure, but expecting players not to react to any abuse is how these problems exist. There are some football fans that expect to be able to shout abuse and never have any consequences, they then go back and feel like a hard nut and tell there pals about it all in the pub it’s embarrassing. It’s something I have experienced working in retail years ago where folk would just give cheek, be rude and abusive and expect to get away with it because I’m at my work, it’s how these cretins exist and keep doing it. Clyde fans are also absolutely chronic for this behaviour at times also btw. Spitting on someone is absolutely manky, degrading and potentially dangerous considering what diseases can be passed by doing it. This is why laws exist that classify this as assault. The fact I have to yet again explain all this on a football forum with adults is utterly embarrassing Also btw the behaviour you point out about Clyde fans in Forfar was rightfully called out on here as them being morons and sore losers, yet in this situation you have made it the players fault for some reason

No offence but this post is absolutely everything that’s honking in the discourse. Some wee Fanny has been giving it tight to him all game and when he gets a bit back he’s chosen to spit at the player. It’s utter cretin behaviour and saying Scullion doesn’t need to be there is trying to shift the blame onto him for someone spitting at him. The only way this argument works is if you somehow think that what Scullion has done deserves him being spat on, everything else is just a distraction from the bigger issue of fans thinking they can abuse and shout at players with no repercussions. Clyde fans being arguably one of the worst for that I’ll admit. A few weeks ago folk were having a go at Clyde fans going mental for players celebrating in front of them and that was rightly called out as daft wee boy behaviour from the Clyde fans. This week an opposition fan spits on a Clyde player and it’s somehow the Clyde players fault Scullion retaliating is poor behaviour from him but somewhat understandable given the circumstances. The fans behaviour is odious and not understandable at all

This website man. 3 pages of people debating what they would and wouldn’t do in the situation someone spat them.

I’d argue it actually does matter for a team like us and of our size.How we are viewed in the Scottish Football community and society as a whole will effect sponsorship and commercial opportunities and will also impact on recruitment on the park also.

The first steps in survival go hand in hand. A complete gutting and reshuffle of the board, creating a dedicated team to bring in sponsorship and commercial opportunity whilst also addressing the reasons why alot of people hate us. By ridding ourselves of the people responsible for the Goodwillie saga, Ally Love saga and actually addressing and nipping in the bud the poor fan behaviour would be a good start.

Real Edgy bro!!

I think you have forgotten we aren’t a serious club

I’d rather play Ebbo up too

Thank you! I was planning on getting this train, I should have said in my original post was looking to get a return back to Düsseldorf after the game has finished, those trains seem to be the pricy ones

Flying from Manchester and staying in Düsseldorf for a week from the 18th to the 25th. Looking at getting to Stuttgart from Düsseldorf on the 23rd, I don’t have any match tickets and the train is looking like it’s going to be £100 plus which is obviously pretty steep but I’ll pay it if o have to. Just wanted to check if there aren’t any cheaper tickets or something I’m missing to get there. Any help appreciated.

People have been pointing and laughing for years mate. Make absolutely no mistake about it either, we 100% deserve it. Unfortunately Saturday is the culmination of years of weak and non existent leadership. Kit man carries on like that because he knows there will be no consequences. Fans carry on like that because they know there will be no consequences. Board do f**k all because there are no consequences. We have been absolutely tin pot on and off the park from the moment we got promoted to league 1 something that should have been used as a stepping stone to push the club on. Instead we rewarded failure on and off the park and when you do that who can be surprised you are rewarded with more failure. Said it before and will say it again the sliding doors moment was not emptying Lennon after Clydebank. That set the wheels in motion where we should have acted like a remotely serious club and we didn’t. Following that up with bringing Goodwillie back and losing Broadwood we all but asked people to laugh at us If we go down to the lowland league the club needs absolutely ripped out and reworked and rebranded into something different. The pyramid was brought in so that teams could find their level and we have found ours very quickly and surprise surprise it’s not in the top 42 where competent teams are