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10 minutes ago, Bring Back Paddy Flannery said:
I’ll have a tenner on Banks o Dee
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18 hours ago, rockson said:
No it isn''t. The difference between say the bottom two divisions of the SPFL is not as great as that between the SPFL and the Lowland/Highland Leagues and the ability to attract players is therefore affected more acutely. In any case the vastly overwhelming majority of lower division SPFL players are only on one year contracts. They're not at all likely to re-sign to play in a lower league for a lower wage and the club concerned is going to be seen as on the slide and so not going to be as attractive a proposition compared to other clubs.
And my comments did not in any way argue against relegation from the SPFL (that was only in your head.)
I only said that this particular relegation is a much bigger barrier to being promoted back than it might appear to someone looking on it from a distance.
Given the lack of finance outwith the SPFL you should have no problem in depatching ex Juniors Banks o Dee on Saturday then…..
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3 hours ago, rockson said:
There are excellent reasons for that. Among them the fact that a relegated club is unlikely even to hold onto the players who weren't good enough anyway and also unlikely - especially in the short term - to attract players who are capable of a promotion push. Not to mention the drop-off in prize money in the Lowland/Highland compared to the SPFL (parachute payments notwithstanding.)
Isn’t that the case with a club getting relegated from any division?
So the answer is not to have any?
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3 minutes ago, The Moonster said:
Jan, don't waste your breath on the weirdo bankie glory hunter.
Nobody that goes to watch Dumbarton supports either half of the OF then?
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9 minutes ago, Jan Vojáček said:
It's not really though, is it? All the teams that have won the Pyramid Playoffs will have had bigger budgets than the side they replaced (Edinburgh and the Shire, Cove and Berwick, Kelty and Brechin, Bonnyrigg and Cowdenbeath, Spartans and Albion Rovers).
Of those, Bonnyrigg have been an excellent addition to the league. A big support and no sugar daddy. Kelty, despite the sugar daddy that bankrolled them up, have a good core support and an excellent ground. They are a lower League One upper League Two club I reckon and will be stable there.
The others? Time will tell how sustainable Cove Rangers with a tiny support and big investors and FC Edinburgh - a tiny support and now no major backer - are.
Spartans are pretty unique in the way they operate. So I'm not really sure what to make of them really.
If Kelty, for example, become an established lower League side getting the same results as Albion Rovers, bobbing between League Two and League One, would you like them flushed out the SPFL?
If they finish bottom yes!
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2 hours ago, Jan Vojáček said:
A fan of an Old Firm team talking about self-preservation. The irony.
Funny how none of the clubs who’ve gone down have ever came back up and none of the clubs who came up have ever gone down.
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15 hours ago, FifeSons said:
Least the real diddies are still where they being in the WoSL.
Self preservation is the only thing keeping most of the diddies in L2
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4 hours ago, FifeSons said:
Few years ago we were mixing it in the Championship. Now we’re comfortably beaten by juniors.
Damn that pesky pyramid!
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9 hours ago, FifeSons said:
I see the Scottish Cup draw is tomorrow. Some interesting sides in the hat. Clydebank would be the dream tie. Would also love to get St Andrew’s away, who had a very impressive win over Auchinleck.
Careful what you wish for…..
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2 hours ago, Thejackdaw said:
Nothing strange at all and for what it's worth I think Nicky low is a very good and clever player, a player I could actually envisage seeing in a beith shirt winning majors in the future .............
Majors
Playing on a ski slope for a club that can’t get promoted.
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Just now, jimbaxters said:
Don't be silly.
Put another star on your shirts
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6 minutes ago, andy25 said:
Clydebank and trophies dont go together.
More grounds than trophies.
You’ll get a trophy for getting relegated
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56 minutes ago, stumpy said:
that diddy has at least won something low hasn't 
Apart from winning the League Cup with Aberdeen you mean?
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4 minutes ago, the nearly man said:
Thought Beith deserved the win in the end, the Beith keeper made a good few saves your right but it was the away team driving on in the second half looking for the winner and getting hit on the break a bit rather than getting done by good play, Clydebank number 23 is a Carlo Monti wannabe unfortunately for the bankies we had the real one in our team,he should concentrate on playing football rather than trying to get players booked
Nicky Low is 10 times the player that diddy will ever be.
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What’s happening with Beith?
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10 hours ago, jimbaxters said:
Yes. Based on a 2-2 draw.
You won’t draw your way away from the bottom.
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12 minutes ago, jimbaxters said:
The fact that unlike Kilwinning, there are players in that team who have multiple medals, who have scaled the heights of our level of football and we have the greatest manager ever to grace our level of football.
That's all.
So not current results then
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16 minutes ago, jimbaxters said:
I know mate and always bow to the fact that you guys are there and I'm not. From afar, looking at the results the margins are very small. I firmly believe Auchinleck Talbot will not be relegated.
Based on what exactly?
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8 minutes ago, andy25 said:
Horrendous second half.
Four home games and 1 point
Too good to go down…….
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Rob Roy 0 Clydebank 3 a stroll in the sun for Bankies.
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2 hours ago, sel0975 said:
Talbot drawn away to Cumnock in the 2nd round of the Junior Cup.
The Holy Grail
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59 minutes ago, beaver watch said:
Good lad Timmy your turning out to be a right jolly bhoy. Cellik's finest I might add.
I’ll catch the Talbot at St Rochs next season
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1 minute ago, beaver watch said:
You didn't say that Timmy you said three games without a goal.
And quoted 2 results
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1 minute ago, beaver watch said:
Timmy. Is Brenda copying us that's 0-1 v Killie and 0-0 v The Saints?
Not 3 defeats as well….
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Sons' sorrow
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