Basile Boli
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Threave Rovers being accepted into the WOS is a joke. Likewise, these Glasgow Wellington chancers applying for the SOS is laughable.
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34 minutes ago, passbackdave said:
Should Beith win the wosl and the play off should they not be promoted as they r working towards a licence? Also have there committee seen the team doing that well and likely 2 win league there trying 2 fast track there application?
Mon the papers
No
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They’ll probably still do well next year, you’d imagine looking to win the league. But it’s a case of how do they replace a 70 goal striker and I’m assuming the lad Paterson will be away back to Arbroath too? Surely his development will be massively hindered by spending another year at that level.
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Oh my goodness hahahaha
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19 minutes ago, searchers1963 said:
Now we just have 9 games so can't have excuses. Anyone who expected instant results isn't right in the head
Why?
Near enough a like-for-like swap of players from Syngenta to Camelon.
Syngenta were 2nd I believe in the division below and were competing well in cups etc, so you’d expect it would be a seamless transition - the players know how to play together, it’s the same manager.
The different standard in quality isn’t that big.
So where is it going wrong just now?
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Real shame what’s happened to Kirky RR.
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11 minutes ago, guinness said:
How many player's are left from the old regime out of this
Two in the starting eleven I believe.
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5 hours ago, WC Boggs said:
It's hard to know where to start with that pish, but here we go.
There was an attempt to lure Colquohoun and Grant as directors and Levein to be manager. An attempt made without any authority to do so in the case of the manager position. Darren Young knew about it before I did. so you are actually challenging what he knows to be true. Not a smart move, but you stick to your humble opinion.
The results are there because of Darren Young. The manager hired by the ousted board, not the trust board, with nothing and no one firmly secured to replace the board, volunteers, or the manager they wanted to replace.
The promised football people have never appeared, precisely because Colquohoun, Grant and Levein were the those people, but backed away.
All these months on and the supposed investors just lining up waiting for a new board, to shower the club with money haven't appeared either. Oh there were a couple about 5 years ago, but then it was revealed the club's community trust status made it illegal for a profit or return on any investment to be made. Our would be benefactors then just faded away.
Due to this block on an investment return, the trust board were charged by membership vote to devise a new constitution to permit investment. It was never done, or any explanation of why it was never done ever given. Unless you count the short answer I got from John Sanz when I asked why it wasn't done. "It's complicated." Let's hope the new rules on governance aren't complicated then. In fact the only person who did put a lot of money into the club without expecting any return was Colin Rowley. Hounded out by that trust board and it's supporters for backing up the chairman. Well, he did try to buy control of the club once so what are fans owned fanatics supposed to do, other than perform the hakka at every hysterical opportunity.
All these months on and the exec still consists of two retired accountants and the child protection officer. There is no commercial representation on the board. Progress? Where?
Why governance of course, eventually. So what do we know there? Two trust board members will be installed on the exec. Fine, what else? An appointed expert panel will interview, select and recommend any new manager. The trust board then have to approve the recommendation of the expert panel appointed. Fine if they do approve, but a recipe for pure farce if they don't. That caveat doesn't exactly exude confidence in your own strategy of appointing your own experts, so why is it there? Don't they trust their own installed exec?
This leads to a logical question, which I'm sure the trust board will be delighted to answer. If the trust board have to approve a new manager, do they also have to approve the extension of a current manager's contract? If so, which of the analysed models is this a feature of? Just asking?
Hospitality. Yes numbers have returned and people like big Jim Ingles and Graham Douglas have also returned after yet another bitter civil war. I understand why both left and understand and commend both for their return. Darren Young and the team's epic title challenge and a period of cooling off has brought back the numbers in hospitality and in the stadium. Progress back to where we were in numbers is precisely zero to do with any action of the new regime and everything to do with the love of the club of volunteers and fans and the efforts of Darren Young and his squad. It takes one grade A chancer to try and credit the new regime with any of that.
We come to the issue of increased democracy, Oh come on Shug it's in the pipeline. I hope so, but when the trust board tells me it's purpose is to serve the interests of majority shareholders and can't bring itself to use the term membership, I'd like some clarification on that to confirm that the membership will have more say, not less. They were not elected by less than a handful of Billy big baws shareholders, but by the membership, so who's interests do they now represent? It would be nice if they cleared that up!
There is good news though. We have had the historic signing of a peace in our time agreement between an exec installed by the trust board and the trust board. Metaphorical fire fighting has given way to metaphorical mutual fellatio and lovely it must taste too. I can't wait to see the new governance rules on how the membership removes a regime that pisses them off, but the trust board loves to bits. I'm sure it will all be very democratic, power to the people and all that.
Finally, I have to thank you. I had actually ceased to give a toss what our new rulers were or were not doing. I'd settled down to just coming to games and enjoying the football. It took a true genius like you to inspire me to discuss the worm can again. Bravo! I now intend to revert to just enjoying the football again. As for you....whatever.
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8 hours ago, Crazy Feet said:
I think if you read between the lines in this article St Pat's are definitely thinking about stepping up a level.
No brainer for them. The way the game is going they’ll be better off in the pyramid system.
As early adopters they’ll be a couple levels above their traditional rivals by the time they all find themselves in the pyramid.
Looking at the West bottom division, you’d find it hard to argue against St Pats being one of the top sides.
Other traditional “big” amateur sides should be looking to do the same. Bannockburn a prime candidate.
Look out for sides like EKYM moving in the near future.
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11 hours ago, Sure & Stedfast said:
Unlikely to happen now. That was before the change in strategy.
7-3 victors over a full strength Rose team. It’ll be a trouncing over a BU team. No friendlies between the teams on the cards now.No horse in this race but bumping your gums about beating teams in friendlies is a diddy mentality, as is making a lot of noise about skudding glorified amateur sides every week. If you were as good as you say maybe you would have pipped Syngenta or Whitburn to promotion last year.
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4 hours ago, pleslie99 said:
I dont know the reasons for the Caley rejecting a merger or indeed the Drum wanting to move, they don't need to disclose their reasons, they are within their right to make the decisions they feel is right for them. What I do know is the Caley have certain standards clubs need to meet to be accepted. I have heard of 1 caley team that is moving to the 'merged' set up but there is more than just the Drum moving the other way.
Yeah definitely, it’s their prerogative to release info or not but I feel like everyone needs to lay their cards on the table to try and move the game forward, as currently the way we’re going there may not be an amateur game in 10 years.
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16 minutes ago, Crazy Feet said:
Nonsense. The reason leagues are demising is due to the number of players taking part falling dramatically and there being too many teams / leagues in the central belt. But we could talk about that all night and the reasons for it.
Spot on. Biggest issue affecting the game outside committee politics is by far and away the lack of players.
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9 minutes ago, Amateur Fan said:
You are not getting it crazy feet the idea was safegaurd existing leagues not to get one over the other which is why the leagues like the stirling and saf have demised badly
What leagues have the Stirling District League been trying to get one over on?
As far as I’ve seen that league has always recognised its “place” or “standing” in the amateur game, although I could be wrong.
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5 hours ago, Crazy Feet said:
I think it looks like The Central are just bringing teams in for money / to get the numbers up rather than looking to improve the quality of the league.
How many of the teams joining from the SAFL are established clubs with top facilities etc? How many of them will come over and compete in the Premier League?
If the rumours are true around other central clubs then it looks like a bad move. But I guess the Central's loss will be The Caley's gain.
Well on the other hand you could say that it gives the teams in a league clearly on its last legs a decent standard of league to play in. I don’t think the standard of the Central 2nd tier will be much different than whats left in the SAFL.
You could also say why are the Caley league being stubborn and rejecting a merger? Speaking around I think the main opinion of guys involved in the game is a merger between all Central-area leagues would be the way forward.
As always it comes down to too many individuals with vested interests not wanting to give up any control.
If teams like Drum Ams came out and stated why they’ve chosen to move leagues, or the Caley laid down their decision making process and be transperent then it would be a good starting point for all parties to move forward.
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I don’t feel there’s a need for that comment, just encourages inter-league bickering and point scoring.
I believe it is a big step forward to try and provide a bit of stability to a struggling game!
Games on a Friday night would be ideal, currently this league plays saturday afternoons so would clash with the amateur schedule and prevent players featuring for two teams - however I don’t know if pitch availability might be a prohibiting factor on Friday nights.