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It's that time of the year again.

Starting with tomorrow night, Auchinleck Talbot now have to play 5 matches in 11 days.

Yes, they are successful and still have lots of cups to play for but surely this is unacceptable. Especially when you consider that this is Junior football, where the players have full time jobs as well.

So it begs the question, what can the people of power do to help this situation?

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What can you really do though? The season has to finish at some point and you're still in all the cups.

The only way to alleviate it would be to invest in floodlights so you could play catch-up games through the season.

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Sixty three teams in west region, how many will be badly affected by a fixture backlog?

That's a fair point actually. Although it's still hard to deny that the system needs to be thought about for the teams at the top.

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I know there was a thread started on it a week or two ago but the West cup has been one almighty f**k up, Talbot could possibly play the 3rd,4th, semi and final all in the month of May. The same can be said for other clubs to be fair...........remember the west has only 6 rounds in it, it is so easy to arrange 3 rounds before Christmas and three rounds after the new year yet it appears impossible for the WJFA to do so.

If Talbot hadn't played 3 rounds in the senior Scottish cup and we didn't have a two legged Scottish cup semi-final then the 4 league games over the next week could have been played already and the back log wouldn't have been a problem.

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We’ve had lights for years, and have only really been able to use them for friendlies or midweek Sectional finals. The rationale behind the two teams having to be in agreement was I believe initially to prevent a side that had lights gaining an unfair advantage by being able to play when others couldn’t.

Given the advent of 3G parks, an argument could be made that teams possessing an artificial surface also gain an advantage by being able to play in most conditions, but while that’s been accepted across the board playing under lights bizarrely hasn’t.

We had the strange situation a few years back on one of those winter days it never really gets daylight when due to lack of visibility the ref asked us to fire up the lights at half time, only for the opposition to attempt to protest the result due to the fact lights had been used.

I’d have loved to have seen one of their winter training sessions where they no doubt used night vision goggles.

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It's that time of the year again.

Starting with tomorrow night, Auchinleck Talbot now have to play 5 matches in 11 days.

Yes, they are successful and still have lots of cups to play for but surely this is unacceptable. Especially when you consider that this is Junior football, where the players have full time jobs as well.

So it begs the question, what can the people of power do to help this situation?

If Beith beat largs on saturday they wil have to play 4 games in 7 days, largs, hurlford, dalry, and kilwinning and this is a team who's not been successful thi season. Lose to largs and kilwinning and our season is over

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