craigkillie Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 What did you expect to see in a thread about the 2015/16 cup competitions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Well, the dates for next season's cup competitions mainly. Absolutely nobody cares about the Junior bumpkins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bairn Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Don't think it'd be any different to the normal situation. Winners of the HL & LL from the previous season gain entry, as do the 30 non-Premiership SPFL clubs from the previous season. So Brora, Edinburgh City and Montrose would all play in the first round as you would expect. Not correct, it's the 30 non-Premiership SPFL clubs in the CURRENT season. If it was as you implied then Hearts would be in next year's challenge cup and Maureen would not. I think the correct definition is -30 non-premiership SPFL clubs in the current season -Reigning HL champion -Reigning LL champion -If a club fits two of the above definitions then the relegated club from league 2 in the previous year gets in Basically it's Prem 12 (1 club) Championship 5-10 (6 clubs) Teams involved in the premiership playoffs, except the winners (3 clubs) All league 1 clubs (10 clubs) League 2 clubs 1-9 (9 clubs) Teams involved in the league 2 playoffs (3 clubs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabidAl Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Touché. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 Scottish Cup. (Partial): https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/highland-league/593690/highland-league-201516-full-fixture-list/ Preliminary - Sat 5 Sep 2015 First Round - Sat 26 Sep 2015 Second Round - Sat 24 Oct 2015 Third Round - Sat 28 Nov 2015 Fourth Round - Sat 9 Jan 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksburnDandy Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Scottish Cup. (Partial): https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/highland-league/593690/highland-league-201516-full-fixture-list/ Preliminary - Sat 5 Sep 2015 First Round - Sat 26 Sep 2015 Second Round - Sat 24 Oct 2015 Third Round - Sat 28 Nov 2015 Fourth Round - Sat 9 Jan 2016 A very welcome return to a post New Year slot for the 4th Round next season. Much better at that time of year than the end of November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Thank f**k for that. Having the fourth round in late November/start of December is absolutely brutal. Well, that and endlessly drawing Celtic. It should always be held in early January and never should have been moved. Does this also mean that the nonsensical "winter break" has been chucked again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 There hasn't really been a winter break for a while. Last couple of seasons clubs were allowed to cancel a home game to generate their own break but I think only Celtic did so. They moved R4 into autumn to allow for a winter break in 2012-13 but SPL scrapped it for 2013-14. After SPL was established in 1998 there were winter breaks in 1998-99 (2 weekends), 1999-00 (3) and 2000-01 (3)... but in those days R3 (equivalent of current R4) was in late January. Since then moved to early January. Only subsequent breaks were 2002-3 (2 weekends), and 2012-13 (2) with early R4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 Auchinleck Talbot won the Junior Cup and thus the Junior double today: so only 3 Junior qualifiers. Cumbernauld Colts announced on Monday they'd joined SFA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Harestanes AFC will take part as a result of the SFA's announcement that the Scottish Amateur Cup winners will be granted entry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Who won the SoS and the EoS? Will they not be entering too? Edit: it's brilliant to see the franchise grow. Re-edit: ah, I see from the other thread they already do, as I suspected. Carry on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoPapacNoParty Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Petrofac Dates announced . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionel hutz Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Petrofac Dates announced . Has the venue for the final been decided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoPapacNoParty Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Has the venue for the final been decided. Wouldn't think so. A Rangers/Hibs final would need a different venue from a Brora/Edinburgh City final. Big gap between semis and final to sort it out anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 LC dates. Nothing unusual. http://spfl.co.uk/news/article/league-cup-dates-confirmed/ First round - Saturday August 1, 2015 Second round - Tuesday/Wednesday August 25/26, 2015 Third round - Tuesday/Wednesday September 22/23, 2015 Quarter-finals - Tuesday/Wednesday October 27/28, 2015 Semi-finals - Saturday/Sunday January 30/31, 2016 Final - Sunday March 13, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted June 26, 2015 Author Share Posted June 26, 2015 Scottish Cup dates, according to the Lowland League fixturelist pdf, although they were already decipherable from Highland League and SPFL lists: http://slfl.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/The-Scottish-Lowland-Football-League-Season-2015-16-Fixture-List.pdf William Hill Scottish Cup First Preliminary Round Saturday 15th August 2015 Second Preliminary Round Saturday 5th September 2015 First Round Saturday 26th September 2015 Second Round Saturday 24th October 2015 Third Round Saturday 28th November 2015 Fourth Round Saturday 9th January 2016 Fifth Round Saturday 6th February 2016 Sixth Round Saturday 5th March 2016 Semi-Finals Saturday/Sunday 16th/17th April 2016 FINAL Saturday 21st May 2016 Some chap called 'riddles' (appropriately) on the FitbaNorth forum also seems to have unravelled who will enter the Scottish Cup when, and loaded it up in a spreadsheet: http://www.fitbanorth.com/download/file.php?id=346 That appears to tally with a Huntly fan - who posted at the start of the month that there would be 10 First Preliminary ties and 5 Second Preliminary. More a topic for a thread on the cup itself - but it appears there will be 92 entrants in this season's Scottish Cup which will run to 10 rounds. Must be a long time since either was equalled. FA Cup in England runs to 14 rounds with about 730-740 entrants so if you consider it per-head-of-population ours is now more widely entered. Oddly enough it also runs from Aug 15th to May 21st. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie_man Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Who are the non league entrants and what stage will they enter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanpab Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Who are the non league entrants and what stage will they enter? http://www.fitbanort...file.php?id=346 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 For those unable/unwilling to download the attachment, the chap on FitbaNorth appears to have figured-out that the entry should be: entering First Preliminary Round 1x HL - Cove 1x LL - Vale of Leithen 4x EOSL - Lothian Thistle, Civil Service, Burntisland, Hawick 3x SOSL - Wigtown, Newton Stewart, St Cuthbert 1x NCL - Golspie 4x Juniors - Hermes, Kelty, Auchinleck, Girvan 1x Amateur - Harestanes entering Second Preliminary Round none entering First Round Proper 15x HL - all others 12x LL - all others 1x EOSL - Coldstream 2x Juniors - Banks o'Dee, Linlithgow 1x Amateur - Glasgow Uni entering Second Round Proper 2x HL - Brora, Turriff 2x LL - Edinburgh City, EK 10x SPFL2 etc. It does seem to tally with SFA licensing table, LL fixture list, and the claim of another poster that there are 10 & 5 ties respectively in preliminaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick90 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 No-one beats the SFA/SPFL at basic gerrymandering of the competitive system ... consistent aim... to keep everyone else OUT (but make it look as though they are genuine) .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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