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Junior football, what is the future?


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7 hours ago, GordonS said:

Do you slag off Aberdeen for the star on their shirt for the trophy they won that no longer exists? That they earned by beating, among others, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid?

Everyone in non-league football, senior or junior, ought to look up to Auchinleck Talbot. They've earned it.

They want to stay out of the pyramid so that they can lord it over diddy teams.

If they had a shred of ambition they’d be for the pyramid and the chance to move up and test themselves at a higher level.

Staying where they are and collecting tin cups is what they’re all about.Clubs should always strive to play at the highest level possible.

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8 hours ago, GordonS said:

Everyone in non-league football, senior or junior, ought to look up to Auchinleck Talbot. They've earned it.

Yes Celtic and Aberdeen, they really ought to look up to Auchinleck Talbot. :rolleyes:

When Talbot win a European competition then maybe but in the meantime.........

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5 minutes ago, Jason King said:

Yes Celtic and Aberdeen, they really ought to look up to Auchinleck Talbot. :rolleyes:

When Talbot win a European competition then maybe but in the meantime.........

Celtic and Aberdeen are not in non-league football as far as I know. ;)

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4 minutes ago, AlanCamelonfan said:

Everyone keeps going on about the Tuesdays in Elgin but in the juniors. Next monday we've got to go to Lochee.  The so called travelling argument blown out of the water

I think they go on about going to Elgin on a Tuesday in midwinter.

 

Camelon-Dundee in  1hr 20 mins.  

Camelon-Elgin 3hrs 31 mins

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2 minutes ago, Khufu2 said:

I think they go on about going to Elgin on a Tuesday in midwinter.

 

Camelon-Dundee in  1hr 20 mins.  

Camelon-Elgin 3hrs 31 mins

My point is Elgin Tuesday never happenseen.  Camelon have been to carnoustie and now Lochee mid week in recent years. I meanth in eosfl aswell where they were crying about it

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1 minute ago, AlanCamelonfan said:

My point is Elgin Tuesday never happenseen.  Camelon have been to carnoustie and now Lochee mid week in recent years. I meanth in eosfl aswell where they were crying about it

Tuesday 20 Jan Berwick-Peterhead

Tuesday 20 Feb: Annan v Peterhead

Tuesdy 27 Feb Peterhead v Clyde

Tuesday 13 March Montrose-Annan, Clyde-Elgin, Peterhead-Stenhousemuir

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5 minutes ago, Khufu2 said:

Tuesday 20 Jan Berwick-Peterhead

Tuesday 20 Feb: Annan v Peterhead

Tuesdy 27 Feb Peterhead v Clyde

Tuesday 13 March Montrose-Annan, Clyde-Elgin, Peterhead-Stenhousemuir

The trouble with SPFL2 is that in a division of 10 clubs you have all the assorted odds and sods up and down the length of the country. Peterhead, Elgin,Berwick, Annan - the outposts of senior football. And you don't have to visit them once, you have to do it twice. And all played out in front of a couple of hundred fans.

Madness.

 

 

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Tuesday 20 Jan Berwick-Peterhead
Tuesday 20 Feb: Annan v Peterhead
Tuesdy 27 Feb Peterhead v Clyde
Tuesday 13 March Montrose-Annan, Clyde-Elgin, Peterhead-Stenhousemuir


Believe there’s a rule that teams didn’t have to play midweek games until after February unless both teams agree
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39 minutes ago, Goalie Hamish said:

Chat on the EOS forum that Craigroyston have chucked their hat in the ring, also that Dunbar have as well. Kirkcaldy will be in the Superleague at this rate

If it's accurate then probably Thornton Hibs will be in the running for Superleague next season!  Game is up in the East for the SJFA.

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21 minutes ago, Khufu2 said:

The trouble with SPFL2 is that in a division of 10 clubs you have all the assorted odds and sods up and down the length of the country. Peterhead, Elgin,Berwick, Annan - the outposts of senior football. And you don't have to visit them once, you have to do it twice. And all played out in front of a couple of hundred fans.

Madness.

 

 

It is.

And the fixtures you posted in the previous post are ridiculous also. How does it benefit the game at all? Complete waste of time, energy and money.

I wonder if the LL, as it's stature increases over the next few seasons, could be split East / West so that the clubs in SPFL 2 could be brought into 3 regional tier 4 feeders (HL/ LLe/ LLw).

Like they do in Denmark... 

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22 minutes ago, surely not! said:

 


Believe there’s a rule that teams didn’t have to play midweek games until after February unless both teams agree

 

 

39 minutes ago, Khufu2 said:

The trouble with SPFL2 is that in a division of 10 clubs you have all the assorted odds and sods up and down the length of the country. Peterhead, Elgin,Berwick, Annan - the outposts of senior football. And you don't have to visit them once, you have to do it twice. And all played out in front of a couple of hundred fans.

Madness.

 

 

You answered your own point there less teams but it seldom happens pretty much because of the bad winter we had. Point is they were all going on about the travelling when we have to do that on monday

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4 minutes ago, AlanCamelonfan said:

 

You answered your own point there less teams but it seldom happens pretty much because of the bad winter we had. Point is they were all going on about the travelling when we have to do that on monday

Plus, if you'd look at the extremes in travelling, then it's possible to get journeys of over 2 hours in the juniors too. Imagine Forfar West End v Dunbar being played on a Monday night...

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42 minutes ago, Che Dail said:

It is.

And the fixtures you posted in the previous post are ridiculous also. How does it benefit the game at all? Complete waste of time, energy and money.

I wonder if the LL, as it's stature increases over the next few seasons, could be split East / West so that the clubs in SPFL 2 could be brought into 3 regional tier 4 feeders (HL/ LLe/ LLw).

Like they do in Denmark... 

This is exactly what was mentioned in the Henry McLeish report into Scottish Football, where, from memory, he cited a youth fixture going from Dumbarton to Elgin in a minibus for a 90 minute game of football at great expense

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If it's accurate then probably Thornton Hibs will be in the running for Superleague next season!  Game is up in the East for the SJFA.

The game is up in the East, what a load of nonsense there will still be around 45 clubs competing in The East region.Losing teams like Bonnyrigg and Kelty Musselburgh is sad but the rest of the teams moving with illusions of grandeur will not improve the standard in the East of Scotland.
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39 minutes ago, Vollyman said:


The game is up in the East, what a load of nonsense there will still be around 45 clubs competing in The East region.Losing teams like Bonnyrigg and Kelty Musselburgh is sad but the rest of the teams moving with illusions of grandeur will not improve the standard in the East of Scotland.

16 of those clubs are north of the Tay so probably wouldn't be able to move over to the EoS, which makes the Seniors and remaining Juniors basically equal in numbers.

And you're saying that apart from Bonnyrigg and Musselburgh the rest teams moving over to the EoS are worse than Tweedmouth?

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The game is up in the East, what a load of nonsense there will still be around 45 clubs competing in The East region.Losing teams like Bonnyrigg and Kelty Musselburgh is sad but the rest of the teams moving with illusions of grandeur will not improve the standard in the East of Scotland.


Whether they improve the standard, prosper or wither and die is irrelevant. It’s the fact they’ve left junior fitba that’s key. And as burnie says, it leaves the east juniors in a position where the games up. Even the dale could be in the top league soon it’s that bad.....
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