NE63 exile Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Any news on this one 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Officially speaking the East of Scotland Cup of course.Berwick and Edinburgh City enter automatically, East Kilbride and LTHV have qualified. SFs were supposed to be 2 midweeks ago with Final in 2 midweeks time, but poor weather and the permanently moist state of Saughton Enclosure seems to have put paid to that schedule. LTHV only played their EOS Qualifying Cup SF last Wednesday at 4th attempt, while Berwick and LTHV have been playing most/all midweeks - indeed LTHV are also playing Easter Monday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 It can be and often has been held-over (if you think about it most competitions you qualify for are the next season) - but not so much in recent years. Most recent occasion was 2014-15's Final involving Berwick + LTHV played on Saturday 10th October 2015. Before that you have to go back to 2009-10's (Berwick + Gretna on Saturday 5th September 2010) and 2008-09's (Berwick + Whitehill on Tuesday 8th September 2009). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 City haven't won it for 70 years... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 LTHV have tweeted the draw as:Berwick Rangers v East Kilbride Edinburgh City v LTHV Easy, easy... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 22 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: LTHV have tweeted the draw as:Berwick Rangers v East Kilbride Edinburgh City v LTHV Easy, easy... Oh. Phuq. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Berwick and EK have decided to fulfil their tie with their U20s this Saturday at K-Park (3pm). Their first-teams are engaged at home to Stirling Albion and away to BSCG respectively.http://www.eosfl.com/item.php?pg=matchlge&pd=1044&frt=fixtures&it=5572 While it gets the tie played it doesn't do much for the standing of the cup, sadly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdenbeath Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 32 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: Berwick and EK have decided to fulfil their tie with their U20s this Saturday at K-Park (3pm). Their first-teams are engaged at home to Stirling Albion and away to BSCG respectively.http://www.eosfl.com/item.php?pg=matchlge&pd=1044&frt=fixtures&it=5572 While it gets the tie played it doesn't do much for the standing of the cup, sadly. Just going the way others have HJ teams fielding reserves/u20s. At least they are making the effort to get the game out of the way. Any news on the other tie? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 (edited) Weakened teams have been seen often enough before that's true, but I don't think it's ever been played at the exact same time as a first-team game before. Also it must be almost literally the youth teams as - by definition - at least 18 or 19 first-teamers will be at the first-team's game; whereas in the past the coachingstaff (who will of course also be elsewhere) might have rested a number of players but still fielded a body of first-teamers. As you say at least the tie is getting played, it's just a shame it couldn't have been played midweek even if that meant fitting it around the reserve league. I like the City Cup tradition: but you worry for it when the EOS Qualifying Cup stage is taken very seriously with decent crowd at the Final, but the Cup proper is becoming a shadow of itself again. That said it was only held-over due to Berwick and LTHV having lots of postponements. If this season's gets played in March/April as usual it'll be in a better place again. Haven't seen or heard anything about Edinburgh City v LTHV. Edited July 31, 2018 by HibeeJibee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 4 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: I like the City Cup tradition: but you worry for it when the EOS Qualifying Cup stage is taken very seriously with decent crowd at the Final, but the Cup proper is becoming a shadow of itself again. Depends on what happens with the pyramid, but if a WoS is set up then they'd probably want to retain their West of Scotland Cup from the Juniors. Couldn't the EoS just turn the qualifying cup final into an East of Scotland Cup for all tier 6+ teams (or involve the LL clubs from the east as well)? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 Of course, aye, the EOS Qualifying Cup could very easily just be rebranded "the East of Scotland Cup" and do away with the City Cup aspect. It would be sad to see it end entirely, though, and I at least enjoy Berwick having a cup to compete for (however minor). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdenbeath Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 1 hour ago, HibeeJibee said: Of course, aye, the EOS Qualifying Cup could very easily just be rebranded "the East of Scotland Cup" and do away with the City Cup aspect. It would be sad to see it end entirely, though, and I at least enjoy Berwick having a cup to compete for (however minor). If you have a bad season this year that problem could be solved 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 East Kilbride (XI) 3-1 Berwick Rangers (XI) Well done EK. We go again next this season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted August 27, 2018 Share Posted August 27, 2018 Edinburgh City v LTHV is Tuesday 11th September.https://www.eosfl.com/item.php?pg=matchlge&pd=1044&frt=fixtures&it=5867 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 On 28/08/2018 at 00:12, HibeeJibee said: Edinburgh City v LTHV is Tuesday 11th September.https://www.eosfl.com/item.php?pg=matchlge&pd=1044&frt=fixtures&it=5867 at Heriot-Watt University:http://www.edinburghcityfc.com/2018/09/03/east-of-scotland-cup/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 4 minutes ago, HibeeJibee said: at Heriot-Watt University:http://www.edinburghcityfc.com/2018/09/03/east-of-scotland-cup/ So it'll either be a repeat of the upcoming Irn Bru Cup game, or a repeat of the Qualifying Cup final from last season! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 (edited) Edinburgh City 7-0 Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale Shattering result for LTHV. In the previous season's competition they beat Berwick then won at Edinburgh City to lift the cup. Edited September 11, 2018 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Fitness made a difference, plus the razor sharpness of the City strikers these days. Some nice goals scored. Edinburgh City are into a cup final and we all know how those tend to end up.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Last season's final was to be played on Wednesday, but is apparently now being held-over to early July. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 On 12/04/2019 at 09:53, HibeeJibee said: Last season's final was to be played on Wednesday, but is apparently now being held-over to early July. This season's tournament will involve Berwick, Edinburgh City, Spartans (who have reached EOS Qualifying Cup Final), plus either Camelon or Bonnyrigg (who meet in outstanding Semi-Final). It's being held-over to next season. Should we find Cove Rangers get promoted to SPFL2 then next season's tournament would be a straight Final involving Edinburgh City, plus EOS Qualifying Cup winner... If not it would involve Edinburgh City, whichever of Berwick/East Kilbride are playing in SPFL2, and the EOS Qualifying Cup finalists. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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