Cove v's Cowdenbeath / Cowdenbeath v's Cove

[bobbykdy]

Well that was good value for a tenner, 5 goals and a top up of the suntan. Dat third goal though, WTF? How did the referee and linesman between them fail to spot the Cowden striker clearly take the keeper out to allow his team mate a free hit at goal?

That then lead to the highly amusing heads gone at the end from Cove.  A braw wee day oot and Cowden stayed up, happy days.

[Yorkieboy]

Kendo Nagasaki Bollan
Class end to a game of two halves

[DutchBorderer]

3 minutes ago, Enigma said:

Though Achilles went up and then down a couple of season ago? Almere were a third tier club not too long ago too weren’t they?

Well-spotted. However, Achilles was let in as a pilot project, to show promotion was viable. Three years on, and they have been relegated to the fourth tier and are being wound up. Almere City bought a place in the professional league back in 2006ish, as did AGOVV Apeldoorn in 2003. Almere has clung on for dear life, AGOVV was wound up in 2013. In none of these three cases was a second tier team relegated. Now we have four colt teams (three bought in, the fourth replaced Achilles) running around the second tier, with Jong (young) Ajax crowned as champions and making a mockery of the system.

[Vodka Vic]

Well done Cowden

[Clyde01]

Let the Lowland and Highland champions square off as they do now, with the loser of that tie having to face Cowden while the winner gets a bye. Then, in the final round, Cowden/loser of the inter-champion tie gets to play the winner of the inter-champion tie across two legs for promotion/survival. That way you reward the teams that did well with a chance of getting a bye, and you punish whoever finished last in League 2 for having underperformed.

So cove play Spartans and win easily. Spartans then play cowden and if they win get to play cove again who have already beasted them?

That’s idiotic.

[Enigma]

Well-spotted. However, Achilles was let in as a pilot project, to show promotion was viable. Three years on, and they have been relegated to the fourth tier and are being wound up. Almere City bought a place in the professional league back in 2006ish, as did AGOVV Apeldoorn in 2003. Almere has clung on for dear life, AGOVV was wound up in 2013. In none of these three cases was a second tier team relegated. Now we have four colt teams (three bought in, the fourth replaced Achilles) running around the second tier, with Jong (young) Ajax crowned as champions and making a mockery of the system.

Thanks, didn’t know the ins and outs. I’ve noticed the proliferation of the ‘Jong’ teams in recent years. I understand they’re about as popular as ‘Colt’ teams would be in this parish. Is there not some controversy about them playing on Monday nights too?

[DutchBorderer]

Just now, Clyde01 said:

So cove play Spartans and win easily. Spartans then play cowden and if they win get to play cove again who have already beasted them?

That’s idiotic.

Or is it? Both Cove and Spartans had good seasons, for which they should be rewarded in the play-offs.

Cove is rewarded with the bye by winning the first round. Spartans are rewarded with a second chance, by getting to play Cowden.

Meanwhile, Cowden is punished by having to go through Spartans first before possibly meeting a Cove team that were able to sit on their collective arses and recharge while Cowden and Spartans played one another.

[vince sinclair]

Well that was good value for a tenner, 5 goals and a top up of the suntan. Dat third goal though, WTF? How did the referee and linesman between them fail to spot the Cowden striker clearly take the keeper out to allow his team mate a free hit at goal?
That then lead to the highly amusing heads gone at the end from Cove.  A braw wee day oot and Cowden stayed up, happy days.

Was it no their own defender? Would like to see it again
Thought their 1st looked offside
They then missed a glorious chance in 1st half
Cox missed a sitter for us on 2nd
Thought they might have got a pen near the end as looked to me like big Gily pushed guy [emoji50]
Tackle that started the melee was a shocker
Great to see that fcuking gimp McManus explode just before

[Specky Ginger]

16 minutes ago, Born To Run said:

 

Where was Bluebell when all this was going on? 

[haufdaft]

So some folk wanted teams that aren't good enough to beat the poorest team in league two over two legs and have supporter numbers far less than Cowdenbeaths to get automatic promotion.

Some even wanted automatic promotion for both Highland and Lowland league winners.

Sorry if I can get excited about that prospect.

[DutchBorderer]

Just now, Enigma said:

Thanks, didn’t know the ins and outs. I’ve noticed the proliferation of the ‘Jong’ teams in recent years. I understand they’re about as popular as ‘Colt’ teams would be in this parish. Is there not some controversy about them playing on Monday nights too?

They hardly pull in crowds, let alone paying ones (iirc only Utrecht charged for tickets this year), and bring no away supporters.

The real problem, though, lies with their squad selection; if we take Ajax as an example, any of their players is allowed to play for Jong Ajax as long as they haven't been involved in the first team's match that weekend. That's all well and good, were it not that playing Jong Ajax on friday means none of the prospective first team players will be involved (because they are saved for possible use in the first team), whereas on mondays, whoever didn't make the first team gets to run out for Jong Ajax. This goes for all players btw, in theory Klaas Jan Huntelaar could be fielded, and players are only prohibited from playing for Jong Ajax once they have played 15 matches for the first team that season.

It's also a bureaucratic nightmare; two matches had to be replayed due to ineligible players being fielded, including the title deciding match between Jong Ajax and NEC Nijmegen. NEC had lost it the first time round, but got a reprieve due to a fuckup on the FA's part with registering Jong Ajax' players. Had NEC won (they lost the replay), they would have been champions and promoted, rather than Ajax getting the title and Fortuna going up.

tl;dr colts in the pyramid are a fucking horrendous idea and League 2 teams should only allow them into the League if they get serious financial benefits by doing so.

[ecto]

Their has to be a rule change, finish bottom, win play off stay up, fine, finish bottom the following season, must result in automatic relegation, teams who finish bottom two years in a row, have not learned anything

[Enigma]

Good post. Some of our high heid yins could do with looking at the Dutch experience.

 

[King Kebab]

So what exactly happened at the end???
Looked like it all kicked off nicely!!!

[BucksburnDandy]

Well that was good value for a tenner, 5 goals and a top up of the suntan. Dat third goal though, WTF? How did the referee and linesman between them fail to spot the Cowden striker clearly take the keeper out to allow his team mate a free hit at goal?
That then lead to the highly amusing heads gone at the end from Cove. [emoji38] A braw wee day oot and Cowden stayed up, happy days.

Clearly the Cowden player taking the Cove keeper out. Some shocking decisions and no surprise it blew up. Referee barely got on top of the game in the second half. And I thought Premiership officials were pish

[drs]

Cove manager blaming it on an anti-Highlands bias amongst referees and that he feels cheated by officialdom and the system  

 

[BucksburnDandy]

Both managers scrapping too

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

1 minute ago, King Kebab said:

So what exactly happened at the end???
Looked like it all kicked off nicely!!!

I could be wrong but from where I was standing it looked like Bollan played the Cove lad like a fiddle then it all kicked off.

[Brummo]

4 minutes ago, ecto said:

Their has to be a rule change, finish bottom, win play off stay up, fine, finish bottom the following season, must result in automatic relegation, teams who finish bottom two years in a row, have not learned anything

Getting good at surviving playoffs though?

ETA Congratulations Blue Brazil.

[The Minertaur]

As much as it's a disgraceful ending for Cove today they should be proud of the season they've had. Wouldn't surprise me at all if they sneak up in a season soon.