South fan 2 Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Surely a bit of common sense should be used. SFA should suspend non league football for a month and see where we are then. Leagues could still be finished just don't play cup games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy groundhopper Posted January 13, 2021 Share Posted January 13, 2021 Agree totally, delay until March then if possible to continue - the better weather will give us sat-midweek games until June maybe. If clubs and players don't feel safe then fair enough. Shouldn't affect any monies from the SFA as these ain't normal times and knock league cups etc on the head. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
football.fan Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 The season is over folks. Schools will need to be back first before any restrictions get eased so be surprised if teams are back for middle of March. If they are then surely teams will be looking for at-least 3 weeks training. Clubs haven’t trained for 12 weeks can’t expect players to play 3 games a week without proper training first 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyramidic Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Let’s hope for an application or two! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
info Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 Considering the population and location of the South of Scotland I think the league is the right size at the moment and for the foreseeable future. Sponsorship and availability of enough good quality players is at its limit just now and the league runs well as it is. This, to me, is not complacency it is reality 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 Football is back in England by the end of March. The first figures announced for the effect of the vaccines on covid are the Scottish ones and, as the SG often gives the impression of wanting to be different in order to justify itself (my view - others will differ!), the timescale for the return of organised outdoor activities will be different - whether earlier or later or whatever - who knows yet! Hopefully common sense will prevail and football comes back even if subject to the previous protocols for a while. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 twitter.com/SOSFLeague/status/1365354992891293698 South of Scotland Football League@SOSFLeague Unfortunately tonight's meeting (rearranged from Thurs) with the Scottish FA & other Leagues has again been postponed due no response forthcoming from the Scottish Government. We wait to see when the meeting will be re-scheduled next week. https://twitter.com/SOSFLeague/status/1364232442891141124 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollokfan1987 Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Latest SFA Statement No Update https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/news/suspension-of-football-update-1-march/?rid=13929 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) twitter.com/SOSFLeague/status/1377694260733022213 South of Scotland Football League @SOSFLeague Replying to @SOSFLeague Voted for by 14 clubs to 2 (votes included Dalbeattie and Annan due to proposal including cup competitions they are involved in), our league season was null & voided for a 2nd season in a row. Some talk was made about declaring a league winner. If a champion were to represent us in a playoff, the finances involved would of been too much for any club in our league due to the amount of covid testing needed done. We would like to thank all our clubs for following the guidelines set out by the Scottish Governemnt & SFA. They weren’t ideal circumstances but hopefully by next season, we can hope to get back to some normality. Roll on season 21/22! 7:48 pm · 1 Apr 2021·Twitter for iPhone South of Scotland Football League @SOSFLeague Replying to @SOSFLeague *Government 7:50 pm · 1 Apr 2021·Twitter for iPhone Edited April 1, 2021 by Dev . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 42 minutes ago, Dev said: Some talk was made about declaring a league winner. If a champion were to represent us in a playoff, the finances involved would of been too much for any club in our league due to the amount of covid testing needed done. Not sure how they came to that conclusion, if a play-off with the EOS was to take place then it would be a couple of weeks after the resumption of contact sport without testing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Dougie Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Ginaro said: Not sure how they came to that conclusion, if a play-off with the EOS was to take place then it would be a couple of weeks after the resumption of contact sport without testing. Agreed, sounds like a cop out. Genuine question, do any of the teams actually want promotion out of the league? Edited April 1, 2021 by Big Dougie 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Probably not on the promotion thing as this looks like an excuse for Threave to avoid any danger of automatic promotion if the EoS subsequently null and void. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 9 hours ago, Big Dougie said: Agreed, sounds like a cop out. Genuine question, do any of the teams actually want promotion out of the league? I doubt it. Which is why the SOS should feed into the WOS at some level, so their champion can gain promotion without having to make the step up to the semi-national Lowland with the travel and better quality opposition that entails. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie92 Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 On 02/04/2021 at 00:40, Big Dougie said: Agreed, sounds like a cop out. Genuine question, do any of the teams actually want promotion out of the league? Yes. St Cuthbert's & Threave are 2 that are keen to make the jump. The correct decision was made to Null & Void, as was done by the East & West. I understand why some would want the South to merge into the west but that is a few year away at least. Would enough clubs out the 14 vote on a merge to the West? I'm not too sure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 (edited) 25 minutes ago, Jamie92 said: Yes. St Cuthbert's & Threave are 2 that are keen to make the jump. The correct decision was made to Null & Void, as was done by the East & West. I understand why some would want the South to merge into the west but that is a few year away at least. Would enough clubs out the 14 vote on a merge to the West? I'm not too sure. The jump to where, the Lowland League? Judging by Bonnyton's move to the WOS Premier, the top SOS teams are tier 7 level at best - we saw Threave lose to mid-table Conference side Forth Wanderers in the cup and St Cuthbert's comfortably beaten by tier 6 Tynecastle. There's no way they'd beat the EOS or WOS champions. It doesn't need to be a full scale merger with the WOS, just removing themselves from the LL play-off and instead having a play-off to get into WOS tier 6 or 7 would be best. Edited April 15, 2021 by Ginaro 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWeatherFan Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 28 minutes ago, Ginaro said: The jump to where, the Lowland League? Judging by Bonnyton's move to the WOS Premier, the top SOS teams are tier 7 level at best - we saw Threave lose to mid-table Conference side Forth Wanderers in the cup and St Cuthbert's comfortably beaten by tier 6 Tynecastle. There's no way they'd beat the EOS or WOS champions. It doesn't need to be a full scale merger with the WOS, just removing themselves from the LL play-off and instead having a play-off to get into WOS tier 6 or 7 would be best. If the Lowland League Play-off stays the same format a SoS team could pip someone else. Especially if promotion goes up to 2 spots. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie92 Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 21 minutes ago, Ginaro said: The jump to where, the Lowland League? Judging by Bonnyton's move to the WOS Premier, the top SOS teams are tier 7 level at best - we saw Threave lose to mid-table Conference side Forth Wanderers in the cup and St Cuthbert's comfortably beaten by tier 6 Tynecastle. There's no way they'd beat the EOS or WOS champions. It doesn't need to be a full scale merger with the WOS, just removing themselves from the LL play-off and instead having a play-off to get into WOS tier 6 or 7 would be best. The challenge cup was very bad for south teams last season, some awful results i agree. A playoff to get into the west premier? would have to be automatic otherwise none of the clubs would vote for it (that's if any of them would even want the south to move). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 46 minutes ago, FairWeatherFan said: If the Lowland League Play-off stays the same format a SoS team could pip someone else. Especially if promotion goes up to 2 spots. Sure, if the top EOS/WOS teams go up then there's more chance of a SOS team winning the play-off, but that would mean the LL would be even stronger than it is just now! 46 minutes ago, Jamie92 said: The challenge cup was very bad for south teams last season, some awful results i agree. A playoff to get into the west premier? would have to be automatic otherwise none of the clubs would vote for it (that's if any of them would even want the south to move). Only reason I suggest a play-off is because you don't know the level of the SOS champions since the league would be separate to the WOS system. Play the 13th WOS Premier team or 3rd in the WOS First Division for the final promotion place so you know the champions are good enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
football.fan Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 It’s only a matter of time that the south will be the bottom tier in the west. If clubs don’t want that then the likes of Threave saints newton etc will need to move to west and the south will be a Saturday amateur league or even a Sunday league 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintMan Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Any players on the move that people know of as sure teams will be trying to get their squads together quick as possible or will most teams be unchanged ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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