Arthurlie1981 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 It is council owned, but if St Cadocs were able to put up a portion of the money to build then potentially it could be developed with a combination of lottery, sports Scotland and council dosh. That was what happened with Giffnock's ground at St Ninians where the club were expected to raise 25-30k (think they were the figures going about at the time). St Cadocs definitely have a fairly solid cash flow as is. Obviously, a difference is that there was no playing field at that plot in St Ninians which meant it was considerably more expensive to clear a whole wooded area. In any case, I don't think Crookfur gets much use. I've refereed in the area for 5 years and that's basically the only park I've never been at. Fair point but the council will have little to no money left at the end of the pandemic. Sportscotland will have a financial difficulties after this. Funded projects like this will be well down the list of priorities. Hopefully they find a solution but think it will be more difficult than before. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy groundhopper Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Never expected the new set up to be based on geography 100% Guess if you're having a few long distance games, no one should be surprised. Time for the locals to somehow help the clubs out with costs etc, be it rental van/fans on the players coach, come one inventive ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliy Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Shocker. Made a right mess of those conferences. What happened during the zoom call did someone hack in and jumble them all up. Maybe a club can take legal action to get a change to this mess. -9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy groundhopper Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Were these conferences based on the current tables or something, or trying to get fair divisions - even though they're starting from scratch. Hopefully travel times/distances came into the conversation at some point ? Guess it's just accepted now and get on with it ? What's the longest distance anyone ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monalie Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, gogsy said: Looks like some teams will be travelling up to ONE HOUR for some matches, absolute disgrace. Bit more than that from Shotts to Girvan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kenny*******Powers Posted May 4, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted May 4, 2020 Can’t believe anyone is using journey times as a tool to criticise the conference’s. EVERYONE signed up to a West of Scotland league, which means you will likely have to travel all over the West of Scotland or am I being daft 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargazer Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 46 minutes ago, Tutankhamen said: Ardrossan Winton Rovers completely shafted. I love my days oot but this isn't great news for the club who have a policy of running buses to away games. I would have expected some more local games, but a local derby v Neilston or EKT isn't quite what I had in mind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Ardrossan Winton Rovers completely shafted.Great chance for them to be challenging for tier 6 / Premiership for first time in years and should end up tier 7 if they have a decent season and will then likely potentially a few more local games. With Ardrossan most Ayrshire teams are top tier or bottom tier not many Ayrshire teams like them that are middle (Irvine Vic's / Whitletts / Girvan but that's a trek). Likes of Troon, Largs, Kilbirnie, Meadow the bigger teams near Ardrossan haven't been in their league for many years but very even conference. Could finish anywhere from 1st to 7th. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Gold Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 9 hours ago, Stag Nation said: Do you mean we should turn a blind eye to anti-semitism? No! any sectarism should be quashed but this was an incident some 20 years ago uttered by one person at a Talbot game. The way some on here have been clambering on their pityfull soapboxes would make you think we have a Hezbollah unit actively working from our ground. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutankhamen Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 25 minutes ago, gogsy said: Aye because they were travelling a lot less during the season that's just finished Season never finished. It was abandoned due to Covid19. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patriot1 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 What is the longest distance between teams in the WOSFL? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monalie Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 1 minute ago, patriot1 said: What is the longest distance between teams in the WOSFL? Got to be Forth to Girvan, 84 miles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bestsinceslicebread Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, patriot1 said: What is the longest distance between teams in the WOSFL? GIrvan or Maybole v Lesmahagow or Forth ?, in conference A anyways Kello to Greenock Conference B ? Edited May 4, 2020 by Bestsinceslicebread 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, patriot1 said: What is the longest distance between teams in the WOSFL? At first glance maybe Forth and Girvan in our conference? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Considering the conferences are what we had before in terms of travel, every key of a keyboard on travel times is a waste of bandwidth. My last word on it! 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whittlets vic Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 What are people expecting it is the west of Scotland surely it must have been known that travelling was going to be happening 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patriot1 Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 7 minutes ago, Monalie said: Got to be Forth to Girvan, 84 miles. Thanks St Andrews to Tweedmouth 114 miles St Andrews to Hawick 104 miles Did we moan about travel? No!! 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWeatherFan Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 42 minutes ago, Andy groundhopper said: Were these conferences based on the current tables or something, or trying to get fair divisions - even though they're starting from scratch. Hopefully travel times/distances came into the conversation at some point ? Guess it's just accepted now and get on with it ? What's the longest distance anyone ? Seeded presumbably based on the method used to declare West Region champions. So Shotts Bon Accord would have been the overall number one seed as 4th in the Championship and placed in Conference A. Serpentine order (A-B-C-C-B-A repeat) from there down the divisions with Glasgow University, St Cadocs, and Drumchapel United randomly drawn to each Conference. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combineharvester Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Why is travel even getting mentioned it happens in the old set up ? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combineharvester Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 And the serpentine method was used to pick the leagues 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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