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Officially confirmed today that there will be a club promoted from tier 6 to the Lowland League at the end of the season (a licensed club is guaranteed to win the EOSFL). Also looking likely that a club will be relegated from the Lowland League as Clyde are 10 points adrift of Forfar and 12 behind Elgin.

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On 07/02/2024 at 09:32, FairWeatherFan said:

 

Why they're pointless is Glasgow-Alloa-Cumbernauld-Dumbarton in the span of 10 years.

There was a spell before Alloa where they played in Airdrie

I thought there was more than 70 there though as said about 15-20 from Broomhill,

 

Today there were no more than 4 or 5 supporting Broomhill 

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4 hours ago, Ginaro said:

Officially confirmed today that there will be a club promoted from tier 6 to the Lowland League at the end of the season (a licensed club is guaranteed to win the EOSFL). Also looking likely that a club will be relegated from the Lowland League as Clyde are 10 points adrift of Forfar and 12 behind Elgin.

Clyde might win the PO

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17 hours ago, lowenan said:

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More impressive work from Colts, which sees them consolidate second place, helped by Hearts loss. Every time it looks like their race may be run, they seem to come back & stick in there. Impressive work from David Proctor & his largely unfancied side, a goes to show that it's not all about a big budget!

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12 hours ago, FairWeatherFan said:

It's not about Clyde getting relegated. It's that Club 42 is looking good to be a Lowland area team. Any outcome from that point on means relegation from the LL.

 

If the LL and HL winners don't have a bronze licence though......

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1 hour ago, FairWeatherFan said:

Don't know why it'd be treated as a ..... as its the exact same thing: relegation for the LL.

It would be of course, I'm just introducing a much bigger issue that seems to be glossed over.

I've not seen or heard anything that confirms there will be any sort of grace period should the LL/HL Champions not have a bronze licence, which is almost a certainly unless Colts haul in EK. 

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36 minutes ago, Burnieman said:

I've not seen or heard anything that confirms there will be any sort of grace period should the LL/HL Champions not have a bronze licence, which is almost a certainly unless Colts haul in EK. 

Probably because you're not directly involved. So why should you have seen anything in passing?

When the rule passed Iain McMenemy responded on twitter that waiver rules already exist for Tier 5 champions if needed and would continue to do so.

There's details on what that would look like in the SPFL docs

https://spfl.co.uk/admin/filemanager/images/shares/pdfs/Membership Criteria Letter 2024-25 31 October 2023.pdf

https://spfl.co.uk/admin/filemanager/images/shares/pdfs/SPFL Rules and Regulations 26-Jul-23 (MASTER COPY) (2).pdf

It's little different to the EoS applicants that have a credible action plan to meet the membership criteria and get in.

East Kilbride and Brechin City are already graded as Bronze on the ground criteria. So there shouldn't be a fundamental issue.

 

 

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58 minutes ago, FairWeatherFan said:

Probably because you're not directly involved. So why should you have seen anything in passing?

 

Because it's a fairly major change and very few people in the game know for sure what the situation is. 

There are no specific waivers which apply to this rule change, therefore there is a distinct possibility that there will be no play-off. Nobody can guarantee there will be unless Colts win the LL, and the SPFL have not commented publicly to allay any fears.

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