Shannon Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 I am sure Cumbernauld Colts consistently vote against more promotion / relegation to Lowland League and also for the B teams so only wanting sporting integrity when it may affect them but happy to take the B teams cash and block any more than 1 West and East Premier teams coming up each season and challenging for the top spots in the league. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Hopefully that Cumbernauld statement inspires proper football clubs genuinely in favour of sporting integrity like Linlithgow to say something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 On 25/05/2024 at 13:46, FairWeatherFan said: I was going to try and see what Tier 6 would look like just using the Scotscores rankings. https://scotscores.theroonba.com/clubrank/clubrank.html Its always a bit of a guesstimate, but they really need to look at how they weigh some of the values if Sauchie end up 3rd best team from the East of Scotland area and Beith find themselves behind St Cadoc's, Largs, Clydebank. It's also based on margins of victory and includes cup games so it's unlikely to match the league tables. Broxburn lost lots of ranking points to Glenrothes in the cup, Beith lost big points due to defeat v Arthurlie after the title was won. 13 hours ago, Cowdenleith said: Presumably in the absence of any hard and fast rules about who should be asked if spaces in the come available, the SPFL have invited their recent former members and the best of the LL/HL. Despite the absence of a hard and fast rule it has been the same every season since 2016-17 with the top 4 in the LL being invited, which has meant recent former members of the SPFL have missed out, bit strange for it to change this season eh. 40 minutes ago, Shannon said: I am sure Cumbernauld Colts consistently vote against more promotion / relegation to Lowland League and also for the B teams Would be good if someone can dig out the results of those votes and see whether the proper top 4 are good guys or bad guys... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnieman Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Jones Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 6 hours ago, grinderbrokeyourhearts said: Looks like it’s Boness’s turn today to miss out on the League Cup groups for no apparent reason. Highland league - Buckie and Brechin Lowland league - East Kilbride i wonder why Brechin get in over Boness? Brutal. Why the two red dots for this question from gbyh? He’s not even a Bo’ness supporter and it appears his uncertainty in his post is answered later. Some of you guys get angry just looking at your own shadow! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithgierose Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 6 minutes ago, Burnieman said: Did the lowland league board not question the spfl on this ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnieman Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 11 minutes ago, lithgierose said: Did the lowland league board not question the spfl on this ? No idea, hopefully the story gains a bit of traction in the media. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWeatherFan Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 14 minutes ago, lithgierose said: Did the lowland league board not question the spfl on this ? Lowland and Highland probably found out the same time the public statement announcing the changes went out. If the league AGM was on Monday and its resorted to individual clubs making statements probably don't have much consensus within the league. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithgierose Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 LINLITHGOW ROSE CLUB STATEMENT – SPFL TRUST TROPHY Following the SPFL Board press release on Monday, we at Linlithgow Rose are disappointed to note that the Board has chosen to overlook sporting merit in order to invite teams into the Trust Trophy on the basis that they are former SPFL member clubs. The reputation of the game in Scotland is put at risk when history rather than merit becomes a primary reason for decision making at the highest levels of Scottish football governance. If league positions after 34 matches are to count for nothing, we at Linlithgow Rose are left to wonder - what does count? What will count going forward? How can we sit back and say to our management team, players, sponsors and supporters that we think it’s ok to govern football in this way? There are obvious financial impacts and imbalances which spread across the Lowland League as a result of decisions taken by the SPFL Board – a position not replicated in the Highland League. It is our view that these impacts threaten the financial fair play of the league in which we compete and call on the SFA to intervene and mediate a solution to resolve this issue. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyro Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 I think Lithgow are winning the statement-off so far. Very well written 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 I like the Civil Service Strollers innocent and eager tone, dripping acid sarcasm.. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 Seems to be more anger from this than last years league cup decision, for this year I can't see any reversal, but if enough pressure is put on the SFA(which may require some spfl club support) then a possible rule update for spfl cups will require that when the spfl chooses to include non-spfl clubs within its cups then these will be allocated to pyramid clubs based on final finishing positions in the previous season, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithgierose Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 14 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I like the Civil Service Strollers innocent and eager tone, dripping acid That's what they get for voting yes to B teams 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyro Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 20 minutes ago, lithgierose said: That's what they get for voting yes to B teams They obviously didn't sort out the same agreement Cowdenbeath got for their vote, that was silly of them! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Only coo in the village Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparticus Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Surely Cowdenbeath East Stirling Berwick and Albion should do the right thing and withdraw from the competition. i’m sure the benefits would be far reaching 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossilYM Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Diddy clubs getting shafted all over the place -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brazilianlex Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 8 hours ago, Burnieman said: Are there teams who don’t seek to compete at the top of the league ? I think every team sets out to do the best it can and finance is a massive part of that but if Gretna unexpectedly found themselves at the top of the league, are Tranent suggesting they wouldn’t be interested in winning it ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PossilYM Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 9 hours ago, Burnieman said: Sporting integrity died in 2012. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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