tommytwiststommyturns Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Can't seem to find any Junior season fixture lists. Only matches announced 28 days in advance on the SFA website. Is this the way it works and anybody know why they can't arrange all the fixtures at the beginning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berryblastie Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Answers on a postcard to¿?lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glensmad Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Who's going to bite first ? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stuart. Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Oh god Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommytwiststommyturns Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 Thanks guys... Not for answering the query mind you, but for helping me remember why I registered in 2011 but rarely visit this site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzy Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Yawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glensmad Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Thanks guys... Not for answering the query mind you, but for helping me remember why I registered in 2011 but rarely visit this site. See ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Just humouring him... A half-season fixture list was produced in the 1990s but was such a disaster it gets held up any time someone breaches the subject again. Certainly that was immediately brought up when discussed among Lok committee informally. Secondly, the Junior Cup takes predecence over all matches. As the SJFA will not move the Junior Cup out of winter months (and thus reduce postponements) a fixture list is problematic because there are too many pitches that are virtually unplayable between Nov and March. Some games get postponed for weeks on end and that would destroy a fixture list in no time. Third thing that stops it is lack of floodlight use which means that postponed games can't be rearranged (as is the case in SPFL) for a Tuesday in say February. All midweek games are dumped into mid April-mid June. Fourth, the current scenario ensures everyone has a game each weekend. The Junior system in the West is heavily weighted towards cup matches. Teams can expect to play at least a quarter of the season in cup matches with the better sides perhaps playing more cup matches than league matches. The East set-up, with league games being the focus, is better set-up for a fixture list. The way it works in the west, if there are cup ties to be played, league games are arranged among available teams. Solutions? 1. Have no Junior Cup matches between now and February. 2. Use every saturday up until March to schedule saturday games. 3. Rearrange matches into saturdays after March and then midweeks. 4. More league games, less minor cup matches. 5. Ask someone computer-literate to organise it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superbigal Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Teams with pitches that get put off when the local dug pisses on it does not help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clash city rocker Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Solutions? 1. Have no Junior Cup matches between now and February. 2. Use every saturday up until March to schedule saturday games. 3. Rearrange matches into saturdays after March and then midweeks. 4. More league games, less minor cup matches. 5. Ask someone computer-literate to organise it. Send that to every club in the West and make them vote in favour of it. ....or if Mr Robertson and Mr Johnston is reading this....there ye are...and you said it couldn't be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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