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It's now Pollok v Hurlford:

Dublin Airport had them in November. Absolute game changer. Mental how long the 100ml grift has been allowed to continue!

Guess his time at Pollok and Cumnock never happened then.

Anyone know the script about transferring tickets? I am aiming to attend all three but work may only permit me to go to one. Can I move them to someone else later? No points issued so no harvesting risk. Uefa indicate that you can transfer if unable to attend but also say tickets are subject to association rules which usually doesn't permit transferring?

Not a lick of applause at half-time, full-time, or for the players as they walked off the park. Utterly surreal.

I am looking for odds on Clyde playing in the WoSFL within five years.

It was approved by committee long before the Benburb game, as this article from 28th July will attest to. https://www.pollokfc.com/2023/07/28/supporter-information/

Regarding 'talking shit' about something I haven't got a clue about, I am on the committee and can safely say I know more than you who goes to the occasional game. As was mentioned above, this was announced by the club and people were being informed of this from last season at the gate. Fairly standard practice at any venues, particularly ones at capacity. Big stadiums in Scotland will not have doors unlocked as standard, as people would wander in off the street. They are opened to let people out as required and then locked again. In the event of an emergency at Newlandsfield, the gate would be opened and then locked again. In the bizarre, hypothetical event that you described where an official has had a stroke, then one of several key holders would open the gate in his place, presumably after seeing to the stricken committee man. I would also assume that supporters would have the wherewithal not to clamber over him to get to Morrisons also. Not entirely sure what the rest of your rant is about to be honest, so will leave it at that.

People were allowed out, they just informed that they would not be allowed back in. Your initial post wrongly suggested that Pollok were disregarding basic safety regulations and locking people in. NOT FACT.

I have come across plenty of Talbot folk at Cumnock games, and vice-versa. Plenty of the younger generation do it, especially with the schools being merged now.

Finnart are the senior partners in a joint bid with another club I thought.

Was fascinated to find out that West Linton had a team, and wish I had known about them during my year staying in nearby Blyth Bridge. Granted that was during Covid so don't know how many games were going on at that point. Gotta add it to my list of borders teams I need to go and see (all of them are currently on the list).

Not bad going when only three of the starting eleven were here last season! Seven overall that played today. Considering it is almost a totally new squad, they do seem to have gelled pretty quickly. Bodes well

I see the draw has been made. Anyone know if the full thing is due to be published?

Gotta take into account the team's involved also. Drumchapel don't have a fanbase to speak of beyond their youth players and families and have Spartans ever been particularly well followed? Add in the fact that Spartans have their eye on bigger things and it made for a strange final. Spartans went in at half time 2-0 up and were happy to sit on that lead in the second half, while Drumchapel didn't appear particularly bothered about coming back into it. Guys giving up on very reachable through balls and no bookings til injury time said a lot. The difference in professionalism also very apparent at half time. Spartans had a coach organising their subs into a wee small sided passing drill, while Drumchapel hit shots into the stand like it was a Sunday morning league.

Apologies. My reply wasn't aimed at you. We do not have a vote as we are so new to SFA membership.

Does it matter if we have a vote? Suppose people can't object to anything then unless they have a direct say in it. Solid logic and a blow for political activism across the world. We're one of several clubs in line to be shafted by this so we've come out and explained how it will shaft us. Let clubs and supporters know that this will have a real impact on real clubs.

Wouldn't be surprised if some fancy their chances at getting one of the spaces that it will open up in the Lowland League.

Issue with some of these parks is going to be when a Talbot, Pollok, Clydebank etc. end up with a really important game at, for example, Donald Dewar. (I choose that as it is one I am familiar with.) All three of those clubs are capable of bringing a couple of hundred away supporters, especially with it being within Glasgow, right next to a station, and so close to Clydebank. Can that facility handle any sort of crowd of a few hundred people, without a huge chunk of them being unable to see? Add that to the fact that the car park is tiny, not good access for a crowd and the facility is used extensively both indoors and out by members of the public. Long-term issue with it is that there does not seem to be much space to develop around the main pitch without sacrificing the nearest grass park. I see they have plans as part of their application to take over the whole facility but I just don't see how it works.

There are plans afoot for them to move into the Old Town https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/23480210.peebles-public-glimpse-plans-transform-sporting-facilities/

Yeah, the flights just worked out perfectly for me to get a decent bit of time in both on the way home. Really excited for Beirut in particular just for how different a stop off it is. The only time that I have ever been gutted at the demise of a company was STA going under. Genuinely gutted. Two amazing trips booked through them, and it's a hole in the market that does not appear to have been adequately filled as yet.

I do realise that, and they have been relegated twice since the split from the academy along with this farcical name change so just about surviving. Their sustainability going forward is still very much in question.

Some of the Lowland League clubs have a real nerve getting all indignant about this. They let them in last year on the promise of some quick cash, then slammed the door in the face of the Tier 6 clubs while crying injustice at the bottleneck above their own league. Laughed out loud listening to the Price of Football podcast recently and hearing the Caledonian Braves owner cry about how Scottish football teams are self serving and blocking ambitious clubs which is exactly what his team did last year.

Without the academy link, you really need to wonder what are they as a club? Who/where do they represent, and what is the point of their existence quite frankly. Similar issue facing Broomhill who managed to buy a year out of the Open Goal farce, but will now need to face up to a very unclear future.

Also thought the Hague was pretty dull when I was there a few years back.