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Even the 4G last night at Blackburn U20s was abandoned at HT for a frosty pitch last night

Div 1 Whitburn v Blackburn Utd OFF either frozen or waterlogged

Good luck Laurie, been a smashing player at Blackburn from 20s through to being a match winning senior player. He's got some trickery and enough pace not to need trickery. Here's hoping he can show this at a higher level

Aye club linos but I recognised the ref and from past experience he can be just a wee bit "idiosyncratic". Besides the Blackburn lino might have been distracted making sure it was ok to keep the lights on past midnight

Just Haddington and Blackburn overcoming league status in last night's round of EoS Cup fixtures? Good performance from Blackburn but probably the biggest talking point from the game was the referee adding 12 and a half minutes in the second half. When it got to 6 added minutes most folk genuinely thought his watch was broken

Emmet? That's the Cornish word for Ant

Was chatting with my laddie this morning saying the same

A lot (too much!) was made about Croatia and their B teams based on the World Cup. There were 32 teams at the World Cup, 25 in each squad so a total of 800 World Cup players. Of those 800 how many played B team football at 17/18? Maybe the better question to investigate was what football were they playing at that age. I would guess that most would have made 1st team breakthroughs at some level. It would have been a more interesting analysis than pointing to Romeo Beckham at Brentford

Or instead of B teams why not try putting put a Scotland Age group team into the Lowland League to play as a squad. Maybe U18s into Lowland League, U19s into L2 and U20s into L1. Not simply for the benefit of 1 or 2 individual clubs and all players (obviously) qualified to play for Scotland

I fully expect the SFA to learn the wrong lessons from this humiliation. Nobody, absolutely nobody, in the community that has developed against the Conference has anything but the best wishes for all Scottish football. Those best wishes run from the lowest tier of the Pyramid to the International team itself. The opposition has been to the sheer wrong headedness of the proposal. Everyone would welcome the SFA consulting widely on how best to develop the game in Scotland for the whole Pyramid and also to contribute fully to developing young players to the best of their ability. Whether Maxwell has the vision, nous, political touch and feel for the Scottish game I would very seriously doubt. Time for him to go.

Is there much of a precedent for a SFA Board backed resolution which they argued as fundamental to the structure of the domestic game and the future of the International game being rejected by the membership due to its ineptness in form, structure and presentation?

It's a real scrap at the bottom. Credit to the fixture secretary that with only 3/4 games left every candidate for the 3rd relegation spot has it in their own hands to avoid the drop and could go down to the final weekend

Don't know for sure if these are the latest rules on the play offs, but it's just a random draw each year for home and away https://slfl.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/slfl-rules-v20.pdf 2.1 Three Qualifying Clubs a) There will be a Play-Off Round Robin organised by the SLFL to determine, subject to these rules, which club shall be promoted to the SLFL. The champions of the EoSFL, SoSFL and WoSFL will contest the round robin. b) The round robin shall be played on a home or away principle, with each club playing one home game and one away game, which club plays what opponent at home and what away being decided by a random draw supervised by the SLFL Board. Three points for a win and one point for a draw. Where a match is drawn it will be followed by the taking of kicks from the penalty mark as defined by International FA Board rules, the winner receiving a further one point. At the end of the competition the club with the highest points total will be declared winners of the round robin , and, subject to eligibility, will be promoted to the SLFL.

Beith Juniors confirm what most folks have suspected. They aren't in a position to get licensed at the moment so will be ineligible to meet the winners or the EoS or SoS in a play off should they win the WoS. Currently they are 6 points clear with a game in hand and 5 games remaining

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