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They’re inviting comments on the Berwick Rangers Facebook page. Here’s mine. It was before I’d read anything on here: “I’m totally against this idea. One reason being that it ruins the competition. As mentioned, teams playing in the same league with different objectives and outcomes (relegation and promotion) is a bit farcical. I’ve no interest in seeing Berwick play a colts team. I could go and watch English Premier League reserves down the road for £3, never mind paying a normal League 2 match price to see a far poorer standard. Also, look at the state of the old Challenge Cup. It’s become a farce. That opened the door, and they’re ploughing ahead with it regardless, despite the horrendous crowds. Let’s be honest, this won’t stop with a two year trial and who then decides whether it’s a success or not? I also fail to be convinced that this would help Scottish football or the development of young players in any way. They always point to Spain and Germany as evidence that B teams work, but I’d suggest facilities and the number of qualified coaches per head in those countries compared to Scotland is more important. If they were really serious in trying to improve the Scottish game, maybe they’d come up with an idea to distribute revenue in a fairer way rather than the current 2% to League Two. How about using some of the pie to improve football facilities in each clubs locality. Or to train up more qualified coaches. This idea seems to benefit Rangers and Celtic more than Scottish football as a whole. I understand the financial pressures considering the recent loses the club has made, and will continue to make, but the £15k per club will mean very little. Basically because all clubs will be getting it. Some will just spend it on players and wages. In order to keep up, Berwick will also have to do that. It won’t simply go to reducing the loss the club makes each year unless we’re happy to continue spending the same way we are whilst others use it towards their playing budget. I doubt there’s any suggestion that this money across all teams will be ringfenced to improve facilities or train up more coaches for the community. If we get promoted there are similar sized teams in the league above. We’d lose that income and gain very little in extra revenue from promotion. For me, Rangers and Celtic want to do this for their own benefit, and they and the SFA are desperately trying to put together an argument to support the plan. If they were to go back to the drawing board to think of the real reasons why Scottish football is failing, they wouldn’t come up with this ridiculous idea in an attempt to solve the problems.” To add, at our supporters club meeting last week there weren’t any positive comments towards the proposal. Can’t stress how important it is that everyone tells their own clubs what they think of the plan.

f**k off Malky. Scottish football is clubs like Arbroath. The national team is not the responsibility of the clubs. Arbroath and clubs in League 2 give plenty to Scottish football.

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FAMILIES! FAMILIES! Fvk me fitiver next. Next thing you know, those short selfish b*****ds will be asking for merchandise, then those hoors'l be growing up, banging on about the Dons rather than Barcelona or Chelsea! Get them tae fvk! I think fitba should be the preserve of ageing, white-male, fat, baldy knvts with a misguided romantic notion that it was all better in their youth (including the racism and glorified violence). I have no idea why we would want to encourage famlies with their future die hards in tow. It's not even as though they use the same money as us middle aged baldy fvkkers. Knvts, the lot of them! Yours, now NO TO KINGSFORD if their going to encourage others to turn up. aDONis

My spine almost shattered after cringing so hard at that Lennon interview. I'd be ashamed to have that guy represent my club, biting like f**k to everything. Quality from Levein. He doesn't give a f**k any more and it's refreshing to see.

Amuses me that Kilmarnock asking for lots of money for their players is apparently bad but Rangers are fully entitled to ask laughably crazy sums of money for one of theirs.

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None of our other players can, so why start now?

I'm very disappointed today, as I feel taking the ground out of the town centre will help contribute even further to its perpetual decline. The council have missed a huge trick but very unsurprising given that their entire strategy to town management has been build out of town, build shopping centres and gut the main thoroughfare. Anyway, that is by the by. We need to make the best of a crap location. The transport plan is an utter dogs dinner so it is important to build the stadium to accommodate this. An outdoor fanzone anywhere after the middle of September really is not a good enough answer. The club need to create facilities that will encourage fans to spend far more time at the ground than they currently do. To that end, the club should be looking to do three things. Firstly, to extend the size of the pub currently proposed, so that it accommodates far more fans. Secondly, for families, there needs to be indoor space dedicated to family friendly events such as signing sessions with injured players, fun games, face painting etc, and more space set aside for kids to receive training sessions, likely in the training ground. Finally for those fans who do not fit these demographics, create retail space and restaurants for those who may prefer to dine and shop, what people would say is a sterile experience. Within the stadium, the fans need to be provided with plentiful catering facilities and toilets that don't take 20 minutes to negotiate every time. The stands need to be steep so that we feel closer to the action. A small standing section is not enough to get it right, we need to have standing, be steep and close to the park. A corporate bowl will put people off. As such, it is important for the club to change its long term stance of being fairly ignorant of fans wishes. Messers Yule and Skinner being front of this project has been important up to now. It will be even more important, as these two are the two that understand supporters wishes. Ignore the fans and we will end up with a cattle shed designed for corporate fans only. Only with good facilities and plentiful facilities that have been thought through will we get this right. If that involves spending a bit more money, so be it. We only have one shot to get out home for the next century right. f**k it up and it will lose fans galore. Get it right and we may well get over the fucking awful location. It is up to the fans to be demanding and the board to be receptive to the fans wishes.

Hibernia is spot on. If you strip away the pro-AFC/Aurora and no/NIMBY shite then you realise that the Aberdeen support have just accepted their club being moved 7 miles from the city centre. They’re only tolerating this because Milne has neglected Pittodrie and our training situation to the point where anything else is seen as an improvement. If people stopped getting embroiled in the petty arguments and read the application, the transport plan and matchday fan facilities in particular, they’d realise that going to Kingsford is not going to be a good experience, unless maybe for corporate or families.

Don't be so fucking stupid. That goes beyond naive. Plus the theory is that it will help improve the standard of Scottish players and Scottish football; two years can't judge that. Ten years would be more like it. I can't believe anyone is actually falling for the line that this is to help improve the standard of player in Scotland and the national team.

The goal of Project brave is to improve youth development and Scottish players to the level where they'll be good enough to take Scotland to a major tournament. Players of that quality don't generally play against Scottish league 2 clubs at the age of 20 and 21. The only clubs this will benefit will be Rangers and Celtic. They will use it as a way to help bring on their youth players outside the loan market. It might improve those teams but as the last 20 years have shown, we need to producing young Scottish players that are better than Celtic or Rangers quality. If the clubs and SPFL were serious about youth development they would put up home grown player rules. They're not, they pander to Rangers and Celtic and only care about generating more income to keep them happy.

Aberdeen, Hibs, Hearts (and others) could/would budget for inclusion if they felt that Rangers and Celtic were getting some sort of measurable benefit that they weren't out of this. But this isn't all about the bigger clubs and their colts - a system that benefits those that pay to play to the detriment of League 2 (as it would no longer be a meaningful competition in any sense of the word) and its clubs isn't one worth pursuing IMO. There's a fundamental question being asked about what lower division teams are there for and the proposed answer is that they are there as mere sparring partners for the biggest clubs' youth teams - and I think that's shite. Also - an SPFL authored document that is basically written to be touted round by Rangers and Celtic proposing a league reconstruction for the singular benefit of the OF is not a good thing in any shape or form. The relationship between the governing bodies and the OF is far from a healthy and transparent one, which is ironic given that there are no two clubs more self-interested and more likely to shaft Scottish Football given half a chance.

What happens if you don’t care about anything other than your own club? You have no idea what Arbroath and other part time clubs mean to their respective communities and how much these clubs can impact local peoples lives. Alloa are far from my thoughts too but there’s no way whatsoever I would want to see anything bad happen to them or for their fans football experiences to be ruined for some hypothetical advantage the national team might get, who play a handful of times a year by the way. Why should our experiences and footballing lives be ruined? And is it just me or would this money not be better being invested in training facilities and coaches if we want to improve standards. Also how much can we actually improve standards, are we even that bad? We’re a tiny country in the grand scheme of things who have only been a result or two away from qualifying in nearly every single qualifying group I can remember. It’s more down to the fact we’ve had shite managers or been bottle jobs that we’ve not qualified rather than the actual quality of player surely. Also, all the young Celtic and Rangers players I’ve seen in the lower leagues have been fucking pish anyway. Darren Ramsey and Julian Ogen quality players trotting up to Gayfield for a piss about training match at 3 on a Saturday. f**k off.

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At the risk of being unpopular, this director puts the blame squarely on you - the fans.

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8 out of 10. Get it right up the lot of you p***ks.

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Massively, this. What can the success criteria be for the pilot after two years? That no clubs have gone bust? That no Celtic starlets have been clogged out the game by a part-time centre half? The whole pilot aspect of this is one of the most intelligence insulting things about this sham.

Callachan: I'm sorry, isn't that … Skacel: Yes, that's me, and the guy standing next to me is Didier Drogba …And this is when I was on a European tour with the Hearts… Oh! And here's a picture of me at Euro 2008. Callachan: You? Went to Euro 2008? You? Skacel: Sure. You've never been? Would you like to see my Scottish Cup medal? Callachan: No! I wouldn't!

Ultimately, our Board are entitled to argue that a cheque for £15,000 in tickets that may not be used could help the finances. Free country etc. By the same token our average crowds are about 500 so if actual crowds at "B" team games dropped to, say, 250 then that "benefit" has just evaporated. Cheques do not pay to use the car park, buy 50/50 tickets, purchase programmes, or consume food and drink either... real people attending matches do. It also takes no account of possible crowd drops, or falls in ST sales through disillusionment. This latter point is very relevant, but not addressed... 6 from 19 home games will be against 'B' teams. Ultimately, our fans are entitled to say these things in reply to them - or, if they wish, that regardless of the finances they're against the principle anyway.

Is someone arguing that playing for Rangers Colts in League 2 alongside a bunch of kids will help them develop a 'football DNA' as opposed to playing in League 2 with Arbroath, Annan etc etc? Do people have any fucking idea how disrepectful shit comments like that are towards clubs like my own? Why will playing for Rangers/ Celtic youth teams develop a 'footballing DNA' as opposed to Arbroath players who don't get this 'footballing DNA'? f**k me - absolute fucking drivel.

A. It won't B. It won't C. It won't D. It won't E. It won't F. It won't

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Can @BuzzGTI please be barred from contributing to this, and the tidy Scottish newsreaders threads?

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I've skimmed through this topic for months and every time it gets bumped I worry about the new posted content. Tonight I actually decided to stop and send an email to Montrose to see if the club a.) has a stance on the potential introduction of Colts to the league pyramid and is willing to share this stance and reasons for it, and b.) will they make opportunities for fans to get to ask their questions and have their concerns listened to. I'd hope at least all the folks taking the time to vent their concerns here on P&B have also done so with their clubs and not just skimmed through the pages like I had been doing, hoping that nothing happens.