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36 minutes ago, Sweet Pete said:
He literally said Bonnyrigg are the best fit to have come up, you slobbering buffoon.
Christ you guys are certainly triggered - raging against the dying of your SPFL light. Sad to see a club of Dumbartons stature is supported by such abusive children.
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1 minute ago, Sweet Pete said:
Except the fans don't build the stadiums, do they? So whether a team plays at a large or small arena makes no difference to the point he's making.
Well then how does a club like Bonnyrigg have lower stature than a club like Dumbarton?
Its an embarrassing point made by a fan of a club that is currently on its knees.
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13 minutes ago, EdinburghBlue said:
There have been a few comments here about 'perennial bottom feeders'. Among the twelve sides that have finished last in the four league structure, six have spent some time in the second tier. Five have an average finishing position that would be in the third tier. Only Elgin and the Shire never made it out of the fourth tier, but both had seasons where they missed out on promotion via the playoffs.
One definition of 'bottom feeding' might be number of times finishing in the bottom half of the third tier. Since the move to the four tier structure the Shire did this 18 times and Albion Rovers 17 in 29 years, so arguably deserved relegation. Montrose and Elgin have been in the bottom five 16 times each (Elgin from six fewer seasons), so maybe equally deserving of relegation? But Queen's Park (11) have been bottom five more often than relegated Berwick and Cowdenbeath (10 times each). Brechin were only bottom five three times, as often as Arbroath.
So I think the analysis shows that while some serial poor performers arguably deserve to now be in non-league football others were unlucky with a bad spell, and yet others that are now in higher levels were lucky that their period of under-performance occurred prior to the establishment of the pyramid.
Brechin finished bottom the entire Scottish League structure 14 times in 82 seasons - anyone claiming that they were unlucky is deluded.
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12 minutes ago, Jan Vojáček said:
I don't think there's an issue with more fluid relegation/promotion. But because of the way the pyramid was set up, there are clubs coming up who aren't league clubs in stature.
A fan of a club with a one sided stadium has no right to talk about stature of anyone entering the SPFL.
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1 hour ago, well_said said:
I notice this final is taking place today between east kilbride and boness United at Sheffield park berwick . Not exactly a convenient venue for either team. Does anyone know why it's taking place in berwick?
Maybe look in the existing thread.
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11 hours ago, Gordon EF said:
There's also the glaringly obvious - that Cove and Kelty can't be held up as the typical example of pyramid champions going into the play-off. Both had the finances to build squads that were well beyond the level they were playing at. Bonnyrigg and Spartans are probably more representative of what we'll typically see from now on.
I'd say they aren't - plenty of teams in the EOS and WoS who are far bigger and would offer far more to the league structure than SPFL jobbers like East Fife and Stenhousemuir. An SPFL Talbot, Linlithgow and indeed EK would offer a far more intense challenge to the historical quirk teams than the likes of Bonnyrigg.
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11 hours ago, virginton said:
Did anyone not have Albion Rovers on the top 5 of SPFL clubs most likely to drop some time soon?
Amount of times each club relegated out of the SPFL finished bottom of the entire Scottish League structure -
Berwick - 3
Cowdenbeath - 7
Albion Rovers - 10
The Shire - 12
Brechin - 14
The last four funnily enough are the most amount of times clubs have finished bottom of the league so at the moment we're seeing a natural flushing of the long standing jobbies of the Scottish League (Montrose tie at 7), Berwick may feel hard done by but they appointed Harvey so got what they deserved.
We've essentially only got Stenhousemuir and Elgin left of the perennial bottom league dross* and it won't be a shock if they and Clyde are the next 3 out the door. The times they are a changing and its great for the game.
edit - * who are in the bottom league at the moment, I expect Montrose to drop like a stone once Petrie leaves and they'll also be out of the league in the next decade.
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Cumbernauld 0 - Gartcairn 4
Down with a whimper - Cumbernauld self destructed in alarming fashion as Gartcairn didn't have to break into a sweat to easily brush them aside. The logic of needing to win the game to stay up and playing over an hour with one striker being continually outnumbered by 4 defenders escapes me.
Throw in an OG, a defence that couldn't keep the milk out of the fridge and a management team that really hasn't improved this rabble at all. Don't expect to see many, if any, of the players there next season.
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Game on - been moved to Ochilview.
Well done Stenny for the support.
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Game off at Dunipace, been moved to Stenhousemuir - wee c***s have destroyed the pitch over night by setting fire to it, looks like at least £100k of damage.
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Awarded as a 3-0 to CP which took them off the bottom of the league by one goal and relegates Harmony Row to bottom of the West Region for 2022-23.
...what was that about conspiracy theories?
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Aberdeen FC = good guys
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17 hours ago, TheClosingArguement said:
Tbh, it's believable that the likes of Jeanfield would deem him to be too soft for that level.
Jeanfield are a senior team - its dross like Tayport that cling to the wreckage of the Junior "grade"
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24 minutes ago, HorseyGhirl said:
Spartans as a club have been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. Have memories of them being almost admitted to League setup in 2012 when all the crap was happening.
Your memory is wrong. They were nowhere near being admitted to the league in 2012.
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2 minutes ago, Greenmachine said:
Auchinleck have virtually no stature in Scottish football.
They are a small village football club.
Nobody who is interested in an SPFL club (which is the vast majority of fans in the country) gives a fig if they’ve won Junior Cups or various other tinpot trophies.They are an irrelevance.
The entire Junior "grade" was an irrelevance, was a great day when it died. Which was greatly helped by you, great days.
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37 minutes ago, Greenmachine said:
There’s no chance of Clydebank ever playing in the Junior Cup.
They can’t wait to get away from the Junior dinosaurs who are now infesting the WoSFL management committee.
I really don’t know why most clubs in the WoSFL don’t just go back and set up the West Juniors again.The set up they are in now was never meant for the majority of them.
Sooner you get emptied again the better - remember it was you and your ilk that at on your hands and let the Junior "grade" die and every single day it eats you up. That is most most pleasing.
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"Lewis, George is faster than you"
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Will NDV actually make it to the end of the season?
Now clear to see why he didn't get an F1 drive until he was 64.
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Ted during FP3 - McLaren are in the pits 15 minutes into this session as they think they have the setup correct.
Mclaren during Q1 -
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Excellent stuff, now get out there and relegate the Rovers. Show those idiots that the pyramid works without a need for Conference Leagues and B teams.
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No doubt the deluded mob in the Brechin boardroom will now be shouting for the conference league to come in and rescue them.
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Indeed they will but the fantasist trying to push the narrative about them being "dumped" is bollocks as he well knows but he can't bring himself to admit he peddled utter delusion as fact on here for months about them.
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11 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said:
Despite all the shenanigans with dumping the West Lothian junior clubs in a fourth tier, the years soon pass and clubs will find their natural level.
Still peddling utter bollocks - they joined at the appropriate level, no dumping was involved.
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20 minutes ago, highlandmac said:
Anyone know where&what time the final is on the 14th?
Its at Whitburn, 2pm kick off.
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First Refusal: the EOS First Division 2023-24
in East of Scotland Football League
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Was nothing to do with the rammy - after that the home keeper and a Pace player went for the ball and the Whitburn keeper looked to get a serious leg injury.
He was about half way and you could hear his agony from behind the goal.