LongTimeLurker

After Saturday's result maybe bottom of SPFL1 isn't a certainty yet and they might still provide Spartans with a shortcut to League One? Beyond that maybe there's long term thinking involved in terms of clearing the path to being the undisputed third club in Edinburgh. Having a group of former Meadowbank Thistle fans still around running another Edinburgh SPFL club complicates that a bit.

Been a while since I posted in this thread, maybe because the whole thing seemed to be drifting into a stalemate and certainly because the signal to noise ratio of interesting posts to timewasting drivel from the resident narcissist and various assorted sociopaths was finally becoming too low, but just occasionally something interesting happens: Did the Ukrainians just shoot down a $300 million AWACS plane that was flying along the Azov Sea coast with one of the "frankenSAM" systems that get talked about quite a bit on twitter: Bad news for Vlad if they did.

I'm not in a position to be able to confirm that but strongly suspect that's accurate.

Think you already know the answer. If clubs like that had any class and a spirit of Corinthian fair play they would have agreed to modify the relegation format to something sensible by now. They don't so they didn't. The crazy thing is that there's a scenario in which they both get to stay up if the LL champion is promoted and Club 42 is relegated to the Highland League. Brechin replacing Clyde would not be good news for them though.

In addition to John Ward who has been mentioned above a couple of younger players Murdoch and Fullerton were also moved on. Maybe the first time poster who made the comment is not happy about that for some reason.

Think it should have been obvious that I was referring to this wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruddy The new keeper has been at clubs like Real Murcia, Wolves and Plymouth Argyle but seems to have played very few first team games over the course of his career.

Elsewhere, EK appear to be back on the rails again:

Ciaran Dalrymple was a recent signing in that regard:

Assume Jack Ruddy is this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruddy

Could make a point about a possibly weakened Celtic B side for this one potentially relegating Edinburgh Uni rather than Gretna down the road but Edinburgh Uni voted for B teams so finding it hard to work up any sympathy. Different story if the Shire become part of the mix which I guess still isn't completely out of the question.

20k seems like a relatively small sum of money to result in the outright liquidation of a League One club but don't know what sort of net worth the people running the club right now would have. Presumably if HMRC received their money after the mass player clearout the show will go on without any large point deduction or their record for the season being expunged (which would have been good news for Accies in terms of the title race but I wouldn't want to happen).

On NonLeagueMatters a poster has stated that HMRC have petitioned the courts for a winding up order and liquidation. Can't find that anywhere else. Has anyone heard that's happening?

It would only take a couple more bad results from EK now for there to be a genuine title race. Mick Kennedy's past exploits with Darvel suggest that could conceivably happen so hopefully the other potential contenders (Cumbernauld Colts excepted because they already have it) are doing what they need to do to be able to comply with the SPFL's bronze level licensing requirements on whatever the grace period timeline is. If anyone thinks I am off base with this bear in mind Tranent rattled seven past EK in a Scottish Cup game not that long ago.

Elsewhere: Couple of interesting results. Maybe there's still a very slim chance that preparations for bronze level licensing might be worthwhile this season?

Looks like they are only using that in their address though. The full name is in the documents OK. The main question I would have is how much space is being left for spectators. If I am understanding the drawings provided correctly where the enclosure is now will become a flat 2 metre wide pathway between a barrier and a perimeter fence. Hopefully this makes licensing possible.

Couple of interesting results elsewhere:

Correct on the first part, but think you are wrong about the rent from Clyde and other pitch related rentals because that's tied into a 50 year lease at this point. What the club doesn't get is office space related income. When the stadium was built that was expected to be one of the ways Accies could be sustainable despite the relatively small support.

Think it also had a lot to do with getting debts cleared before the ownership change.

It appears to be the latter with promotion of the WoS champion with no club relegated into the WoS from the LL being another way an opening for a new team could be generated. The fun and games start if the opposite to that happens and they wind up with 81 clubs but that's almost certainly not happening this season.

The Nottinghamshire miners of Scottish football would maybe be a better analogy given the history of your town.

Elsewhere:

Maybe not given what's on twitter:

Looks like the trialist striker from last week has been officially signed now given he is named this time.