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garrellburn

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  1. Agreed, the explanation from Valeman has the ring of truth about it, unlike some of the other comments. Staggering that the design of a facility such as this can be left to someone with so little experience of what is really required. I wonder how much he gets paid? Salaries for top Council jobs are out of all proportion to the abilities of the people holding them it seems from all the cockups that we keep hearing about. Havn't been to Port Glasgow yet, but I wouldn't say Carluke is the ideal example of a new style ground, spectators are too far away from the action and the hilltop location is a bit windswept. Renfrew is still the best so far, but nothing to beat an old style ground like our own providing that it can be properly maintained and updated as necessary.
  2. Overall Kilsyth were undoubtably the better team going forward but our defence needs strengthening urgently or we will find ourselves cut off in the bottom half. David Waters is being sorely missed and no adequate replaclement has been brought in. Salim has now failed with two penalty kicks although Danny Smith, our best player on the night, netted when the keeper spilled it. We were rather unlucky not to get an equaliser in the last few minutes when Rossvale were on the ropes but thats how it goes. As for the venue, it is one of the worst for spectating that I have ever been to in over sixty years of watching junior football and I can tell you I have been to some real dumps, but it would have cost no more, probably less to put decent terracing along the FULL length of the side opposite the sports hall and a little covered area such as Renfrew have would be pennies compared to what the entire complex must have cost. But that has nothing to do with Rossvale, it's all down to East Dunbartonshire Council who obviously have no idea of what is required for a proper junior venue. I wonder if NEW ADAMSLIE will turn out any better?
  3. Rutherglen Glencairn and Cambuslang Rangers as well. Going back to the days before the West Region Shotts won two successive promotions and were champions of the top division in the following season. This was after they had been banned for a year for being naughty.
  4. Yes, add 3/4 and you will have a starting eleven.
  5. Thats very true. We'll see what you can do at Thorniewood, wishing you thge best of luck there, its a good club with very good people.
  6. A good start in our friendlies, but brought back down to earth in games against Harestanes and Lithgy. I'm sure big Jim is getting a good squad together and we'll be an improvement on last season but not expecting miracles.
  7. My Bartholomews map gives it as 2866 feet, admittedly a fairly old map and it may have been resurveyed since then. Either that or it is actually growing and is a little bit higher now. However the last figure of the height in metres is rounded off to the nearest significant integer, as is the conversion figure for metres/feet. When multiplying them together you should discard the last two integers in the resulting resulting sum, similarly when you apply the divisor, lets just settle for 2869 feet and now you are a full 3 feet higher than before!
  8. You must have carries an awful amount of rocks up with you, it was only 2866 feet before.
  9. May have played as a trialist, but almost certainly not as a signed player (I think)
  10. Little doubt that Holm Park will hold more spectators but I would think Lochburn can easily take at least 1000 so should be adequate. Parking is the biggest issue for visituing fans; bearing in mind tthat both are "visitors". Maybe 20 cars in the area just outside the entrance, most of which will be taken up by players and officials. The road heading up to the canal (Lochburn) allows for some parking but not really enough for a club with perhaps a couple of coaches as well as more than a few in cars. Never found it a problem to find a parking space at Holm Park.
  11. Well there are a lot closer than Vale of Leven and Duntocher where we had to go to at one time in the league cup. The sections will be adjusted every couple of years to give different opposition so we may get the Rob Roy games back then.
  12. Names evolve through time as the main activity of the club changes. Queens Park are undoubtably the oldest club which played ORGANISED football in Scotland, but they were simply following on from the example in England where a set of rules for the game had been drawn up. Queens Park's main activity was cricket and they wanted to play another game during the winter months. They needed opposition of course and contacted the Vale of Leven sporting club whose main activity was shinty, but also partcipated in cricket, quoiting and rowing. The rest is history as they say, and the game quickly caught on but the names of the clubs did not immediately change to reflect what soon became the main activity of the club. Many clubs which sprang up played a range of sports and some had the suffix "Football and Athletic Club". The "athletic" part was dropped as football became the main activity of most of them. It was perhaps natural that only the town name or other suffix reflecting the cultural leanings of the club, e.g. Celtic, Harp, Hibernian, was retained. New clubs still being formed today seem not to have any suffix in many instances. I never hear Rossvale, Gartcairn or many of the new Lowland league clubs being referred to with any other added part to their name. Maybe we should just refer to them by what most of their fans call them, "the Gers", the "Tic" or "Hibees", the "Peasy" and so on.
  13. AGM this Sunday evening, 7pm in clubhut. Come along and hopefully you will be informed.
  14. Thanks for your good wishes, your own service to the club over the past ten years has been outstanding and you will always be welcome at Duncansfield.
  15. Don't think anyone really knows apart from themselves. It was a show of hands (holding red or green cards) and although there were 4 reds it would be hard to say who they were bearing in mind the brief time they were in the air. It was just noted as an overwhelming majority rather than an actual count. There may also have been one or two abstentions so not neccesarily 121 in favour, but a clear result nevertheless.
  16. Are treason and arson in a naval dockyard not still capital offences? Who will hang for this? Nominate your man.
  17. Well, it's taken nearly 250 pages and almost 5000 posts to get completely off the subject ' junior football, what is the future' but we have finally got there. It usually happens somewhere around the second page
  18. Not since Yokxit, it is now an independent, self governing entity, you have to produce your passport to gain entry to Holm Park.
  19. What about Rob Roy, he was a well known rover. The club named after him have roved from East Dunbartonshire into North Lanarkshire, but that was long after Queen Victoria snuffed it.
  20. Albion Rovers, but their name implies that at least they are free to rove and play anywhere they like.
  21. For a club that played in front of one man and two dugs for many years it is not bad considering Motherwell were playing in a semi final today. Hopefully a god few will follow them through to Hurlford next week as with only one goal in it they must still have a good chance.
  22. Time to kill this thread, Burnieman. Its degenerated into the usual mud slinging and gone way off topic. Start a new one when we do have some indication of what the future is actually going to be for Junior football.
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