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20 minutes ago, Ceejayar said:
I don’t believe that GIRUU is Frank Hill but the club needs to come out and say who is going to be running it in 4 weeks time. Gall is going , Hill says he’s not taking it on, I’d imagine the rest of the executive committee who are all pretty much John’s pals will leave as well and I’ve heard that a couple of the non exec guys are leaving as well, there needs to be an EGM called so that everyone with the club at heart can have there say and not just an AGM which is a closed shop to season ticket holders.
Good idea, but how do you identify them?
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I'm no fan of Darvel, but is it not possible he's been sacked for something totally unconnected to football?
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8 hours ago, LoonsYouthTeam said:
That first article seems to suggest that initially a majority were in favour? Less clubs, more piece of the pie? Scottish football has always been about self interest hasn't it, imagine if all owners ran their clubs for the benefits of football and supporters
You can imagine all you like: they can't.
Every "club" in the SPFL is actually a limited company. The law is very clear: the directors MUST run that company for the benefit of its shareholders, not that of the supporters, football as a whole, or anyone else.
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2 hours ago, glensmad said:
You are aware that no West league existed in the pyramid until 2020, and as soon as one was formed the West Region SJFA told all of its member clubs to join the new pyramid league ? Every single West team joined the pyramid at the soonest possible opportunity. They couldn't join the pyramid any sooner as no pyramid league existed for them to join.
Was there anything to prevent a dozen or so ambitious West Junior clubs getting together and forming such a pyramid league?
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34 minutes ago, Deanburn Dave said:
The Lowland League finishes too early for 95% of the LL fans. Has to happen though because of the protectionist racket that is the Club 42 playoff.
The LL clubs must have known the timetable. Was anything stopping tcki off the season a week earlier?
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4 hours ago, welshbairn said:
A Buckie director told me last year that Peterhead and Cove directors warned him that visiting officials get lousy hospitality in the SPFL compared to the Highland League and he had no interest in promotion.
It must be nice to know your directors' priorities ...
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3 hours ago, CityDave94 said:
The whole point might have been all about stopping Brechin from escaping. It should create shudders down the spines of clubs in the SPFL from this half of the country to avoid becoming club 42.
The other half of the country seem to have even more reason to be fearful:. the four south clubs relegated to the LL so far have just finished 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th.
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8 hours ago, greendot said:
The Highland league - sponsored by comedy central!
The responsibility for this farce is with Buckie and/or the SPFL and/or the SFA.
What have the HL done wrong?
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5 hours ago, Skyline Drifter said:
I see they are not compliant on the Diversity and Inclusion point. They have my sympathy. It's an absolute nightmare to comply with that sort of thing and it only came in a couple of years ago and was made far more stringent last year.
Have you actually read the requirement?
"The club shall nominate a Board / Committee member who has lead responsibility for equality in the club.
The club shall publish a public commitment to addressing inequalities and preventing discrimination. This should be published, as a minimum, on the club website.
The club shall establish and implement a policy for equality, which shall include provisions dealing with harassment and unfair treatment. This policy shall be communicated throughout the organisation."
So, they need to nominate one individual, and do a bit of cutting and pasting of other folks' policies. Hardly a nightmare, is it? Maybe a couple of hours work?
Also, it's the same requirement for entry level, so they should already have done it.
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On 20/04/2024 at 02:01, Eednud said:
More Motherwell connections Down Under. Dixie Deans and Jumbo Muir with Adelaide City in 1978. This was an away game at Footscray JUST that City won 1-0. Dixie Deans scored 30 goals in 3 seasons with City. Jim Muir played 5 times for Australia in 1980 (England, Northern Ireland 3, Mexico). The same pen picture of Jim Muir was used in programmes for all the games).
I love that "has added considerable toughness to the defence".
I suspect they mean "thug".
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Buckie have won the HL
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On 12/04/2024 at 20:52, Swello said:
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There are other rules about carrying dayglo vests, warning triangles and first aid kits but I've got no clue if this is enforced much. Also - Germany's border with France and a bunch of other places will have controls, so I assume that might cause delays.
Are you sure? They have this dreadful thing called the EU, and for most of its members the Schengen agreement. means no border controls.
I can't remember the last time I saw any passport or customs checks within Western Europe.
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On 16/04/2024 at 08:34, An Absolute Imposter said:
On same day we had league games and other cup games scheduled, some were called off because of the weather, but the Cip Final does deserve some respectful treatment from the fixture schedulers.
Don't blame the fixture guy - he only works within what the rules dictate. If the clubs want the final to have a clear day, they just need to vote for it.
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19 hours ago, Quentin Prankett said:
I was thinking it’s time for a new cup as the leagues are about to end after a lot of rain and yet May, a traditional football month goes unused. Through my analysis I note that the B teams aren’t in the Lowland League cup so I’ll keep them out and the league champs have SPFL playoffs as do the Highland League champs. That leave 15 LL teams and 17 HL teams, or as I like to say 32 in total. Obviously to spare costs we need to try to regionalise admitting it will be hard with this distribution. Here’s my idea.
32 teams drawn into 4 groups 8. That means each team gets 7 games with at least 3 at home, we could have it so the teams who get 3 homes games are home on Saturdays and the teams with 4 are home midweek. After that the top 4 of each group propels forward into the last 16.
Teams will be seeded 1-4 based on position so all group winners play teams who came 4th and the 2’s v the 3’s. These ties would be two legged.
From there we have the final 8. At this point these teams are put into a group of 8 teams playing each other once. Then at the end each team has it’s seeding from 1-8 for the quarter finals which goes as follows:
1v8
2v7
3v6
4v5
These would be played over two legs. The semi finals would then be made based on seeding:
Highest seed v Lowest Seed
2nd Highest seed v 2nd lowest seed.
These would be played over two legs.
The final would then be played at Hampden Park Letherby Drive Glasgow G42 9BA.
What an opportunity for all the teams to reach the big stadium for a final and also it means the problem of not enough games is solved.
Can imagine a fair bit of neutral interest in this too.
So, 19 extra games for the finalists. That should put paid to the close season ...
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2 hours ago, Cyclizine said:
The Mallard is the pub at the station in Dingwall
When I was a lad, it was the Station “refreshment rooms”, aka “the Station” or “the Refresh”. It was licensed, at a time when there were only four proper pubs in town, and it was popular with under-age drinkers. Allegedly.
God knows why it was renamed the Mallard, after a locomotive that never came anywhere near Dingwall AFAIK.
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I was there in 1966. We can do it again!
Oh hang on, we lost ...
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14 hours ago, Arthurlie1981 said:
IIRC correctly the West Region Board informed members that they were closing their doors and that unless they wanted to start their own league then they were to apply to the newly formed WOSFL. There was never an offer from the SJFA to do what they did in the Midlands and North so what were the clubs supposed to do?
Too late now, but did the board actually have the power to disband the league without a vote of the members? I doubt it.
Whether they had the power or not, anyone disagreeing (or even just wanting an open debate) could have called an EGM.
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16 hours ago, allyg1977 said:
Wow what a statement to make I think u need to go back to school to learn history talbot has nothing to do with the orange order so I would kindly ask u to remove such allegation
Read his post again. He didn't say Talbot had anything to do with the OO.
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32 minutes ago, Talbotphotos said:
Why not go for WOSFL. EOSFL, HL & LL all at tier 5, HL & LL already tier 5 so why not add in WOS & EOS? Surely that would be the most progressive move?
Winners then enter a mini league and the winner (assuming meets the criteria) face off against the bottom of League 2 for a place in the SPFL.
Having it regionalised tier 5 with the 4 regions makes it a much more attractive pyramid system, instead of paying crazy amounts of money on transport in tier 5, better use of the money would be investing in ground/playing staff? Once or if you reach the SPFL then you need to accept travelling anywhere in Scotland.
1. Exactly what geographical 'region' would the LL cover? How would relegation from or promotion to LL work?
2. Where do you get the "crazy amounts of money on transport in tier 5" from? I've heard no complaints from LL clubs, and the HL have been managing happily with much greater distances since God was a boy.
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35 minutes ago, Spyro said:
Hypothetical questions but, would it make any difference or be easier for Gala to register the new team as Gala Rovers? Continue to use them as a feeder but bring back the old name, Rovers were a biggish deal in the Borders before the merger
And for Livi to maybe bail Livi United out the shit (fk knows what is happening there) and use their registration for a feeder team at that level?
Both I know are not happening but just curious at what the options might be
Careful. If there were nothing to prevent that, then the OF could get their 'colts' into the SPFL as Govan United, or whatever.
Luckily, the SFA Article 13 (Dual Interests in Clubs) seems to close that particular door.
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41 minutes ago, newcastle broon said:
Berwick Rangers had a reserve side in the EoSFL for years.
As had Arbroath.
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1 hour ago, Cowdenleith said:
What are the rules these days if a club cannot continue in the SPFL, therefore creating a spare place?
Easy. Some spiv buys the assets, starts a new club called "The" Edinburgh City, applies for the vacant place and gets in on the nod.
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52 minutes ago, Ginaro said:
There's unlikely to be to an actual sports journalist at the paper anymore, and if no one from the clubs are providing their own match report or pushing for coverage then there won't be any.
A pretty low bar for his next ‘challenge’.
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This is simply typical of the dismal quality of ‘local’ papers, generally now owned by large national groups. TBF they are under attack by the internet, which means fewer readers and even fewer adverts, leading to a concentration on ‘regional’ journalism.
it will only get worse.
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League reconstruction: Let's hear your view
in Scottish Football - Fans' Views
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I like the 14 club idea.
Another refinement is to have one additional round of fixtures, giving 40 games, and balancing home and away games.
These 40th games could be on a seeded basis 1st v 2nd as above, or local derbies (also guaranteeing 4 OF games), or simply drawn randomly.