FairWeatherFan

Congrats to Buckie. No Chicken Littles running around saying the big, bad SPFL are banning them from the playoff for not having a Bronze license?

Yip, in good news Beith Juniors won again and finally go top of the table in the WoSFL. Should hopefully play out as EoS v. SoS.

Can you write that rule in a way that would pass a vote?

Gretna 2-1 Edinburgh University The Uni return to their EoS roots with Gretna still on a shoogly peg waiting on the SPFL2 Play-offs to go in their favour.

How can a non-SJFA club propose an SJFA rule change?

For the sake of the return to two-legged semis there's been 8 Premier games played on a Saturday. Teams left idle, games squeezed into midweek. All so that the SJFA could take the bulk of the gate money and pay it back as prize money. I still find it surprising they were able to get away it when every other cup competition is cutting out replays and even extra-time in a lot of cases.

I think its easier to complain about travel, than mention the fear of ending up on the bench or out the door.

Is that something that's actually happening?

I don't think anyone really cares about what the B teams draw at home. Its the guest fees, two extra match days and typically above average gate from those games.

I'm saying "random draw" there because that's how the 3-way Play-off is conducted to determine the home field advantage and order of the ties. And you're the one complaining about a team getting a free hit at promotion, while advocating for team(s) getting a free hit at promotion.

1v1v1 1v2v2 1v9 1v1 1v5 It's not a free hit for any team. Teams play out an entire season and you want to boil it down to what amounts to a one-off game with a random draw on home field advantage. How about focusing on greater promotion to the Lowland League instead of re-arranging deck chairs.

EK would still be in the play-offs as the champion of the Lowland League. Want to rewrite the league rules that the highest placed licenced club is the WoS Premier have at it.

Well it is, because you're looking at this solely from a West perspective. There's 3 leagues going for one spot. Not just the WoSFL. Why should another league's champion face a random team that just gets nominated because of a bit of paper?

The spots get filled already. You just want a participation trophy.

Because there's been a licensed Tier 6 Champion for every completed season since 2016-17. Why should another league champion be undermined because another league can't get itself in order. The whole thing is a nonsense argument about putting in an endless series of caveats because some in the West feel they're being held back. When by the sounds of things, Beith could have ended up licensed if it hadn't been for an extraordinary set of circumstances. Made worse by the SFA freezing applications.

Depends on the SPFL2 Play-off. Club 42 will be a Lowland area team. If the Highland champion wins promotion, two clubs are relegated from the Lowland League to make room.

That's true of this entire thread.

Since the Midlands and Brechin have beem thrown into the Lowland. I'm guessing they've realised the depth of the Highland area has been gutted and doesn't deserve automatic promotion. While the Lowland does. Same prices but increased costs as there’s more games played. Don't see that playing out as imagined.

All gone.

Same was true last season. The response was that the SJFA was losing money on it. Hence, the return to two-legged semi-finals and 60% in the semi-finals and 15% from the earlier rounds leaving 80 teams worse off when compared to the previous model. Don't think anyone would argue that the tournament at the latter stages is still supported better than the other competitions out there. Still leaves the question of whether or not its sustainable.

Club 42 relegated automatically, HL/LL Play-off winner promoted At least two weeks of Tier 5 football that way

Besides Stirling University's run with their EoS side, the recent Reserve teams stints in the 21st Century has been patchy at best. Hope the league gets a decent multi-year bond at least. 4x Berwick Rangers 2010-2014 3x Spartans 2013-2016 1x Hibernian 2013-14 1x Berwick Rangers 2007-08

Its partly because people knew what the WoSFL was being set-up to do and its the only reason why the LL, EoSFL, SoSFL, accepted it into the pyramid.

Year 1 - SJC didn't exactly go in people's favour Year 2 - WoSFL rule change to make sure the SJC is catered to from now on. Year 3 - Still not good enough, need an extra date for the two-legged semi-finals Year 4 - Looks to be undermining the SCC. Which would allow the SJC to pick more favourable dates. As with the Strathclyde/SJC divide. There's going to be teams that pick both or the SCC over SJC. Which just creates an even more cluttered league fixture list. Year 5 - Who knows maybe there is a vote to make the SJC mandatory for WoSFL clubs.