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I think they will be going by all the work they've been doing. I know its been mentioned that they are working to get the cover for a 100.

They're seperate proposals indepedent of each other. There's nothing to suggest that LL2 would happen if SPFL3 occurs. EDIT: Don't think they even count as proposals at the moment since there's nothing set out other than vague ideas of what they could be.

Reminded me to check how the WOS Wrestling tour was doing sales wise. They've cancelled one show in Bournemouth already. The only interactive map for a show is Southampton where they've sold say 80% of the seats. It will be interesting to see if it does well enough to prolong the WoS/NXTuk divide.

Hopefully the UEL1 and UEL2 have no bonus points or the same level bonus points. That way you should still see movement between say 10-20.

I suppose the one thing that the EoS has in terms of being able to block a decision is the 3 way agreement between the LL, EoS and SoS with regards to promotion and relegation.

Could have been worse I suppose.

I'd never heard of Bonnyrigg or Haddington applying previously. Only that Kelty and Auchinleck were trying at a similar time with both told to join either EoS or SoS with Kelty accepting the idea and Auchinleck rejecting. Haven't seen anything on here about Lochee United applying. Maybe i've overlooked something, but with all the fuss that would bring over North of Tay/EoS/Juniors i'm sure there would of been enough back and forth over it by now.

So did haddington and bonnyrigg have to fork out another couple grand to apply again this year?

Then why did Dalkeith and Blackburn only apply once they were officially accepted into the EoS?

£2,000 a year ago. Not sure if this year's prize money breakdown is available.

1-6 Nobody's scared 1&2 They'd rather their league season and cup competitions be the focus and not have to have it all boil down to the final couple of weeks in a play-off situation. If the EoS Premier doesn't have to schedule their season around end of season play-offs it gives them an extra week or two space out the league campaign and a cup final. 3. If a East Super League club can offer promotion to the Lowland League some players will choose it as an easier pathway. Especially if there is an equal financial offer from a EoS Premier team projected to be mid-table and the East Super League club is expected to win their league. 4. EoS has sponsors and the East Region has sponsors. Put it all in one big pot of money standards can be raised . 5. Casual fans will go to whatever game attracts their interest and the EoS want that interest to be in their league members not someone else's. 6. I don't think it gets proper attention, which is why I called it limited. Why lose that limited space when a non-league writer in a national newspaper decides to talk about something occuring in the East Region. Then I don't know the local papers well enough but there's going to be some that split coverage between East Region and EoS. Or East Region alone. In which case the EoS would rather have all those clubs under their banner so that the general awareness of their league is stronger. 7. Finite number of match officials and the EoS doesn't want split interests. That way they can get those that are considered to be the best officials assigned to their games.

Scared of, more like representing the best interests of their league and its membership. The fact you think it boils down to play-offs shows a certain short sightedness. Why negotiate a 4 team play-off when it can be 3? If it's 3 team they're a step closer to automatic promotion for the EoS Premier Champion. Why lose EoS calibre players to East Region Juniors? Why lose out on regional sponsors for competitions and clubs to East Region Juniors? Why lose out on casual fans when an EoS game is postponed who opt to go to a East Region Junior club game? Why lose out on an already limited media attention that gets paid to non-SPFL leagues? Why lose out on match officials to East Region Junior games? Get it all under one EoS roof and they maximise all the opportunities available to them.

It has already improved quite a bit from what it started as. But for the Juniors to prove their reputation true its still going to take years to filter through. Then you're also looking for the off field standing to match improvements off the field, so increased sponsorships etc. Fingers crossed the HL/LL champion wins the SPFL playoff this season.

It's not like the Lowland League would be much better from a Cowdenbeath point of view. Bonnyrigg Rose*** BSC Glasgow Civil Service Strollers Cowdenbeath Cumbernauld Colts Dalbeattie Star East Kilbride East Stirlingshire Edinburgh University Edusport Academy Gala Fairydean Rovers Gretna 2008 Linlithgow Rose*** Spartans Stirling University Vale of Leithen *** Took Bonnyrigg & Linlithgow as getting promoted from the EoS and selected to replace Selkirk

The North Caledonian League could always continue their mixed Senior/Amateur existence outside the pyramid. There would be nothing to stop individual clubs moving into a pyramid league if they felt they had the wherewithal to compete at that level.

The yellow highlights are the only bit that really matters in terms of being an email from Ian Maxwell. Everything after is just a draft statement announcing something that hasn't actually happened. How do you know it's just a draft statement? Stuff like the underlined section mentioning "the most recent Pyramid Working Group" which was referencing a meeting that happened in either September or October, but has since been surpassed by the November 14th meeting.

In the Sunday Mail Michael Gannon's article was basically in supporting the idea. Citing the examples of Andy Roberston, David Bates and Scott McKenna who played against real men in their youth. Of course McKenna and Bates did that while being on loan from Aberdeen and Raith Rovers, and Andy Robertson having been let go from Celtic when he was what 15-16? It's almost as if all 3 are actually examples of the existing model working rather than the need for Colt teams

As important as forming tiers 7-8 is long term. It shouldn't take away from the importance of how promotion/relegation will between the EoS Premier and below next year. With a 16 team league and possibly having to take into account knock on effects of the HL/LL playoff. I doubt they'd relegated more than 3 clubs from the Premier. If enough clubs come along for 3 conferences. It maybe wouldn't translate into exciting promotion campaigns. And doesn't seem to acceptable to regionalise in those circumstances.

Think he's talking about the likes of Scone and Tayport and the handful of other Tayside clubs that fall south of the Tay here.

In terms of next year if they only have enough teams for 2 divisions I think they'd opt for regionalised North/South Divisions. It's when you get to 3 divisions that I think the seeded conference approach might take place as rationalisation at that point might lead to lopsided divisions quality wise that are treated as equal.

Can understand a all in tier 7. Early on it was looking like there would be a couple of teams rooted to the bottom of each conference. Now 10-12 is looking fairly competitive so there might not be enough desire to split into 3 tiers.

I don't believe they've set out the criteria like this in previous years. When they would announce on their website that applications were open it was usually just the application form they would promote. The criteria documents maye being tucked away amongst other documents. While some might take the criteria as becoming more stringent, I take it as being more helpful. Last year there was the case of the Amatuer team being asked to withdraw an application so that it wouldn't be rejected. Having this guidance more publicly available should avoid things like that going forward.

The grace period is for being able to meet the entry criteria rather than applying.

https://www.eosfl.com/ EDIT: Some might look at that list of entry criteria and get scared off applying because they won't have everything in place for 31st March 2019. In which case the EoSFL has thought of that with their last criterion and looks like once again they aren't trying to scare clubs off from applying by offering a possible grace period for getting everything in place.

This is the spread of clubs across the SPFL, HL, LL, EoS, SoS, SJFA and NCL.