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  1. Having read Scott's original post, I decided to take in the Gretna match today.  It has been so long since I have been to Raydale, Hibs have even won the cup :P

    At the start of the match, I feared the worse when I saw the main Gretna striker, he looked so unfit.  How wrong could I be, he was the hardest working player on the park.  He must have covered every blade of grass on the pitch.  Other than him, there was no other outstanding Gretna player.  The team just seemed to be well organised and tight in every area.  The new management team have certainly got them working well together. 

    Defensively, I think that any team will find them hard to break down this season.  I can only think of one effort that the students had on goal, when Jamieson saved well from the near post (Johnny captain??).  This was despite the uni team having large periods of being on the ball, they just seemed to do nothing with it.

    Up front Gretna looked threatening for the majority of the match.  I can see why they put six past Whitehill last week (Sir Peter must have been worth hearing).  Today they could easily have done the same.   There was certainly more than goal between the teams.

    It was good to be back and it won't be my only visit this season.

     

     

     

     

     

  2. 50 minutes ago, RalphM said:

    I don't get how entry prices can vary around the grounds, I'd have thought the league would have set the prices at the start of each season

    Why?

    Each club have their own individual circumstances. It should be left up to each club what to charge.

  3. 17 minutes ago, newcastle broon said:

    was it no part of the criteria that some sort of youth set up had to be in place anyway ? 

    No.  If a youth system was in place, certain additional criteria had to be met.  However you don't need a youth setup to get the license.

  4. 18 minutes ago, gaz1959 said:

    South of Scotland teams can enter. They were all sent application forms, but no teams applied. The league allows teams from all 3 leagues to join if they wish. Lowland, EOS and SOS.

    That is correct they are allowed to enter but if they did, (allegedly)  a few of the "Edinburgh" clubs based would withdraw due to the increased travelling costs.

  5. 2 minutes ago, Queenserse said:

    I was told at the time that this league was not set up on the proviso that no DnG teams from either league would be permitted to apply. So why are Edusport in it?

    I don't thnk that they play their U20 matches at Annan.

  6. D&G participation.

    I think that if any of the clubs down here joined, you may see an exit of some of the existing clubs. Travel costs at our level prohibit any D&G involvement.

    What needs to happen first of all is to sort out the ridiculous registration rules that prohibit SYFA registered player's turning out for their parent club.

  7. I thought Gretna 08 had nothing to do with the Gretna of old cic :o

    And where did I say they did?

    The only connection is the supporters of the old club formed a new club to keep football in Gretna as fine you know. No body who ran the old club has or had nothing to do with the new one.

    This was more of a personal observation pf the amount of clubs that I have seen playing a club hailing from Gretna who play in black and white,

  8. In a similar vein. It got me thinking about how many clubs Gretna / Gretna '08 have played since the old Gretna were elected into Scottish Football in 2002.

    These are all clubs that the old and new Gretna have played at least once in official competitions in the last 12 years. I make it 77 and I have seen almost all of them in at least one of the matches played.

    Abbey Vale

    Aberdeen

    Airdrie United

    Albion Rovers

    Alloa Athletic

    Ayr United

    Berwick Rangers

    Berwick Rangers EOS

    BSC Glasgow

    Celtic

    Civil Service Strollers

    Clyde

    Coldstream

    Cove Rangers

    Cowdenbeath

    Craigroyston

    Creetown

    Crichton

    Dalbeattie Star

    Derry City

    Dumbarton

    Dundee

    Dundee United

    Duns

    East Fife

    East Kilbride

    East Stirlingshire

    Easthouses Lily

    Edinburgh City

    Elgin City

    Eyemouth United

    Falkirk

    Fleet Star

    Forfar Athletic

    Gala Fairydean

    Gala Fairydean Rovers (merged but is it officially a different club??)

    Greenock Morton

    Hamilton Academical

    Hawick Royal Albert

    Heart of Midlothian

    Heriot-Watt University

    Heston Rovers

    Hibernian

    Inverness Caledonian Thistle

    Kelso United

    Kilmarnock

    Leith Athletic

    Livingston

    Lothian Thistle Hutchison Vale

    Mid-Annandale

    Montrose

    Motherwell

    Ormiston

    Partick Thistle

    Peebles

    Peterhead

    Preston Athletic

    Queen of the South

    Queen's Park

    Raith Rovers

    Rangers

    Ross County

    Selkirk

    Spartans

    St Cuthbert Wanderers

    St Johnstone

    St Mirren

    Stenhousemuir

    Stirling Albion

    Stirling University

    Stranraer

    Threave Rovers

    Tynecastle

    University of Edinburgh

    University of Stirling

    Vale of Leithen

    Whitehill Welfare

  9. Jesus. You must have some side if Brandon Marshall is your back up.

    True I am spoiled for choice with WRs. Eric Decker is having a great season so far and Justin Blackmon scored a lot last week after coming back from suspension. He was on my bench last week and had 136 yds receptions and one touchdown. Hard to leave out again.

    Marshall has has not been brilliant the last three weeks after a great opening two weeks.

  10. I'm in a quandary, do I risk keeping wide reciever Calvin Johnson in my fantasy team? He was injured in the warm up last Sunday so got me no points. He hasn't trained so far this week but could be back for Sunday. He has already gained me losts of points this season so I am loathed to drop him to the bench even for a week.

    I have Brandon Marshall of the Bears as back up however.

  11. Who gets the chance to get the tickets presale?

    I first saw them in King Tuts around 1993?? Much to my wife's annoyance (she wasn't there) as she is a massive fan. We must have seen them around a dozen times since in venues all over the country but not The Barrowlands.

  12. I can't find anything in the SFL or SFA rules that you have to have been in business as a football club for 3 years to join the the SFL. I did find this (below) in the Club Licensing section of the SFA rules, but there's nothing to say you can't put zeros in when you haven't been trading. The point of the financial records is to show you are a responsibly run football club, not to show how long you have been in existence. I fully admit I could be wrong on everything I've said here, feel free to prove me an arse.. rolleyes.gif

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    My link

    P.S. As far as I know the UEFA 3 year rules only apply to the Champions League and Europa League..

    We have had to wait three years before we could apply for SFA membership (which is now in).

    Anyway there is life after death :) (even though the new club was formed before the old one was technically dead)

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