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Adults are allowed to train in groups of 5

Yes sorry what I meant by that was teams like Mauchline were a certainty to go up and maybe had signings lined up for the first division. Or urself for the prem, are players still happy to sign if it means maybe a season in the lower league.

Where did Cargo end up. Gilgallon to Kilbride is a great signing. What about Mauchline, Killie United, Waverly and Irvine, are they still able to attract higher calibre players even with the promotion still up in the air.

With the green light been given for training to restart in some shape of form who is signing who ? I saw some of Kilbride Thistles signings on twitter, looks like they could make a return to the top end of the table. Any other confirmed signings for clubs or realistic rumours

Listen to all the fans of other clubs already shitting themselves. Wanyjbg point deductions. Embarrassing. Arsenal/spurs / villa/ west ham/ Chelsea players were all caught training during the worst stage of the pandemic. No clamour for points deductions and probably not as many inches of gutter press about it either. Darvel were wrong. 100% but it's really not worth all these pages of bitching.

Team can now train in groups of 5 from Monday. Hopfully some of your teams don't train in groups of 6, would need to have the book thrown at them eh.

Clubs training is permitted again. Good news. Hopefully only 2/3 months away from the serious stuff starting. Maybe only groups of 5s but there is light at the end of the tunnel

Did they break the government guidelines? Yes. Seriously tho who gives a f**k, if this was 2 weeks ago I would also be outraged but See the minute they tell that group of Darvel ( or any other teams ) players that they cant train as a group but Instead meet up and go to a beer garden or a pub together and get wrecked with possibly other teams in the same premises then it's all just getting hypocritical to me. That picture could be bottles of beer instead of water in a sunny beer garden and it's a non story. The minute its water in a public area exercising its against " rules" MADNESS The guys are trying to get fit and cant while other guys can go get wrecked with 50 other people. Technically they are in the wrong so its hard to defend as such but it's a complete shambles of a GUIDLINE

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Yes seen loads of teams announcing signings

Did wee Nicola announce anything that will help the Amateur team get back playing or training. She talks in riddles for me

Oaft a little passive aggressive here Graham. Keep up the good work

Has your sponsor not hit a beer garden. Get all the lads around and do sprints to the bar and back. That's will be allowed Obviously tongue in cheek but shows how mental this all is. Booze as a team all u like. Just dont dare jog as a team

Fair enough Graham. Surely in this day and age AGMs can be had thru conference calls tho

I heard that almost all of the proposals have been binned by the executive as they dont meet the Scottish amatuer standards/ rules. If this is true then for me is just embarrassing for the clubs that's put them in and another example that they are just putting propels forward to suit themselves and not all the clubs. Doesn't even sound like they are legal never mind beneficial. Either way the ayrshire fa really need to stop dragging their heels. Almost every other association at this level have let the clubs know what's happening for the season ahead.

And our pubs the mora

What is the acab thing? What does it mean

Alot if Amateur teams do not have the luxury of a "home ground". They simply have a town/ scheme that they are based and need to apply on a weekly basis for a pitch to play on as close to their base as possible. Then u get the teams that do have a home ground but choose to play certain team on astroturf etc. In regards to how teams know where their opposition play, that is usually discussed between the two club contacts in the lead up to the game that week. It would be perfect if every club in scotland had a specific home park but it's just not possible with the condition of most council pitches and also some areas have far too many teams to all have a dedicated home pitch. Take Shortlees AFC for example. One of Scotlands best teams and a great community club. Their registered home park is a place called Burnpark and as far as I'm aware appears on the ayrshire and Scottish afa website, I could count on one had the amount of times they have played at their "home park" in the last 2 seasons.

To be fair I think the professionals are spending £2000 a week on testing . I'm sure I seen killie say £100 a player per week

Aye I agree. Everything moving much quicker than we thought. How can u tell adults they can sit and booze in a beer garden and then inside a pub but they cant exercise as a team with social distancing

Or Rangers

I have to say Graham the last paragraph I completely agree with. Clubs are offered the opportunity to suggest a reconstruction plan every season. Almost always clubs never suggest anything other that tweaking the bottom division. Now all a sudden the top division and even the first should be increased. I'll wager a bet that all these reconstruction ideas will be from Clubs that are acting out of self interest. An Ardeer or Beith are unlikely to make proposals. It will be clubs like Waverly, Irvine, mauchline, killie United etc. That's not a dig by any means. It's understandable that they feel hard done by but I dont see how increasing the top two divisions is suddenly in the best interest of Ayrshire football. I'd personally keep the top two the same. Make one big 2nd division of 18 teams. Play everyone once then a top and bottom split. Play everyone once again. 25 games. Done If only it was that easy.

Graham you have mentioned about the leagues needing to be completed by the safa AGM. Is that the same "this season" What I mean is that did the SAFA give permission for associations to try and complete their leagues whenever its deemed safe or were they to be stopped and the associations decide how best to award places etc. In theory, if the government allowed grassroots to get back to playing in Jan/ Feb, would the SAFA allow clubs to finish the 19/20 season then. I appreciate it's almost impossible to say if it would work with squads etc. I'm just asking if it's actually been specified if its allowed.

I'm playing devils advocate here. Say the 14 team prem was worth a try and this season was null and void. The same 3 teams would actually be promoted anyway from the last completed season. Nearly all the same teams from the season before would be promoted from the 2nd to the 1st. Other than Mauchline. Is there more sporting integrity in that or less. Again I'm not saying that's the way to go. Just putting it out there. Cheggars do u think no relegation this season would be fair? If u were restructuring to 14 in the top 2 leagues would you still relegate meaning 4 teams coming up or no relegation meaning 3 to the prem and 5 coming up to the first with no relegation or 7 with relegation

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