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Says the idiot who constantly posts on here spouting the same nonsense With his big capital letters constantly , the irony ..........
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You make a really interesting point regarding the junior cup semi finals , I remember going to two games at love street in the semis both Friday night games 1998 then 1999 I'm sure it was buffs v arthurlie twice with both victors them both nights eventually winning the Scottish cup , arthurlie and kilwinning respectively , back to the point of crowds kilwinning filled the Caledonia stand - behind the goals - on both occasions with some spill over going into the north bank cage to the left , the season we played buffs 2015/2016 they couldn't come close to filling behind the goals at bellsdale so yes crowds are dwindling , realise taking the game away from a senior neutral venue on a Friday night and competing with other Saturday fixtures will affect the crowd but even when you take the cumnock v Talbot scottish cup crowd this coming Saturday it will be maybe between 1,000 and 1,500 , this fixture in the Scottish in the 90's would have been pushing 3,000 , it's a shame to see really.
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What's happening here is so called lesser teams are seeing an opportunity to leap frog bigger teams and get a head start on them , dalkeith couldn't lace boness and linlithgow boots normally in the juniors , instead they're taking the opportunity to leap frog the bigger east junior teams and also getting away from a shambolic ran level of football , for doing this I wish them all the best , haddington will be next,
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This suits the sjfa , they don't want any proposals , they dont want anything other than to remain with the present status quo , turkeys voting for Xmas comes to mind , any change will be up to the club's and the club's only as these guys won't want to effectively lose their positions .
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And also of course that the big boys team were playing that kilwinning people are mad on.
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Can only speak for myself and nothing to do with the club I support but when BSC are trying to lead the way I'm a bit sceptical, a club that doesn't have its own ground , that play up in alloa in front of 40 fans at most aren't a club that I hold in high regard one bit , they're a shambles to me .
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Good post and I like the sound of that , I honestly think that a full pyramid structure is coming and a west of Scotland league as a tier would slot in just about perfect .
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I see I fully get that whitburn are your second team , I knew you were a bit caught between both clubs hence my confusion ............... but both Blackburn and whitburn need to believe that they can win it surely though , if you don't believe in yourself nobody else will , the year largs won it we beat them 10-0 in the sectional cup at the beginning of that season , believe believe [emoji2]
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You make good points as you usually do , a wee question though , is it blackburn you support ? Always thought it was whitburn but either or do you believe every season your club enter the Scottish cup that your team have no chance of winning it?
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That's two good things , I think it was a right financial crippler to get a guy sent off in the senior Scottish , not entirely sure if it was £500 but that figure was spoke about a good few years ago , that's okay for a full time club but not junior clubs and more so if it was early in the comp.
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Likewise a day out in the early Scottish senior cup can be a costly non profit making business too , say a day out at wick or such like in front of a hundred or so fans ,a good few yellow cards and a red or two ( was it £500 per red card in 2009/2010 or such like ?) , Pay your clubs transport , pay players a win bonus if the result goes favourably and you're probably seeing little profit out a journey to wick if not a loss, and all in a competition you can't win , pretty much like your junior cup analogy . A pyramid would be welcomed but like our Scottish junior cup there are a good few bottom tier senior far flung fixtures which operate at a financial loss too, and at a level that our clubs would be aspiring to get to so it's not a great all round role model .
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Understand that the junior cup to teams like islavale and with all respect to them is a bit like the senior Scottish cup to us - not a hope in hell of winning it - however teams in the top couple of tiers in the east and west must see it as huge and more than just a day out , they need to see themselves as of at least having a chance of winning it or there's no point in entering it , that's well over 40 teams who should believe that they can win it , so called unfancied teams like largs and Renfrew have won it in the past and everyone should want to emulate them rather than seeing it as a wee jolly day out to get wrecked . If junior teams were to enter into west pyramid league and a non league Scottish cup like the fa vase was implemented then it would do for me though.
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I know exactly what you're saying mate and I do see the bigger picture I really do but also that one win of the Scottish junior cup in 80 years eclipses anything , it eclipses our two enjoyable Scottish senior involvements with ease and it would eclipse another 80 Scottish senior cup involvements - I totally get you regarding financial aspects of the senior Scottish that's a total no brainer and can earn clubs extremely tidy funds that can be put Into ground improvements etc etc . But ........ The Scottish junior cup is gigantic to myself and other junior fans - I'm not a dinosaur and I like to embrace change but the Scottish junior cup is a trophy we can win and have the best footballing days of our lives in doing so , the senior cup is great too but ultimately youre just working your way to an eventual hiding as the bridge gets too far , that's not being negative and defeatist , that's just being realistic .
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I'm liking the idea of a west of Scotland junior league in a pyramid structure but the one huge factor is no Scottish junior cup , it is a massive factor for me , if I had to choose between the Scottish senior and it's potential money and the junior cup that we have won and can win again then I'm thinking of the latter , it's not to be underestimated and would leave a huge hole .
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Die off ? A bit like Clydebank then .........