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  1. 38 minutes ago, Ray Patterson said:

    Just back in the house, a very good game that.

    Lochee United were well on top in the first half, and really should have been two or three up. Was very much the opposite in the second with Broughty scoring an equaliser and missing several chances. Still don't know how they skied the open goal over the bar.

    Felt like it would be a matter of time before the 'Ferry got the winner, but Lochee won a soft penalty with 15 to go, scored by Hay who got the first I think(?), before Bobby Linn scored an excellent team move to kill the game.

    Good crowd at the Quest too. Thought there was about 400+ there.

    Yes, he did get the first too. That was also his 50th league goal of the season. 

  2. Broughty Athletic 1-3 Lochee United 

    It's not over just yet. Broughty are still firm favourites, especially when looking at the fixtures both sides have. But if we manage to keep winning the pressure would be on Broughty as in that case they can't afford to drop points. 

  3. 8 hours ago, peebles_Dee said:

    Just noticed Ferguson who I watched is at Hearts B is now at Lochee. Has he got the ability to get back up the leagues? What was the name of the 17year old that signed for Lochee and how is he coping with the physicality of the league?

    He now mainly comes on as a sub, he is a good striker, but Kerr Hay is on fire this season and by far the top goal scorer in this league.

    Which 17 year old? We had a few young signings recently.

  4. 7 minutes ago, ExiledLichtie said:

    Really disappointed that Lochee aren't at least getting a chance to go up, mental that they could lose only one game and still not win the league.  I think they would have been good value in the Highland league and would have freshened things up a bit, its good to see clubs moving up and down.  Broughty winning the league but seemingly not bothering to get their licensing sorted out feels like a proper heel turn.

    It's frustrating, I admit Broughty are the better side at the moment, but with them seemingly not bothered about a license, they could continue being the blockers. I'd be happy for them to go up so next season we'd have a better chance.

    But it is what it is, a lot of work is going on at Lochee United both on and off the pitch to build for the longer term. Our time will come.

  5. On 17/03/2024 at 16:11, Stag Nation said:

    AFAIK it doesn't work like that. The only route from the EOS is to the Lowland League.

    The only way to get promoted to the HL is from one of the three northern Tier 6 leagues

    If they wanted to, Jeanfield could switch to the Midlands League to have a route into the HL instead. Same goes for Luncarty and Kinnoul as Perth is a bit of a grey area between the two leagues. 

    I'd be very surprised to see Jeanfield make that switch though. 

  6. 30 minutes ago, jimbaxters said:

    It's been done to death. Suffice to say, the clubs did not want to play in a diminished league so the more moved across, the less appealing staying behind was.

    This. Also, would you really want what happened in the east, with a trickle of a number of clubs every year over a few years? It took a few years of conferences for the EoSFL to get to a proper structure. And only this season it can really be said clubs are generally at the level they belong at, with a handful of exceptions.

  7. 56 minutes ago, Lichtie78 said:

    Carnoustie are miles off.

    They said they were aiming for a license but no clue if they managed to make any improvements this season. I suppose I'll find out soon enough when we head there.

  8. 11 hours ago, Ray Patterson said:

    Weird question but if Tayport or more likely Lochee United were to go up, would they still be eligible to compete in their current cup competitions such as the Interregional North-East Regional Cup

    I'm not sure to be honest. I assume if we get promoted, we'll be in the Highland League cups. But the clubs have regional cups to compete in as well, so maybe we'd stay in a regional cup as the Aberdeenshire Cup or North of Scotland Cup won't have us obviously?

  9. 1 hour ago, realmadrid said:

    What are the issues preventing them from applying (Apart from the SFA themselves)

    its one of the better facilities in the league. good area of cover and has floodlights.

    From my days of running youth teams in Perth and at one point having to play in a Dundee league the changing rooms were adequate. 

    Cover, floodlights etc. aren't the issue indeed. In terms of spectator facilities it's only really the toilets I believe. But other issues aren't really visible to spectators. Things like dressing rooms and other facilities for players/officials/referees aren't to the SFA licensing standards.

    Obviously there are other licensing demands than just the ground but Broughty have plenty of volunteers / committee members so I'm sure they could pass those. It's more difficult to sort the other issues as I believe it's a council owned facility.

  10. One QF was played last night. Lochee United had a straightforward win at Letham. It was a commanding performance from us throughout. Could even have been more, but I can't complain about the result and the effort by the lads. They picked themselves up really well after the very disappointing Broughty game last week with 2 good performances straight after. The other 3 quarter finals are being played on Saturday 16th March.

    Letham 0-5 Lochee United
    Bridge of Don Thistle v Hermes
    Buchanhaven Hearts v Downfield
    Tayport v East Craigie

  11. Sorry for the lack of updates. These were the results until the QF:

    Second Round

    Coupar Angus 0-4 Broughty Athletic
    Downfield 3-1 Dundee St. James
    Lochee Harp 1-3 Carnoustie Panmure
    Montrose Roselea 0-3 Tayport
    Letham 1-0 Scone Thistle
    Lochee United 4-1 Blairgowrie
    East Craigie 3-1 Arbroath Victoria
    Dundee North End 6-0 Forfar United
    Culter 11-0 Glentanar
    Bridge of Don Thistle 3-0 Banchory St Ternan
    Buchanhaven Hearts 2-0 Islavale
    Newmacher United 1-3 Banks o' Dee Juniors
    Rothie Roers 2-3 Deveronside
    Hermes 4-0 Maud
    Stonehaven 1-3 Dyce
    Sunnybank 3-0 Ellon United

     

    Third Round

    Downfield 5-1 Deveronside
    Bridge of Don Thistle 0-0 Dundee North End (pen 4-3)
    Dundee East Craigie 5-0 Sunnybank
    Buchanhaven Hearts 1-0 Broughty Athletic
    Letham 3-2 Culter
    Dyce 1-2 Tayport
    Lochee Utd 4-0 Banks O Dee juniors
    Hermes 7-1 Carnoustie Panmure

  12. I agree that it doesn't make sense to force all new clubs to go through amateur football first. For some it might work well to build up a club from amateur level, for others it's too low a level to start. If we compare it to England, there are plenty of amateur leagues in the pyramid, but it's possible to apply to start at a higher level than the absolute bottom in your region, which goes as far down as tier 20 in some parts of the country. Clubs who plan to go semi-pro straight away could apply to start at the lowest level in the National League System, which is tier 10 (step 6) all over the country now. That is indeed what happened to phoenix/re-formed clubs like AFC Wimbledon, AFC Chester, Macclesfield, Darlington, Bury, Hereford and so on (some started at tier 9/step 5 like Wimbledon but at the time that was the lowest level in the NLS in their region). There are also a number of clubs that aren't phoenix clubs / (claimed) re-starts but started as a fully new club semi-pro on step 6 straight away, one of the best known of those is FC United of Manchester but there are plenty more. With some of these clubs there were already issues when they restarted in that they took far more fans to away games than the host clubs could handle or that they were too good for that level so completely romped the league. Forcing such clubs to start at the absolute lowest level in their area would just be madness and make that far worse.

    A good example of that actually happened in Germany some 20 years ago. Lokomotive Leipzig reformed after bankruptcy and were forced into the absolute lowest level in their area. They absolutely destroyed all opposition, winning everything and recording wins with more than 20 goals difference a few times. Opponents had to scramble for grounds to play the games against Lokomotive Leipzig as they generally played at simple pitches without any spectator facilities that couldn't handle the expected crowds. After that first season, they were quickly allowed 2 tiers higher than the tier they were actually promoted to. And even then they again won that league with ease, although the scorelines weren't as crazy. They got promoted another few times and have since settled in tier 4, the highest regional level in Germany.

    I'm more than happy for a route to exist through amateur football to the pyramid. Either with amateurs being formally part of the pyramid but with a different status like in England or with amateur leagues being separate like they are now with the possibility to apply to higher leagues. But it's not an appropriate route for every club.

  13. 1 hour ago, Burnieman said:

    What a load of nonsense.  So any club wishing to apply to the WoSFL must first join the SAFA,. why?  I have my doubts the EoSFL are daft enough to follow suit.

    Also, there is only a possibility to join the WoSFL if there is a vacancy. So they depend on clubs promoting to the LL (without a LL club getting relegated to the West) or withdrawing from the league to be able to get into the league. This plan is presented as increasing opportunities to get into the WoSFL, but it's none of the sort.

  14. 15 hours ago, GordonS said:

    Good to see, when I was there they didn't have any cover, seats, catering or even toilets. They shouldn't have been allowed to play in SWPL1 with that.

    Last time I was there was for a January friendly between Dundee United and Lochee United, well before the stand was finished. There were definitely toilets then as I used them. We got completely humped because Dundee United had some league games called off and fielded a nearly full strength XI to keep up match fitness. 😅

     

    15 hours ago, GordonS said:

    Odd memory from that trip was graffiti across the road that said F*CK ROMA. If you didn't know better you'd think it was a hotbed of racism against Gypsy/ Travellers.

    I know a guy who is half-Scottish, half-Italian, supporting Dundee United & Lazio. maybe I should ask if he did that. 😆

  15. On 01/03/2024 at 22:06, 2426255 said:

    Extraordinary. Whoever wrote the Harry Kane to Bayern script deserves an award. To have Leverkusen winning the Bundesliga after Harry Kane moved to Bayern for "guaranteed" trophies is sublime entertainment.

    The amazing thing of this is that if you asked German football fans before this season which team would be the most likely to break Bayern's streak, very few would even name Leverkusen in their top 3. The Scottish equivalent would be if Rangers are having a poor season, Hearts & Aberdeen are unable to put up a fight, yet Celtic still can't manage to get the title as Hibs walk away with it.

  16. Dundee United Women 0-3 Hearts Women
    Yesterday I went to Foundation Park, opposite Tannadice (previously called Gussie Park), for this game. I haven't been there since it was improved. There is now a wee stand and catering facilities. That makes the experience a lot nicer than it was previously.
     
    The first half was very one-sided. Hearts were easily the better team. A great finish from the edge of the penalty area got them the lead and the 3-0 score at half time didn't flatter them. Dundee United did improve for the second half. Good defending prevented worse for them but they were never really close to getting back in the game.
     
    There was a group of Hearts fans who were at Tynecastle for their midday game against Celtic. They left straight after the final whistle there and made their way to Dundee for the women's team. A guy I spoke to was waiting near the exit for the final whistle, went straight to Haymarket station and jumped on a train, to pick up his car from a station in Fife so he could get to Dundee in time. Hats off to these fans for their commitment. 👏
     
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  17. 3 minutes ago, TPAFKA Jersey 2 said:

    Watchin this game and I notice that even Hearts suffer the same issue as the rest of us when the old firm come to our grounds I.e. no fucker wants to turn up.

    Loads of empty seats on display which is very unusual for Tynecastle.

    Shame because loads of fans will be missing a great day. 

    Yeah, quite telling really. I was at Tynecastle for Hearts v Dundee in January. A cold Wednesday night during a heavy (named) storm and it was considerably busier than today on a nice Sunday v Celtic. 

  18. 23 minutes ago, The Naitch said:

    Say what you like but they’ve got the 2unlimited and Scooter vote secured with that banger.

    Thanks for making me laugh. :D 

  19. On 13/02/2024 at 20:22, MazzyStar said:

    Easy Netherlands win this year imo 

    This is the entry:

     

    Embarrassingly bad. Absolutely 0 chance this will make the final. I voted for The Netherlands a fair few times in the past, just like so many expats voting for their own country, but there is no way I'll vote for this!

  20. I just feel like we never really tried today. That's what gets me the most. Attitude and playing together as a team is so much worse than earlier this season. That made me so disappointed today. I know we can do much better but we seem to have lost it. 

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