Marten

Your finishing was good today, Preston definitely weren't as bad as the scoreline suggested, but you guys were more effective.

How many days does April have?

Penalty was outside the box, it was wrong to let him retake it and the second & third red card were completely unjustified. Just after the first red there was also a very harsh yellow for an IHS player for kicking the ball away. There was no consistency, he was just completely awful. I was there as a neutral and I ended up swearing at the referee. That's very rare for me, but he was so poor that I just got very annoyed.

I quite enjoyed Blackburn myself. Spoke to some locals as well about the club. I knew something about the club because of P&B, but it's a proper community club and you lot left a great impression on me.

Each game has around 250 extra people in attendance compared to what you would expect, but there were only 2 official "Groundhop UK" coaches. So a lot of people just made their own plans, myself included..

And 301 at Inverkeithing v Heriot-Watt University is pretty impressive too. And I've seen the worst ref in my life imo. I was there as a neutral, but the guy was awful.

I think 100 would be a fair estimate, yes.

Brilliant crowd tonight, I struggled finding a parking place near the ground! Not just due to groundhoppers btw, Bonnyrigg had a large following.

Dunipace 0-4 Bonnyrigg Rose

Haha, I recognise one of the Albion Rovers fans in your photo. Met him on a few of my trips.

I'd be very surprised if you don't apply tbh. But if you go down, at least the EOS isn't a bad league to drop into next season. Plus the EOS forum would have some extra activity from you guys.

With the way things are going now, Berwick could easily finish bottom. And tbh, how they have been playing recently (except for their one recent win), I'd quite fancy EK to beat them (can't really judge the strength of Cove myself).

Really just depends on the teams that are in tier 6. If the "English approach" gets copied, that would mean teams would be shifted from EOS to ERJFA (or vice versa) to balance the numbers on both sides.

I'll probably do all except for Linlithgow, as I've already been there and I don't want to get back to Dundee too late.

Correct, over time the overlap has been resolved by the FA by just telling clubs where to go. If you would apply a similar idea to Scotland, the ERJFA could cover "Central-East" (i.e. Tayside, Fife, Perthshire) and the EOS "south-east" (Borders, Lothians, Edinburgh). A similar thing could be done in the west with SOS covering "South-West" and the WRJFA "South-Central". The north can become "North-East" (NRJFA) and "North-West" (NCL, maybe Highlands/Islands would be a better name). 6 champions can get promoted, 3 teams relegated from tier 5. That and relegation from SPFL will mean teams will have to be moved around a fair bit in tiers 5 and 6 in the first few years, but eventually it would create pretty even regions. For tier 7 and below it can be sorted more on a regional basis, with probably amateurs tagging along at the bottom so every region will have a tier 7 at least.

That's what I thought previously as well and imo doing in that way would be common sense. But the UEFA in their wisdom decided differently...

Congrats to EK, I reckon you can do the play-offs too.

I haven't noticed that we were annexed by Fife to be honest...

That's not a constituent country, but a "special municipality" in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Dutch like making it complicated.

Technically, France only borders the Kingdom of the Netherlands, not the actual country The Netherlands as that's only a constituent country of the kingdom, like St. Maarten is as well (the other 2 are Aruba and Curacao).

Considering there are far more than 42 senior teams in Scotland, Albion Rovers weren't the worst senior team in the first place. The likes of Fort William, Inverkeithing or Eyemouth will come close to that title.

I know the FA control all pyramid (re)allocations, I just used this example as this was the only main geographical overlap at the start of the pyramid anywhere in the top 4 steps. I agree that the SFA would have to do it in a similar way. ERJFA could in such a way eventually become the feeder for Tayside, Perthshire & Fife with the EOS covering the Borders, Lothians & Edinburgh for example.

If the SFA are going to railroad this through (if they can), they should do that with more relegation from the LL as well indeed. If there are 4 feeder leagues into the LL, there should be 2 promotion spots (like winner of ERJFA v EOS & winner WRJFA v SOS) and possibly a play-off for the 3rd bottom LL team as well, that seems reasonable enough to me. Either you push a number of changes through at once to get everyone in, or just don't bother at all. But the SFA should then go further as well and follow the example in England between the Southern & Isthmian league by making them change towards their own (non-overlapping) geographical areas.

I was in San Marino as well, pretty much everyone joined in with that tbh.

Curacao are doing well these days. They're much stronger than they were not too long ago. Most of their players are now full-time professionals playing in The Netherlands.