BANKIEBILL

Not over til its over but its not looking good. I hugely enjoyed my trips to Shielfield with the Bankies despite a relatively poor record there. We had some excellent wee tussles with supporters team as well ... Not wishing to intrude on grief too much but being someone who worked to re-establish our club post 2002, i can say there is life outwith the National leagues. We are working at joining the pyramid, have a redeveloped ground to move into next season and hope to be playing the likes of yourselves competitively again soon. Lowland League is there to allow clubs to progress ( and move down ) in a meritocracy. Its to be welcomed. You'll find a number of well-run and ( in case of ex-Junior clubs ) well-supported clubs with decent facilities. Im sure the Shire fans dont feel its like the end. Take the time to sort yourselves out and emerge stronger - and able to start enjoying your fitba again. Best of luck

not yet

when vote was taken there was only 1 EOS league at tier 6 and West hadnt yet been mooted. I do however think there should be another meeting

Big result for Troon yesterday ... they really dug in and deserved a point in the end. Rob Roy also showing a bit of fight v Talbot even despite it being in West. Think its probably likely that Renfrew will go down but a lot to play for still. Fixtures being so strung out are not great. Hope its resolved for next season

i said the same about AC and Inter ... but naebody would listen

I doubt you'd get majority support to jump to tier 7 East when no-one would know how it'd work either logistically or financially . Its cutting one's nose off big style. That said im getting rather sick of the delays which look increasingly like one man digging his heels in. Theres no realistic argument for East Juniors at tier 6 and the Tay isnt going to just dry up overnight. You need some point to differentiate North and South and thats as good as any. In lieu of anything that we dont yet know about having been arranged then I think giving it one more year and requiring absolute movement and agreement by Christmas is looking the only real option. If not forthcoming then a breakaway league must be expected and worked towards. That must be supported explicitly by the SFA as its possibly the only way the impasse would be negotiated by that stage if the parties are still fannying about.

Has that offer been made known to the stadium committee ? i was down there yesterday with one of them and he made no reference to that ?

Apparently the quality of the surface is v good. It allows both clubs' underage teams to base themselves at the ground. Couldn't do that with grass so absolutely the right decision

I remember the dug ... im older than i think sometimes

How many folk will get it ...

They couldve dropped all 3 points against us ... however it wouldve been a travesty. Hurlford will keep fighting til the end - and it was a great result for you yesterday - but the league is pretty well over and deserved and at 30 games its a pretty reasonable reflection of how the season has gone - and with the distraction of the two big cups to take into account to boot. Not much more to be said to be honest - except that the rest of us need to raise our games.

I have no interest in you whatsoever.

Tam your trolling wee pals are polluting this thread - can you have a word please ( see below / above ) ... ta

You can add the Gypo comments to that.

2 yellows so naw