sdr71

Wasn't there a Forfarshire Senior Cup at one point, that could perhaps be revived?

Loving the Stakhanovite drumming.

Gartcairn too.

Can you pay at the gate for the final, or do tickets need to be booked online?

If ever there was an area where a senior/amateur merger would benefit both sides, it's here.

They still haven't had time to find their place in the structure, with just the one opportunity so far for promotion, and no teams yet relegated into it to serve as a yardstick to see where they really are.

Hawick beat Vale of Leithen in midweek. When was the last time they recorded back-to-back wins?

The third division will be down to nine next season as things stand. If EoS/Lowland league positions stay as they are, the EoS loses a further club and it's down to eight. At what point does it become no longer viable?

If he's right, it does simplify things rather, as there's then no financial benefit to having a license, and losing the license gets rid of the big disincentive of getting relegated to the colts' leagues if you win the league. Insane, of course, but since when has anything around Scottish football been based on common sense?

Talbot still have to play Beith twice. Win those, and they have 7 games in hand to close a 12 point gap.

I think I'd want a bit more before selling my soul. A tropical island and some of those blondes that Colonel Gadaffi used to use as security guards, for starters.

Why on earth are the likes of East Fife going to vote for potential relegation to a league filled with a majority of B teams? It actually makes the current Lowland League seem like an enticing prospect.

Dale need to win those games 9-0, 9-0 and 8-0, all other things being equal.

So, just to clarify - if Hearts B continue with their current form and finish bottom of the table, they don't get relegated, but the team above them does?

I would not underestimate VoL's powers when it comes to avoiding relegation, though would be astonished if they didn't finish in the bottom three this season.

They'd do well to relegate a good few clubs from the Second Division and increase the size of the Third as soon as possible. A lot of the clubs that will be circling the Second Division relegation plughole next season have been in conferences they have had no hope of competing in for years, and being in a division they can actually win will no doubt come as a blessed relief for them. Restricting ventilation just means that the West Lothian clubs hoover up the promotion positions for the rest of the decade instead.

OK. Suppose you have a full membership of 80 clubs, the EoS team wins the playoff and Caley Braves are relegated to the WoS. What happens then, do you kick out an existing member in good standing?

Syngenta still look the team to beat - whilst their promotion rivals have five games against teams outside the promotion race, Syngenta have nine, and just two games against their rivals as opposed to three/four. If no-one slips up - and all four contenders have been consistent against weaker opposition so far - then Syngenta are the best placed of the four.

There's something amiss with the tables here. I know Bathgate are having a bad season, but they haven't lost 26 games out of 20, and unless I'm missing something their points total doesn't add up either. Sorry for complaining - I really appreciate the work you put in to this each week!

This doesn't show a lot of common sense either. 12 months ago Whitburn were a division above Lochgelly, next season they would be a division below, with nothing that's happened on the field in this time justifying this. There's a perfectly adequate solution staring the EoS in the face - three conferences of 14 leading to First-Second-Third the season after, but for some reason they can't grasp it.

Be careful what you wish for. In England the leagues exist in name only, and allocation of clubs is determined year to year by the English FA. As the most north-westerly club in the oversubscribed WoS, Clydebank would be prime targets for transfer to the undersubscribed NCL.

Null and void option - Premier (current 18 teams), First (3 conferences, qualifying for First/Second/Third in 2022/23) PPG option - Premier (17 teams, less current bottom three, promoting Leith and Luncarty), First (15 teams, bottom three from premier, top 6 PPG from each conference), Second (2 conferences, the rest of the current conference members plus new applicants).

Something akin to the WoS/EoS agreement would cover it - a fixed boundary line with an agreement that clubs on the 'wrong' side of the line for their current league could stay in their current league, and no-one is forced to change league against their will. I think it would be better to see the line readjusted so that all of Perthshire goes north, which would be more geographically rational for the three clubs mentioned (who have not had the option of joining a pyramid Midland League before) and would do something to strengthen what looks a rather weak Midland League. The relevant clubs really should be included in the discussions as well.

One solution would be, if in this situation, for the leagues concerned to agree to relegate the club in question to the league from whence they came.

Try looking at a map comparing where the teams in Scone's current league are with those that they would likely be playing in the EoS, and figure out which of the two keeps their historic rivalries and reduces travel times.