Burnieman

Almost certainly but in the short term it's only going to get harder as the Edinburgh Uni's and Gretna's of this world depart to be replaced by much better teams. That has a fair way yet to play out, and I'll stick my neck out by saying a former SPFL team will drop to tier 6 before one returns to tier 4 (in the LL).

So is it; League Cup: EK and Bo'ness Utd SPFL Trophy: EK, Bo'ness, Cumbernauld and Tranent (plus the B teams)

It's effectively profit sharing. So this year should be a decent whack on the back of Euro24 income.

Well member clubs receive their annual payment in December each year, and depends on what level you're playing at. It's anywhere between £4,000 to £12,000 in recent years for EoS clubs. Then there's Scottish Cup appearance money on top of that. Then of course, there was a Covid payment in 2021 from the National Lottery via the SFA which for LL clubs amounted to around £20,000.

Having been there, that's not a solution. It really is tin pot that a Premier club doesn't have toilets in their ground, a disgrace really and part of the problem okaying 3g cages.

Isn't it a WoSFL regulation that there must be toilet and food facilities inside the ground?

Plumped for a first visit to Linton Hotspur today and it was very enjoyable. A very impressive set-up for a club of their size and a borders derby win with a hard fought performance depite playing the last half hour with 10 men. Attendance around the 65 mark.

I wonder if Uni can buck the trend of going straight though the EoS Premier like a Saturday night Madras.

Unless there's some sort of agreeable solution, if it goes to a vote in 3 years time I think the B teams will be gone.

B teams already in for the next 3 seasons, by that time hopefully there's a long term solution.

Clubs like CCS don't survive on gate money alone. Lottery, raffles, bar takings, sponsors, SFA payments all add to it. Players may also be paid not much more than expenses. Either way, Jardine and his coaches do a tremendous job.

I don't think there is.

Low, from what I understand of it. Gary Jardine works wonders with them.

Their budget would probably be gobsmacking to most people.

Missed it out

I'd say an average of 268 is very decent for what amounts to U20 football (only 12 less than Albion Rovers, 20 less than Cowdenbeath), the 6th best average in the league. Celtic perhaps not so much. On the flip side Gala's top two league crowds were against the B teams, Linlithgow got their second and third biggest against the B teams, CCS their biggest and third biggest. Stirling Uni third and fourth. Broomhill and Cumbernauld got their largest crowds against Celtic B. That's a benefit in a league where you have four or five clubs that literally bring no fans at all.

Update on twitter from @The Faceman today

Update on twitter from @The Faceman today

A Premier Division thread talking about the Premier Division promotion set-up

Why are you mentioning Clydebank? If Beith for example are working towards their licence but because of circumstances it's going to take a few years to sort the issues. In that time they win the league because they are a good team. They could potentially "block" access to the play-off for a number of years whilst navigating the licence process (which isn't open at the moment either). Replace Beith with, for example, St.Cadocs or Gartcairn. It's not a radical concept to then go to the next eligible club to take part, it happens elsewhere.

I have to agree that the rules should change to highest placed licenced club within the top 3 positions. So for example Beith win the league, it goes to second, and then third to find a licenced club for the play-off. If there are none, then no play-off participant. Should have been that from day one really to remove "blockers" from the equation. It can't be any more unfair than a club finding themselves in the fortunate position of auto promotion to the LL due to no licenced Champion in the other two leagues and therefore no play-off at all. A fortune of circumstance/timing. You'd hope that eventually the rule would become redundant anyway as more clubs become licenced.

I see the airport has new owners, let's see if it improves anything other than increasing the drop-off charge https://www.scotsman.com/business/edinburgh-airport-sale-majority-stake-sold-to-french-based-vinci-airports-in-ps127bn-deal-4593915

There appears to be no organisation. It's not the first time when entering the tin shed that it's largely empty, but you still have to walk up and down the lines. Nobody with the brains to open a shortcut to speed things up. There's also the usual question of why no dedicated desks for UK passport holders, but that's not the airports problem I guess.