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Let's face it the sfa and 42 spfl football league clubs are bizarrely making the sjfa and it's regional associations look competent. What have the junior clubs let themselves in for getting involved in this circus! They'd have been far better served flushing out those that needed flushing out years ago in the sjfa and regions and continuing to make what was a great alternative to senior football even better by giving people now totally disgruntled with the senior game an excellent alternative instead they have got themselves involving in the mother of all shitstorms that will last a generation.

One of your teams? Even the kelty fans know the games up and they have nowhere to go on this. It's unfortunate but we live in difficult times and i hope somehow kelty can get over this massive disappointment. They must be well and truly scunnered with the whole system now and wonder why they bother.

Unfortunately mate this is all 95 per cent of the football people in this country care about. The 'pyramid' registers on very very few people's radar it may seem as though it does on these types of sub forums and if you have follow a handful of social media accounts but in reality nobody really cares about boundary lines, who plays where, automatic promotion to the spfl . We could write a book of bullet points as to why the ' pyramid' is already a busted flush i'm afraid.

Good club brechin and well run. Now a chance to take stock and rebuild after a tough few years. Good luck to you.

Mate you have well and truly thrown the toys out the pram and clutching at straws here don't blame you kelty hearts have been sold a dud watch here and that along with the horrific financial restrictions felt by all clubs for the rest of the year it's a nightmare scenario for them. Nothing will happen here despite another statement what is it with scottish football and constant need for statements. Taking on any sort of legal action would be absolute madness and get them nowhere and cost a fortune for nothing.

Kelty were warned years ago that they were getting involved with an organisation a group of clubs that looked after themselves and that they were merely replacing one glass ceiling for another. They charged ahead under new leadership abandoning the junior heritage built up over decades chucking money to reach the 'promised land'. Today that ambition has been blocked it will continue to be block especially in the post pandemic years. The drawbridge has almost been fully shut. The rest embracing this phoney pyramid will also be dealt a bad hand and will scrambling about underneath the closed shop with no real identity feeling apart of the national game but in reality nothing of the sort. Today the pyramid was shown up as it will be again and again when it's crunch time and those blinded by the bright lights in this lala lala land will never see the truth and won't care a jot about the carnage and ill feeling they have caused.

Glad it's been sorted now the thoughts must be security so that the replacement isn't a target!

Hard to see it the crowds in the east have been poor bar one or two clubs for years now. Good luck anyway.

f**k sake mate it's vale of clyde no real Madrid. Think you need to realise it's lower league non league junior football. Btw no slight on vale of clyde but someone needs to give you a nudge to the reality!

Mate they won't pay that no chance ffs many will have no clue anything has changed and won't really care some even scoff at paying 3 quid! that's the reality . Anyone under 40 will be reluctant to pay over ten quid , many watch senior football in top four leagues if they want to pay more than a tenner they will go watch that no the local team they go watch when it suits them or a pal is playing again the reality.

Though maxi had officially retired a season or two ago . Class player great guy. Think he even had a bash at the seniors but it didn't quite work out. Anyway good luck in management seem to be giving it a decent go so far!

Seems like irony of all irony here. An account like yours set up with a negative/pathetic/trolling user name can post whatever he likes with no real input because you share the views of the mods on this. You certainly don't like it when opinions are dished back you don't like. Even when junior supporters engage and try post positive you and your likes will pop up with a cheap shop. You constantly post rubbish going by the history an obvious alias of a well known individual from falkirk area your initials drs here under 3rd or 4th name is allowed to post whatever he wants obvious trolling but gets away with it because It's ok for those who dislike the juniors to troll. If someone comes on under 'pyramid pub leagues' user name will this be allowed? This will probably be removed and show up the people on this for what they are.

Excuse me?? It's my opinion pollok arthurlie is not a derby game it's not close enough they are big rivals that's it. A previous poster made the perfect example nottingham forest derby is notts forest but the big rivals are derby just along the road. The Pollok Petershill thing was massive in those decades whether or not Arthurlie were about or not. I merely asked the question i didn't state it was a derby game just asking a petershill fan how it was viewed back then from his point of view and you come steaming in through your weight about

Banks o'dee are a very well run junior club always enjoyed my trips to spain park . Can't blame them for not wanting to get properly involved in anything to do with the 'pyramid' up here.

Worrying start to this all then. Gut feeling isn't good on all this so many negative stories coming out hope i'm proved wrong

I would say the Pollok v Arthurlie rivalry only really got going seriously in the mid to late 1980s when Arthurlie started to regularly challenge for trophies. For example, nobody was billing the 81 Junior Cup final as a derby match. Pollok don't really have a derby game just three or four rival games imo . Used to love the titanic battles between pollok and petershill back in the 80s and 90s. Given both junior clubs are from glasgow was this back then billed as a 'derby' game ?

Correct mate. Even if this was a 10 team league next season we'd struggle to finish it given circumstances. Horrible decision and terrible way for the new set up to begin. Guess it's all about preparing for football once a vaccine is found and hoping clubs survive somehow.

So new year before juniors / west /east / north non league teams get back playing football. Think most of us will have forgot what our grounds and fellow fans look like by the time we get back!

Shocking but not surprising. What a terrible state our youth game is in awe sadly never see it recovering.

Many feel as though they have but need to get on with it. Interesting to read sba views agree with much of it they had an excellent chance of reaching top flight now it's been taken and effects them big time in everyway.

Gem of a guy one of the old school who seems to an going on forever. Next season??

I enjoyed it also all the officials contributed well thanks guys!