Burgh1909

Here are our (Newburgh) highlights from the game that I finished this afternoon, if anyone's interested?

Pumpherston 1 Newburgh 2 King Cup 2nd Round Saturday 9th March 2024 Recreation Park, Pumpherston

The East of Scotland wouldn't be happy with Dunfermline trying to postpone their team's (Rosyth) games. Think that's one of the stimulations of the League.

Wow.

Tweedmouth Rangers 0 vs. Newburgh 2 - 16/09/23 Full collection: J19 Photography Flickr Album

This guy collects the data. Ryan

I thought Peebles were moving grounds?

https://twitter.com/EastScotlandFA/status/1678527182082015238?t=3LEe6RDjuqN4BbB7qhcaEg&s=19

I'd be interested to see the stats to back this up, particularly over the past 10-15 years.

The problem is, in the UK you can never accurately predict or know when the bad weather will come. Anytime from November through to March is easily capable of being blitzed with bad weather.

Newburgh vs. Albion Rovers in Round 1. Winners play West Park United at home in Round 2.

I'm sure Edinburgh United will feel a small sense of consolation that the relegation picture has been put back to what it originally was come the last day, but it's particularly strange considering Edinburgh United's offence took place in March and was dealt with so you assumed the League was finished with. What has occurred or how was it discovered something in January is now an error? Surely you can point a finger of blame at EoS, along with Craigroyston, for only reacting to this now?

Mental! What is going on with all these ineligible players? Are clubs deliberately playing these or is there some miscommunication over suspensions or player signings and availability? There's been so many across the EoS this season.

The issue seems to be as much them playing ringers under registered players names (as per Lochgelly's claim) so signing your management team as players probably lends them to potentially exploiting this issue further.

Yes, Lochgelly mentioned to us about photographic evidence and said there were other clubs putting in protests. Surely if you were short etc, you'd field them as "trialists" and problem solved. The fact this isn't the case raises the question that they've been potentially guilty of this a number of times. As I say, we learned we had been awarded the points a month after our game back in September with them. We had no idea of any issues. But it just does make you wonder how many times they may have done this. The side they played against us in the return fixture was significantly stronger than played at their place. Now makes me question their "integrity" and if we were 'duped' again? No smoke without fire...

The first one was relating to a game against us which originally ended 0-0 but we were awarded a 1-0 win which we didn't know anything about until later. The second related to a game against St. Andrews which they had lost anyway. Bit perplexed though as we spoke with people at our match at Lochgelly who said they had lodged a complaint against Edinburgh United for illegal players (claiming there were at least "3 ringers" in Edinburgh's side and that there was apparently 3 other sides putting in protests against Edinburgh). The guy we spoke to Lochgelly was adament of the offence in their game, so it's odd that this hasn't been picked up on. Saying that, just punishing the one offence is enough to make a material difference, I guess.