FairWeatherFan Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 4 minutes ago, Enigma said: Wouldn’t be a bad shout really. I’d have though the Fife clubs and the East Lothian and Borders clubs for example would rather be kept together for this season. If the top 7-8 in each leagues are to be ‘promoted’ for 19/20 then depending on applications for that season you could have the option of keeping a ‘North’ and a ‘South’ league below a ‘Premier’ league. Edit: You could have a play off this season between 1st in both leagues for the EOS champion if such a thing is important. Think this would be my preference. Like you say it allows for North/South divisions at Tier 7 the following year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heedthebaa Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 7 hours ago, Burnie_man said: This is how things could therefore look next season, with a bit of guesswork on the clubs involved; Section A Blackburn Utd Bonnyrigg Rose Burntisland Camelon Crossgates Primrose Dalkeith Th Easthouses Lily Eyemouth Utd Hawick RA Herriot Watt Leith Ath Musselburgh Ath St.Bernards Tynecastle Section B Coldstream Dundonald Bluebell Dunipace Edinburgh Utd Haddington Ath Hill of Beath Inverkeithing HS LTHV Ormiston Peebles Rovers Preston Ath Stirling Uni Res Tranent Tweedmouth Rangers Me no likey 32 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said: Think it would make more sense to try to be geographical on the divisions. There might be a bit of an imbalance with something like this, but it wouldn't be drastic. Section A Blackburn Utd, Burntisland, Camelon, Crossgates Primrose, Dundonald Bluebell, Dunipace, Edinburgh Utd, Hill of Beath, Inverkeithing HS, Leith Ath, LTHV, St.Bernards, Tynecastle, Stirling Uni Res Section B Bonnyrigg Rose, Coldstream, Dalkeith Th, Easthouses Lily, Eyemouth Utd, Hawick RA, Herriot Watt, Haddington Ath, Musselburgh Ath, Ormiston, Peebles Rovers, Preston Ath, Tranent, Tweedmouth Rangers Me likey this one more 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie_man Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, heedthebaa said: Me likey this one more Surely your horse and cart can manage a trip to the 21st Century now and again I want a few trips to the Borders to see what it was like in the auld days..... Edited April 9, 2018 by Burnie_man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Che Dail Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 46 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said: Think it would make more sense to try to be geographical on the divisions. There might be a bit of an imbalance with something like this, but it wouldn't be drastic. Section A Blackburn Utd, Burntisland, Camelon, Crossgates Primrose, Dundonald Bluebell, Dunipace, Edinburgh Utd, Hill of Beath, Inverkeithing HS, Leith Ath, LTHV, St.Bernards, Tynecastle, Stirling Uni Res Section B Bonnyrigg Rose, Coldstream, Dalkeith Th, Easthouses Lily, Eyemouth Utd, Hawick RA, Herriot Watt, Haddington Ath, Musselburgh Ath, Ormiston, Peebles Rovers, Preston Ath, Tranent, Tweedmouth Rangers In this option would the top 7 in each league form the Premier League for the following season? Leith and HW should swap sections btw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie_man Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 41 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said: Think it would make more sense to try to be geographical on the divisions. There might be a bit of an imbalance with something like this, but it wouldn't be drastic. Section A Blackburn Utd, Burntisland, Camelon, Crossgates Primrose, Dundonald Bluebell, Dunipace, Edinburgh Utd, Hill of Beath, Inverkeithing HS, Leith Ath, LTHV, St.Bernards, Tynecastle, Stirling Uni Res Section B Bonnyrigg Rose, Coldstream, Dalkeith Th, Easthouses Lily, Eyemouth Utd, Hawick RA, Herriot Watt, Haddington Ath, Musselburgh Ath, Ormiston, Peebles Rovers, Preston Ath, Tranent, Tweedmouth Rangers Just looking closer, Section A contains three ex-Superleague clubs, plus LTHV (or Kelty), plus Leith who will be third this season. Section B contains one ex-Superleague club plus the bottom four in the EoS. You'd really need to find better balance than that (I appreciate this is just a rough example). Seeding gives you better balance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWeatherFan Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 1 minute ago, Che Dail said: In this option would the top 7 in each league form the Premier League for the following season? Leith and HW should swap sections btw. Would depend on number of applicants the following year. You could get away with Top 7/8/9 in either section making the new 14/16/18 team Premier. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heedthebaa Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 15 minutes ago, Burnie_man said: Surely your horse and cart can manage a trip to the 21st Century now and again I want a few trips to the Borders to see what it was like in the auld days..... To go with your option I would need to go back to stealing red diesel for the car 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie_man Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 3 minutes ago, heedthebaa said: To go with your option I would need to go back to stealing red diesel for the car Needs must. I'll get you a signed Susan Boyle CD as recompense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Prez Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 26 minutes ago, Burnie_man said: Surely your horse and cart can manage a trip to the 21st Century now and again I want a few trips to the Borders to see what it was like in the auld days..... Wheest you 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie_man Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 1 minute ago, Mr Prez said: Wheest you Here come the cowboys 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Prez Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 2 minutes ago, Burnie_man said: Here come the cowboys The auld days naw 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heedthebaa Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 4 minutes ago, Burnie_man said: Needs must. I'll get you a signed Susan Boyle CD as recompense. ffs ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old speckled hen Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 (edited) Back in the 90's the clubs in the Scottish leagues outwith the Premier played each other three times in a season in the league so would playing a club once not work for one season of EOSFL as long as each team had the same number of home and away games? That would depend on whether there was an odd or an even number of clubs of course. I think in the EOS league cup it's not on a home and away basis anyway is it? At the end of the season all the clubs would be where they are based on ability over a season rather than hand picked seedings or whatever else. Edited April 11, 2018 by old speckled hen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khufu2 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 14 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said: Think it would make more sense to try to be geographical on the divisions. There might be a bit of an imbalance with something like this, but it wouldn't be drastic. Section A Blackburn Utd, Burntisland, Camelon, Crossgates Primrose, Dundonald Bluebell, Dunipace, Edinburgh Utd, Hill of Beath, Inverkeithing HS, Leith Ath, LTHV, St.Bernards, Tynecastle, Stirling Uni Res Section B Bonnyrigg Rose, Coldstream, Dalkeith Th, Easthouses Lily, Eyemouth Utd, Hawick RA, Herriot Watt, Haddington Ath, Musselburgh Ath, Ormiston, Peebles Rovers, Preston Ath, Tranent, Tweedmouth Rangers I did my allocation without referring to yours and came out with almost the same - the only difference being Leith and Heriot-Watt swapping divisions. If teams finished where they currently are and are seeded accordingly (HRA seeded S1 since they are ex-Lowland League) you can create divisions of fairly similar standard: North Division J2 Dundonald Bluebell S2 LTHV J3 Camelon, J4 Hill of Beath, S5 Heriot-Watt, J7 Blackburn Utd S7 Tynecastle, S8 Stirling Uni Res S9 Burntisland, J10 Edinburgh Utd, J11 Crossgates Primrose, J13 Dunipace, A1 Inverkeithing HS, A1 St.Bernards, South Division J1 Bonnyrigg Rose, S1 Hawick RA, S3 Leith Ath, S4 Preston Ath, J5 Musselburgh Ath J6 Haddington Ath, S6 Peebles Rovers, J8 Tranent, J9 Dalkeith Th, S10 Coldstream, S11 Eyemouth Utd, J12 Easthouses Lily, S12 Ormiston, S13 Tweedmouth Rangers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyril Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 A lot of rumours floating around so impossible to tell unless someone knows the applicants for certain, Hill of Beath, Dundonald, Crossgates, Haddington and Easthouses have all announced nothing so far and the amateurs names mentioned seem to be guesses unless I am missing something? I had heard that St Andrews have definitely applied. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patriot1 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 1 minute ago, Cyril said: A lot of rumours floating around so impossible to tell unless someone knows the applicants for certain, Hill of Beath, Dundonald, Crossgates, Haddington and Easthouses have all announced nothing so far and the amateurs names mentioned seem to be guesses unless I am missing something? I had heard that St Andrews have definitely applied. Definitely not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 The Inverkeithing team have announced on their website that they have applied, so that's one of the ones that is 100% confirmed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanley Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 20 minutes ago, Cyril said: A lot of rumours floating around so impossible to tell unless someone knows the applicants for certain, Hill of Beath, Dundonald, Crossgates, Haddington and Easthouses have all announced nothing so far and the amateurs names mentioned seem to be guesses unless I am missing something? I had heard that St Andrews have definitely applied. Camelon, Blackburn, Tranent, Dalkeith and Inverkeithing confirmed so far unless I've missed anyone. Looks like there could be another ten without definite confirmation yet just rumours. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buboy Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Thought this thread would be rocking tonight after meeting. Obviously. no!!!!! Burnie man early night? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie_man Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 9 minutes ago, buboy said: Thought this thread would be rocking tonight after meeting. Obviously. no!!!!! Burnie man early night? Wrong thread mate, it was a Juniors meeting....... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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