gaz5 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Does anyone know what the access issues were with Grangemouth stadium.Athletics events for 3-4 months of the season I believe meaning the facility unavailable as required for matches. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert James Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 49 minutes ago, patriot1 said: Correct. Syngenta have "access issues" with Grangemouth stadium so contacted Dunipace this week to agree a groundshare. Not surprisingly that wasn't enough to bring them in to the EOS. Strollers Overstenton Park didn't meet EOS standards which surprised me. Whenever I pass it looks quite good but that's just a glimpse while driving so i'll need to stop off for a proper look. I feel particularly sorry for Glenrothes Strollers. They took a number of proactive steps well ahead ahead of the EoS deadline. They have an excellent infrastructure (number and diversity of teams), their ground has the potential to comply with some 'modest' upgrades, and they did go public about applying for senior status. (By comparison, Syngenta didn't go public as far as I am aware). Also, the town is large enough for 2 rival clubs, IMO. I hope that they apply again next year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWeatherFan Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 1 minute ago, Robert James said: I feel particularly sorry for Glenrothes Strollers. They took a number of proactive steps well ahead ahead of the EoS deadline. They have an excellent infrastructure (number and diversity of teams), their ground has the potential to comply with some 'modest' upgrades, and they did go public about applying for senior status. (By comparison, Syngenta didn't go public as far as I am aware). Also, the town is large enough for 2 rival clubs, IMO. I hope that they apply again next year. Syngenta publicly declared their intention last summer, that's how everyone knew they were applying. It's a bit damning that they've had the better part of a year and couldn't get the ground situation sorted. Hopefully they'll be back as well. Although as it's been suggested maybe both the Strollers and Sygenta will try to get into the East Region if only for next season to get things set up and running. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie_man Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, Robert James said: I feel particularly sorry for Glenrothes Strollers. They took a number of proactive steps well ahead ahead of the EoS deadline. They have an excellent infrastructure (number and diversity of teams), their ground has the potential to comply with some 'modest' upgrades, and they did go public about applying for senior status. (By comparison, Syngenta didn't go public as far as I am aware). Also, the town is large enough for 2 rival clubs, IMO. I hope that they apply again next year. Apparently they didn't send any delegate to speak at the meeting, the other two clubs did. There was no plan of what they were going to do to enclose ground sufficiently to meet requirements. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pie n beans Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Syngenta have built a new astro and have plans for dugs out and new enclosure etc to make it a fit for purpose ground but i believe its still 18 months away 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kemlin Dan Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Syngenta had no plans as they don't own LK they just lease it, there was always going to be issues on who was getting LK up to standards due to it being leased, I believe there is no plans and was never any plans from Syngenta to get LK sorted which was a concern for EOS. Over the course Syngenta made very little efforts to get into EOS considering they applied in July 2018. The Grangemouth Stadium was a half baked attempt knowing the athletics situation for 6 months of the year(saying to EOS that it wasn't an issue)would prevent them playing there and they decided to play dumb,they then offer Dunipace a share for a season with no plans to move out of it for the 2nd season. Syngenta applied to EOS like they do with everything else thinking they were dealing with youth set ups and could blag their way in. Not the kind of teams we want in the league in my opinion, 10 months to get work carried out or negotiated with LK owners should have been their priority so they could have presented a real application that showed intent to move forward. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pie n beans Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Ok wrong terminology from me LK have built an astro with syngenta getting a 25 year lease. A terrace is in the pipeline but not till the pylons come down in the grounds and your right it's LK that own it, they do seem to do things rather different and think they are big fish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The clean living guy Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Very suprised with the sides being knocked back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 https://www.eosfl.com/ Entry Criteria and Application Forms for membership of the East of Scotland Football Association and the East of Scotland Football League can be accessed here and here and when complete should be submitted to - leaguesecretary@eastofscotlandfa.co.uk PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU READ THE ENTRY CRITERIA BEFORE SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP. The EoS league website still seems to be encouraging membership applications with no mention of March 31st any more. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 https://www.eosfl.com/Entry Criteria and Application Forms for membership of the East of Scotland Football Association and the East of Scotland Football League can be accessed here and here and when complete should be submitted to - leaguesecretary@eastofscotlandfa.co.uk PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU READ THE ENTRY CRITERIA BEFORE SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP. The EoS league website still seems to be encouraging membership applications with no mention of March 31st any more.Maybe putting feelers out for interest from east juniors due to what came out after Thursdays meeting 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWeatherFan Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 38 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said: https://www.eosfl.com/ Entry Criteria and Application Forms for membership of the East of Scotland Football Association and the East of Scotland Football League can be accessed here and here and when complete should be submitted to - leaguesecretary@eastofscotlandfa.co.uk PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU READ THE ENTRY CRITERIA BEFORE SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP. The EoS league website still seems to be encouraging membership applications with no mention of March 31st any more. I hadn't noticed that they'd taken the date away. As they keep the site pretty up to date, it's a rather intentional move. Seems strange that in all the news from Thursday's meeting there wasn't any sort of announcement that they'd extended membership applications. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShrimpLok Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 41 minutes ago, FairWeatherFan said: I hadn't noticed that they'd taken the date away. As they keep the site pretty up to date, it's a rather intentional move. Seems strange that in all the news from Thursday's meeting there wasn't any sort of announcement that they'd extended membership applications. Wasn’t one of the SJFA criticisms that the EOS had “poached” the ERJFA clubs last year. Maybe they’re wanting to keep the door open but leave it low key so no one can accuse them of being too aggressive in recruiting clubs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Wasn’t one of the SJFA criticisms that the EOS had “poached” the ERJFA clubs last year. Maybe they’re wanting to keep the door open but leave it low key so no one can accuse them of being too aggressive in recruiting clubs.That was a Maxwell line iirc. Utterly bizzare as the EOS have never approached any clubs rather clubs have approached the EOS in order to apply. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnie_man Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 It is a crazy paranoid ERJFA/SJFA line that the EoS actively poached clubs. They didn't. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Are there any East Juniors who would be prevented from being accepted by the EoS due to the ground criteria? Apart from Thornton of course, but they could do the same as Inverkeithing whilst they get the planning sorted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Scone Thistle might have problems as well 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Heid Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Wasn’t one of the SJFA criticisms that the EOS had “poached” the ERJFA clubs last year. Maybe they’re wanting to keep the door open but leave it low key so no one can accuse them of being too aggressive in recruiting clubs.Even if true - this would only be another failing of the Juniors - that clubs with long histories in the junior grade still felt compelled to move over staying.Even as an opponent of the pyramid I couldn't argue a case to stay. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairWeatherFan Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Was there any talk during the egm of extending the application process this year? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 On 26/04/2019 at 16:42, pie n beans said: Syngenta have built a new astro and have plans for dugs out Please reconsider. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 52 minutes ago, GNU_Linux said: 56 minutes ago, ShrimpLok said: Wasn’t one of the SJFA criticisms that the EOS had “poached” the ERJFA clubs last year. Maybe they’re wanting to keep the door open but leave it low key so no one can accuse them of being too aggressive in recruiting clubs. That was a Maxwell line iirc. Utterly bizzare as the EOS have never approached any clubs rather clubs have approached the EOS in order to apply. Did he actually say that? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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