RedEd Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 2 hours ago, Gogs Grog said: It's not the fans for me making the trek down on a Tuesday is the biggest issue. The Scottish Cup game a few years ago on a Saturday hardly attracted a large travelling support so the Challenge Cup won't attract more. The fact that it was totally avoidable to drag the players and management down to Ayr on a Tuesday night is the bigger point to me. I would of thought the 2nd round being a Saturday opened up an open draw with the foreign teams brought in at this round. A Sunday game or a neutral ground down that way on Saturday would of been preferred. I do wonder with the reply to that Scottish Cup game being a midweek if Montrose insisted on it may of had a bearing on this. Only speculation mind. Sunday isn't an option this year as the air show is on both Saturday and Sunday. Last year it was Friday / Saturday and we played Airdrie at home on the Sunday. A neutral venue is not required as Somerset Park is available. Just not that weekend. Police will have advised not to play the game at the weekend due to the other, much, much bigger event. You would think that Montrose have never played a midweek game away from home before. The decision has been made, so no matter how much moaning there is, it won't be changed. You can either come along and cheer your team on you stay at home and get updates by text or from Twitter. No big deal really. And Ayr is about 35 miles from Glasgow, not much more than Montrose to Dundee. We might be a bit closer than you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Aye just like the 1200 glory hunters that went to Stirling at end of season.They seem to have gone back into their caves over the summer. Hibernating early I presume What has this got to do with anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liam_barnett Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 £10/£5 entry for Rovers v Ross County U20, Ross County fans in Turnbull Hutton (Main) Stand:http://www.raithrovers.net/31220/irn-bru-cup-r2.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 19 hours ago, Gogs Grog said: The fact that it was totally avoidable to drag the players and management down to Ayr on a Tuesday night is the bigger point to me. I would of thought the 2nd round being a Saturday opened up an open draw with the foreign teams brought in at this round. A Sunday game or a neutral ground down that way on Saturday would of been preferred. I do wonder with the reply to that Scottish Cup game being a midweek if Montrose insisted on it may of had a bearing on this. Only speculation mind. Of? I can sort of understand why people say this when speaking, but surely it shouldn't be written down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gogs Grog Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Thanks for pointing that out. I can sleep at night now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 1 minute ago, Gogs Grog said: Thanks for pointing that out. I can sleep at night now. Sorry, not really a dig at you, it just happens to be the one bit of current parlance that annoys me, it was all over Sportscene on Sunday also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyrshireTon Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 May have been posted elsewhere but Stranraer v Patrick Thistle has been moved to the Friday night. By the time the game ends the A77 will be closed north of Cairnryan so the Jags fans will have to go home via Newton Stewart. Have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Wasp Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 May have been posted elsewhere but Stranraer v Patrick Thistle has been moved to the Friday night. By the time the game ends the A77 will be closed north of Cairnryan so the Jags fans will have to go home via Newton Stewart. Have fun! I assume it was moved because development games are often on Friday night and Patrick wanted continuity? Can't think of any other reason for the switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyrshireTon Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Just now, English Wasp said: I assume it was moved because development games are often on Friday night and Patrick wanted continuity? Can't think of any other reason for the switch. It may well have been - I was just highlighting the inconvenience to any travelling supporters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Wasp Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 It may well have been - I was just highlighting the inconvenience to any travelling supporters. Does Partick's youth team have any travelling supporters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonball Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 1 hour ago, English Wasp said: I assume it was moved because development games are often on Friday night and Patrick wanted continuity? Can't think of any other reason for the switch. A77 is only closed for the journey back on Friday, whereas on the Saturday it would have been closed both ways. Prestwick Airshow on the Saturday also adds to the delays. http://www.stranraerfc.org/index.php/77-latest-news/886-irn-bru-cup-r2-date-change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Wasp Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 A77 is only closed for the journey back on Friday, whereas on the Saturday it would have been closed both ways. Prestwick Airshow on the Saturday also adds to the delays.http://www.stranraerfc.org/index.php/77-latest-news/886-irn-bru-cup-r2-date-change That makes more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Surely it will be past Thistle's colts' bedtimes by the time they get home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fae_the_'briggs Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Probably just the Partick Colts' mummies and daddies coming to watch them will be the only travelling support. Hopefully this will be the last round they are involved in. Will it not affect the Stranraer team too as most, if not all, come from up the road if I'm not mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celticcup Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Also I would like a Faeroese League Select in it as well, and say they must play 1st round matches in Scotland. There could be a Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles, Faeroes round, I know this sopunds mad but it is the future. Also push the league season back and have 2 breaks, and have a Atlanatic cup in a superbowl style way for the bigger Scottish premier teams, The draw for the League cup could be made way in advance so teams have time to prepare cheap travel to certain places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celticcup Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 By the way, these are only ideas, and I was not having a go at any team, its just a idea. I will not post on Pie and Bovril ever again. I have been to a challenge cup game, but then again it is not to everybody's taste, Lets face it Scottish football has good crowds for the size of the population, and a lot of interest in the smaller teams, so its is up to the fans of those clubs to decide what is best, sorry for offending anybody, I just think it would be even better if winning a trophy meant you were winners of a Scotland, Ulster, Eire, Wales, Faeroe Islands and Cornwall, and Manx, but maybe not, and if people are ever bored of travelling to the same teams in Scotland, as of 10 team leagues, why not add in a extra team from abroad, makes it more interesting, anyhow, the end, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callum-ayr Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Surely Stranraer knew this and should have requested an away match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted August 23, 2017 Author Share Posted August 23, 2017 People in the row behind me on Saturday were talking and thought the crowd at Kilmarnock "B" v Berwick was 255, but I thought they may have been confusing it with Edinburgh City in the League Cup section which was something like 250. I don't buy a programme but it may have appeared in there. Clubs websites and SPFL website has never - and I suppose now never will - published the crowds at that game or at Ross County "B" v Forfar, which is unheard of for league clubs. Still no news about the Albion Rovers-Spartans situation... Given it's a factual case (he was either registered or he wasn't) and it was identified by the morning after the tie, how can it still be pending over 1 week later? R2 is only 10 days away and if they act like Livingston-Crusaders there'd be R1 tie to play again, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Wasp Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Still no news about the Albion Rovers-Spartans situation... Given it's a factual case (he was either registered or he wasn't) and it was identified by the morning after the tie, how can it still be pending over 1 week later? R2 is only 10 days away and if they act like Livingston-Crusaders there'd be R1 tie to play again, too. The hearing is tomorrow morning. See Aloysius Snuffleupagus' post above. A replay, if required, will be next Tuesday. The case is factual (as far as I know, there is no dispute in the matter) but the punishment is yet to be decided. Precedent suggests they will be ordered to replay the tie, which given the original game was one of the dullest in the round, I'm sure we are all beside ourselves with excitement at the prospect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted August 23, 2017 Author Share Posted August 23, 2017 Thanks, I see that now, p23. Still seems crazy it'll have taken 9 days to do a hearing, leaving just 4 days until the potential replay and in turn only 3 days until R2 tie (winner at home). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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