RedEd Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 5 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: Dont think its disrespectful in the slightest, Brechin are the bottom club in Scottish football and id think the top west clubs would comfortably beat them. Mibbes aye, mibbes naw. But Forfar and Stranraer are the league above Brechin and are third tier regulars. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marten Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 11 minutes ago, Tom Wilson said: Apologies if somebody else has already posted this but according to wiki (which is prone to errors), Burntisland Shipyard hosted Celtic in the Scottish in 1939 and lost 8-3. Does this mean that Lochee United are better than Celtic....... Yeah, because a result from 81 years ago can really be compared to football now... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginaro Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, RedEd said: Mibbes aye, mibbes naw. But Forfar and Stranraer are the league above Brechin and are third tier regulars. Well at least one of them will be going down to the fourth tier. Stranraer are on the decline, with crowds lower than most League Two clubs so who knows if they'll get back up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parkcircus Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 37 minutes ago, RedEd said: If I can throw my tuppence worth in, I thought the reference to Forfar, Stranraer and Brechin was a bit disrespectful. Apart from that it was an interesting read which clearly indicates that the new league is happening. There’s a bit missing from the article when I talked about populations of towns with teams currently in the higher leagues Populations Stranraer 13k, Kilwinning 18k that’s why, in time, they’ll be looking over there shoulder, I know some people at Stranraer and they are watching the developments closely 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEd Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 16 minutes ago, Ginaro said: Well at least one of them will be going down to the fourth tier. Stranraer are on the decline, with crowds lower than most League Two clubs so who knows if they'll get back up. Stranraer look like they've had it but Forfar have a fighting chance of staying up. As it happens Stranraer have built decent sides with relatively small budgets in the recent past. It's usually a cracking away trip as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, RedEd said: Stranraer look like they've had it but Forfar have a fighting chance of staying up. As it happens Stranraer have built decent sides with relatively small budgets in the recent past. It's usually a cracking away trip as well. Isn't the Stranaraer model to overspend, then spend a few years digging themselves back out the shite? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEd Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Isn't the Stranaraer model to overspend, then spend a few years digging themselves back out the shite? They have been known to do that, but I think that's a bit in the past. Not the only ones though, senior or junior. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AML67 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 On 27/02/2020 at 09:03, Burnie_man said: It can easily go to just 1 Prelim Round with a bit of fiddling higher up, an all-in round one would be even better if it is achievable. Apparently all that was required we were told is to agree to ‘potentially’ seed the Championship Clubs in Round 4 if I remember rightly 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AML67 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 On 27/02/2020 at 10:52, FairWeatherFan said: By all in, I don't think they'd be meaning an open draw. I'm the sure Premiership sides won't enter till the 3rd or 4th round for example. By all in we believe ( from the South meeting ) that to be everyone Licensed at Tier 6 and all invitational sides plus potentially everyone at Tier 5 but I may have picked that up wrong 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AML67 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 On 27/02/2020 at 13:13, Lobby Dossar said: Some people on hear are delusional if they think this is going to happen That’s apparently going to be one of the main proposals 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 That’s apparently going to be one of the main proposals Can't find the post of the person you are quoting. Whats the proposal in question? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow-wee Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 7 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: Hearing reliably that the west regions last gasp efforts to claw something back have officially failed. I see the West region have sent emails to all the club's and what a statement it is ooft. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bestsinceslicebread Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, wow-wee said: I see the West region have sent emails to all the club's and what a statement it is ooft. suppose nothing wrong as long as it telling it the way it is and not making stuff up. Anyone got a copy to show the standard email, or is it standard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 I see the West region have sent emails to all the club's and what a statement it is ooft. Whats it saying? I hope the west region continues for many years for all those clubs who stay junior. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theesel1994 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 19 minutes ago, wow-wee said: I see the West region have sent emails to all the club's and what a statement it is ooft. Why don't the release a public statement so the fans can read it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theesel1994 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 1 minute ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: Whats it saying? I hope the west region continues for many years for all those clubs who stay junior. More like "if I can't play then neither can you." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Why don't the release a public statement so the fans can read it?Because the fans dont seem to matter to the blazers. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdinburghBlue Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Isn't the Stranaraer model to overspend, then spend a few years digging themselves back out the shite?We did that once in the past. But because we’re a members club we had to repay all our debts. Administration or liquidation and creating a pretend club were not options for us. TBH, given our history and the size of our budgets, we may well spend some time in the LL in future. But with a decent WoSL below, even that wouldn’t be a scary prospect. And the essence of a pyramid is that most clubs will spend time at different levels, as we’ve already done by playing at three different levels in the SPFL. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beenzon-Toste Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Because the fans dont seem to matter to the blazers.Or it could be because they prefer to use the proper channels to put their business to the clubs, unlike others that are happy to use their p&b stooges to put out their lies for them. -6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 We did that once in the past. But because we’re a members club we had to repay all our debts. Administration or liquidation and creating a pretend club were not options for us. TBH, given our history and the size of our budgets, we may well spend some time in the LL in future. But with a decent WoSL below, even that wouldn’t be a scary prospect. And the essence of a pyramid is that most clubs will spend time at different levels, as we’ve already done by playing at three different levels in the SPFL. I'd say as well Stranraer sustaining at a national level despite their geography & relatively small fanbase/catchment demonstrates that SPFL football is viable for the bigger non-league clubs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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