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Junior football, what is the future?


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But the JB manager seems to thing the SJFA or WSJFA are running the new league.
Not sure why he doesn't pick up the phone to someone there instead of whinging to the press.
So many people are still not getting this. The WRSJFA will not be running the WoSFL.
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33 minutes ago, Born To Run said:

The other applicant was an amateur side who have played friendlies against the likes of Maryhill recently. They took a flier without having the required facilities etc in place.

Scoutable United FC?

 

Scoutable Utd FC 1-3 Maryhill Juniors FC

Scoutables took on Maryhill Juniors last night in what was a very competitive game. Maryhill started brightly and won the early exchanges, scoring twice in the first 20 minutes. This woke Scoutables into action and we played at a much higher tempo moving the ball around well and keeping our shape which resulted in a goal just before half time. The second half was much brighter with Scoutables retaining possession well but squandering chances before conceding again late in the game. Despite the result a better performance and many positives to build upon.

Goal scored by:

Yusuf Bamba⚽


Given the delays with Covid-19 perhaps there might be a "window of opportunity" to bring their application up to the required standard. But suspect the newly formed club which was only established in 2019 does not have the resources or experience to take on a project of this nature.

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Did Darvel get in?

Drumchapel United is a funny one. Their current amateur team is a shambles in terms of professionalism. They dont have a strong 19s/21s pool of players ready to step up and form the basis of a strong squad for this sort of standard.

They'll basically be starting from scratch needing to build a full squad.

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12 minutes ago, Crazy Feet said:

Did Darvel get in?

Drumchapel United is a funny one. Their current amateur team is a shambles in terms of professionalism. They dont have a strong 19s/21s pool of players ready to step up and form the basis of a strong squad for this sort of standard.

They'll basically be starting from scratch needing to build a full squad.

Which bit of 'all 63 WRSJFA clubs were accepted' did you not understand?

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I understand that it's now been formally agreed that the South Challenge Cup is compulsory for all LL, WoS, EoS and SoS clubs to enter. I dont think it was ever a formal requirement previously.

So League and SCC, plus any (senior) Scottish Cup fixtures, will receive priority over any other competition.

Talking of the Scottish Cup, given that the Junior Cup wont be completed this season, and neither will any Junior league, will there be any Junior representation at all next season? The ERJFA wont be able to declare a Champion given a North/South play-off needs to take place to determine it. Will the WRJFA declare a Champion? North?

We may already have seen the last of Junior clubs in the Scottish.

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2 minutes ago, BMan said:

I understand that it's now been formally agreed that the South Challenge Cup is compulsory for all LL, WoS, EoS and SoS clubs to enter. I dont think it was ever a formal requirement previously.

So League and SCC, plus any (senior) Scottish Cup fixtures, will receive priority over any other competition.

Talking of the Scottish Cup, given that the Junior Cup wont be completed this season, and neither will any Junior league, will there be any Junior representation at all next season? The ERJFA wont be able to declare a Champion given a North/South play-off needs to take place to determine it. Will the WRJFA declare a Champion? North?

We may already have seen the last of Junior clubs in the Scottish.
 

Banks o'dee

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Glad this puts to bed any cherry picking concerns and clubs can now get on with working towards what next season and beyond will look like.

Its quite exciting actually, who will end up in the top league, will there be any surprise packages, who will go for licence, who will choose to play in the junior Cup, who won't, what is the new league set up going to be, experience wise, when balanced against previous experiences.

Once we get beyond the current state of affairs and we get back to some form of normal, new challenges await. For every club.

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Really?

 

We don't know why they weren't accepted, let's be Frank for a minute though, 67 clubs in and one not would suggest that either the application wasn't up to the required standard, their ground didn't meet the basic criteria or they were not considered a wosfl area club.

 

None of that suggests cherry picking. Cherry picking would be picking the top 20 sides and rejecting the rest. That didn't happen.

 

Until it is made clear why the 1 club was rejected it wouldn't be prudent to suggest they were cherry picked out.

 

 

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