cmontheloknow Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 33 minutes ago, Cowden Cowboy said: You can play as an amateur for nothing other than genuine expenses or as a pro where you must be paid minimum wage. £1 per week deals not allowed. If you are in Central Belt and you have away games at Peterhead and Elgin you might have players working then a 15 hour week at £7.83 minimum wage So are Queen's Park playing their Professional status (which they 100% have) players? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden Cowboy Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 I assume either they are no longer a wholly amateur club or more likely that the pros they sign do indeed turn amateur 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 (edited) 44 minutes ago, Cowden Cowboy said: I assume either they are no longer a wholly amateur club or more likely that the pros they sign do indeed turn amateur I'd go for the former just on the grounds that you can't just become amateur if you're a pro. You can only reinstate to amateur once a career so it is not something undetaken lightly. Sean Burns as an example - signed for QP from Airdrie aged 19 or so, has just signed for Brechin extremely likely as a Pro. If he reinstated amateur at 19, that's it. Never again. Anyway, I've derailed this topic enough! Edited July 1, 2018 by cmontheloknow 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden Cowboy Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 I'd go for the former just on the grounds that you can't just become amateur if you're a pro. You can only reinstate to amateur once a career so it is not something undetaken lightly. Sean Burns as an example - signed for QP from Airdrie aged 19 or so, has just signed for Brechin extremely likely as a Pro. If he reinstated amateur at 19, that's it. Never again. Anyway, I've derailed this topic enough!I am not sure players willing to play for nothing/expenses but who benefit from the facilities, etc at Hampden will worry all that much about turning amateur. They are more likely to play junior later rather than amateur again in all likelihood if they go pro again. Junior clubs with pro players should be paying minimum wage I would think but maybe recreational contracts get round that but again would then be expenses only surely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teekasule Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 22 minutes ago, cmontheloknow said: I'd go for the former just on the grounds that you can't just become amateur if you're a pro. You can only reinstate to amateur once a career so it is not something undetaken lightly. Sean Burns as an example - signed for QP from Airdrie aged 19 or so, has just signed for Brechin extremely likely as a Pro. If he reinstated amateur at 19, that's it. Never again. Anyway, I've derailed this topic enough! interesting stuff, cheers, As for the signings not sure who out of the batch will be first team or reserve team. Also a few will be amateur, as per their contracts last season. A Rovers Select team won 1-0 on Saturday in a close door match, not sure who against ! but at least it was a clean sheet ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodka Vic Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 On 30 June 2018 at 23:00, 1320Lichtie said: Got a bad feeling for the Rovers this season. What’s happened? You guys just run out of dough? These signings all seem very risky. Relegation to L2 thanks to Brian Kerr's and Stuart " fukn lazy leg Fish" Malcolm high line of defence that Mick Dunlop allegedly would have struggled to cope with. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PELE Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 On 01/07/2018 at 17:15, cmontheloknow said: As far as I know, it's a national reserve league below the big boy's one. Rovers are signing up a decent proportion of last season's U20s so I assume it's with that in mind. Edit: this story from the Cowden website highlights some issues with it and their intention to not take part: http://www.cowdenbeathfc.com/index.php?act=viewNews&id=2389 Only a first team for us now. Well done to Manky and the glorious project farce. What's the aim of the scheme Manky? To have less youngsters playing football sir. Excellent Manky. Anyway. Good luck Rovers. As soon as you guys looked like you would come down to league 2, it looked ominous. Looks like we should have enough to avoid the bottom spot, so I think it is a battle between QP, Berwick and yourselves with maybe Edinburgh dragged in as well. Who knows. Maybe it will all click and you will surprise everyone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutankhamen Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Any friendlies planned? Thinking of trying to take in a home game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_the_rover Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Motherwell Reserves at Dalziel 7th July Noon KO.St Rochs Away 7th July 3pm KO.Blantyre Vics 10th July HomeEast Stirlingshire, 12th July HomeGlasgow Perthshire 14th July HomeHome games all closed doors. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutankhamen Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Hopefully get along to a couple of the away games then take in the next open to the public home game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pastmaster Posted July 5, 2018 Author Share Posted July 5, 2018 (edited) Of course when they say `closed` all home games are observable from the hill at the back of the ground. Edited July 5, 2018 by The Pastmaster 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutankhamen Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 Went along today to St Roch's. Bounce game and all that. Oh well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaydee Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 The game against St Roch’s was the reserves. Only Fish and John Cunningham are likely first team players when the season starts. Ps the first team beat Motherwell Reserves 2-0 [emoji1360] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonball Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 16 hours ago, Tutankhamen said: Went along today to St Roch's. Bounce game and all that. Oh well. What was the score out of interest? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pastmaster Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 (edited) Candy 6 Vers res. 2 Edited July 8, 2018 by The Pastmaster 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda8 Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 Why closed doors for preseason, surely they should be trying to get money through the door. Also the standard of fixture isn’t really going to give any indication of where the team is at. looks like the club have left it too late to arrange games have appointed a manager from the juniors with limited contacts in senior game and he’s had to call people he knows. Getting the feeling this will be a long season 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_the_rover Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 The game against St Roch’s was the reserves. Only Fish and John Cunningham are likely first team players when the season starts. Ps the first team beat Motherwell Reserves 2-0 [emoji1360] Did Cunningham play in both games then I went to the Motherwell game he scored the first goal.What were the red cards for 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaydee Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 Did Cunningham play in both games then I went to the Motherwell game he scored the first goal.What were the red cards forHe played the second half of the Motherwell game and then travelled through to St Roch’s as did a couple of others. I believe the Candy player called JC a “fa**ot” and Daniel Crawley got his for a 2 footed tackle apparently. 🤷🏽♂️ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejannie Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 4 hours ago, Yoda8 said: Why closed doors for preseason, surely they should be trying to get money through the door. Also the standard of fixture isn’t really going to give any indication of where the team is at. looks like the club have left it too late to arrange games have appointed a manager from the juniors with limited contacts in senior game and he’s had to call people he knows. Getting the feeling this will be a long season Were u at the albion motherwell game yesterday? If not..... Motherwell had a strong team out and albion played very well and deserved their win. Team starting to take shape 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda8 Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 4 hours ago, thejannie said: Were u at the albion motherwell game yesterday? If not..... Motherwell had a strong team out and albion played very well and deserved their win. Team starting to take shape I wasn’t no, I thought it was Motherwell reserves? Great to hear they looked good but I don’t really read into playing against a reserve side. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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