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Celtic and Hearts B Teams in Lowland League?


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Looking at first and second in the LL, I see that it has officially become as boring as (in an identical way to) the Spiffle Premier. With no one to blame but the LL clubs themselves.

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The Old Firm B teams have massive resources compared to the LL teams.  They also have larger squads of full time footballers.  It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who follows Fitbaw that they are at the top end of the table.  

At the end of this season they MUST go.  No excuses.

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On 15/01/2023 at 16:43, EdinburghBlue said:

Figures in today’s Sunday Mail show the urgency of getting Celtic and Rangers* B teams into the SPFL as clearly they are unable to attract Scottish talent under the current structure 

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That figure for Celtic doesn't make sense as we have signed Scots on professional contracts from youth development? I'm guessing they are only including from other clubs that we have signed them from which is very misleading 

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1 hour ago, Burnieman said:

Darvel just underlined with a large black marker pen why the Lowland League don't want to increase promotion/relegation, same with the SPFL.

Hopefully Bonnyrigg go down and Darvel go up and should be two good guys to vote against B teams and for at least 2 promotion spots.

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14 hours ago, Burnieman said:

Darvel just underlined with a large black marker pen why the Lowland League don't want to increase promotion/relegation, same with the SPFL.

That's an unfair statement Burnieman, from the outset Tranent voted NOT to accept the B teams into the Lowland League as did another seven teams.

Our opinion wont change for next season and beyond either, we would much rather have the likes of Linlithgow and Darvel in the Lowland League going forward.

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2 hours ago, beachboy said:

That's an unfair statement Burnieman, from the outset Tranent voted NOT to accept the B teams into the Lowland League as did another seven teams.

Our opinion wont change for next season and beyond either, we would much rather have the likes of Linlithgow and Darvel in the Lowland League going forward.

It's not unfair, it's fact, and I'm not talking about B teams.

The Lowland League have consistently voted against increased promotion/relegation and those clubs who back it will continue to try and keep it that way.  There was even talk of only allowing these votes every two seasons.

I'm well aware there's clubs who hold the opposite view, but at the moment there's not enough of them. Hopefully in future there will be.

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1 hour ago, Deanburn Dave said:

You cannot ignore the South..........having said that a 3 way play off for the 2 spots isn't difficult.

Why not just promote the champions of all three automatically and have a play off for a fourth team, all runners up and the team that finished 4th bottom of the LL to play off.

More should be done by the LL to encourage clubs who have the ambition and the set up to match not just survive in the 5th tier but turn the LL into a very competitive league underneath the SPFL, rather than all this focus on B teams who never earned their place in that league.

 

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1 hour ago, Burnieman said:

It's not unfair, it's fact, and I'm not talking about B teams.

The Lowland League have consistently voted against increased promotion/relegation and those clubs who back it will continue to try and keep it that way.  There was even talk of only allowing these votes every two seasons.

I'm well aware there's clubs who hold the opposite view, but at the moment there's not enough of them. Hopefully in future there will be.

The Clubs who held the opposite view was 8, exactly the same as the Clubs who voted for B Teams but the vote was carried by the Chairman of the LL so tarnishing all LL Clubs is a bit unfair.

A LL with no B Teams and better teams from the WOSL and EOSL would be a better league than SPFL 2 and would get better crowds and so Clubs could maximise hospitality and sponsors etc. 

16 team league is too small tho, need to be min 18.

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11 minutes ago, Brazilianlex said:

The Clubs who held the opposite view was 8, exactly the same as the Clubs who voted for B Teams but the vote was carried by the Chairman of the LL so tarnishing all LL Clubs is a bit unfair.

A LL with no B Teams and better teams from the WOSL and EOSL would be a better league than SPFL 2 and would get better crowds and so Clubs could maximise hospitality and sponsors etc. 

16 team league is too small tho, need to be min 18.

He's talking about promotion relegation issue. Can't remember exactly but that went something like 9-7.

If it went beyond that to discuss a format the chair was  talking up the 1 down & 1 relegation playoff spot. With 2 down and 3 down being the other two options. 

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2 hours ago, Brazilianlex said:

16 team league is too small tho, need to be min 18.

16 with a 8-8 split would work…

30 games then 7 more post-split, if you could gloss over the home and away advantage issue it would cause.

Unless there’s 4 relegation and a few promotion playoff spots, anything more than 16 is too much

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2 hours ago, Brazilianlex said:

The Clubs who held the opposite view was 8, exactly the same as the Clubs who voted for B Teams but the vote was carried by the Chairman of the LL so tarnishing all LL Clubs is a bit unfair.

A LL with no B Teams and better teams from the WOSL and EOSL would be a better league than SPFL 2 and would get better crowds and so Clubs could maximise hospitality and sponsors etc. 

16 team league is too small tho, need to be min 18.

I'm not talking about B teams, which is an entirely separate issue.

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