EdinburghBlue Posted November 13, 2022 Author Share Posted November 13, 2022 On 08/06/2022 at 21:58, Stevo Fife said: Had you witnessed what I had witnessed in the second leg at Cowdenbeath, we could maybe share each others pain. It was pub league footie with two really poor teams. Bonnyrigg had a cracking support to be fair. The thread title is "next to go" and in my opinion, Bonnyrigg will finish bottom. Of course, I could be completely wrong in under a years time, in which case I'll eat my right arm. You could be right. They seem to be in free fall at the moment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_the_rover Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 You could be right. They seem to be in free fall at the moment. Rovers have beat them comfortably home and away this season, shame we can't beat anyone else haha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayhole Blue Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Major game at Cliftonhill on Saturday - if Rovers win it begins to look odds-on that Bonnyrigg will be Club 42 this season. Suspect this year there’s a good chance that Club 42 will win the play-off though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbsouth Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Arbroath won't be impressed with that performance from Slater.....and no we don't want Hilson either!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdinburghBlue Posted March 22, 2023 Author Share Posted March 22, 2023 41 minutes ago, Clayhole Blue said: Major game at Cliftonhill on Saturday - if Rovers win it begins to look odds-on that Bonnyrigg will be Club 42 this season. Suspect this year there’s a good chance that Club 42 will win the play-off though. Having seen Albion Rovers both against Stranraer and as a neutral I think they are far too good a side to be ninth, let alone tenth. But I guess a danger for them is that Bonnyrigg will out-muscle them on Saturday. Bonnyrigg are the poorest side I’ve seen football-wise this season, but are very physical. But all may not be lost for Rovers if they lose on Saturday. Elgin are slowly falling down the table. Having also seen Spartans recently don’t disagree that whoever finishes bottom could beat them in a playoff. We may have another Highland team in the SPFL next season. If it’s Buckie clubs will relish having to travel twice to there Elgin and Peterhead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB_Bino Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Said it before the season kicked off, but I'll never understand why Bonnyrigg made the decision to re-sign every player for this season. We saw it with Edinburgh City, in their first season up, the jump is a big one and I think that was' a decision that has cost them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WC Boggs Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, BB_Bino said: Said it before the season kicked off, but I'll never understand why Bonnyrigg made the decision to re-sign every player for this season. We saw it with Edinburgh City, in their first season up, the jump is a big one and I think that was' a decision that has cost them. Possibly a bit like Greig McDonald being too nice a guy to dump players who got us promoted to league one, but weren't good enough to survive in it? I think Bonnyrigg have been a breath of fresh air in league 2 and finishing bottom doesn't make it a certainty they'll go down. All power to them. Edited March 22, 2023 by WC Boggs Typo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_binos Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Hope Bonnyrigg stay up. Brilliant crowds for League 2. Would imagine they'd get a lot more through the gate if they had a winning team on the park. I can understand Horn keeping majority of his squad but he should have known the standard required - especially as he was manager of a failing Berwick Rangers side at this level. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdinburghBlue Posted March 22, 2023 Author Share Posted March 22, 2023 (edited) On 22/03/2023 at 14:14, BB_Bino said: Said it before the season kicked off, but I'll never understand why Bonnyrigg made the decision to re-sign every player for this season. We saw it with Edinburgh City, in their first season up, the jump is a big one and I think that was' a decision that has cost them. Displayed admirable loyalty to a squad that had got him a couple of promotions, rather than an arrogance about the standards of non-league football, though truth to tell there’s a lot of that about in the pyramid. Think their first few results didn’t help, but they did wake up to comparative fitness levels. Suspect that if they go down they will come back in due course. They are a big enough club from a decently-sized catchment area. And a year or two back in the Lowland League would give them time to bring their facilities up to SPFL standard. Edited April 18, 2023 by EdinburghBlue 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdinburghBlue Posted March 22, 2023 Author Share Posted March 22, 2023 I have edited the initial analysis to add the highest/lowest/average points totals for teams finishing bottom in the four league structure, and also the margins by which they finished bottom. On a PPG basis it's possible and maybe likely that the team finishing bottom this year could be the best performing side since this league was established in 1994. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaKnollBoy Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 (edited) 13 hours ago, EdinburghBlue said: I have edited the initial analysis to add the highest/lowest/average points totals for teams finishing bottom in the four league structure, and also the margins by which they finished bottom. On a PPG basis it's possible and maybe likely that the team finishing bottom this year could be the best performing side since this league was established in 1994. Are you sure about that? As I have watched some wretched Montrose teams in League Two since those days? ETA-Sorry, you said best performing, which clearly that wouldn't have been us! Edited March 23, 2023 by VillaKnollBoy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor7 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 Massive game on Saturday between Albion Rovers and Elgin. Going by recent form I would fancy Bonnyrigg to grind out enough points to stay up. Rovers lose on Saturday and it might be a tough ask to make up a potential 4-7 point gap with only 4 fixtures left. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayhole Blue Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 On 04/04/2023 at 19:24, Connor7 said: Massive game on Saturday between Albion Rovers and Elgin. Going by recent form I would fancy Bonnyrigg to grind out enough points to stay up. Rovers lose on Saturday and it might be a tough ask to make up a potential 4-7 point gap with only 4 fixtures left. If Rovers lose it will be a 6 point gap with 4 games left - think they would struggle to pull that back. But it’s going to take an improvement in Elgin’s form for them to beat Rovers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 bye bye rovers, been swilinging the dreges for 30 years, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leewood Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 I hope Albion get the win this week, be a shame to see them having to be in the play-off! Not that it'd really matter as Albion or Elgin are both good enough to batter Spartans or Buckie anyway. Imagine Buckie in Coatbridge! That's something for the young team to look forward to! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayhole Blue Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 That’s Spartans in the play-offs from the Lowland, and looking like Buckie or Brechin from the Highland. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_the_rover Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 On 06/04/2023 at 14:15, SlipperyP said: bye bye rovers, been swilinging the dreges for 30 years, Not really, spent 5 out the last 10 years in the division above for a start 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_the_rover Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 On 06/04/2023 at 23:52, Leewood said: Imagine Buckie in Coatbridge! That's something for the young team to look forward to! For the fact of Buckie, or its a team in green and white hoops haha We played them in the Scottish cup a couple years ago at Cliftonhill, they ran out comfortable 3-0 winners 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdenbeath Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 55 minutes ago, Chris_the_rover said: Not really, spent 5 out the last 10 years in the division above for a start Exactly while Elgin spend 23 years in the same division without a mention. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WC Boggs Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Throughout this whole saga only two club's supporters haven't had a public meltdown at being bottom or near bottom. The only ones who haven't taken it for granted that finishing bottom only had one outcome, going down. Rovers and Rose. May both survive, because their fans deserve it. Nobody is guaranteed to go down. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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