NRJFA Leagues

[TheScarf]

BoD with an 11-0 win at home to Colony Park yesterday. Away to 2nd placed Culter next. Should be tight.

 

[GNU_Linux]

14th Augsut

Superleague

Bridge of Don Thistle 3-1 Nairn St Ninian
Banks O'Dee 11-0 Colony Park
Culter 2-1 Banchory St Ternan
Deveronside 0-6 Aberdeen East End
Dyce 1-0 Montrose Roselea
Ellon United 0-0 Maud
Hall Russel United 1-2 Hermes

First Division

Buchanhaven Hearts 2-1 Aberdeen University
Dufftown 1-5 Stoneywood Parkvale
Stonehaven 4-1 Fraserburgh United

Second Division

Burghead Thistle 0-1 Glentanar
Forres Thistle 3-2 Cruden Bay
New Elgin 0-2 Newmachar United
Rothie Rovers 9-1 Whitehills

For those playing along at home that's the Rechabites up to 36 scored & 4 conceded. Rothie Rovers with a great start to their first ever full season in the NRJFA.

[Sherrif John Bunnell]

St Ninian have sacked their manager and coaching staff. I don't know if it's down to poor results or if there are other reasons. It certainly doesn't come across as a cordial departure.

 

[GNU_Linux]

21st August

Junior Cup

Ashfield 5-0 Islavale
Auchinleck Talbot 3-1 Montrose Roselea
Banks O' Dee 4-3 Harthill Royal
Beith Juniors 3-2 Maud
Bridge of Don Thistle 1-4 Lochee United
Burghead Thistle 0-4 Ardrossan Winton Rovers
Carluke Rovers 3-1 Sunnybank
Colony Park 1(5-4p)1 Hurlford United
Cruden Bay 3-4 Lanark United
Culter 1-0 Hermes
Dufftown 4(3-4p)4 Letham
Dyce 6-0 Buchanhaven Hearts
Ellon United 0-2 Dundee St. James
Forres Thistle 0-6 Tayport
Hall Russell United 0-5 Renfrew
Irvine Meadow 4-0 Deveronside
Longside 1(2-3p)1 Fraserburgh United
Nairn St. Ninian 1-4 Shotts Bon Accord
Rothie Rovers 0-1 Kilsyth Rangers
Scone Thistle 4-2 New Elgin
Stonehaven 0-3 Syngenta
Stoneywood Parkvale 4-1 Wishaw
Whitehills 0-13 Arthurlie

Second Division

Newmachar United 4-1 Glentanar

Six NRJFA sides make it through to the 2nd round. Colony Park with the standout result of the entire round seeing off WOSL Premier outfit Hurlford. Stoneywood with a good win against Wishaw also. Banks O'Dee ran surprisingly close by Harthill from the WOSL Division Four.
Maud & Rothie bow out but put up very respectable showings against on paper much superior opposition.
 

Edited August 25, 2021 by GNU_Linux

[GNU_Linux]

Here's how the six plus 4 byes from the NRJFA look in round two. To be played September 25th

Junior Cup 2nd Round

Aberdeen University vs Lochee United
Armadale Thistle w/o Dyce
Banks O'Dee vs Syngenta
Brechin Victoria vs Newmachar United
Carnoustie Panmure vs Fraserburgh United
Culter vs Beith
Dundee North End vs Colony Park
East Craigie vs Banchory St. Ternan
Glentanar vs Kirkintilloch Rob Roy
Petershill vs Stoneywood Parkvale

Dyce already through to the 3rd round thanks to Armadale's withdrawl due to scheduling issues. Standout's for me are Banks O'Dee vs a Syngenta side who've made a flying start to life in the East of Scotland Conference X & Beith taking on a Culter side sitting second currently albeit Culter aren't the force they used to be.


 

[Eric's Cantina]

How much do teams in the North Pyramid charge roughly ?

 

[welshbairn]

11 hours ago, Eric's Cantina said:

How much do teams in the North Pyramid charge roughly ?

 

£6-10 roughly, roughly half for concessions. Roughly.

Edited August 27, 2021 by welshbairn

[TheScarf]

Banks o Dee beat Linlithgow Rose away today. Unreal result.

[Bundesliga Boy]

2 hours ago, TheScarf said:

Banks o Dee beat Linlithgow Rose away today. Unreal result.

I was at this fixture a few years back in the Scottish when Banks O Dee hosted the Rose in the Scottish and again were victorious.

Honestly not that much of a shock that's it happened again - Banks O Dee are for real (remember the Highland League clubs turned down their application a few years back under the misnomer that they weren't truly a Highland club when it was well known it was purely down to how successful they were) and for the few uninitiated who aren't aware, next year will be very interesting when BOD go toe to toe with the best the Highland league has to offer.  Watch this space!

[TheScarf]

5 hours ago, Bundesliga Boy said:

I was at this fixture a few years back in the Scottish when Banks O Dee hosted the Rose in the Scottish and again were victorious.

Honestly not that much of a shock that's it happened again - Banks O Dee are for real (remember the Highland League clubs turned down their application a few years back under the misnomer that they weren't truly a Highland club when it was well known it was purely down to how successful they were) and for the few uninitiated who aren't aware, next year will be very interesting when BOD go toe to toe with the best the Highland league has to offer.  Watch this space!

They'd have to get by the Midland League winners over 2 legs but I'd say they'd be favourites.

[FairWeatherFan]

7 hours ago, Bundesliga Boy said:

Honestly not that much of a shock that's it happened again - Banks O Dee are for real (remember the Highland League clubs turned down their application a few years back under the misnomer that they weren't truly a Highland club when it was well known it was purely down to how successful they were) and for the few uninitiated who aren't aware, next year will be very interesting when BOD go toe to toe with the best the Highland league has to offer.  Watch this space!

Scarily, a few years is now 13. As the ball rolling on applying to the Highland League started in 2008-09. Formartine United let it be known they were applying after being relegated from the Superleague at the end of 2007-08. Feeling that one of the clubs promoted didn't meet the league ground criteria.

Turriff United followed with their intention of applying. BoD and Strathspey Thistle soon followed. Difference between all of them and BoD was the inconsitency in their approach in the press. Initially dismissive on the idea, a meeting to stay Junior, then only applying to cover themselves. Which would later lead to the rumour that they never turned up for their application presentation. Which i'm still not 100% is fact or fiction. 

Even then they got 5 votes. Which was a third of the HL at the time. Turriff got the full 15 being the slightly better equipped Shire side actually interested. Strathspey got 14 thanks to being cannon fodder and the idea of balancing Highland and Shire. With Formartine the remaining 11.

If BoD had actually tried they probably could have scraped together enough votes. Then as everyone knows they turned down the invite the year Cove were promoted. They would be a Highland League by now if they really wanted it.

EDIT: Just as some more context to the 2008-09 process. Banks O'Dee were not the steamroller back then that they are now. The 2007-08 Superleague was their first, and won by 3 points. The 3 applicants were accepted back in Feb 2009 and they were in the middle of a title fight with Sunnybank. There's no doubt they were the strongest on the field at that time, but they were by no means a dominant force.

 

Edited August 29, 2021 by FairWeatherFan

[Ginaro]

13 hours ago, TheScarf said:

Banks o Dee beat Linlithgow Rose away today. Unreal result.

Interesting to look at the rankings that someone has put together: http://scotscores.theroonba.com/clubrank/clubrank.html

BoD are ranked 3rd in the north pyramid behind Buckie and Fraserburgh, which seems about right?

They were also ranked a few places above Linlithgow so maybe not such a surprise result.

Lochee are not far behind them as well.

[TheScarf]

11 minutes ago, Ginaro said:

Interesting to look at the rankings that someone has put together: http://scotscores.theroonba.com/clubrank/clubrank.html

BoD are ranked 3rd in the north pyramid behind Buckie and Fraserburgh, which seems about right?

They were also ranked a few places above Linlithgow so maybe not such a surprise result.

Lochee are not far behind them as well.

Not sure about those rankings but BoD certainly do seem to do better in the Scottish cup than the majority of HL teams. Which is really the only marker you can use at the moment.

[welshbairn]

Don't know much about it but have Linlithgow Rose not dropped away a bit from where they were a few years ago? Think BoDee would easy make the top 6 in the HL if they can ever be bothered making the step up, but doubt they'd walk away with it. Highlights below.

 

[LongTimeLurker]

Yes, Linlithgow Rose are not the same as they used to be and have stagnated in a big way. Were asleep at the switch when they could easily have entered the Lowland League by application and made a big push for the SPFL after getting licensed while still in the juniors before obstacles were placed in the way of that by the SFA in the Regan/MacRae era. Bo'ness United now likely to be the dominant club at that end of West Lothian for many years to come after being promoted into tier 5 before the WoS clubs arrived to make the playoff out of tier 6 much more challenging.

[Andy groundhopper]

Think the ambitious clubs have to grab promotion while they have the momentum, too easy to drop off and fall back. (maybe  £ related) I'd hope anyone that gets into the HL has the intentions to keep going - upwards. 

[GNU_Linux]

Saturday 28th August

Scottish Cup

Linlithgow Rose 1-2 Banks O'Dee

Superleague

Banchory St. Ternan 1-0 Deveronside
Colony Park 0-2 Bridge of Don Thistle
Dyce 4-1 Aberdeen East End
Hermes 4-0 Nairn St. Ninian
Maud 4-5 Hall Russell United
Montrose Roselea P-P Ellon United

First Division

Buchanhaven Hearts 1-4 Dufftown
Longside 1-1 Stonehaven
Stoneywood Parkvale 2-1 Aberdeen University
Sunnybank 3-2 Fraserburgh United

Second Division

Burghead Thistle 2-0 New Elgin
Cruden Bay 0-3 Rothie Rovers
Islavale 0-7 Forres Thistle
Newmachar United P-P Whitehills

League Cup Section 6

Culter 9-1 Glentanar

Both postponements due to covid. Lithgae have fallen away the past couple of seasons but still an excellent result for The Rechabites. 1st round proper has The Dee at home against Turiff United who they should be confident of beating given Turra have 2 points from 7 games.
 

Edited August 30, 2021 by GNU_Linux

[Edgar81]

On 29/08/2021 at 08:15, TheScarf said:

They'd have to get by the Midland League winners over 2 legs but I'd say they'd be favourites.

 

Couple of questions from outside of Scotland.

Aren't the North Caledonian winners also involved?

Based on wiki, there's no team in the Midlands league with a SFA license - wasn't that a prerequisite for participating in the playoff?

 

A bit disappointed that there are only 2 licensed teams at tier 6 in the North (Banks O' Dee and Golspie Sutherland) .

[TheScarf]

32 minutes ago, Edgar81 said:

 

Couple of questions from outside of Scotland.

Aren't the North Caledonian winners also involved?

Based on wiki, there's no team in the Midlands league with a SFA license - wasn't that a prerequisite for participating in the playoff?

 

A bit disappointed that there are only 2 licensed teams at tier 6 in the North (Banks O' Dee and Golspie Sutherland) .

They are, it's a 3 way play off but the NCL is far weaker.

[FairWeatherFan]

30 minutes ago, Edgar81 said:

 

Couple of questions from outside of Scotland.

Aren't the North Caledonian winners also involved?

Based on wiki, there's no team in the Midlands league with a SFA license - wasn't that a prerequisite for participating in the playoff?

 

A bit disappointed that there are only 2 licensed teams at tier 6 in the North (Banks O' Dee and Golspie Sutherland) .

The NCL winners can go up if they're licenced. That's likely to only be Golspie Sutherland this year.

The Midlands League teams have been outside the SFA licencing for about 5-6 years. Only early adopters like Linlithgow Rose and Banks O'Dee were able to get licenced before the pathway was closed to new applicants from the Juniors. A number of clubs have been able to get licenced within the span of a single season to meet playoff deadlines..