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  1. What if they shut down the season?

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    1 hour ago, ARu-Strathbungo said:

    I think we discussed something like this in an earlier post and IMO it is the set-up that makes most sense. If we could also structure the leagues financially to make it so that teams playing young Scottish born players were rewarded, we might just improve the quality of our game? Now that Scottish football is geared towards the senior game we could [will] find in the next 10 to 20 years the likes of Auchinleck, Killwining and Pollok rise up through the pyramid system, this will be a great incentive to those teams who previously played Junior football to raise their game.

    My guess is that Scotland can support between 20 to 25 full time professional teams? …..  If the leagues were run along the basis of something like 14 'Premier', 14 'Championship' and 14 'League 1 North' and 14 'League 1 South' with the Highland League, Lowland League, East of Scotland League and West of Scotland leagues slotting in below that, I think we would have a healthy football league basis.

    Mind you …. since it is unlikely there will be football [as we know it] this year, that 25 figure for the full time teams may change.

    I always believed that a number of the juniors, and Pollok immediately come to mind, weren't that interested in joining the "senior" ranks.  A quote, albeit 2018, from the Evening Times:

    The juniors were just fine, thanks very much. They had good players, better than many senior teams, strong clubs and in many ways played by their own rules. It worked well for years. So many, and this is inarguable, were bigger and better run than those who ply their trades in what is now League One and Two. Perhaps even higher up.

    Looking at average attendances, and appreciate this isn't everything, Pollok are comfortably above all of League 2, and match the likes of East Fife and Forfar. Given all the additional licensing costs  it makes you wonder why they would bother. It would seem to make more sense for League 2 teams, at least, to drop back into the junior ranks.

  2. Where is Ian Maxwell

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    On 4/12/2020 at 12:54 AM, exiledjag said:

    I think as Chief Exc of the SFA he is doing the right thing by keeping out of this affair. 

    This voting scandal is highlighting the fact that we need a single unified body to run Scottish Football. The SPL/SPFL have made a complete and utter mess of things generally  and currently the simplist of events - administering a democratic vote! 

    As every season passes one of  Henry Mcleish's one  main recommendations from his review of Scottish Football  - a single unified body running Scottish Football - becomes more needed yet remains as far away as ever. 

    Such a body would be powerful enough to curb the influence of strong minded people like Lawell at Celtic! 

     

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  5. Who Are The Jags Players In This Photo?

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    On 2/20/2020 at 11:04 PM, Jaggernaut said:

    Still on the subject of East Fife.... 

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    My first Thistle game, from memory, was in 1971 against East Fife. It was a white programme and I always thought it was around March but the records show we won 4-0 on Saturday 30th January.  Aged 4 and a bit I'm sure  spent most of my time running up and down the terracing.  I was 5 by the time the Cup Final came along but Dad reckoned I was a bit too wee to go. I had both programmes for years, now sadly gone.

  11. Glasgow Cup Tie - Tuesday Evening

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    32 minutes ago, ARu-Strathbungo said:

    The Glasgow Cup game against Queens Park next week [5th] is advertised a 'closed doors' event. Anyone know the reason why they don't want supporters present for the game?

    From the QPFC website:

    DUE TO LICENSING RESTRICTIONS ALL GAMES AT LESSER HAMPDEN ARE CLOSED DOOR GAMES

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