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Fife thistle won 8-1 vs kirkcaldy albion

Some tough ties in there especially bowhill, good to have it at home as it's a tough ask in the west coast. Best of luck to all the fife teams, good to see a decent number from fife in round 4

They not winners in not too distant past Eddlewood ? Some result

That's tragic, but a sign of times. We are very lucky to have good sponsors and still have to put a lot of effort into fundraising and donating money to keep the club sound. The manager often has to put his hand in his own pocket which should never be the case. Cost of running a team and commitment level of players is not what it was when I started back in the 1800's. hopefully that's the last club to go this season.

Jesus that's a new one on me, but sad

In England it's the norm, nobody bitches or moans, the only rules regarding playing first team players in reserve is that only 3 can be named in the squad, they must have played a percentage of reserve team games to be eligible to play in certain cup ties and games after march to prevent influencing promotion/relegation. there is an enforced player registration with photo id which each official and club receives to stop players playing under assumed names. There is as expected no limit to reserve players being in first team squad. It works well in Buckinghamshire, and perhaps if some of these suggestions were voted on at league meetings there would be less moaning and more transparency. Its certainly not cheap to run one team never mind two

Fife thistle on 7 points jim

I'm fine pal Lol

Gents with the rain and reasonably mild night, who calls a game off a day early ?? There might be a lot of games off but at least wait until the day of game

Methilhill vs fife thistle was not a frozen park, the east fife bairns play at sandy at 10 am. I checked park myself, as I wanted to take family to Edinburgh if off. Was 7 degrees and soft as you like in both goalmouth. The park was perfect, pretty poor show

It happens mate, we were in a similar position for game as well with boys doing marathon for charity, at cup finals, on holiday and just injured with old age 🙈 I think it's done both teams a favour in end. Regards the manager I don't want to go into too much detail on forum, but was a tragic set of circumstances for him and all the boys at Kirkland have been very supportive in helping him through it. Best of luck in remaining games and for next season.

Just going on table I was sent Sunday, they qualified already after bayside not fulfilling fixture

Bayside can't field a team Saturday so our game off, Kirkland win group with game to spare so 1/4 vs st monans at home. Day watching cup finals it is then.

Weather was attrocious, had to take kick off a yard from spot as was a swimming pool. We controlled first half shooting down the hill and really should have been more than 1-0 up. Kelty rolled their sleeves up second half and it could have been more for either side. Great chances missed both ends and about 450 offsides for both sides ....hard for the ref but some of them were shocking both ways 🙈

Kelty 1-2 Kirkland