nics Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 Meeting on Tuesday to reconstruct the junior leagues again The proposal is season 18/19 to do away with premier league and go back to a Tayside,fife and Lothian league. League winner from each goes into super league,with second place from each league and 4th bottom from super league going into semi final playoffs. Next season 2 teams are relegated out the super league. Sounds a good idea for financial reasons but poor for football.Will teams be playing for nothing outside the super league next year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 great idea more local games and better crowds hope it happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogsy Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 Cant see a majority of clubs voting for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogsy Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 Meeting on Tuesday to reconstruct the junior leagues again The proposal is season 18/19 to do away with premier league and go back to a Tayside,fife and Lothian league. League winner from each goes into super league,with second place from each league and 4th bottom from super league going into semi final playoffs. Next season 2 teams are relegated out the super league. Sounds a good idea for financial reasons but poor for football.Will teams be playing for nothing outside the super league next year? Read elsewhere that the lower leagues were actually going to be an North, Central and South leagues and that the Central league was actually going to include the likes of teams based near Perth and also Edinburgh United and Craigroyston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeslieHearts72 Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 Will be better for the clubs in Fife, in my opinion , more local games and less travelling which is crippling clubs with the cost. Will bring people back to watch junior football as the crowds have been dwindling over the last few years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victor meldrew Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 Horrible idea imo. I get people think it would increase crowds but I'm not convinced. It wouldn't be a fife league, teams like Kelty, Haws and dundonald not in it, and as mentioned, craigroyston playing luncarty in a league game. Next season teams would be playing for nothing. Current setup obviously doesn't suit everyone but doubt any setup will ever please all clubs. Would be surprised if this gets voted in! gogsy and guinness 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ya cant Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 Just start it next season .... wait the juniors isnt amateur is it .. not real football men ceejay and jaz 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeslieHearts72 Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 Victor I know the better teams would be in the top league but you have to think about the smaller clubs, financially they are getting crippled with the costs of travelling and dwindling crowds, you would get more spectators at a game if Lochore were playing lochgelly than a team from the Lothians or Tayside. Juniors need to get back to basics plus they would be able to attract better players as guys don't want to leave the house at 11 in the morning and not get home till 7 or 8 at night. As I said I think it would improve Fife junior football but that's only my view Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victor meldrew Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 It's all about opinions mate I agree. So do we do away with a premier league which is very competitive and replace it with 3 leagues of say 16 clubs, all fighting for 1 promotion Place? Is this really going to get crowds up? So many meaningless games in a season. I get your point about lochore, as I've said before, they are the most affected club in the region. However, would it be possible for them to request a move to south league where they could play Lochgelly, Oakley, rosyth etc...maybe wouldn't be allowed but certainly worth asking the question. I just feel it would be a shame to change a competitive set up for the sake of 5 or 6 clubs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeslieHearts72 Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 I just feel that since the change in the leagues it has affected people going to watch games. You will get more people going to watch if it's against s local rival than a team from a different region, Whstrver set up you will always get meaningless games and I'm sure clubs would rather play a meaningless game in their region than having to spend hundreds of pounds to play one in another region , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nics Posted March 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 I like the set up as it is as a coach as it gives you something to build towards but I must admit trying to attract players is difficult and inevetably scuppers your plans after 2 seasons as players move on. As a player you couldn't get any better than playing in the old fife or Tayside league,better games and crowds,probably cause local boys were playing for the teams as there wasn't a"higher level/league"which were paying more.further afield.so players family's were coming to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaz Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 Just start it next season .... wait the juniors isnt amateur is it .. not real football men is there any TRUE amateurs out there ? guinness 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ya cant Posted March 14, 2017 Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 Am a right in saying if this reconstruction gets the go ahead to start in 2018-19 there will be no promotion up to the super league but two teams will be relegated down from super league or am a reading this wrong .....but but but Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victor meldrew Posted March 14, 2017 Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 Am a right in saying if this reconstruction gets the go ahead to start in 2018-19 there will be no promotion up to the super league but two teams will be relegated down from super league or am a reading this wrong .....but but but That's right Pedro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oak Lee Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 Heard Bo’ness doing a Kelty next season, does this mean only one going down now? Good news for Kennoway if true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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