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Lochgelly united have an Astro booked for a 1:30pm ko should anyones game be called off tomorrow and the fancy a game

Lochgelly united train a Monday Wednesday bud feel free to drop me a message Greig

Cheers bud felt like it would have been a decent game to watch thought both teams done well in stages

Fully expected our park to be swimming yesterday but it wasn’t bad at all considering

Many teams planning to get the legs stretched with some non contact training? brilliant that boys are able to get out and stretch the legs and get a bleather and see each other if nothing else! Was a welcome surprise from the announcement on Tuesday

I genuinely think that the risk to the players within the football environment seems minimal yet to be a scenario where teams have had multiple positive tests within our environment. The common theme seems to be people who have car shared needing to isolate! up to clubs to keep enforcing the standards as best we can, encouraging players not to car share to and from training, encouraging players to miss training if they have any doubt at all until they have clarity! Encourage players to sanitise their hands and keep wiping down training equipment not sure how many more shut downs our game will survive to be honest! I’m as enthusiastic as they come but stopping and starting is becoming increasingly difficult I personally feel extremely lucky that fife was made exempt from the most recent amateur football shut down and hope that teams continue to follow the rules as best as possible!

Just a heads up we had our risk assessment for Astro access approved today so that’s our bookings confirmed for both our training venues. More than happy to share it with any club it’s literally an A4 sheet just specifying how we plan to approach a session. Really easy to adjust as required. Drop me a message if you want it

I we thought our COVID risk assesment would cover it but seems they want it tailored specifically to their facility. You guys had to do one for the ylum Astro?

How is it going for teams trying to book winter training facilities. We have ours lined up however the venues are asking for risk assessments specific to their facility. Anyone else been through this and up for sharing risk assessment templates to help other teams out? or risk assessment for our grass park doesn’t seem to be sufficient

Hopefully this is the case

Yup - the communication says they have paused it to give them time to re communicate the expectations amongst teams but also states that it doesn’t affect the time line communicated for re start! ammy teams paying the price for the high profile ups it seems

A few of the local ammy refs have appeared to train at our park on Saturday and Monday when we were there and they said they haven’t had any official communication about a start date! the guidance seemed to suggest permission to play local friendlies MAY be given from September 11th though so seems to make sense to pencil games in at least? Looks like most teams have interperated it like that

No sure about other teams but we post a list of who attended every session in our committee chat and our designated COVID officer then takes a note of it for reference! seems to be a positive shift change in recent weeks for the Fitbaw! Maybe we are going to get the benefit of the doubt like the pubs did initially! Here’s hoping for friendlies mid september like they are hinting at

No sure how other teams are doing this but we have decided to go down the road of someone taking ownership in the committee chat and then we take note at training and post it in the chat for him to keep a record! not ideal but hopefully if buying in to it gets football back then it’s worth it! would be good to hear from other teams how they as managing this sort of stuff and we can all learn from each other

Lochgelly united has proposed being able to name 7 subs but still use 5 prior to the AGM and the feeedback we got regards the 7 subs was that it was an SAFA rule and not a local rule! Felt like it made it easier to keep the whole squad involved! Interesting to see how many premier league players who didn’t look as fit and sharp after their extended break and short pre season prior to games coming back, can only imagine we may be in the same boat in the amateur game

Communicated by the SAFA yesterday!

we conceded less goals this season than you boys managed to accumulate points don’t kid yourself! If it wasn’t for AM soccer pulling you out the shite I would reckon we would have had a good chance at passing you boys on the way down next year! We lost 3 games in 90 minutes all season in all competitions... you would be better paying a bit more attention at what’s going on and what other teams are doing or you might just get a wee shock to the system “dumbo”! Bet the folks at Cupar love when u pipe up with pish eh, I know I certainly do

Someones team surely stayed up on a technicality and inherited a new squad eh? Better hope your team up their game this season with 4 going down or HoB will get a crack at them next year in the middle league

Must have all changed their minds privately once they knew exactly what they were voting for!

Spoke to the league this morning Pete and the standings from this season wouldn’t be used in the structuring! Because of Null and void we Lochgelly would be considered a new team at the next AGM, along with strath and freuchie in the bottom league and would Have no results to go in to argue for promotion in the re structure. That’s 3 of the top 4 in our league in that boat i feel a bit more clarity from the league on what null and void actually means would be helpful here.

Just had a chat with the league committee just so we know exactly where we stand - and a vote for null and void means there is no league data to go on for reconstruction from 2019/20 season! For us this means nothing to back out argument for promotion as all new clubs from last year and the new clubs coming in this year are considered as new clubs for tie 2020/21 season! so this argument won’t be resolved by reconstruction it would seem! So teams like ourselves, fife thistle, Kinross, kelty won’t have anything to back our argument at the AGM for promotion as part of the restructuring

What nul and void does is leave us in a position where we are at the mercy of new teams coming in! what happens if this rolls on till Xmas and 4/5 of the new teams lose a bit momentum and find themselves in a position where they can’t join the league? We then don’t have the numbers for restructure and we are punishing teams who won 14 of their 15 league games this season! if we want the strongest leagues possible top to bottom we should have been arguing for promotion no relegation this season! I don’t mind if there’s a league trophy in our pub but we literally couldn’t have asked any more of our boys this season and to now have to sit and wait for an AGM to find out If we might go up is no more wrong than relegating teams who might have avoided it given a few more games!

Lothians and Edinburgh league proposed the same as ours it seems as well

Just To play devils advocate - if there wasn’t 7 new teams coming in would we all still be in support of nul and void? We will get promotion regardless due to 7 new teams but had there been no applications I would feel pretty hard done by with these circumstances. Would feel to me teams having had poor seasons were getting rewarded rather than teams who have had good seasons being rewarded and for for the record our proposal was average points to dictate leagues and promotion but for there to be no relegation this season in the interest of fairness

Here’s how the Glasgow District Saturday league resolves their issue! Interesting way of doing things