Todays fitba

[BigAl]

5 hours ago, Jute said:

Since January City have been rotten and would expect Brora to cruise passed them. If they want promotion of course. 

January City 

How the fuck did predictive text come up with that 

[blinlemon]

6 hours ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

Edinburgh are shyte. You would imagine that Brora would come out the winners.

Twice in three years this scenario has happened. The same happened when Buckie Thistle won the highland league. 

Linlithgow’s isn’t the same as the Buckie experience, as Buckie failed to apply for an offered waiver by a stated deadline. Linlithgow did apply, but this application was refused and they lost their chance. I have no idea what the beaks have designated as non-compliance. 

There was huge speculation at the time of Buckie’s knock-back - which continues - that Buckie may have deliberately self-sabotaged in missing the deadline. Comfort zones and that. 

[Jute]

2 hours ago, BigAl said:

January City 

How the fuck did predictive text come up with that 

Missing coma. 

[Jute]

Pretty drab first half in the Super Classico but Boca 1-0 up after VAR awarded penalty just before half time. 

[CurlsLikeTattie]

On 18/04/2026 at 15:48, swaddon said:

10 years ago, Leicester City were champions of England.

Now, they're one game away from relegation to the third tier.

It's a funny old game, Saint.

I'm hoping that if Hearts win the league this season the same happens to them............but quicker

[wokinginashearerwonderland]

12 hours ago, blinlemon said:

There was huge speculation at the time of Buckie’s knock-back - which continues - that Buckie may have deliberately self-sabotaged in missing the deadline. Comfort zones and that. 

It is not so much comfort zones but more that the pyramid system is great in theory but in practice just does not make sense.  Why on earth would a team like Buckie want to be going away to places like Stirling, Annan and Clyde every other week.  If you are a player working during the week you just ain't going to want to spend 6 or 7 hours of every second Saturday on a bus.  If you chuck in the travel costs for the club of doing that, it is just a stupid concept for a wee Highland League team. 

[BigAl]

12 hours ago, Jute said:

Missing coma. 

Got you 

[blinlemon]

1 hour ago, wokinginashearerwonderland said:

It is not so much comfort zones but more that the pyramid system is great in theory but in practice just does not make sense.  Why on earth would a team like Buckie want to be going away to places like Stirling, Annan and Clyde every other week.  If you are a player working during the week you just ain't going to want to spend 6 or 7 hours of every second Saturday on a bus.  If you chuck in the travel costs for the club of doing that, it is just a stupid concept for a wee Highland League team. 

It’s what Highland League representatives agreed to when restructuring took place. The League lost two Inverness clubs, Ross County, Elgin, and Peterheid when a restructure allowed this. Otherwise, there was no merit-based system for ambitious clubs to progress to a higher level.
Your point is valid, of course, but Cove were desperate to climb into it, as are Winton’s Banks O Dee, Atholl’s Formartine, and before they burnt themselves out by crazy over-spending, Locos. I’d imagine the Broch would swither over it too. 
i’m afraid the comfort zone factor does weigh significantly, though. At individual player level, i worked with a number of SHFL players who were frequently offered trials and transfers to eg the Angus clubs, but who saw no advantage in this. Wages might have been slightly higher, but they all said that getting to training two evenings a week, having to sacrifice holiday entitlement to enable midweek away matches, and arriving back in the city at an ungodly hour from such fixtures before working next day made it not worth their while. 
Brora are now two matches away from promotion, and are the second most geographically-disadavantaged of the current SHFL membership. It’ll be interesting to see if they’re up for it. 

Edited 6 hours ago by blinlemon
Thatcher’s still deid, the bastard.