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Post by newby on Dec 30, 2023 12:22:49 GMT
Yes, I think Ipswich will falter, Southampton look the likely ones to take second spot. Happy if we make play offs and maybe a day at Wembley, but not that fussed about going up, other than it will help the finances. Thought the referee was very good last night! The like doesn't include the last line.
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Post by newby on Dec 30, 2023 14:50:53 GMT
Up in Scotland today in the Highland league only 1 game postponed with 8 going ahead. In the lowland league 7 postponed and only 1 going ahead.
Are they tougher in the highlands, or has all the rain they have been having run down the Hills and made lakes of the grounds in the Central belt and the South.
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Post by hawke on Dec 30, 2023 22:50:00 GMT
Up in Scotland today in the Highland league only 1 game postponed with 8 going ahead. In the lowland league 7 postponed and only 1 going ahead. Are they tougher in the highlands, or has all the rain they have been having run down the Hills and made lakes of the grounds in the Central belt and the South. My favourite Scottish club, Brechin City, were postponed in the Highland League. Interesting to note 4 familiar Scottish League names in the Lowland League, Albion Rovers, Berwick Rangers, Cowdenbeath and East Stirlingshire, and are between mid/table and lower. With promotion/relegation to the Scottish League there is a seasonal changing of the old guard.
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Post by newby on Dec 30, 2023 23:27:59 GMT
I haven't followed it at all closely but there seems to be a lot more league clubs in Scotland than I remember from the 70's and early 80's when we lived up there.
The names of the Premiership and Championship sides all look familiar, but I don't remember Cove Rangers, Kelty Hearts, Annan Athletic or Edinburgh City from league 1. Nor the Spartans, Bonnyrigg Rose or Elgin City of league 2.
Dumbarton was our closest league team and they ran on a pitiful number of spectators in an absolute wreck of a stadium.
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Post by hawke on Dec 31, 2023 10:04:57 GMT
It’s much much better and fairer now than in the old days of just 2 divisions and a closed shop, even though my favourites, Brechin, are out of the Scottish League. At least they win regularly in thie Highland League. One of my ambitions is to visit Glebe Park and watch a match standing by the hedge. I do have an odd ‘bucket list’.
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Post by karma on Dec 31, 2023 14:31:07 GMT
I lived and worked in Glasgow from late 60's, getting married in September 1974 and leaving back for England in October that year. The Year before that my home-town football club, York City, were on a pre-season 'tour' in Scotland, playing 'friendlies' and as it had been some time since I'd last seen them play I managed to get to Brechin to see York win. It wasn't a memorable game and neither was Brechin, though ,I did enjoy a lovely fish supper and their supporters being very friendly, sharing a post match drink. A long round trip and late back to Hillhead, Glasgow in the early hours. At work the following Monday I told my boss in the office how well York had done. He was somewhat dismissive, calling Brechin as little more than a 'village team' .
Well they were more than that then and still are!
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Post by hawke on Dec 31, 2023 15:15:38 GMT
Great stuff! Brechin v York C. Hope you stood by the hedge.
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Post by karma on Dec 31, 2023 16:08:45 GMT
Great stuff! Brechin v York C. Hope you stood by the hedge. To be honest Hawke, I didn't. In fact only recently learned what it is to be a 'hedger' ( think but not sure I was at the cemetery end) I do know though it was, and is, the sort of club I would support on a regular basis , if I lived 250 miles nearer! A real family club where most of the functions are by volunteers. I used to work in Financial Services and a 'Hedge Fund' was something else to that term applied to all those who make voluntary contributions now to accelerate Brechin's promotion. Top of the Highland League at the moment. I'll keep a closer eye on their results .Village team? Bah Humbug!
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Post by byased on Dec 31, 2023 16:35:18 GMT
A little question that cropped up in a quiz recently. It is easy to google, so see if anyone knows or can guess without use. Initially called Ferranti Thistle, now called Livingston. What were they called in between?
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Post by hawke on Dec 31, 2023 16:42:22 GMT
A little question that cropped up in a quiz recently. It is easy to google, so see if anyone knows or can guess without use. Initially called Ferranti Thistle, now called Livingston. What were they called in between? ha! Livingston Thistle?
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Post by hawke on Dec 31, 2023 16:51:05 GMT
I began following Brechin, from afar, because they were always bottom of the old Scottish Div2, or seemed to be.”, in the 1960s
A few seasons ago they were in League 1 (3rdTier), pretty good for them, and late in the season sneaked into the play-offs. Amazingly, they won the semi and the final against teams who had better records. Well I think I’m right in saying they then lost every match in the Championship. A downward spiral and 2 more relegations followed but now better times in the Highland League, though denied at the death seeking promotion, so far.
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Post by newby on Dec 31, 2023 16:51:30 GMT
4 wins on the bounce from Scarborough FC since they were dumped out of the FA Cup. Lots of games left of course but they are well in the play-off mix at the moment.
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Post by byased on Dec 31, 2023 17:07:46 GMT
Not Livingston Thistle, but there was a thistle in the name. I passed through Brechin earlier this year, had a look at the ground and saw the hedge. Shame some of the old names are out of the league, and it is difficult to get back in as Brechin found last year. Stranraer are my team, have been to a match there once. Scarborough on a very good run. May possibly pop to see them at Farsley in mid January, if not then Chester or Buxton are in my sights.
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Post by karma on Dec 31, 2023 17:21:26 GMT
4 wins on the bounce from Scarborough FC since they were dumped out of the FA Cup. Lots of games left of course but they are well in the play-off mix at the moment. You know when a club is knocked out of a cup competition and everyone says (almost in defence) ,"Well now they can concentrate on the League ,which is more important than any cup". Well in Scarborough's case it's proved to be absolutely true. And good luck to them, keep up the momentum. I'll also be watching them on 13th January when they play away at Farsley Celtic (with mixed feelings as I'd like both teams to win). Michael Coulson recently transferred from Scarborough to Farsley where he has performed well and is one of my favourite players. Lots of ex-York City connections in both team's personnel. Should be a cracking game
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Post by karma on Dec 31, 2023 17:29:51 GMT
Not Livingston Thistle, but there was a thistle in the name. I passed through Brechin earlier this year, had a look at the ground and saw the hedge. Shame some of the old names are out of the league, and it is difficult to get back in as Brechin found last year. Stranraer are my team, have been to a match there once. Scarborough on a very good run. May possibly pop to see them at Farsley in mid January, if not then Chester or Buxton are in my sights. Meadowbank Thistle I never went there but I have been to Livingston's ground, unfortunately not to watch football. Attended a seminar there organised by my former employer's Edinburgh office , lovely modern ground with great facilities - Flew there/back from Leeds and wished I'd driven as worst flight or landing back at Leeds as it was so windy though the wing tip was going to hit the runway. As it was the stewardess on the pa when making her announcements asked us not to clap the pilot for his skilful landing "As his head was already big enough"
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