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Re: What a game.
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:40 pm
by Llamaman
Banks O'D are a Super League team, a Scottish Junior North Super League Division 1 to be exact. Puts the Premier League in the shade, the league is sponsored by McBookies, no idea what type of business they are

BO'D won all the 16 league games completed last season and were top of the table until the season became null and void. Tplay at the marvelously named Spain Park and have a magnificent little grandstand well worth a look at the pictures of it on the web. Their sponsors are a company called Repsol Sinotec a North Sea oil and gas exploration and production company, so I expect they are quite well funded. Local rivals who are in the same Divsion areAberdeen East End. East End play just 500 metres from Aberdeen FC, , in normal times when both are at home on the same day t must be a nightmare around there. With the 'Dons 17,000 and East End's 50 with a couple of dogs no doubt bringing the local traffic to a standstill. BO'D do cross swords occasionally with Aberdeen in the Aberdeenshire County Cup, naturally the Dons field a junior side in the competition. Their last meeting was in August 2019 ending up BO'D 1 Dons 6.
Re: What a game.
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:11 pm
by Ozymandias
You are a mine of information sir. Thanks for that.

Re: What a game.
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 10:33 am
by Ozymandias
Morning Llamaman, I see Raith Rovers put one over Hearts Saturday. Nice one.

Re: What a game.
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 11:34 am
by Llamaman
Former P M Gordon Brown would have been dancing in the streets of Kirkcaldy on Saturday evening. A proper supporter of his local club over many years. Raith were 3 up at one time but clung on at the end for a 3 - 2 triumph, perhaps they tired after a long covid enforced break. Rovers host Hearts tomorrow in a re-arranged fixture a win there and in their 2 games in hand would put them on level points with the Jambos. What I like about Raith's ground is the grandstand that starts behind 1 goal then runs along to the halfway line, Apparantly it was meant to continue on the whole length of the pitch but funds ran out. Some of the old grounds have these lovely quirks not to be seen in modern grounds.
Re: What a game.
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:25 pm
by DA Mikey
Had to look this up - it really is unique!
Whitehawk would most probably call it “The finalised stand”
https://footballgroundguide.com/leagues ... -park.html
Re: What a game.
Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:34 pm
by Ozymandias
Hey, that looks a tidy ground. Thanks for that Mikey.

Re: What a game.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:50 pm
by Ozymandias
Hearts get their revenge with a 4-0 drubbing. Shame

Re: What a game.
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:25 pm
by Llamaman
Raith back on track with a 3 - 1 home win to Dundee after going behind early on. 'A View from the Terrace' on The BBC Scotland Channel had an item on Rory the Lion, the Rovers mascot in last night's show. The feller inside the suit certainly gives it his all, & it's a lion because there is one on the club badge. The item about Pollok FC ON Today's Football Focus came from the same show. It's good to see a Junior team in Glasgow having such a loyal following, the Old Firm aren't the be all & end all. Anyone watching would certainly understand how much they are missing seeing their team.
Re: What a game.
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:54 am
by Ozymandias
I did catch the tail end of that Llamaman about Pollock. Don't think that Raith are going to catch Hearts though.
Never understanding the play off's at the end of the Scottish season, if Raith finish runners up I presume they have to play the team at the bottom of the Premier??

Re: What a game.
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:38 pm
by Llamaman
Did you think it would be really so straightforward and simple as that? This is Scottish Football here. In the Chmapionship play-offs, the 4th team in the Championship play the team in 3rd place, who have the second leg at home. The winners of that play the Championship Runners-up who have the home game in 2nd leg. The winners of that play the next to bottom team in the Premiership who play at home in 2nd leg. The winners of that either remain in the Premier League the following season or are promoted to it, the loser is relegated/stays in the Championship. Don't think it could be much simpler. When the system first started the leagues finished at the same time, therefore if the Premiership side ended up relegated they complained it was because they were not match fit after a long break, if the Championship team lost they said it was because they were exhausted from playing too many games in a short space of time, then meeting up with a fit and rested team. It was changed so that the Championship finishes earlier than the Premiership so the matches between the Championship clubs finish at the same time as the last round of Premiership fixtures. The bottom club in the Premiership are automatically relegated, the Championship Champions automatically promoted. The same system operates for Division 1 and 2, whilst the bottom club in Division 2 play 2 legs against the winners of a play-off between the champions of the Highland & Lowland leagues. The Scottish Professional Football League play-offs system surely qualifies as a specialist subject on Mastermind.