The Mantis

They call it 'concessions' these days. Cheeky Kant.

Also there seems no definition of 'typical prices' unless they mean for season ticket holders. Everybody knows the Scottish Premier is about £22 at the gate. The EPL appears very cheap in the table compared to what I've paid recently: £55 at the Etihad this season, last season £48 at Anfield and maybe £36 or so at Hull. Those were all behind the goals too.

Not really sure what point the OP is making here. We all know that England, while not nearly good enough to make any impression on a major tournament, nevertheless have far stronger resources than ourselves to draw on, especially in a friendly where umpteen subs are allowed. So the point must be that the Daily Mail, aka Farage's Fanzine, still has one reader in Scotland?

25 scored out of 28. I'm pretty sure one of the keepers, Reidford, was on trial with us about 5 years ago. July 2009, beat Brechin 5-0. My liver has just about recovered, I'm sure you were there.

Suarez then? Yes ICT Paisley, a good game. Andrews actually scored the final goal and there was about 7 mins stoppage time.

Wyness subbed after an hour. Shane did well but missed a pen. Mikey Fraser in goals. Jamie Duff & Bayne never got on. Elgin unlucky after dominating the 2nd half.

Saw that Stuart McCaffrey the other night. He's the secretary of the Football Partnership, i.e. he hands out grants to clubs.

Both on eBay, looks a bit pricey to me for paperbacks. I think I paid £15 for 'Caley All The Way' in hardback and £3 for 'The Lilywhites' in paperback. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Caley-All-The-Way-by-Alex-Main-1886-1986-RARE-/141462652255?ssPageName=ADME:SS:SS:GB:1120 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Lilywhites-Inverness-Clach-by-Rod-Clyne-1886-1986-RARE-/141462656278?ssPageName=ADME:SS:SS:GB:1120

I edited them

I tried editing this, this morning, and I thought it had disappeared altogether, then the site became unreachable. I'll have another go.

He also played a couple of years at Celtic and made 37 appearances. He started at Bonnyrigg Rose which is my local Junior club. Stanton scores League Cup Final New Year's Day 1973 In this last one you can see there was no segregation on the terraces.

That's why you moved up here though eh?

Alread Already been at the concrete lavvy pan this season. No thanks. Somebody like Bo'ness Utd would do.

Away you go

In my view it's globalisation and it's irreversible. Satellite TV and ease of travel mean that nobody punches above their weight any longer. I first became aware of this when I made my first trip to North America in 1998 (also the last time Scotland reached a major finals). I went to see the Blue Jays take on the Yankees at baseball and enjoyed it so much I went to another game in the minor league at Kitchener. I realised that the major league played to full houses in magnificent stadiums and pitchers were paid about $3m even then. Meanwhile, just below this level, the minors played to crowds of about 100, just like our Juniors or HL. So just as everything that happens over there, follows here about 10 years later, we have the elite such as the Champions' League and the Premiership, where the rich just get richer and people such as Wayne Rooney no longer breathe the same air as the rest of us. In the 70s you had a fair chance of bumping into a top player from the Scottish or English League on the High Street or in a pub, and top English sides sent up a strong team, not a reserve side, to play the likes of Rangers or Hibs, and as often as not they lost. By the same token, when I was at school, people got annoyed at seeing Old Firm scarves instead of Hearts/Hibs ones. When I started teaching in 1981 I started to see the odd Liverpool or Man U scarf. By the time I finished teaching in 2012 the boys tended to have a 'big' team from outside scotland, such as Chelsea or Barca, and didn't really take Scottish teams seriously any more. I have a friend in his mid-thirties who has QOS as his wee team as he comes from there, but he has a season ticket at Anfield. As for the national team, I used to tell the boys in my class that I felt sorry for them as they had never lived through the days of Scotland expecting to qualify. They just assumed that we had always been rubbish, didn't believe that we once qualified for 5 tournaments in a row and couldn't relate to watching legends like Law and Dalglish rather than Scott Brown and Alan Hutton.

You won't get into the playoffs unless your ground has bronze level, and you won't get bronze level unless you have floodlights to 300 lux. So there's no chance of winning the HL/LL then taking part in the playoffs just for the gate money, knowing you can't be promoted. I don't think there's any contradiction in the set up at all. One thing the advent of the LL has done for the game is to raise standards so that all the clubs are playing in what is recognised as a 'football stadium'. Just as the separate leagues in the English pyramid have their standards at each level. It's all very well saying that progressive clubs should be able to rise, but not if they are concentrating all their resources on the first team at the expense of developing the rest of the club. The more you look at the licensing criteria, the more sense they make. Some of the clubs left behind in the EOSL are playing in public parks or schools so they will be barred from the Scottish Cup. In the HL you're used to clubs having a proper stadium of their own but down here it's different. For my club, Whitehill, floodlights will be a massive problem to finance, but I accept that they are necessary to play in a national league with midweek fixtures (even though I think a national league for part time clubs is nonsense).

It does and it doesn't....... The overall level is always taken as the lowest level the club is at out of all categories. In the case of sevco it's their finances that let them down - but the same goes for Hearts who aren't a new club.

Bucketing rain here since afternoon. Whitehill's match under threat. The Shire could stay in the Cup for another week.

That's your story anyway.

I think you have to remember that Uni teams often struggle at the start of the season till the term starts. However SUFC players are more or less professionals anyway as most people connected with 'traditional' clubs such as myself will be happy to tell you....... Ferguson Park, Rosewell for me on Saturday. Whitehill v East Stirling. I thought the Highland Derby was going to be on BT Sport? I've just started using it but every time I switch on expecting a live game it's never on

Difficult to pick a 'result of the day' as most games went as predicted. Possibly E.Kilbride winning at LGBT

What app is it? I had the BBC one but it was no better than the website and slower to load. Most weeks in the LL the updates are good but this is a special weekend for the wee clubs. Right at this moment (7.28 pm) the BBC website does not have a single scottish cup result, just a list of kickoff times.

Ended up choosing Hurlford, thought the odds were still pretty decent for them. Auchinleck Hurlford Formartine Utd Wick Bo'ness Sadly it was Wick that let me down even though they were 1-0 up. No real surprises today. All Junior sides done well with Culter and Banks O'dee proving they are more than capable of playing in the HL. I'm calling for them to open up the trap door in the HL and let in the North Juniors. Where did you get the scores? BBC website is useless and LL site only has relevant clubs.