Parish League?

[Wheesht]

Wheesht has a point regarding officials etc but he should not be fooled into thinking this will restrict the creation of other competitions. The SFA is an association made up of reps from the clubs, many of which are duplicated at the PC meetings and to think co-operation between the associations is anything less than a MUST is niave or bullish.

 

Hey, how dare you, he indeed!

 

Now, I am not fooled and that was not the point. As far as I know there is no contact or discusion betweem the two Associations. Attempts were made around three years ago simply to get some sort of co-operation regarding fixtures but it is a fact that the PC appear unable to stick to a set of dates and that causes problems.

 

The point on the referees is that only the SFA ever do anything about recruitment, training or anything else when it comes to match officials. I have said it before but no other Association does anything about that nor youth football. But they all gain from both.

 

The SFA are all inclusive, no rules barring anyone playing but the PC and Works have rules barring players taking part.

[penfold]

I thought that it was the referee's group that was responsible for the last recruitment drive?

[Gaffer]

It is not re-organisation at lower levels that is required, it is a realisation at senior level that what happens at juvenile and junior level is the lifeblood of senior football. As i've said many times now senior football (associations and clubs) must give juvenile/junior football serious consideration in discussions about the future of the game in Shetland.

[penfold]

Your right gaffer, but with the present setup Senior clubs with no junior setup are busily going around trying to sign junior players from other clubs to play in the A league for them this season! So really there needs to be a single entity from top to bottom so that the clubs that are trying to poach juniors from a club with a youth set-up are'nt allowed to play them in the seniors. This seems to be able to happen because the senior association and the junior association are different entity's.

[VictorandJack]

"The SFA are all inclusive, no rules barring anyone playing but the PC and Works have rules barring players taking part."

 

This is true, but it appears some members of the SFA are not interested in those of "lesser ablility". Many players have raised concerns about the lack of oppertunity to play if their club goes into a higher division.

 

Gaffer and Penfold are right.

 

Junior players should not be "expected" to play Top division level but rather be a bonus if they can. In trying to pressurise teams to enter the A-League one member of the SFA last year said "what age was Rooney when he played for England?".

The senior association should not be taking u18's as definate numbers for senior clubs. The poaching of young players for senior sides was inevitable as many older players are dropping out of football altogether.

[penfold]

The thing is that they are, though the case I am speaking of regards a new team entering the A league this year approaching a under 18 player from our club and asking him to play in a friendly for them and telling him that he has far more chance of playing A football for them so he could sign for them if he wanted. So you have the possibility of a player who is in our under 18's turning round and saying i cant play this week because club x want me to play A's for them.

[Stoichkov]

Stoichkov wrote:

Perhaps this season will identify good and bad points for further re-organisation at lower levels.

"What does that mean?

Are you suggesting that the Junior Association are not organsing thier affairs and league properly?" Wheest

Sorry i wasn't speaking about junior fitba at all, which i believe is run pretty well. The only worry is that u18's seems to have less players and less teams and thus there is less fixtures at this level. As a result some juniors may look to some of the new senior sides for extra games and if it were, say a Delting player, who would find it difficult to break into the team, he might look for another club.

ANYWAY- What i wis meaning originally, is that if the top senior division is a success then perhaps it could b looked at what lessons were learned and how this could improve the 'lower' senior leagues. Namely B league and Works' League and how more players could get involved in these set ups and make them more competitive.[/i]