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Topic Originator: Paralex
Date: Sat 26 Nov 18:00
Montrose 2 Darvel 5. The only team to beat us in the league absolutely cuffed at home by Darvel Juniors. Doesn`t make any sense.
Albion Rovers 0 Stirling University 1. The University teams are reasonably good in the amateur leagues but surely not up to beating Albion Rovers on their own patch.
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Topic Originator: dafc-chris1
Date: Sat 26 Nov 18:23
Darvel are a pretty decent side but I am suprised that they won by such a margin
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Sat 26 Nov 18:31
I heard that Montrose-Darvel score at the match and assumed the game was at Darvel!
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Topic Originator: cammypar 1995
Date: Sat 26 Nov 18:34
Beat crossgates 3-1 in the challenge cup earlier this season but 1-1 until late on.
c'mon the pars
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Topic Originator: Kaiser
Date: Sat 26 Nov 21:47
And Drumchapel beating FC Edinburgh wasn’t a crazy result ?????
Well not for me it wasn’t 7/1 Drumchapel 💴💴💴
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Topic Originator: Paralex
Date: Sat 26 Nov 22:11
Yes, Drumchapel United are currently 11th out of 16 in the second tier of the West of Scotland Junior league. If they can beat FC Edinburgh 1-0 at home, it matches our own home result against them (if I remember correctly). That would qualify as a crazy result, unless their pitch is a ploughed field somewhere in deepest darkest Drumchapel. But I suspect it may be an astro.
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Topic Originator: LEGEND85
Date: Sat 26 Nov 22:15
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Paralex, Sat 26 Nov 22:11
Yes, Drumchapel United are currently 11th out of 16 in the second tier of the West of Scotland Junior league. If they can beat FC Edinburgh 1-0 at home, it matches our own home result against them (if I remember correctly). That would qualify as a crazy result, unless their pitch is a ploughed field somewhere in deepest darkest Drumchapel. But I suspect it may be an astro.
I`ve watched highlights from the game and the pitch was very much old school grass.
Not sure I`d fancy the Pars playing on that kind of pitch these days
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Topic Originator: Paralex
Date: Sat 26 Nov 22:19
Well in that case LEGEND85, ploughed field it may have been and maybe that didn`t suit FC Edinburgh but surely still a shock result given Edinburgh`s ambitions.
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Topic Originator: TAFKA_Super_Petrie
Date: Sat 26 Nov 23:32
Darvel have a lot of money behind them, very strong team with a lot of guys with experience in senior leagues.
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Topic Originator: wetherby
Date: Sun 27 Nov 00:29
My West of Scotland ( nephew) journalist assures me that no team will want to draw Darvel in the next round
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Topic Originator: Paralex
Date: Sun 27 Nov 00:43
And apparantly Darvel sit top of the West of Scotland Premier Junior league and that`s no mean achievement considering the quality of the other teams in that league. However Raith Rovers seem to have dispatched Auchinleck Talbot, reputedly Scotland`s top Junior team, with relative ease, today.
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Topic Originator: kelty_par
Date: Sun 27 Nov 08:37
There aren`t any Juniors these days, at least in the South - Auchinleck are in the West if Scotland League same as Darvel. They aren`t having a great season and it was always going to be an uphill battle for Talbot. They play Cumnock next week I`m the East Ayrshire Superclassico which will be an interesting one.
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Topic Originator: alwaysaPar
Date: Sun 27 Nov 08:38
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Paralex, Sun 27 Nov 00:43
And apparantly Darvel sit top of the West of Scotland Premier Junior league and that`s no mean achievement considering the quality of the other teams in that league. However Raith Rovers seem to have dispatched Auchinleck Talbot, reputedly Scotland`s top Junior team, with relative ease, today.
No longer Junior teams though, are they
Now part of the West of Scotland football league...
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Topic Originator: Paralex
Date: Sun 27 Nov 09:39
I suppose the term Juniors was always a misnomer. It gave the impression that they were boys teams when they were anything but and it`s good if they have moved away from that. But correct me if I`m wrong, do they not still compete for the Scottish Junior Cup?
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Topic Originator: cammypar 1995
Date: Sun 27 Nov 10:04
I know that in the case of crossgates they left the "junior leagues" and now play in the east of Scotland football league. EoSFL`s two-tier format, which began in 1987–88, was abolished for the 2015–16 season due to dwindling numbers and replaced with a single division. To cope with the influx of new members in 2018-19, the league consisted of three conferences running in parallel. For 2019–20, the EoSFL was reorganised back into a two-tier setup, with a 16-team Premier Division and two First Division conferences. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no relegation took place in 2020 meaning the Premier Division was temporarily increased to 18 clubs.
For 2022-23, the Premier Division reverted back to 16 clubs while the top 7 in the two First Division conferences formed a First and Second Division, with Conference X being renamed the Third Division below.
Also playing their football in this league is the Haws the swifts dundonald and Oakley.
c'mon the pars
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Sun 27 Nov 10:22
I see ex-Par Andy Stirling scored for Darvel yesterday.
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Topic Originator: Par
Date: Sun 27 Nov 17:44
Good to see shocks in the cup up here, it has been happening in England for years, some of the so called ex junior clubs have a bit of money behind them.
Bristol Rovers 0 Boreham Wood 2 was another shock in the English cup today
Post Edited (Sun 27 Nov 17:44)
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Topic Originator: sixnil
Date: Mon 28 Nov 18:27
The Drumchapel game was played at Maryhills Lochburn Park and it was a mudbath.
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