FAKE FIXTURES - UPDATES PAGE

This page will detail all updates made to the fixtures, and the reasons for any changes. It will track the fixture list over the season, providing evidence of its success (or otherwise). It is important to consider the following: a fixture list in Junior football has to be viewed as flexible and there will be occasions where games will be rearranged.

Tuesday 15th July 2008: The FAKE fixture lists for all five West Region divisions are released. The FAKE West of Scotland Cup draw is also released.

Thursday 17th July 2008: The FAKE Ayrshire and Central knockout cup draws have been made (a total of 15 ties). Ideally this would have been carried out before the release of fixtures as I am now able to arrange FAKE league fixtures for 21st February 2009, the date set aside for the 1st Round of both competitions (meaning 8 Ayrshire clubs and 25 Central clubs are without a game that day). However, I will instead use it as the first 'blank' weekend. There are potentially Junior Cup 5th Round replays the same day so a decision about rescheduling games will wait until that competition has progressed far enough to arrange games unlikely to be postponed.

Sectional Cup fixtures have also been added today. I want to avoid using real West Region fixtures if possible, mainly to avoid confusion when reporting results and fixtures, so I have produced a set of FAKE Sectional Cup fixtures, which will actually (most likely) be the real ones next season (2009-10). I have also carried out the draw for the latter stages of both cups.

Thursday 24th July 2008: FAKE Scottish Cup and Scottish Junior Cup 1st Round draws have now been added.

Sunday 10th August 2008: The result have been added for Sectional Cup ties for all games dated 6th and 9th August. Results have been predicted by the three man Prediction Panel, with myself acting as adjudicator in the event of three different outcomes being predicted. Two games have fallen foul of the weather, two less than the real fixtures card as I had Muirkirk and Dalry to be playing away from home. The fake games (Kilbirnie v Dalry and Wishaw v Forth Wanderers) have been rearranged for 11/08/08. Postponed list here.

Thursday 14th August 2008: A handful of games were postponed on the FAKE fixture list bringing the total so far to 5. The real card fared slightly worse with 5 off, bringing the total to 9. The postponed FAKE games have been rearranged for next week.

Monday 18th August 2008: Weekend results up.

Saturday 23rd August 2008: The bad weather continued in midweek and it seemed every game in Lanarkshire was postponed so I decided to follow suit and put off all of my own fake Lanarkshire games. In total another 7 fake games bit the dust, rearranged for 25/8/08. The quarter-final line-ups for the Sectionals are becoming clearer and can be seen on the Sectional Cup page.

Thursday 28th August 2008: Midweek cup results up

Wednesday 3rd September 2008: Weekend results up

Wednesday 17th September 2008: Updated at last, the first league games have been rearranged, dates per the postponements page.

Wednesday 8th October 2008: West of Scotland Cup, Junior Cup and Scottish Cup results uploaded. League games that were re-arranged for 4/10/08.

Friday 24th October 2008: Big update for games from 11th and 18th October. Plenty of rearranged games to look for, all on postponements page. Rob Roy idle 25/10/08 ahead of Sectional final. FAKE West of Scotland Cup 3rd Round draw is now on that cup's page. Games to be played 13th December. Four fixtures for 13/12/08 now announced for West Super First.

Tuesday 28th October 2008: Terrible weather wipes out almost the entirety of the FAKE card. I've taken this chance to update fixtures for 13/12/08 (West 3rd Round) and also 21/2/09 (district cups). It was an error to issue games for 21/2/09 at Central District level without taking into consideration the two cup draws - cup draws should have been done first.

Saturday 8th November 2008: Results for 1/8/08 updated.

Sunday 16th November 2008: Results for 8th and 15th November added, as well as the Scottish Junior Cup 3rd Round draw and fixtures for 29.11.08.

Sunday 29th November 2008: Results for recent games added - a lot of postponements on 29/11/08

Thursday 11th December 2008: The dreadful weather continues to destroy the fixture list - an almost blanket wipeout of Junior Cup fixtures leads to not only KO'ing league games but also 5 West of Scotland Cup ties which in retrospect were scheduled too close to the Junior Cup 3rd Round. Those 5 ties now take place in February. But despite all these problems, every league game on the card has a date.

Sunday 28th December 2008: A few bad weeks of weather sees more postponements but with Stonehouse withdrawing then the April resheduled games do change slightly. Bellshill Athletic's change of circumstances will be accommodated as best it can be in the fake fixtures.

Sunday 18th January 2009: Big update of results to 17/1/09.

Tuesday 14th April 2009: A huge update of the past few months and all related cup draws.