SCOTLAND'S junior football scene may well soon face an in-out scenario which could give the European Union debate a run for its Euros.
With Edinburgh City now a senior club from the start of next season, taking the place of East Stirlingshire, and the fact a play-off will take place every year between the side which finishes bottom of League Two with non-league opposition, it stands to reason there will more new names entering the Scottish Leagues.
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Tomorrow is the showpiece of the junior game when at Rugby Park, Beith attempt to win their first ETHX Energy Scottish Junior Cup against Pollock who have three triumphs in this competition.
Both are well run clubs, as are many in their ranks, with more money, supporters and better players than many you could mention who cling onto League status merely because that's always the way it has been.
Beith manager is Johnny Miller who won the Scottish Junior Cup as a player with Arthurlie and Glenafton, two big clubs in Ayrshire, scoring in each final.
Now 50, this is a guy who knows the junior game better than most "I've been in it too long" and while far a firm Brexiter, he would not want his club left out if there was an opportunity to move out of the junior leagues.
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"If you ask our fans and the club committee, they would be split down the middle about this," said Miller. "I personally think it is open for debate.
"The fact is that the junior set-up these days is excellent but in saying that if the pyramid system was geared towards our clubs having the chance to do what Edinburgh City have then I would not want to be left behind, let's put it that way.
"The problem is that right now the leagues are not regionalised so to be part of the pyramid would mean a lot more travelling.
"It wouldn't be easy to ask out player to to travel to the other side of the country on a Tuesday night. They would struggle to get time away from work and home. I'm not sure we could cope."
Miller believes Sunday's final will prove that the junior football is flourishing. Gone are the days when every team's average age was 30 and weight was 15 stone.
Actually, that is unfair as players such as Miller could easily have made the step-up.
"Players on the whole are younger these days," said the Beith manager. "It used to be that many teams had experienced pros who had dropped down the leagues but that's not really the case any more."
Beith are not one of the biggest clubs which only highlights the remarkable job Miller has done.
"It's not a fluke, he said. "We have battled well against the big boys in recent years and have been in the Premier League for five seasons. This hasn't come from nowhere.
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"We beat Petershill, Arthurlie and Kilwinning on the way to the final. It's hardly been an easy run and yet here we are.
"Pollock will be seen as favourites but I see the game as a 50/50. There will be goals, we like to attack and so do they. Have we practised penalties? We might do. I hope it doesn't come to that."
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