It is a 7.30pm kick off for Largs Thistle v Auchinleck Talbot on Monday at Barrfields Park.

As 'Theesel' supporter Graeme Swanson points out it is 'Only 58 days since our last match, 1397.5 hours since our last kick off, but we'll be there'.

They say a week is a long time in politics, but the amount of time between league fixtures for Largs has taken on much greater proportions and has even spanned a whole general election campaign!

When Largs last played a competitive league match against Beith on Saturday, April 15, Prime Minister Theresa May hadn’t even announced a snap election, which came on Tuesday, April 18.
Thistle’s final fixture date for Monday, June 12, is four days after the General Election vote took place!
Even Largs fans have gone to the vote in their Player of the Year celebration which took place in the masonic hall.

Largs boss ‘Arnie’ is far from happy at the extended wait which has left the Barrfields side in limbo, and has affected preparations for next season.

Fixture delays have also come about as a result of Talbot competing in the Scottish Cup semis and final which require no midweek games in the preceding week.

The Barrfields side played their penultimate McBookie.com Premier Division fixture away to Beith in a 3-2 reversal away back on 15 April.

The game against the Scottish Cup finalists is essentially now meaningless as Largs were confirmed as relegated as Kilwinning were able to fulfill their final fixture against Talbot, and recorded a 2-0 win.

Thistle boss Stuart Davidson, a.k.a Arnie, told the ‘News’: “It will be practically two months between our last two league games, and once we finally get round to playing Auchinleck, it is only a few weeks until pre-season. It is really disrupting our plans. People might say we didn’t get a lot of games out of the cups, but at the end of the day that is nothing to do with the league fixtures.
“It really isn’t good enough to endure such a long wait for a semi professional football league. People are going to have to sit round a table and look at it.
“There is talk of league reconstruction next season and having 30 league games instead of 22 in the Premier or 26 in the First Division, but what chance have you got if we can’t even complete 22 games?”
The Thistle boss said he expects to be short of players and it will tricky to field a team on Monday June 12. He said: “I may even have to play myself in the final game!”