For years we have heard that TV controls the Scottish Game. After today's Non Vote the BBC are reporting
"Former SPL chief executive Roger Mitchell believes a solution will be eventually be found that keeps Rangers in the top flight.
He told BBC Radio Scotland: "The clubs vote principally through self-interest and they will all have had a word with their bank managers, who will have said 'whatever you do, make sure you still have revenue from a television deal and from Rangers fans coming through the turnstyles'.
Rangers and Celtic basically finance the whole of the Scottish game. "
Does this mean that the game is controlled by the banks and the fans can sod off ?
If Rangers are given a green light to return to the SPL with a minimum of snaction then I for one will not return to Scottsih football. I will turn away and move to watch rugby or some other sport where the game in not run by the sightless and deaf.
Maybe if the individual clubs listen to all the external bodies that appear to be running this joke event by dictating to the smaller clubs then Celtic and Rangers will succeed in their ambition to play in England as the rest of the Scottish game will be diminished and destroyed. This will then leave them free to argue along the same lines that the Welsh clubs can in that there is no credible opposition here in Scotland.
It appears more and more that Rangers will succeed in playing in Scotland in the SPL and avoiding the appropriate sanctions
Maybe the smaller clubs should all tender their resignation from the SPL (and mean it this time) and leave the old firm to play each other 36 times a season
Who runs the Scottish Game
posted on 30/4/12
The Golden Rule always applies.
He who has the gold, well you know the rest.
Sky have got the gold, and with no other alternative to ante up a stack of cash, what they want will happen. They want 4 OF games a season, so that is exactly what there will be.
No amount of moaning, resignations etc will matter.
Not saying it is right, just saying what it is.
posted on 1/5/12
If Rangers come out of administration with a CVA all well and good.
However, if they form a Newco and the SPL let them straight back in (whether they apply sanctions or not) I'm not going back to the football.
The way Neil Doncaster spoke last night it looks like the other SPL clubs have decided that this is what will happen.
Absolutely shocking! No integrity.
posted on 1/5/12
cyber - whilst I can agree to some of your points, Doncaster did state what the rules are as of today.
There are no penalties in place for any NewCo. Obviously a team with the "draw" of Rangers or Celtic is more likely to be admitted instead of similar situation to say Caley or Dunfermline.
Is that fair? No.
Is it basic economics? Absolutely.
posted on 1/5/12
DC1
You are absolutely right - and that is what is bugging me.
Hopefully Rangers will get out of admin with a CVA, and the whole newco thing will be forgotten. That's the best result all round surely?
If it does come to a newco situation - I don't think it is appropriate to see sanctions applied (other than they work there way up through the leagues). After all - the dubious practices that occurred at Rangers were down to the previous regime(s) there.
What is being suggested that is that a newco gets straight back into the SPL and that the newco get hamstrung by sanctions in order to appease the other SPL clubs for letting them back in.
On both counts, this is just wrong. If the newco are to be allowed into the SPL, then they should be allowed to compete on a level playing field.
But they should not be allowed in just to help the other clubs benefit finacially from a TV deal. That seems so wrong in the context of a 'sporting' competition.
posted on 1/5/12
However, if they form a Newco and the SPL let them straight back in (whether they apply sanctions or not) I'm not going back to the football.
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strange and I can only conclude you possibly dont go now.
What fan (proper fan) gives up watching HIS club due something happening at another.
oh its the whole integrity thing
You support your own team.... or perhaps you dont???
For what its worth liquidation for me means the 3rd division but all these pretend fans not going back
posted on 1/5/12
What fan (proper fan) gives up watching HIS club due something happening at another.
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That is where you are wrong. It doesn't matter a jot what is happening at the other club.
What I'm objecting to is the willingness of MY club (and to a lesser extent the other clubs in the SPL) to simply roll over and let the sporting integrity of our league die for the sake of a few extra £s
posted on 1/5/12
so your going to stop going to watch them
I cant make my mind up if thats sad or funny
You club (any club) will make thousands of decisions every year and you know what? they do it in the best interests of the club.
But ok mate you head off to B&Q with the wife each Saturday if your team are so unimportant to you
posted on 1/5/12
It's 'sad' I would say.
'Sad' for me, given that I've been a season ticket holder most of my life and will no longer be able to go along and watch the team I love.
'Sad' for the club, given that they are willing to risk losing a significant amount of season ticket revenue in favour of the money they hope to earn from what is only a prospective TV deal.
C'mon now, surely a newco should not be allowed to by-pass three leagues and walk straight into the top league on the basis that it makes that league more economically viable?
There was a woman called Thatcher who followed an economic doctrine called 'monetarism' in the 1980s.
Discredited now, 'monetarism' essentially means that every decision and policy is based on the projected economic impact/outcome of that decision/policy.
Abstracts such as 'fair-play' or 'morality' have not part to play in such a doctrine.
Look at society now, and you can easily see where doctrines such as monetarism have left us - a society run by people without scruples or morals.
I would say that the SPL preparing to sell its soul for a few £s is definitely 'sad' rather than 'funny'. Certainly, it's not something that I am prepared to support in any sense whatsoever.
Fooball does not start and end with the professional game. There are plenty of junior clubs around my area, it's cheap to get in and you can stand if you like. The SPL may lose its credibility as a sporting competition, but I won't lose my football fix.
posted on 1/5/12
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posted on 1/5/12
Good point, well made.
It will be an easy decision if my suspicions about the way the SPL are playing this is correct.
I just hope that Rangers can avoid the Newco scenario so that I don't have to make that decision.