Can we push SPL fan power one step further?

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Tomorrow’s Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Premier League is set to be the third great football meeting in the last two weeks.  The Prophet of Armageddon, chief executive Neil Doncaster, will face his shareholders and either have to declare he was being truthful when he told them, and Scottish Football League clubs, the SPL would be unable to fulfil their contractual obligations if Sevco were denied a place in the First Division, or that this was a cunning ruse designed to manipulate clubs and fans alike.

Doncaster was surely encouraged by some in the SPL to adopt his confrontational stance but support from SPL clubs was certainly not universal.  No representatives from Celtic participated in any meetings or conversations regarding the contents of the presentation made to SFL clubs, nor was the club informed or consulted on it.

Well done to the Aberdeen fans who kicked off the Sell-out Saturday initiative.  They hope to sell-out Pittodrie for their 11 August game and want to as many fans as possible to buy season tickets.  The idea has been picked up by clubs throughout the league.

I get the feeling that if supporters groups got together we could use this unique moment, when camaraderie among fans coincided with unparalleled fan power over the clubs, to define a framework for the game we wanted, not something a dreamt up by a Norfolk MBA.

Even if we couldn’t get every fan group pulling in the same direction, a few productive bilateral relationships is all it takes to establish an powerful pressure group.

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  1. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    Bada bing!

     

     

    Terrific!

     

     

    Canny wait for the new season to start!

     

     

    Hope we make a few signings too!

  2. Andreas Hinkel talking to the German commentator, speaking about der hun (I could make that bit out) and the state of Scottish fitba.

     

    HH

  3. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    If James Forrest improves on last season and can stay injury freethere is no reason why he cannot be a valuable member of the squad!

     

     

    :0)

  4. Is it because this mob are in blue but Brown and Kayal putting in a couple of meaty challenges.

  5. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    paulo1888

     

     

    We should play in stripes.

     

     

    Makes you look slim(mer).

  6. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    ASonofDan that should have been!

     

     

    Sorry mate.

     

     

    I don’t know how TET can drink 3 or 4 bottles of wine at a sitting.

     

     

    Hard work for me!

     

     

    :0)

  7. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    These pre-season games are torture……..LOL

  8. Watching the game and with all the focus on the Sevco fiasco, I’d forgotten how short we were on defenders. Scott Brown just kicked one of the kickers in the koupon.

  9. archdeaconsbench on

    StMichaelsBhoy2 on 15 July, 2012 at 18:30 said:

     

    Need to be the League Cup early doors.

     

     

    They’ll be knocked out by the time we enter the Scottish…

  10. Oh sod this! Time to put the boot in Celtic. The boy Watt on the bench? He would rip this mob.

  11. Philbhoy - It's just the beginning! on

    67heaven

     

     

    ……but a necessary evil.

     

     

    Or would you prefer we revert to the first eleven against the second eleven?

     

     

    I can remember those games.

     

     

    Big paying crowds too!

  12. ziggydoc1 on 15 July, 2012 at 18:45 said:

     

     

    he was in mid-air after having been scythed by the Kicker! Some man our Scott Brown.

  13. Murphy on his best day is still worse than Sammy on his worst!

     

     

    Why is this imposter for a footballer still at our club?

  14. Every year we over-emphasise the importance of pre-season friendlies. They are warm up matches designed to get us up to speed. Anybody paying in to such a match should know what they are getting. It is the equivalent of a free ticket for a dress rehearsal of a play.

     

     

    Give it 3 or 4 games and we should see an improvement.

  15. Need 2 centre backs IMO Wilsons not the answer and a don’t think mulgrew is the long term answer either !

     

    Ibrahim on for commons

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