When surveyed by the BBC, of Scotland’s 42 senior (cough) clubs, only Partick Thistle, Queen of the South and Annan Athletic thought Strict Liability should be introduced to tackle crowd trouble. 39 clubs either had no view on the matter, or were convinced by the overwhelming weight of evidence that Strict Liability is a shorthand for doing something which has proven to be ineffective.
Partick chief executive, Gerry Britton, insisted that putting fans through the courts did not deter others from criminal activity. But then, in a classic of the intellectual genre, he said, “The Tartan Army are brilliant [at holding misbehaving fans to account]if anyone is up to anything, they’ll be the ones to get them out.”
So all we need is a sprinkling of “Tartan Army” types in kilts at each game to intercept a random no mark in the process of throwing a missile. With insight like this, I am sure it is only a matter of time before Gerry is running the SFA.
Self-policing by fans has a role to play, but don’t tell me to be against throwing missiles because a section of a stand could close, throwing missiles is wrong because it is the dangerous act of a seriously disturbed individual. Those who would not call out this behaviour for the latter reason will not do so for the former.
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Interesting to watch the interweb responses to the BR episode.
CQN = Not a surprise in that P67 has always had connections to PL and his view of life.
E-Tims was more of a surprise but they have been nipping away at BR’s heals since last July and now it all makes sense — just where did they get their Rumour Mill tidbits?
PL has worked the informal comms channels well and now he has a whole galaxy of people pushing his viewpoint.
And now we have Board apologists publishing screeds on the minutia of the past 10 months.
Unfortunately what once went on under the radar has now become a cacophony of self justification.
I fear PL is feeling the pressure and is now trying too hard.
ANYONE
Trying for latest tickets for Sheep semi?
As previous my bhoy missed out on original draw. (timescale for original ballot finished last nigh)
Trying to see if I can purchase one for him now but saying I
“dont have correct privileges” and phone kicked me out
Bhoy is in HTS
SFTB
“And finally, you asked for my thoughts on the “hoarding” of money by our club. I can see several possible reasons for it and I have no idea which is more or less plausible than the next…”
You missed one: We don’t know what to do with it all.
JC2
According to this morning’s email:
“Following the initial ticket sale, all remaining tickets are now on sale to those Season Ticket holders who purchased tickets for both home matches against Airdrieonians (Jan 19) and St Johnstone (Feb 10) but were unsuccessful in the original sale of tickets.”
The Battered Bunnet
Thanks
That’s email I have but cant access through online and Phone just kicks me out
saying”to busy”
TBB @ 11.37
Regarding the club hoarding money.
If they are stuck on ideas on how to spend it …
Could I offer a few suggestions?
However I am troubled as to why we seem to be hanging onto cash.
My big fear is that there could be some sort of special dividend in the works.
Our current situation would suggest that we are more comfortable paying corporation tax than investing in the playing squad or the physical infrastructure — not good.
it would be interesting for anyone, even those close to PL to let us know exactly why we are hording cash, even if it was how they tried to dress it up.
new article posted.