The bun fight in Scottish football, where Partick Thistle have taken counsel opinion and, along with other bottom of the table clubs, threaten legal action if the season is brought to a halt without them being saved from the drop, looks impossible to settle soon.
Hearts and Thistle hope for more than a commitment to discuss the league reconstruction change that will save them from the consequences of being so poor this season. Both are set to go to court, if necessary, which, I suppose, is an alternative to using your superior financial muscle to outperform smaller clubs. As things stand, the league will wait until it is safe, then resume, which may delay the start of next season.
There are various event horizons between now and then. Without football, a cash crunch lies ahead for every club. For some, that is likely to be a matter of weeks. Most Scottish clubs will run out of money and available funding by summer. Celtic can afford to sit tight, as can Partick Thistle – if Christine Weir is prepared to make good any shortfall.
Whatever prize money or loans the SPFL can issue is important but it will not change the bigger picture for the majority of clubs in the top flight. There, only Celtic have the reserves or funders on the board, to see this crisis out. The immediate worry for most is to survive three or four months without income, before they can issue season ticket renewals.
Clubs have yet to receive guidance on when attendance at sporting events will be permitted. When that arrives, talk about league reconstruction, with more mouths to feed in the top flight and throughout, will seem like a fantasy.
There will be significantly less money in Scottish football going forward, we will be able to support fewer full time clubs and if resources are not concentrated within a smaller pool, their dilution through an expanded league will lead to many clubs withering on the vine.
We should sit tight and let the various losers squabble.
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An American friend of mine sent me a graphic yesterday about the US public’s opinion on how Donald Trump is handling this crisis;
Republicans 93% positive
Independents 13% positive
You have to wonder about the phsyce of the average American.
Democrats 23%
Rangers chairman Douglas Park demands SPFL’s Murdoch MacLennan refutes magazine claim he ‘hates’ Ibrox side
MURDO should demand DOUGY come clean about whether or not he is skint.
That post is all over the place.
Independents 43% positive
Democrats 13% positive
Typing ootside in the sun 🌞
Bill Gates has tens of millions of dollars worth of shares in Coca cola and McDonalds, personally I don’t trust the guy.
HH
can anyone remember celtic ciggies in 1960 cant recall them my mate says they were made by hal stewart of morton he says was a big pal of jock stein hail hail
No person described as a philanthropist with the greater good of humanity at heart would ever invest in those two companies imo. Guys a hoax.
HH
BBC Sport running a poll on the most iconic football top, the hoops from 67 is available to vote for…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52224708
Paul67
Remember Belgium and Brugge?
Give the clubs their money, and give Celtic the SPL,
title it’s only a matter of when.
HWG TIAR
This is the link tae vote…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52224708
Billy Connolly Live at The Odeon Hammersmith 1991 – Football
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWZ3JmgToAE
I see the Dundee statment knocks on the head
the “lucrative friendlies” pish that the media were running with.
God knows whats going to happen. How many phoenix clubs will we have come September?
If there isn’t going to be any football until August I would worry about Broony gettin back to his best.
While he has arguably been our player of the year this season, at his age, it might be difficult to get back to that standard after such a long period without competitive football
My opinion the big teams in all of Europe will look after themselves, they will demand more of what is in the pot or go their own may to make up for lost revenues, the European Super League that has been the goal will become a reality on the back of this,a closed shop dominating the landscape. Domestic leagues will not be anything other than local parochial setups.
Bhoylo83
he is a different breed
What a circus.
The problem, or one of them, with Celtic’s position on all this, beyond this league, is that it does not matter to the club who we play, when we play or whether we play them four times a season, on plastic if necessary, or not. As long as we share the TV money with as few clubs as possible. Funnily enough I’ve never heard us singing “Bring on the Accies”.
Dundee statement shows more collusion between clubs.
Two clubs changed their vote, they say, how do they know? We should be told how much skullduggery went on behind the scenes.
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Saint Stivs
gies a foto
please
i think celtic are doing exactly the right thing.our position is and always has been to finish the league if at all possible. in the face of EUFA indecision that stance should be the only one celtic need to utter. Let all the other self serving turkeys vote for xmas, and see who is left standing.
Sevco must know they are fighting a losing battle against the mounting debt they have. the dawning of truth must come.
papajoe from last post – you gotta picture of the postbox?
Sevco are upset because they’re Sevco and not Rainjurz.
Fact CSC
` THE SPFL have reportedly told clubs there will be no football played until mid-August.`
That would suggest the SPFL know more about Covid-19 than do all the Medical Experts. Unlikely, I know, but I would be willing to accept that the Medical chaps would do a better job of organising the current football situation than the SPFL are doing :-))
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BSR – have you seen who has got a lovely pair of starring roles in
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3729898/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
I’VEHADTOCHANGE
Beacons in the darkness, just beacons in the darkness
HH
Dear Paul67,
Why is CQN virtually damn near impossible to use these days?
BSR
i’M up to speed again with duckduckgo and adblock plus on Firefox
Vaccination is the administration of a vaccine to help the immune system develop protection from a disease. Vaccines contain a microorganism or virus in a weakened, live or killed state, or proteins or toxins from the organism. In stimulating the body’s adaptive immunity, they help prevent sickness from an infectious disease. When a sufficiently large percentage of a population has been vaccinated, herd immunity results. The effectiveness of vaccination has been widely studied and verified.[1][2][3] Vaccination is the most effective method of preventing infectious diseases;[4] widespread immunity due to vaccination is largely responsible for the worldwide eradication of smallpox and the elimination of diseases such as polio and tetanus from much of the world.
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I`m not in a position to speak about any individual vaccine but the effectiveness of vaccination per se in the prevention of diseases is unquestionable .
Hence the global quest for a vaccine to counter the current scourge .
The above is from Wikipedia .
So
How does the Sun, know Park has sent a private letter to Maclennan ??
What did MacLennan say that offended Park in an alleged private eye article 2017
Looks like they are after him, like they did with Gary Hughes ??
Wonder if there is any Bigoted bones in the Sevco board cupboard
Oh that’s acceptable being up to their knees
Mursheen,
Is right. Give the media nothing.We have stated our case,nothing more to be said.
Too many on here responding to Rags gossip,and shit stirring,especially the Record.
We will be Champions,one way or another,stop fretting.Let the scum disgrace themselves in public.
Potless,,beggars,without a hope of changing anything.
Norrie- the SMSM will be far too busy looking for the ‘whistleblower ‘,won’t they?
#absoluteshite
WDH
Looks like I’ll have to download duckduckgo as the ads are driving me quackers.
HH
Anyone else think the whole thing about who voted how and when is all a bit of a manufactured stushie to sustain interest in an activity that would otherwise be becoming a bit irrelevant?
Looks like Dundee are clearing the way for a yes vote with that statement today. It seems like a formality now.
unusual – 1966 tour
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ek6vGtqaeQPoVF_sRNfmusFmNBdjGCkVmBwcQCYixmErhiJeRix-plDvKG3v6oklD4hSzWEW-pEYWzM=w678-h1536-no
i went to longford last year, i forgot celtic played there once in a pre season –
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ndPtJoPcxGmwh7f4As1nk3hNKoQ_cm3RDyrFlsWilT6amQ4SdBleoOk1HDkTIMuNoUh1Hgcy-OTnu8k=w2400-h1350-no