Dramatic and ambitions developments in European leagues, in this instance Russian and Ukraine, who have taken Michel Platini’s endorsement for the regionalisation of domestic leagues, should inspire the imagination of every football fan and administrator in a league with problems.
Scotland has a league with problems.
Our clubs and national association are committed to reorganisation but neither proposal from the Scottish Premier League or Scottish Football League does anything to halt the inevitable decline and marginalisation of our clubs.
In the 60s, 70s and 80s well-run Scottish provincial clubs regularly beat leading teams from big European countries but since then our small domestic market TV market has made most Scottish clubs also-rans, both in Europe and at home. We have a league system where the battle for second place is competitive and interesting but does not carry a meaningful reward; only one club is capable of winning the league.
Before making any changes to our league system we need to consider what changes are happening elsewhere in Europe and have a mature conversation about regionalisation.
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Mark from Aberdeen was brilliant- questioned BFDJ blind loyalty and questioned presumption of Rangers never going back in to administration/ liquidation. Gave fantastic examples of Portsmouth , Leeds Utd and the Huns themselves as clubs who no one thought could go bust..
The guy is a genius.
:- ) hahahaha !!
Auldheid,
they dont pay us enough because we are garbage at negotiating with them, the threat of, “naw stick it” has never been considered.
plenty of similar size nations are getting far more.
izzy
When is the draw for the Champions League?
Expect a statement from Sevco saying the share is was oversubscribed and a massive success.
WatchThisSpace CSC
Zombies supposes his Shares’is was Roses but the Zombies supposes erroneously……………….Zombies supposes his Sevcos are Go Go’s
but Zombies supposes
erroneously………..Zombies supposes………………
……………….
Hooptie Doodie Doodle CSC
There not dead ma friend
BigFatStupitDerekJohnston Csc
Bourne
Ecl draw is thursday ….
Are you insinuating that mr green would fabricate a success story
not what you were looking for PP but hilarious all the same.
http://www.scotzine.com/2012/12/the-rangers-share-issue-prospectus-is-charles-green-businessman-of-the-year/
Derek Johnstone is the most ill-informed thick pundit, bar none.
Quite a claim
When does the shi(r)t sponsorship deal with Tennents end?
Soon I hope!
HH!!
And this ladies and gentlemen, is why Mr bfdj was employed by Clyde,…
Thursday @ 10.30 am CL Draw.The last 16 of the World’s premier Club Tournament.
Why is ssb not called what it really is?
Sevco zombie bluenose hunnie love- fest….
….coz that’s exactly what it is.
And yes, I know, it’s a comedy show.
: > )
Does BFDJ realise just how ridiculous he sounds defending The Rangers?
His ignorance on many matters he should have some grasp of to respond to questions is staggering.
notthebus-Dalziel must run him close.
arranmorebhoylxv11
18:45 on
17 December, 2012
…and it is so hilariously obvious that they are struggling for positive spin …….. Sevco is on the way oot, too …….and it’s a hoot …….
Bada
Derek and dalziel = Dumb and dumber
It’s a great pity but perhaps understandable that Montrose have apologised to Green and Sevco for having the temerity to state the truth in their match programme.
Stating the truth about that mob is enough to endanger your personal safety ,as others have found.
The football authorities and the law in Scotland are reaping what they have sown by cowering in fear of Green, McCoist and the mindless hyenas who sit slabbering at their feet.
Apologies for the post about Celtic but does anybody know what time the draw is on Friday?
stevebhoy,
be as negative as you want pal :o)
but my main point is, we have to be brave and try no the tv experiment or highlight deal only. (just added that:o)
then reasses at the end of the experiment, if it turns out successful then we have a very strong negotiating hand.
As for manure, again my point was, we dont care about other national schedules and what they find acceptable, if sky were willing to pay proportionally similar money then I expect it might be worth the inevitable fall off of supporters again as boards will get greedy again.
Further, I’d expect a few clubs to fail during the experiment and I dont actually think that would be a bad thing, there are too many and rationalisation of unsustainable clubs needs to happen.
Already this season Celtic have played 34 games, Apart from International Breaks the last time the team had 7 days between matches was between 11th and 18th August. Just shows what Lenny & The Bhoys have achieved.
DJ knows nothing. Omerta is his code. De rigeur for all criminal organisations and their mouthpieces/apologists.
And he turns nasty when exposed.
Reminds me of Iain Duncan Smith, ünterFuhrer of The UKplc.
DJ is the same personality type.
Malice, upright and knuckledraggin’.
Was listening to SSB the other night when a Celtic fan rung up and said that contrary to what you hear in the MSM, this season there has been more supporters attending Parkhead than there has been at Ibrox. OK, he used the term sevco when referring to ‘the rangers’, however was quite surprised that rather than debate the issue with him they cut him off! What a shower, zero credibility.
EN- Thursday @ 10.30 am CL Draw.The last 16 of the World’s premier Club Tournament.
The 1.00pm Deedco Line
EN
The draw is on Thursday – from 1030 I believe.
HH!!
EN … Apologies for being blunt but just above your post you will see its 10:30 on 20/12/12
Pay attenshun shun ;)
What Id want to know if I was a Newco share holder is this..
Why is the company paying Jim Traynor when BFJD is doing all the work … For Free??
!!Bada Bing!!
Cheers for that.
Its brilliant being in this draw. Was listening to the latest CU podcast today discuss ‘I wouldnt mind PSG’ and ‘Wish we could get AC Milan.’
I agree and have a feeling it will be PSG
Staggering when you think of not too long ago/ a few weeks ago.
I have high hopes of the last 8.
EN
Celtic have had 681,103 fans through the gates this season, only Man Utd and Arsenal have more.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
My wee lassie who works in the sports intelligence business disagrees with you . :)
She wrote to me as follows a few months back.
” I’ve seen one or two people starting to float the argument that the current SPL TV deal compares poorly with other leagues around the world. That somehow the SPL has been underselling itself to broadcasters and it ought to have been achieving a much fairer price.
I’ve read arguments saying that based on match attendances around the various leagues, the SPL should be getting X amount more for its broadcast rights. This is a very weak argument as it ignores the main driver of increasing broadcast rights values: a competitive market! Plus the fact that a broadcaster’s customer is the armchair fan, not the match goer!
A league’s TV rights are only ever worth what a broadcaster is willing to pay (not what fans think their league is worth). If there is little or no competition, there is little a rights-holder (the league) can do. It can attempt to create competition by the way it packages it’s rights, or by threatening to create its own TV channel. (I know the SPL looked into this, do you know anything about why it was rejected? The Dutch league seem to have made it work but I would need to read around that to see how they’ve done it.)
That the SPL even managed to renegotiate its original five-year, £13m a year deal from 2009-10 to 2013-14 with Sky/ESPN, up to £15m a year for a new five-year deal which was supposed to kick in from 2012-13 onwards, is perhaps a minor bloody miracle given Sky and ESPN again colluded together to acquire the rights. It appears they faced no competition when they renewed at the end of last year.
If you remember back to the days of Setanta, when it was going head-to-head with Sky, the second contract it signed, a 4-year £125m deal covering 2010-11 to 2013-14, was quite an increase on the previous deal.
Of course if BT Vision were to enter the fray, it’s shown with its acquisition of the EPL rights that it is willing to take Sky on, the SPL would be tendering it’s rights in a competitive market again. Obviously it’s a different product without Rangers but at least it looks as though there may be actual competition for the rights. I haven’t mentioned ESPN because I think they will be out of the picture of any new deal as I won’t be surprised to see then exit the UK in the next year.
No idea what your standpoint is on this but I clearly needed a bit of a rant on this subject and you’ve been hit with it unfortunately”
In short there is not enough broadcasters competing to show our games.
Cults..,
traynor is the ventriloquist
A better investment would be to buy Halloween pumpkins in December…
EN
Don’t mention it :-)
HH!!
bournesouprecipe
“Share the Vision”…ho ho ho…
neil canamalar lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
I don’t think we can. Unless we can convince the other clubs to break with EUFA; their rules say that we can’t broadcast a match at three on a Saturday because neighbouring countries can pick the signal up. Pretty sure that is accurate.
Another fly in the ointment would be the dependency of our rivals on TV money – they already want a bigger share of that.
Better, I think, to go for an Atlantic League. Perhaps home supporters only. Saves on policing and encourages tv subscription…
Either that, or stay where we are and find a sugar daddy. Like Chucky, perhaps ;)
Hail Hail!
William on snyde makes good points about the hypocrisy of the sfa when appointing grade 1 referees.
The past 20 years they have only appointed refs that are employed in professional occupations.
I got the feeling the caller was biting his lip and dying to say the sfa is riddled with masonic rats.
!!Bada Bing!!
I think DFDJ pips it for his years of unstinting stupidity.
I have had the misfortune to meet him in the flesh.As thick and ill informed in real life
Glendalystonsils…” Stating the truth about that mob is enough to endanger your personal safety……” That statement is so true and it is the reason why so few in the media are prepared to stand up and shout it out loud…” The huns are deid! “