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C C Csiders said:
I fancy Celtic to win the Scottish Premier League this coming season. Might have a little bet on it.
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Celtic/Rangers double for their respective league would return £108.15 for a £100 stake. Still, a better rate than you'd get down the Nationwide...
 
For months north of the border, people have been drip-fed the line that it will be the end of Scottish football but without any facts or figures to back it up. 10 out of 11 SPL clubs with such figures didn't want them in their league. 25 out of 30 SFL clubs with similar information (I have a copy of the document that were sent to all chairmen too!) didn't think it so much of a financial burden that they should go straight into SFL1.

So 35 of the 41 most important people in this saga outside Sevco itself have completely dismissed this doomsday scenario. Could it just be that, amidst all the bluster, the people running the clubs might just know a bit more about the financial state of Scottish professional and senior football?

The right decision has been made. It's little wonder that so many people are happy at the temporary demise of one half of a supposed sporting institution, something which has actually been a blight on civilised society, for so many years.
 
What an adventure for the true Rangers fans, they will get to tour all the grounds through the leagues! SUPERB if you ask me! Also think of the money it will inject into the lower leagues in Scotland thats a good thing for their grass roots game!
 
TrueBlue said:
What an adventure for the true Rangers fans, they will get to tour all the grounds through the leagues! SUPERB if you ask me! Also think of the money it will inject into the lower leagues in Scotland thats a good thing for their grass roots game!
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I think this is a good point, for the Glasgow teams their season is just the games against each other and making sure they don't drop points against anyone else - the win expectation and playing the same teams over and over is not what real football is about - they'll benefit from the change.


The right decision has been made. It's little wonder that so many people are happy at the temporary demise of one half of a supposed sporting institution, something which has actually been a blight on civilised society, for so many years.

Thorpe - I'm curious about your knowledge on this - are you Scottish? Impressed by the detail of your postings on this, and your distaste of sectarianism in football.
 
I'm a shareholder in one SPL club through family inheritance, followed another since my Uncle took me to see them, and good friends with a number of players and officials at both SPL and SFL clubs, partly through family and partly through the course of my work.

I'm not particularly fussed about the strength or otherwise of Scottish club football, I just want it to be genuinely competitive, and free of archaic religious bigotry. If it means some clubs take a bit of a hit for a few years for the greater good, so be it.

Interesting to see St. Johnstone in Europa League action this Thursday (my son's going to that) and Motherwell in the Champions League draw on Friday. It's funny how someone's problem can become someone else's opportunity .....
 
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Thorpe Groyney said:
I'm a shareholder in one SPL club through family inheritance, followed another since my Uncle took me to see them, and good friends with a number of players and officials at both SPL and SFL clubs, partly through family and partly through the course of my work.

I'm not particularly fussed about the strength or otherwise of Scottish club football, I just want it to be genuinely competitive, and free of archaic religious bigotry. If it means some clubs take a bit of a hit for a few years for the greater good, so be it.

Interesting to see St. Johnstone in Europa League action this Thursday (my son's going to that) and Motherwell in the Champions League draw on Friday. It's funny how someone's problem can become someone else's opportunity .....
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Yep SPL will certainly be competitive next year. Cant wait to see who finishes 30 points behind Celtic in 2nd place!

I think the right thing has been done, but the SPL is nothing without two old firm teams and unless Celtic (who are just as guilty of archaic religious bigotry) fall apart its going to be a very dull affair now.

Great for Motherwell to get to the CL, but I wonder how long that opportunity will be there for before Scotland lose a CL place.
 
Mulgrew Hooper and Hammell in the Champions league.

Its almost we are like the Scottish Champions League Academy.
 
SPL nothing without the Old Firm? Ridiculous comment. Highland derby. Dundee derby. Edinburgh derby. Half the SPL there, who'd much rather beat their local rival than Celtic or The Rangers. Motherwell, I'm certain would much rather win their CL qualifier, and St. Johnstone would happily give 4 wins to Celtic in exchange for overcoming their first leg Europa League deficit.

Aberdeen's game against Ross County has already sold out two thirds of Pittodrie and County themselves, who have survived quite happily for over 80 years outside the top tier - and mostly outside the Scottish League too - have unsurprisingly sold record amounts of season tickets. It would seem that, to the punters that go through the turnstiles at least, the SPL is better off without the Old Firm.

Perhaps the comment is meant to have said something along the lines of 'Armchair viewers in England who've barely set foot in Scotland won't bother watching.' That would be understandable, as most blindly follow Celtic or Rangers on a casual basis, and swallow any guff that appears in the media. And, after all, the SPL has been so very good for Scotland since they broke away in 1998, with a grand total of two winners, one by wholly corrupt means, and Scotland's international standing plummeting.

The reality is the opposite. The Old Firm have done nothing for the SPL but everything for themselves. It can only do Scottish football good to have one of the bigot brothers being made to see the folly of their ways. Perhaps now decisions will be made for the good of the game rather than for the good of a couple of Glasgow's most unappealing clubs.
 
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