The_Judge

Glad to have him on board and hope he can build a better team than last season and winning the league would be a great achievement BUT I do get pissed off with this narrative that it's all about the SPFL as if it's some kind of wonderland!! It's shite! It's just tier 4 rather than tier 5 and it amounts to playing nine teams 4 times a season at double the ticket price. Any arguments about it having more 'quality' are laughable. Now, where do I get my virtual season ticket?

Indeed. Every division except the Premier! That would definitely be a fascinating plot twist.

For (reportedly) £400k a year it's nice work if you can get it.

When the call was made I had no beef with Celtic being crowned, they were comfortably ahead, but did think it was incredibly unfair on Partick, Hearts and Stranraer in that order as well as Brora/Kelty. I genuinely expected the majority of Scottish football fans to be incensed at this injustice BUT in actual fact the vast majority of feedback on P&B and Twitter has been "Ha Ha we fucking hate Hearts...get doon!!".

I was looking at the number of players out of contract this season (mostly end of May, some end of June) and was surprised at the gap between both ends of the spectrum. On the face of it you would think, that in terms of clubs surviving, their current wage bill could drop significantly BUT they then face a potential difficulty in recruiting players for a new season. What do you think of your clubs situation compared to other teams? Team Squad Out of Contract Kilmarnock 22 17 Hamilton 25 19 Motherwell 24 13 Ross County 24 13 St Mirren 25 13 St Johnstone 23 11 Livingston 26 10 Hibernian 24 07 Celtic 31 07 Rangers 27 06 Aberdeen 23 02

Livingston football club write off £200,000 of loans by having them converted into shares along with a wee cash injection top in the form of new shares issued for cash.

I doubt it 😄

Nah...16 maximum imo.

The point is that next season any one of the other teams could finish 3rd or last, it's not a foregone conclusion.

It's hard not to wonder what discussions have taken place privately...

..and you'd have 12 clubs fighting for 3rd place instead of just 10 currently. That's even greater competition!

I assumed that was seen as the ONLY possibility of getting the Glasgow clubs to agree?

In what ways do you believe it would weaken the premiership?

It's boring for fans that go home and away! One trip to each team each year (excluding cups obviously) would make it more exciting for travelling fans of the other 11 clubs. They currently only exist to give Celtic a platform to win everything and play in Europe. Rivalries would be enhanced and even in derbies I think only having one chance to beat your rivals home or away in a season would give the games more prestige.

One of us, one of us, one of us.......