Stag Nation

Why? OK, there has been no team training, but there's been nothing to stop the players working out individually. They are (allegedly) professional athletes after all - anyone who has spent lockdown watching TV and eating junk food should be sacked.

Have I understood this correctly? You're being promised large sums of money from a club that has made substantial losses every year since its foundation in 2012 and is, by all reports, teetering on the brink of insolvency. What could possibly go wrong?

Generally we get taxed on the money we receive, not what we give away. Don't give the Chancellor any ideas!

What tax did you have in mind? The clubs will treat it as they would any other income, and they will have to pay corporation tax on any profit at year end. Probably the least of their worries in the present circs.

What makes you think that? In England she'd have six years to bring action - is it really one minute in Scots law?

50 years? A mere moment in time. I remember it was Stade de Reims that beat them in the SEMI-FINAL of the first European Cup in 1956.

Why would that be awkward? They "think they were blocked " by their interpretation of the 2018 rules. This is 2020, different rules apply.

Let's hope the new secretary can spell better than Mr Napier. Or maybe they really do mean ham, cheese, egg and cress ...

Give it time.

I'm not as imaginative as Mrs Budge, that's for sure. There may be some mileage in her challenging the voting structure, on the basis that all shareholders should have the same voting rights. But giving the D1 and D2 clubs a vote each probably wouldn't help Hearts! You're absolutely right about the basic remit

But it's not a members' organisation. It's a limited company, and therefore subject to various Companies Acts. I'd imagine Hearts have identified some real or imagined breaches.

Contract law doesn't apply, as there is no such contract. The SPFL is a limited company, and the 42 clubs are its shareholders. The applicable rules are the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the company

Eh? What about Tom Johnson? And the committees in the other regions? I thought the Juniors were one big family?

Make the players redundant?

The original post was about a perimeter fence (1 meter?) on private land.

So the committee wouldn't have encouraged a vote of no confidence in themselves? I think that's a pretty safe analysis.

They were essentially told that by their management committee. Another valid choice would have been to replace the committee and carry on as a Junior league.

No different from almost every post on here then.

Is planning permission needed for a one metre high fence? I don't think so.

It's hardly "out of the blue" - they'd been bottom of the league for months, and were showing no sign of improvement.

Will they be guaranteed for future seasons, as the membership shrinks?

The Murdochs no longer have anything to do with Sky.

Is there really? It's a forlorn expectation, from what we see of League 1 and 2 attendances. Ranking clubs on crowds rather than results is the start of a slippery slope. The logical end would be to award the title to Celtic every year. Oh, hang on ...

Do you really think there would be a clause in the contract specifying crowds? Were Sky the only people in the world to foresee the lockdown?