stuartcraig

It certainly has a touch of the Traynor about it.

I love how hard Tom English works at pretending relegation doesn't happen ever season. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53062777

As opposed to the other method of deciding this, which is?

Following an offer from another party to fund the legal challenge. Hmm, I wonder who that was.

But what does any of this have to do with refusing part-time clubs the full privileges extended to other member clubs of the SPFL?

Yes, like that vote (although that was about how to finish the season, rather than restructuring). Without remembering the point of view of specific individuals, I seem to remember general Falkirk outrage about the proposal at the time.

What way specifically? Because I've read the article and nowhere does it say that the Rovers voted no, never mind giving their motivation for doing so if they had. Either way, I'd judge the motives of a club less harshly for voting on the basis that it allows them to better manage costs on a limited budget, than the one who votes on the basis of gaining promotion without having to compete for it.

Of course you are.

That's Numberwang!

Still not a dictatorship.

Yup but they don't meet the voting threshold which the league voted to establish at its inception. All this voting - definitive proof of the autocratic nature of the SPFL. Anyhoo .... I'll just leave this one here. Autocracy: An autocracy is a system of government in which an autocrat, defined as a single person or party, possesses supreme and absolute power. The decisions of this autocrat are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control.

If a "nuanced discussion" is required, I assume that supporters of Scottish clubs won't be allowed within a million miles of it.

Is 11 out of 12 clubs a majority? Also - dictatorship: government by a dictator; dictator: a person who behaves in an autocratic way. I'll let you take it from there.

Falkirk fans: 62% of Scottish football didn't vote for a restructuring proposal designed primarily to save Hearts from relegation but which would have promoted us to the Championship without having to do it competitively. The "Scottish Football Family" is a myth. Also Falkirk fans: Some clubs can't afford to start next season without revenue coming through the turnstyles. f**k em!

But equally, 1 of the big 2 can't push any decision through without the supporting vote of at least 10 other clubs. So not a dictatorship.

That escalated quickly.

Don't speak too soon. We've still to deal with the fall out of all of those incredibly unprofessional clubs who have said they can't afford to run a business with no paying customers. b*****ds the lot of them.

Alternatively they could avoid being c*nts and say nothing of the sort.

I’m not sure her appeal for sympathy is going to have the effect she was hoping for, unless she was actually wanting to kickstart growth in the “world’s smallest violin” sector.

You haven’t met my family.

Also true.

And that would be one of the, no doubt, many things you believe which aren't actually true but regardless, if Airdrie were in that position and I did think all of this was justified on the basis of fairness, then I'd be as wrong as a lot of the Falkirk fans on here currently are.

True. And if you're auntie had baws she'd be your uncle.

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