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Everything posted by stuartcraig
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But the comment you replied to had and you ignored it in your response, implying that you didn't think it was relevant to the question of fairness.
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So fairness of automatically promoting the 2nd top team in each league is directly proportional to their proximity to the team in 1st place but not the proximity of the teams behind them. f**k me! These new rules are getting even harder to keep track of than the mechanics of the European competition coefficient system.
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I don’t care.
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Why stop at part-time / a few hundred fans? Anyone with less than a 10K home attendance should know their place and just be grateful for the wise benevolence of their rightful masters.
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Plus all the teams in Leagues 1 and 2 who had a decent shout of a playoff spot. So about 8 in total.
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I'm not one of the people making an argument for reconstruction in terms of "fairness" to individual teams, so I don't really have to provide an answer to that question. But you acknowledge that the question wasn't settled. Either way, I'm not looking at this through a "what's fair to Airdrie" (or any other team) perspective. I'm arguing that's short sighted and ignores the need for more strategic thinking. I don't have a strong opinion on the time scale but I am arguing for the bit in bold and view anything else as a needless distraction.
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I don't want it if it costs the opportunity for real structural change which delivers more tangible long term benefit to the whole of Scottish football. By itself, it's just a bit of idle tinkering designed to save Hearts from relegation and stop Anne Budge rocking the boat. It also doesn't lower the drawbridge between the Premiership and Championship, it just moves it 2 places to the left. As for the introduction of Kelty and Brora to the league. I predict that move will benefit nobody other than Kelty and Brora but, from your perspective, it's unlikely to incovenience your team either.
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Why is it any fairer than actually relegating Hearts and Stranraer? Why is promoting ICT, Falkirk etc automatically fairer when the other teams in play-off spots don't similarly benefit? If there is any restructuring or changes to the rules then it needs to be designed to benefit the majority of Scottish football in the medium and long term. Not just to provide a golden ticket to a handful of lucky clubs.
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Any suggestions how this benefits Scottish football in general?
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For me the issue is the fact that some Premiership clubs, not content with the way that successive changes have increased their influence / privilege, want to go a step further.
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At some point they'll get their way. That's the way life works for the rich and powerful. They can afford to wait until a weakness they can exploit presents itself.
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I see that Gordon Smith is the source of the article. Is having zero credibility a pre-requisite before the Daily Record interviews someone?
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Someone, somewhere recently asked lower league teams to justify their existence by enumerating the number of young players who have moved from the lower leagues to play at "the top of the game". Notwithstanding the fact that this isn't the "point" of lower league teams and never has been outside of the fevered imagination of failed national coaches, sports hacks, old firm c*nts and Premiership also-ran supporters who delude themselves with the belief that their team is "elite", just how exactly are lower league sides supposed to achieve this when the rich(er) clubs offer silly money to 18 year olds to kick about the youth leagues for a few years before then jettisoning them?
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I like your thinking. Out of interest, is there any example of this being tried and delivering benefits?
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Ironically, this sentence also applies to Keith and many other Scottish football "journalists" working for the big outlets.
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Or could the sports media stop treating every word that comes out of her mouth with awed respect when so much of what she has said in the past is clearly self-interested, disingenuous bullshit. Obviously the above extends to every other chairman, administrator, manager and PR Goebbels who has been guilty of the same in the past.
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What do we do? Well, listening to the public health people it sounds like we move back to our normal rhythms on a gradual and phased basis, ensuring that we have the necessary monitoring and controls in place to arrest any subsequent spikes in infections / deaths, all the while increasing our knowledge of the virus through research to improve our ability to manage spread, treat symptoms and develop a vaccine. At some point, the Scottish government will decide that there is enough mitigation in place to restart public sporting events, at which point Scottish football will be able to get back to some form of financially sustainable operation. Scottish clubs can decide to restart behind closed doors in the meantime but I severely doubt that they'll be able to run indefinitely without income from crowd revenue and any proposal that fails to take this into account is ignoring hard truths.
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Yeah, it’s all speculation but the evidence suggests Archibald’s business model wasn’t likely to succeed. Still, the football was absolutely cracking for a wee while. Especially in the last 4 or 5 games when we started to look unbeatable (except when playing Clyde). I think the gossip at the time was that he was hoping for 750K for a quick sale of Fernandez with a view to backfilling with Nacho Novo.