IveSeenTheLight

I’ll take that, breakaway goal to win 1-0. It could go in off the new boys arse for all I care

Its maybe Putin's way to seek revenge for Vladimir Romanov

My proposal would be that there should be consistency and that this should be applied across the board. There are plenty of instances where players sent off in friendlies have missed the following domestic games. The alternative is that there is an across the board agreement that incidents in friendlies only pertain to the game itself and doesn't inflict consequences in following games. What doesn't sit well that it is determined by the individual FA's as that leads to inconsistency and potential corroboration / corruption. As RussellAnderson says above, he's made very little impact on games against Aberdeen (indeed his stats are not impressive overall) and long may that continue

Yes, I do know. The Veolia Tournament, held in France against French teams with French association officials. Excellent example of demonstrating consistency and fairness across the board and impressing on youngsters of today watching the televised event that there is no consequence of actions in "some" friendlies

When do they announce John Beaton as the ref?

No, SevCo are getting advantages before the season kicks off. Seems like there is an opportunity to bypass the system and not have players suspended if an agreement can be made for the relevant authority not to report it officially.

Had the french league previously put it to a vote? I see they did subsequently. I'd expect the arbitration panel to have a view of the members vote. Now theres the initial vote (Dundeegate) but wasn't there also a subsequent premier league vote some time later that concluded the SPFL (Dundee not involved in that)

Did I read something similar happened somewhere else in Europe (France), where the courts blocked relegation and the league still voted and rejected it. they had 20 teams in the league and said they could not increase the league

Not done and dusted though. Good lead maybe, but not mathematically concluded

The Season should be put on hold until its completed then.

There's no way they'll have won the championship after 13 games

The parachute payments for sides relegated in 11th are funded by gate revenues from playoff games. That doesn't exist. Fair enough. That said I though the figures were questionable. If they need to get £750,000 profit out of 6 play off games, it might be a stretch but I take your potential point. I thought the SPFL took a cut but the remainder (the majority) was retained by the clubs.

I agree, it is extremely tough on Falkirk. They had the opportunity to get direct promotion. I said before that the first point should have been to complete the season when they could. When that was not possible, they should have went with a temporary reconstruction. It was individual club selfishness which stopped that Then it was down to an agreement of the clubs to call the season as it was, which I agree is harsh on the likes of Falkirk

Two thoughts on that. 1) "Potentially" promoted clubs are not materially disadvantaged like relegated clubs are. Yes, they had an opportunity to gain promotion, but that not a guarantee, which leads on to my second point. Yes they would likely to have gained through promotion, but again, that is an advantage, not a disadvantage 2) The rules of probability would play a factor as well

I think on the basis that they still had the opportunity to get off bottom spot in the last 8 games. Nowhere near £8M though.