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5/10 of the Championship clubs have better facilities according to the SFA, and Dundee are struggling to keep to even the Bronze level. Rated Silver: Dundee United Dunfermline Athletic Caley Thistle Partick Thistle Rated Gold: Queen’s Park

I imagine the biggest shock for Dundee players would be an away game getting postponed, otherwise I reckon they’re pretty used to it by now.

Gonna need the table to verify but think this is for the good of football across the country tbh.

I think they just call it the Ross County Chat Thread now

If Dundee are removed from the league midway, and the results against them are voided, who gets the biggest boost in the battle for top 6 or avoiding relegation? Don’t think it would affect Hearts or Killie all too much, but Ross County would be sitting prettier (I think?)

The rules don’t provide a minimum investment amount though. They just give the minimum standard the pitch and ground have to meet. Saying ‘but we invested a token amount’ to not meet the standard still means you haven’t met the standard.

would back Tav to score a free kick in them tbf

I think the rules as they apply to this are a little convoluted, but effectively; taken from the https://spfl.co.uk/admin/filemanager/images/shares/pdfs/Membership%20Criteria%20Letter%202024-25%2031%20October%202023.pdf and https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/media/11172/sfa-club-licensing-manual-2024.pdf or ultimately, if you let your pitch turn into a bog and get postponements and shit scores as to its upkeep over a long period, you’re liable to flirting with not failing to meet the minimum standards of entry to a professional league.

Unlike Dundee they’d laid the groundwork

Take a points deduction for failing to fulfil the fixture so opposition clubs and fans can plan accordingly, rather than playing the hokie cokie with raincovers? Or pay to hire another stadium and play I guess.

Given the problems he’s caused Goldson in particular, you’d think he’d go Kyogo through the middle no? Will be interesting to see how Diomande matches up with McGregor (if he starts?) It’s not as if the AJF/KingJoey tangent is a glowing invitation for fans to post is it? The ‘media storm’ around Ally is getting tiresome as well, you’ve got people who should know better making some pretty sizeable and defamatory leaps in their accusations.

Especially when a quarter of those were dastardly foreign refs.

Best part is that this entire segue was the depressingly inevitable outcome of AJF rightly calling out dickheads setting off fireworks.

No neutral or positive comments about Rangers fans, no commentary on the football unless it’s to criticise the referee for awarding fouls to Rangers players.

They’re longer and suit my tall frame. JD Sports or death before a Mike Ashley outlet, come on.

I understand you may think differently, but Rangers fans and the SFA / SPFL hierarchy are not the same people. Even if they share a similar fashion sense.

Is it Newell who makes the half-arsed attempt to scythe Matondo down before the shot? It’s wonderful.

I think this is a fitting tribute to their capabilities tbh

Borna back in at left back, front six of Lundstram, Diomande, Cantwell, Dessers and whoever is left that can run a bit?

Because Scottish football thrives on chaos, and when you’re picking between any list of options you should always go for the one with the funniest outcome.

Oh I’m absolutely taking the piss, I said Dessers would score 2?

I didn’t say otherwise? Dundee have broken a rule, the rule isn’t constrained in terms of sanction, that’s one of the sanctions?

Ok, 2-0. But both goals are Tav’s so he gets back up the golden boot chart. Or Dessers for the laugh.

The game in October that was postponed was during a red weather warning from the Met. Even with the most cynical (and accurate) opinion of the SPFL, totting up postponements would likely exclude that from the current total of 4, bringing this investigation in line with previous examples? Given the deliberate underinvestment and rule breaking, and for the good of the league and to ensure sporting integrity, hopefully the game is awarded by default and we take the 3-0 win into the international break.

Must have been some fucking microclimate to generate a monsoon one side of the road and not the other.