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  1. I don't really follow the EPL or EFL, but part of my football podcast rotation is the Guardian football weekly, the recent EFL round-up podcast (last week I think) covered the current state of finances in the lower leagues down there. Just in case anyone is vaguely interested and doesn't fancy reading through a bunch of accounts. Basically all about EFL clubs, across the leagues, overspending to ridiculous levels to try and get to the EPL or move up leagues. There was a mad stat like 125% of the turnover of English championship clubs is spent on wages.
  2. Aye, English football is eating itself, so many of the clubs down there are on the brink. My nan could run a football pyramid better etc, etc.
  3. Think those in charge at the club would have been doing cartwheels when that story appeared, nice wee breach of contract to show him the door.
  4. I think he deleted it, which is a shame, what a moving tribute it was.
  5. Oh aye, there was a certain entertainment value. I'll give you that. Mind that Lanarkshire Derby he started?
  6. Aye, I tend to agree with this. Wasn't meaning to come across as not into investment, as I've said before I'm in favour of it if it's right for the club. All just rumour I suppose, but from what I've heard these aren't great offers of investment and I wouldn't want us trading off a chunk of the club for something that really wasn't worth it in the long run.
  7. Apparently all the offers are pure shite anyway, this one being particularly awful. As @Busta Nut says, let's shelve this and just get on with running the club now. If the unlikely scenario of someone coming in with "club changing" cash happens in the future then ideal.
  8. His goals and assists are one thing, but can anyone in Scottish football do this face better than Spittal? I don't think so.
  9. Did wonder if Hearts would come in for him, not hugely surprising and we can't compete with them wage wise. I like Spittal, sad to see him go, but if he feels he has one chance at more money and wants to stay in Scotland he's done what most would do. We've probably seen the most consistent version of him, while it's pish he's going to leave there's no ill will from me.
  10. This. The Thread has spoken, it's the beginning of the end for VAR.
  11. I was never in favour of VAR, it's baws, but I actually do see why, in a league where the rhetoric is always how awful all the refs are and how any other option would be better, folk fancied it. That being said, I used to have a degree of sympathy for referees, it's obviously not an easy job, but VAR has shown them up even more than they managed on their own, which is quite something. The consistency thing is tricky as different people will interpret laws in a different way, but we're talking about absolute basics at times here. Take our disallowed goal at the weekend, you can't tell me anyone is watching that confident that it hits Bair below the T-shirt line, that's before you even bring in similar situations that have gone unpunished throughout the season as a comparison. The conclusion I've come to in recent months is the referees in Scotland are either drastically under qualified or they are determined to be the main characters in the Scottish game, going out of their way to chop off goals and make sure everyone knows they are in charge. Best referees are the ones you don't really notice. The experience as a fan at the moment has absolutely been damaged and it lies at the door of those running the game, they'll likely never change their attitude. Crazy thought, imagine the positive PR, from a fans perspective anyway, if you were the first league to just say "f**k this shit" and bin it?
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