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2 hours ago, jagsfan57 said:

How many inaccuracies or irrelevant facts are in that. I stopped reading after 2.

It is irrelevant that 85% of clubs voted for. The only relevant fact is that 75% of championship clubs didn’t.

Is £9M was being distributed to the lower league clubs. The premiership can’t get theirs until their league is called

 

Good news never sold newspapers, these journos love to mix it up to get reactions.

Today's newspapers are yesterdays news.

They are a dying business, as a colleague once said, 'There used to be Blacksmiths'.

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The season cannot be voided either.



Why can’t it be? As I’ve said several times if you’re 5 up in a midweek game and there’s a total power failure the match is null and void - that’s the football precedent when an event is incomplete.

I can see this ending up being you get given the remaining funds for whatever position your team is in, but there will be no promotion or relegation. 
The way this has been handled has been absolutely farcical. 


Rovers2017 kens.

It’s all about keeping the Arabs down.
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Wow.
Absolutely wow. Nothing from it possibly being for our own position, our integrity or anything like that, it's all to stop Celtic getting the league and him moving on to rangers as a reward.
May need to stop drinking from that puddle...
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Why not play the season out (when safe to do so) and then use the situation as a catalyst to reconstruct fully and move to summer football in 2021?

16 team premiership and championship (4 up automatically, 5th v 12th playoff and no automatic relegation).

Remaining 6 championship clubs, top 9 from league 1 and Cove Rangers make up new championship.

10 team bottom league with a long look at going regional at that level in the long run.

Next season runs March-November 2021

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31 minutes ago, Fifespud said:

 


Why can’t it be? As I’ve said several times if you’re 5 up in a midweek game and there’s a total power failure the match is null and void - that’s the football precedent when an event is incomplete.

 

That's not an equivalent situation. A single match is not the same thing as a season. Calling a match an event doesn't give it an equivalence to a different type of event. It is also the precedent in Scottish football because the match can be replayed at a later date. What is the precedent when the match cannot be replayed?

In many competitions around the world, a match is not declared void in that situation but completed at a later date. And there are also examples when a result at the time of abandonment has stood especially when, like in this situation, it can't be played at a later date. 

In any case, the biggest issues surround the financial repercussions of voiding the season. This is where it is important to emphasise that a season is very different to a single match. One creates a relatively small financial issue, the other a very, very big one. The bottom line here is that voiding the season is not an option. 

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22 minutes ago, Donathan said:

Why not play the season out (when safe to do so) and then use the situation as a catalyst to reconstruct fully and move to summer football in 2021?

16 team premiership and championship (4 up automatically, 5th v 12th playoff and no automatic relegation).

Remaining 6 championship clubs, top 9 from league 1 and Cove Rangers make up new championship.

10 team bottom league with a long look at going regional at that level in the long run.

Next season runs March-November 2021

I think everyone was wanting this to be the case, but now it doesn't look like it could happen within a reasonable time frame. New tv deal for the top league kicks in on a certain date. Things probably need finalised before that happens I'm guessing. 

 

Summer football, do most people want it and what about the international competitions the next two summers?

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1 hour ago, Fifespud said:

 As I’ve said several times if you’re 5 up in a midweek game and there’s a total power failure the match is null and void - that’s the football precedent when an event is incomplete.

 

Told you last time you raised this - it's ridiculous to use the example of one game cancelled in normal circumstances with plenty of opportunity to reschedule it  as a precedent for a whole season of games over four divisions in circumstances where there is no chance of rescheduling the games. Null and void isn't an option here. 

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11 minutes ago, SpoonTon said:

That's not an equivalent situation. A single match is not the same thing as a season. Calling a match an event doesn't give it an equivalence to a different type of event. It is also the precedent in Scottish football because the match can be replayed at a later date. What is the precedent when the match cannot be replayed?

In many competitions around the world, a match is not declared void in that situation but completed at a later date. And there are also examples when a result at the time of abandonment has stood especially when, like in this situation, it can't be played at a later date. 

In any case, the biggest issues surround the financial repercussions of voiding the season. This is where it is important to emphasise that a season is very different to a single match. One creates a relatively small financial issue, the other a very, very big one. The bottom line here is that voiding the season is not an option. 

What about voiding the season but working out a financial package for each team similar to what they were going to get from the current proposal?

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3 minutes ago, Dee Man said:

What about voiding the season but working out a financial package for each team similar to what they were going to get from the current proposal?

I'm not sure tv companies and sponsors are keen on giving out cash for a voided season. 

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