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6 hours ago, CALDERON said:

"Football People" will want the season finished, thats just natural.

That's why Neil Mccann was on Sportsound saying the season must be finished as Celtic will want to win the treble under their own steam.

A football managers perspective and a business perspective wont be the same. 

I did wonder why Celtic voted for this TBH because they can't legitimately call themselves champions, won't be able to celebrate on the pitch, have any parties etc and, probably most importantly for them, can't claim the bragging rights over Sevco.

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9 minutes ago, AL-FFC said:

Just listening to it and jim McInally makes a valid point Drysdales position at Dundee given his position at Raith has Raiths promotion in his hands conflict of interest or favouritism, also suggested the 14 team Premiership and with a relegation of 3 teams next year.

Drysdale is an employee, he will not be making the final decision in the matter.

Do you think their wealthy owner will tell him to do what he wants?

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21 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Which of us seems to be getting aggresive? Surely the purposes of the podcast is to inform debate? The people on it have all been in media long enough to establish they don't have particularly valuable insight.

Yes your right.

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3 minutes ago, Donathan said:

 


Which is exactly why this season should be played to a finish when safe to do so.

No point fudging something now only to have to fudge something else next season.

Might as well wait until it’s safe to play again, play the remaining 8 games of this season followed by the playoffs, and then base the length of 2020/21 (if played at all) on how long there is available before 2021/22 starts. That guarantees only one season is shortened.

 

This would be ideal but it has been pretty widely covered why it isn’t possible. What percentage of lower league players are contracted beyond June? You can’t force them to play for that team when we get the all clear. Do we have a transfer window then? Is that fair. It’s a registration and employment law minefield.

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4 minutes ago, Donathan said:

 


Which is exactly why this season should be played to a finish when safe to do so.

No point fudging something now only to have to fudge something else next season.

Might as well wait until it’s safe to play again, play the remaining 8 games of this season followed by the playoffs, and then base the length of 2020/21 (if played at all) on how long there is available before 2021/22 starts. That guarantees only one season is shortened.

 

If next season is shorter than normal the financial impact could be worse than this one. Would you expect SKY to pay the agreed amount for 20/21 in those circumstances, or other sponsors for that matter?

 

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22 minutes ago, BallochSonsFan said:

It's their job to make decisions. It isnt for the chairmen of Killie, Morton, Airdrie, Albion Rovers or any other team to decide to relegate Hearts and Thistle as a way of accessing the money they need to keep their own clubs afloat.

It's their job to make the standard day-to-day decisions, not ones of this magnitude. The recriminations from a board (almost all of whom would favour this exact plan since it suits their clubs) making this decision unilaterally would be much bigger than what you're seeing now.

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3 minutes ago, Donathan said:

 


Which is exactly why this season should be played to a finish when safe to do so.

No point fudging something now only to have to fudge something else next season.

Might as well wait until it’s safe to play again, play the remaining 8 games of this season followed by the playoffs, and then base the length of 2020/21 (if played at all) on how long there is available before 2021/22 starts. That guarantees only one season is shortened.

 

And what do all the clubs do with the players that are out of contract in June? Tell them they are not allowed to leave and have to finish the season? Or do we finish the season with every team having different squads? Where's the fairness in that if the likes of Partick Thistle, Hearts spend their way out of relegation trouble or Falkirk spend their way to the L1 title? 

Add in the fact that as soon as football is able to get played in Auguest then Sky Sports will want the new league season started in Scotland so any talk of playing out the season in August/September is never going to happen. 

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11 minutes ago, ShaggerG said:

I did wonder why Celtic voted for this TBH because they can't legitimately call themselves champions, won't be able to celebrate on the pitch, have any parties etc and, probably most importantly for them, can't claim the bragging rights over Sevco.

The Premiership season wouldn't be finished yet - Celtic would still theoretically have the chance to win it off their own steam later in the summer.

 

4 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

If next season is shorter than normal the financial impact could be worse than this one. Would you expect SKY to pay the agreed amount for 20/21 in those circumstances, or other sponsors for that matter?

 

Sky's new deal is for 48 games compared to the current 60. They could easily be provided with that many over a shorter season, albeit maybe with fewer big ticket games.

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Not very accurate as we need a potential 3 not 10 match winning run which we have done before , we recently went 5 games without defeat , drawing with both Raith and Falkirk , promote top teams with no relegation


Can remember Stranraer going from ninth to top in the last third of the season in this league, making up a much bigger gap than the current one between Forfar and ourselves.
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1 minute ago, craigkillie said:

The Premiership season wouldn't be finished yet - Celtic would still theoretically have the chance to win it off their own steam later in the summer.

 

Sky's new deal is for 48 games compared to the current 60. They could easily be provided with that many over a shorter season, albeit maybe with fewer big ticket games.

Depends how short the season is, they'd need to cover some they wouldn't normally touch.

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And what do all the clubs do with the players that are out of contract in June? Tell them they are not allowed to leave and have to finish the season? Or do we finish the season with every team having different squads? Where's the fairness in that if the likes of Partick Thistle, Hearts spend their way out of relegation trouble or Falkirk spend their way to the L1 title? 



Just ask the fans to turn up and select a team from them on the day. (With last pick in goals, obviously.)
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You’re only 5 points ahead of 3rd place. Whilst I’m not suggesting Airdrie would go on to win the league I think you’ve forgotten that Raith aren’t the Brazilian team of 1970.

 

Never said we were but the odds on Airdrie, Montrose or East Fife overhauling both Raith and Falkirk to be in the automatic promotion spot (1st) would be pretty long. Falkirk are the only team with a realistic gripe that they could have won the league out of all 4 divisions and as I said you have to draw the line somewhere. Airdrie are closer to 5th than 1st.

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Just listening to it and jim McInally makes a valid point Drysdales position at Dundee given his position at Raith has Raiths promotion in his hands conflict of interest or favouritism, also suggested the 14 team Premiership and with a relegation of 3 teams next year.
Eh! He was involved in loaning out Lewis Vaughan to dumbarton which led to us being relegated, he didnt know the rules correctly about signing an emergency goalie when Ian Blair of the SPFL advise that we could , he blamed the Rovers support for everything so aye hes got a conflict of interest.
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