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6 minutes ago, Scottydog said:

Add in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire derbies, the top flight could have a derby every week.

From a financial point of view it’d be.....interesting, great even for some.

For most L1 clubs it’d be a step up but for Championship clubs it’d be a big drop in revenue and for any team unfortunate enough to be relegated into it then it would be devastating. 
 

If it was to go ahead Airdrie (for example) would benefit by having only 1 visit from teams in the lower half of L 1 such as Stranraer and Peterhead and gain by having a visit from better supported teams like Dundee and Dunfermline. Conversely Championship sides would suffer due to the exact opposite.  A top flight team being relegated would suffer worse yet again with a visit from Stranraer aa opposed to two visits from one of the ugly sisters, a visit from 30 fans as opposed to 3000 is quite a stark change in fortunes, probably too much so.

Conversely, it would be an experiment to see if a 20 team division would increase crowd numbers due to the reduction in monotony that would come with it.

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8 minutes ago, G_H said:

Conversely, it would be an experiment to see if a 20 team division would increase crowd numbers due to the reduction in monotony that would come with it.

I think it would increase crowd numbers in that sense but there isn’t a cats chance in hell that the likes of Dundee, Dunfermline, Morton, QotS and evening Alloa would see an increase in crowd revenue compared to the current set up.

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2 minutes ago, auldtoonbairn said:

4 leagues are crap if they want to leave the spl as is then the bottom divisions should go from 3 to 2  adding brora and kelty  12  ,16, 16 easy 

 

Top flight needs a shake up too, has to be bigger and more accessible to clubs, a 12 team league with 1 up 1 down and 1 potential other is nonsense.

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16 hours ago, Fawkirk Wull said:

Can you confirm that Morton are one of the teams that are having SEVERE financial problems

Given that we have multiple sources of cashflow, were operating on a break even budget anyway and now have got the furlough covering our entire player wage bill through the autumn, we're really not. Thanks for playing anyway.

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Given that we have multiple sources of cashflow, were operating on a break even budget anyway and now have got the furlough covering our entire player wage bill through the autumn, we're really not. Thanks for playing anyway.
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What about non-playing staff? The groundsman for instance.
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15 hours ago, DiamondJack85 said:

Heard that the proposal Airdrie put forward to the reconstruction group was to extend the Championship to 20 teams in a 14-20-10 setup. Think a 20 team Championship playing each other twice would have been excellent and its probably the only format to allow proper reconstruction to happen without it impacting any clubs unfairly.

 

That sounds absolutely shite, glad it got turfed out. 

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1 hour ago, lionel wickson said:

Didn't Kilmarnock use them ages ago, possibly just in the close season?

Fairly sure they had a tup (ram) as a mascot back in time, maybe as far back as the 1960's?

Possibly brought some ladies in to keep him company but maybe not in the tupping season. Mind you, I suppose it would depend if the farmer wanted the ladies to have some TLC!

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Fairly sure they had a tup (ram) as a mascot back in time, maybe as far back as the 1960's?
Possibly brought some ladies in to keep him company but maybe not in the tupping season. Mind you, I suppose it would depend if the farmer wanted the ladies to have some TLC!


This lockdown has clearly been going on too long [emoji40][emoji6]
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13 hours ago, embow said:

Fairly sure they had a tup (ram) as a mascot back in time, maybe as far back as the 1960's?

Possibly brought some ladies in to keep him company but maybe not in the tupping season. Mind you, I suppose it would depend if the farmer wanted the ladies to have some TLC!

According to Steve Finan's brilliant book 'Over the Turnstiles' Kilmarnock had three resident sheep at various points during the 1960s who combined mascot and grass nibbling duties. 

They were named Angus, Ruby and Wilma. 

Aye , you're right, this lockdown has gone on far too long. 

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14 hours ago, steakngravy said:

Probably borrowed some sheep from Aberdeen. :oops

I'm pretty sure that sheep were regularly used to graze the pitch at Cappielow in the early decades; IIRC there's a photo of some of the Scottish Cup winning squad with one of the sheep acting as a 'mascot'. 

They would have died of starvation going by the quagmire Cappielow's pitch resembled in the 1980s but could probably do the same job again now.

15 hours ago, Nowhereman said:


You can’t have furloughed your ground staff. The pitch will need maintenance over the summer

Of course because how else will we play all those big games coming up. 

Given the frosty relationship between the groundsman and the club of late I suspect he'll be told to just stick a lawnmower on it in September and deal with it then.

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22 minutes ago, virginton said:

I'm pretty sure that sheep were regularly used to graze the pitch at Cappielow in the early decades; IIRC there's a photo of some of the Scottish Cup winning squad with one of the sheep acting as a 'mascot'. 

They'd have loved the grass down there on the coast. Salty, self seasoning mutton.

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59 minutes ago, Specky Ginger said:

According to Steve Finan's brilliant book 'Over the Turnstiles' Kilmarnock had three resident sheep at various points during the 1960s who combined mascot and grass nibbling duties. 

They were named Angus, Ruby and Wilma. 

Aye , you're right, this lockdown has gone on far too long. 

Do clubs with artificial pitches use electric sheep, the kind that androids dream of.

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2 hours ago, Specky Ginger said:

They were named Angus, Ruby and Wilma

Aha! The latter two not tups then, ewe'll have noticed.

Yup! It's time lockdown is finished to let all the "sheep" out and about.🤒😷🤧

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