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Impossible. Players age, contracts expire etc. The only club who could survive a year without football up here is Celtic and even they'd likely struggle. 


Clubs could be mothballed and return as and when.

We certainly shouldn’t and won’t be taking into account the financial state of clubs when deciding when to restart football.


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Campbell is not the worst of the empty vessel DUP types, but he's clearly a man with an agenda.

He voted against LGBT issues in schools in England, along with 7 (seven) of his colleagues, despite the issue actually being devolved in Northern Ireland and that any measures passed by the law would have absolutely no effect within their jurisdiction.

Further details can be found here: https://inews.co.uk/news/education/lgbt-sex-relationship-education-mps-support-504670

Let us be in no mind, the DUP representatives are flag wavers for intolerance at each and every level of life.

 

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Clubs could be mothballed and return as and when.

We certainly shouldn’t and won’t be taking into account the financial state of clubs when deciding when to restart football.


Aye but a new season would have to start next March. You can't play 30 games with one squad then the last 8 games and the most important games with another squad. This season one way or another has to end with current squads.
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On 18/04/2020 at 12:35, Jacksgranda said:

In the bad old days, which I fondly remember as it's all I knew, whenever a "big" team e.g. Motherwell, Partick, St Mirren, even Falkirk and Airdrie, f****** up and managed to get themselves relegated, they usually strolled the lower division. Inevitably one of the promoted duo got relegated e.g. East Stirlingshire, Ayr United, Hamilton Academical, Arbroath, Cowdenbeath - Raith Rovers and Dumbarton managed a couple of sesons before going back down (although Dumbarton technically weren't relegated) - along with a.n other (usually Stirling Albion until they gave up trying to get promoted).

Even Morton, St Johnstone and Clyde were yo-yo clubs late 50s, early 60s. QoS also were usually relegation fodder on their odd trips upstairs, iirc.

I'm sure if there were two big divisions again, a "big" team going down would waltz away with Division Two. However, because of the change in football finances - bosmans, pre contracts, European money etc, there are never going to be two big divisions.

Dumbarton managed tenth in their second of three seasons in the old eighteen team first division which was pretty decent for a club our size. And fourteenth the following season which would have seen us comfortably stay up if the leagues hadnt been reorganised

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Aye but a new season would have to start next March. You can't play 30 games with one squad then the last 8 games and the most important games with another squad. This season one way or another has to end with current squads.


Oh yeah there’s no question about that. This season is finished.

The question now is when the next season will start and what shape it will take. A half season from around January 2021 or even just wait till July 2021 and start a full one from there.
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56 minutes ago, AFCDannyFTH said:

Impossible. Players age, contracts expire etc. The only club who could survive a year without football up here is Celtic and even they'd likely struggle. 

Yes, there is no perfect solution. Clubs can close down for the time being. The playing squads will be a little different as some players move on. 

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9 minutes ago, Lex said:

 


Oh yeah there’s no question about that. This season is finished.

The question now is when the next season will start and what shape it will take. A half season from around January 2021 or even just wait till July 2021 and start a full one from there.

 

If we are going to pretend Celtic are champions then that should be easy enough, we can do that, we pretend Rangers are Rangers.

But I think the season should be played out as and when. 

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46 minutes ago, NorthBank said:
1 hour ago, Lex said:


Clubs could be mothballed and return as and when.

We certainly shouldn’t and won’t be taking into account the financial state of clubs when deciding when to restart football.

 

Aye but a new season would have to start next March. You can't play 30 games with one squad then the last 8 games and the most important games with another squad. This season one way or another has to end with current squads.

Why? What is sacrosanct about "same squads" - as opposed to, say, completing the league programme? Other than it suits your team, of course.

The entity that matters is the club, not this  particular year's random collection of players. The transfer window restrictions as we know them are less than 20 years old. 

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1 hour ago, Lex said:

 


Clubs could be mothballed and return as and when.
 

 

If you're letting clubs effectively run playerless, then a huge amount of players will simply walk away from the game entirely. 

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18 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

If you're letting clubs effectively run playerless, then a huge amount of players will simply walk away from the game entirely. 

This is going to happen in the lower leagues anyway,Jim Duffy said last night his whole squad are out of contract in June.

 

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34 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

If you're letting clubs effectively run playerless, then a huge amount of players will simply walk away from the game entirely. 

its going to happen in the real world as well

Im siting at home on furlough and tbh as my work is in overseas travel am coming to the conclusion I won't be going back or if I do they will have to offer reduced terms.

I guess lots of footballers will feel the same way.

Two years ago this would have been superb for Saints, a great way to cut the ageing squad. Now you have to look at the cost of paying players to the sell on value, who do you keep and who do you just say "thanks but we have nothing to offer you" 

 

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Why? What is sacrosanct about "same squads" - as opposed to, say, completing the league programme? Other than it suits your team, of course.
The entity that matters is the club, not this  particular year's random collection of players. The transfer window restrictions as we know them are less than 20 years old. 
Suits your team a hell of a lot more. 4th richest club in Scotland can sign a complete new first team to save their neck over 8 games when the previous dross couldn't over 30.

St Mirren have the second best defence in the bottom 6 behind Kilmarnock. 3 of the back 4 are loan players returning to their Clubs in June. Our keeper, arguably the best in the League, leaves in June.

Simply Hearts buy their way out of their mess. Only one team in the bottom six benefits from playing 8 games to decide final placings.
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50 minutes ago, Pet Jeden said:

Why? What is sacrosanct about "same squads" - as opposed to, say, completing the league programme? Other than it suits your team, of course.

The entity that matters is the club, not this  particular year's random collection of players. The transfer window restrictions as we know them are less than 20 years old. 

Yeah, all of that is nonsense, and you know it.

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Well its not as if the worlds in the grip of a major pandemic and his constituents are all dying around him. But it seems that how football is run in a different country is his priority, backward c**t

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16 minutes ago, NorthBank said:

Suits your team a hell of a lot more. 4th richest club in Scotland can sign a complete new first team to save their neck over 8 games when the previous dross couldn't over 30.

St Mirren have the second best defence in the bottom 6 behind Kilmarnock. 3 of the back 4 are loan players returning to their Clubs in June. Our keeper, arguably the best in the League, leaves in June.

Simply Hearts buy their way out of their mess. Only one team in the bottom six benefits from playing 8 games to decide final placings.

Okay. Well at least you are accepting that your view is based on fear and protecting St Mirren, rather than any kind of sporting integrity. 
As for your claim that Hearts would simply buy their way out of trouble - now you’re taking the piss. Did you you not see our expensive squad in action?

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Flegory Campbell, "Rangers fan" and DUP MP, has put down a demand for an independent inquiry into the SPFL vote, attracting the support of a complete nonentity from Blackpool.

I'm sure the touching concern of this gormless knuckle-dragger from across the water will resonate strongly in the corridors of power at Hampden.

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