05-01-2020, 10:04 PM
Which is why we should have kept our powder dry and at least threatened court action.
We've blundered here.
We've blundered here.
05-01-2020, 10:04 PM
Which is why we should have kept our powder dry and at least threatened court action.
We've blundered here.
05-01-2020, 10:21 PM
Everyone, no matter what team they support, moans like fuck about how much they'd want an expanded top flight. A chance to improve the game and make things more interesting. Then when a prime chance presents itself no one is interested. And the authorities thereafter do everything in their power to obstruct it.
Fuck the SPFL and Scottish football in general. Fuck every single side out with Heart of Midlothian. The whole thing is crooked and corrupt to the core. When this is all said and done, no matter what league we're in, the club has to go back and adopt a siege mentality. Just like we did under Mr Romanov.
05-01-2020, 10:36 PM
The SPFL know they can lie and nothing will happen because Celtic aren't going to go against them now : as long as at least one of the OF are onside it doesn't matter what they do.
05-02-2020, 12:20 AM
(05-01-2020, 09:46 PM)Jeff Resnick Wrote: https://twitter.com/BBCBMcLauchlin/statu...15744?s=20 Smiley of that picture please. :bung:
05-02-2020, 10:02 AM
(05-01-2020, 10:02 PM)Ross Kemp On Spice Wrote: It doesn't even matter if they are lying out of their teeth. They'll get away with it. What's the point in wasting energy on it This sums it up. No one outside the sphere of Scottish Football actually cares - so you won't find the government riding to the rescue and demanding that this is investigated fully. It's a closed shop - jobs for the boys and they have already circled the wagons on this one.
No rep, no problem
05-02-2020, 12:13 PM
05-02-2020, 12:26 PM
The problem is, clubs only look after their own self-interest. Let's be honest, if it was St. Mirren or Hamilton in our position, we'd be saying we might as well call the season now :look:
It's why we'll never switch to a 14 or 16 team league - too many wee clubs rely on the OF ticket money and want to ensure they play them three times a season and TV deals will be on the assumption that they will get 4 OF games a season. It's again why the OF are overall bad for the game in Scotland. Maybe need a bit of creative thinking. Put in a split and then have a final set of matches between the top two finishing teams (always Celtic and Rangers) and they have to play each other home and away, even add in a neutral venue. Sky could sell it as the OF derby week - Saturday at Parkhead, Wednesday at Ibrox, Sunday at Hampden.
05-02-2020, 01:02 PM
Can't wait for the Covid-19 Captain Tom McRae's Battalion memorial top
05-02-2020, 01:42 PM
Doncaster being a slippery bastard on radio Scotland just now. Playing semantics like fuck
05-02-2020, 01:50 PM
05-02-2020, 02:57 PM
SPFL statement:
Regrettably, we have to correct Ann Budge's statement in the article by Tom English on the BBC Scotland website today, where she said: “I've sat on the SPFL board and I've approved a loan for another club.†Quite simply, she did not, (and neither did anyone else during Ann's tenure on the SPFL board). Her subsequent statement in the same BBC interview is far more accurate: “I genuinely can't remember the club involved, but a club required an advance. We discussed it, it wasn't contentious , everybody agreed and we moved on.†As Ann herself correctly states in the latter comment – it was an advance payment of fees due to clubs – and not a loan, which is a crucial distinction. The confusion is unfortunate, but the facts are clear: In 2016, the SPFL agreed to pay invoices from two clubs for fees they were due to receive in the 2016/17 season. This was to help them with cash flow problems caused when Rangers' promotion into the Premiership meant some clubs would have only two Old Firm home games pre-split rather than three, which they had had prior to 2012. To overcome this challenge, the Board, of which Ann was a director, approved £150k advance fee payments to two clubs. • These advance payments were subject to VAT – Loans are not. • These advance payments were invoiced – Loans are not. • Loans, by their very definition, have to be repaid – these advance fee payments did not. Moving forward, we are still being asked if we could have made loans to clubs of £9m in April, but there is no practical nor realistic way to have done so. Before directors make loans, they must carry out due diligence into whether clubs have the ability to repay the loans. That is a major exercise and to do so 42 times in a short timescale would have been impossible. And, being frank, given the financial crisis that the game is in, it is impossible to see how the Board could have satisfied itself that all 42 clubs would have been a good credit risk. Clubs defaulting on loan repayments would have left every other club liable for the loss - which is exactly what happened when Gretna were given a loan over a decade ago. As to the question: could we not have made millions of pounds of further advance fee payments in April, to help clubs weather the financial storm caused by Covid-19? The answer is no. By the end of March, the SPFL had already made fee payments up to roughly the entitlement of the bottom club in the Ladbrokes Championship, Ladbrokes League 1 and Ladbrokes League 2. With fee payments being entirely dependent on final League placings, the Board's resolution remains the only realistic way to have made substantial and quick payments to lower league clubs, as well as giving them the certainty and clarity they required to make the tough decisions necessary to get them through to the point that matches can be played once again.
05-02-2020, 02:59 PM
What a load of shite!
05-02-2020, 03:04 PM
When's a loan not a loan?
When it's an advance payment.
05-02-2020, 03:10 PM
We've been completely played
05-02-2020, 04:06 PM
She's thick as shit and they're duplictous arseholes.
05-02-2020, 04:09 PM
This is the fresh injection of hatred and injustice that Scottish football needs.
Imagine the pure vitriol amongst everyone when this all kicks off again.
05-02-2020, 04:59 PM
(05-02-2020, 04:44 PM)Our Daniel Tatum Wrote: Basically they could have advanced the money Seems like it. Budge is a clown for allowing the SPFL to score easy points by pointing out that she's got the wrong end of the stick, when the real debate should be "could the SPFL have got money to clubs without ending the season and relegating clubs?".
05-02-2020, 05:01 PM
Budge is a fucking donkey, she should be in a care home not trying to make big boy decisions in football, she makes me feel ill.
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