SPL shake up

[Snake]

I don't know why they don't just go ahead and propose a two team Scottish League and be done with it.

Some of the teams in that division get lower attendances than we do...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/13116378.stm

[slappy]

I don't know why they don't just go ahead and propose a two team Scottish League and be done with it.

Some of the teams in that division get lower attendances than we do...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/13116378.stm

Have they got blinkers on? A 50% rise in tv deal is laughable. The BBC dropped out of the league renewal to cut costs and that leaves sky to lowball For all the minor leagues outside the EPL , Spain and Italy.

[slappy]

Which reminds me when setanta went bust I wrote to the newly appointed female director of sport at the beeb suggesting they look at non-league as a low cost way to show regular football on one of the digital channels. I didn't even get an acknowledgement.

[Snake]

Which reminds me when setanta went bust I wrote to the newly appointed female director of sport at the beeb suggesting they look at non-league as a low cost way to show regular football on one of the digital channels. I didn't even get an acknowledgement.

Were you surprised?

The only way the SPL will thrive is if they go back to sharing home gate receipts after legitimate expenses are taken out - like we used to do here in England a very long time ago.

As things stand then either Rangers or Celtic will struggle financially if they don’t get the only Champions League spot available on a regular basis as the rules/mathematics of qualification state that (in essence) if the best teams in your country are so crap in European competition in recent times then UEFA reserve the right to restrict the numbers of your League taking part. i.e. fuck off to the Europa League and if you don't like that idea then we may even dig out the concept of the Intertoto Cup again and you will be most welcome to play against the best team in the Vatican City (or maybe even the 2nd best team in Luxenbourg) in early June.

I’m all for a “British Cup

[recordmeister]

Which reminds me when setanta went bust I wrote to the newly appointed female director of sport at the beeb suggesting they look at non-league as a low cost way to show regular football on one of the digital channels. I didn't even get an acknowledgement.

No one? No one going to reply? Ahhh. Okay. I'll do it:

Why is it important to mention the new head of sport is female? If it was a man, would the post have read: &quotI wrote to the newly appointed male director of sport at the beeb...&quot?

[Dartford Ox]

Which reminds me when setanta went bust I wrote to the newly appointed female director of sport at the beeb suggesting they look at non-league as a low cost way to show regular football on one of the digital channels. I didn't even get an acknowledgement.

No one? No one going to reply? Ahhh. Okay. I'll do it:

Why is it important to mention the new head of sport is female? If it was a man, would the post have read: &quotI wrote to the newly appointed male director of sport at the beeb...&quot?

To provide those who wish to know with the information. What else?

Or are you suggesting a &quotSuppression of Information&quot act be introduced?

[JoeyBeauchamp]

Good point - the female is entirely unnecessary, just as it would be unnecessary to say 'the newly appointed black director' or 'the newly appointed disabled director'. Unless you were implying that a woman might have a different approach?

[recordmeister]

Good point - the female is entirely unnecessary, just as it would be unnecessary to say 'the newly appointed black director' or 'the newly appointed disabled director'. Unless you were implying that a woman might have a different approach?

Indeed, it also makes it seem as if it were a novelty, or that the person in question being female might have had a baring on the fact no reply was received.

It would be okay, however to say &quotthe newly appointed director, from Slumdon, never replied...&quot as this would infer they had a reason to have prejudice against Oxford fan as they may be an STFC fan.

[Snake]

I’m not taking sides in the off-shoot of this debate, but...

On one hand she’s a former gymnast (not exactly a high profile sport) but on the other hand her father was named Footballer of the Year in 1960 and her uncle played for England at cricket. Also, she’s not Scottish or worse, like being Welsh, and has a degree gained at Oxford.

However, it’s still rude not to get back to to Slappy when you have a number of clerical serfs to waft away any tricky questions with a bland cut and paste reply, so that suggests her team of people are either not very organised (and I bet most of them are men) or she has too much ironing to do.

Steady....

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Moving on, I wonder how many people (other than Roley Wells and his bro') would go to somewhere like Dundee and back on a Tuesday night in January for an away leg of the ‘British Cup’?

[Hog]

British Cup? No, no and thrice No!

[womble]

bring back the anglo-scottish cup

[slappy]

Good point - the female is entirely unnecessary, just as it would be unnecessary to say 'the newly appointed black director' or 'the newly appointed disabled director'. Unless you were implying that a woman might have a different approach?

Indeed, it also makes it seem as if it were a novelty, or that the person in question being female might have had a baring on the fact no reply was received.

It would be okay, however to say &quotthe newly appointed director, from s*****n, never replied...&quot as this would infer they had a reason to have prejudice against Oxford fan as they may be an STFC fan.

When I looked up who to write to as BBC head of sport, the media article writing up her recent appointment said that she was the first ever female to have that role. Obivously the gender was completely irrelevant to my post, but I was disappointed not even to get a reply. The BBC had that season paid something like £100MM over three years to show a few Carling Cup games and a couple of Championship games. For a fraction of that cost they could have taken over the Setanta games in the BSP, and made a real financial difference to the clubs in that league. Obviously there is a cost in doing the outside broadcasts and paying camera crews and presenters, but when you see the number of staff they fly out to cover Beijing Olympics, or Glastonbury, it seems to me the BBC are out of touch with modern economics.

[Snake]

bring back the anglo-scottish cup

Or the Texaco Cup, or even better the Watney Cup when I witnessed my team (at the time) lose at home to West Bromwich Albion a very long time ago. Luton (good luck in the Division V play-offs – not) also qualified for the Watney Cup, but lost in the first round, like Wrexham. Ditto for Manchester United who got stuffed by Halifax Town despite trotting out their first team for this semi-prestigious end of season tournament.

How times have changed...

[Myles Francis]

I liked Danny Baker's response on Twitter to the news of a link between the SPL and English premier league: he's going to contact Paul McCartney and suggest they record an album of duets.

[Snake]

Indeed. And now the Irish and Scots (and representatives from about other 90 countries) are complaining about the people who run the cricket World Cup, and in partic who is allowed to enter in future. These Nations have a case ÔÇô itÔÇÖs like the FA Cup being restricted to the top ten finishers in the Prem.