Burn_Broomfield

Sponsorship fees don't change match by match.

Currently with the 12-team SPL there are 38 match-days on each of which there are 6 matches played. This gives a total of 228 games. Or 228 opportunities for the league sponsors, advertisers, etc to get their brand across. A 16-team SPL (basic home and away format without play-offs) will have 30 match-days where 8 games will be played, giving a total of 240 games. A 10-team SPL (again, simple format, everyone plays each other 4 times) will have 36 match-days of 5 games each, giving a total of 180 games. Are they seriously saying sponsors will pay more money for fewer games? ie. considerably fewer chances for their logos to be seen, which is after all what sponsors are paying for. Neil Doncaster said it would cost each club £1m for a 16-team league, but if I was Clydesdale Bank I'd be telling the SPL that if you're playing 21% fewer games a season (48 less than currently), you're getting your sponsorship money cut by 21% because my brand won't be seen as often. Will Sky make up the difference? I'm clearly missing something

Season ticket money has been put in, plus a flights over for some games this season, a lot more effort than I could be fucked with if I stayed in Cyprus. How many have you been at? None?

He has put his money where his mouth is over the years, only one other person has done the same. If they want to boast about it, then they are well entitled to do so.

Don't mind Inter, fuck Milan. Forza Lazio, AS Roma Merda Lo Scudetto is ours, non mollare mai.

As long as folk keep biting, I'm sure he will.

I would say 3000 is very optimistic to say the least. If and when they hammer the final nail in, you will be lucky to see 1500 at Fir Park for a League match and even that I fear, is again optimistic. If the Club wants us to keep forking out, how about offering us a Season ticket for all non-OF league games for say £120. If people then want to go to the "OF Glamour games" that our wee diddy club so desires, then everyone will rush to the gate and pay the £20 odd entrance fee for the privilege surely?

Well fan on Real Radio phone in making some good points...

What was going on at this meeting? Geoff Brown's belt undone and his trousers loose, heavy anal? The snapper's reaction to looking at his erse leads me to this conclusion.

GAME OVER!!! Stand there looking pleased with yourself all you like Brown, you'll have the blood of Scottish Football on your hands you short sighted mug. Spineless bastards the lot of them that have taken part in these talks. 10 teams, no fans, no new TV deal, no change = no future.

True fan. Don't start wearing colours though or you'll look like a Christmas tree.

I would imagine it would be well outwith the reach of the trust. There is going to be some serious repairs needing done to the East, including the replacement of the old cast iron pipework, upgrading of the pipework and drainage framework in and around the stand. I would envisage that, while factoring in the repair work carried out already and the work still to be done to the POD, that it will cost Stuart McCall at the very minimum one player, though more likely two or three. That all depends on what Motherwell do. Will they go for the cheap option which will cost substantially more in the long run to just keep patching up areas for others to fail and end up patching up patch ups every year or actually invest a bit to try and rectify probem areas to stop it happening? Let's not forget there is still the ever more difficult safety cert to get too.

Hopefully with a full week to work with the squad, McCall can send out a team to do the business. Some players need an arm round them, some need a kick up the arse and some need dropped, hopefully he gets all of this in place by Sunday.

The initial point of the thread was to highlight his downright amateurish distribution of a football, a point which the vast majority seem to have side stepped. Yesterday and for the vast majority of this season, Craigan has consistantly found touch or given it straight back to the opposition when aiming hopeless punts up the park. My main gripe with it is that there is no excuse for it. A professional player, let alone one with 15 years experience, Club Captain and 50 caps, should never be persisting with these type of terrible and counter-productive passes, yet he is continually allowed to get away with it. If one of the boys in our amateur team passed the way Craigan does every week, he would get crucified.

Craigan Jesus H Christ!!!! At a push, Humphrey or big Sutty BANG after his cameo.

By fuck did Gannon have Craggs sussed. Before anyone gives me the NI story, if a pro footballer is incapable of playing a legible pass then by fuck serious questions must be asked? Leaving out him being out of position a good % of the time, his distribution of a football is amongst the worst I have ever seen from a pro footballer. On a side note: Canning is actually the worst player I have ever seen, decent junior teams would tell him to gtf, no player should ever be a pro with a touch like his.

TBF, come across well and talks a good game. Here's hoping...

One thing about McCall is that he's a good Leeds man...

Professional Mourners.... Always have been.

*Confirmed* McCall in.

Disaster...

The idea is a good one, unfortunately big teams are generally not interested in Scottish players or the whole youth system we have. What could we seriously offer a Sporting Lisbon, Bayern Munich, Valencia, Marseilles or Juventus? These teams and most other teams in Europe have strategic feeder teams already in place in countries where better players come from and where they may be able to send their players to improve. Scotland is not a place that would rank high on a list of potential locations for feeder clubs I would imagine.

Thoughts go out to the family at this difficult time. RIP.