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[cooper_no1]

Football is to expensive, noone can really argue with that. Going to watch Motherwell week in week out does not really provide 'entertainment' - if it's in your blood,then the excitment and the passion is there and will make the game interesting but for someone watching with an objective view hoping to see some excitment it would be fairly dull,and a grand waste of cash.

 

Obviously this counts for...all SPL teams,Rangers and Celtic included. Out of a full SPL weekend card you mayby get one game that has good entertainment,the rest is rather dull.

 

This is also the same in other countries,many La Liga games,Bundesliga...PLENTY Seria A games and a good scoop of Premiership games are the same. We pay over the odds for a substandard product week in week out as football fans around the world.

 

The problem is playing within your means obviously, the money available through sponsorship and TV revenue is miniscule in this country while the salary demands of the players are still handsome in comparison. Players who are not...really that good,and are lucky to be enjoying even a reasonable living from the game.

 

Comparing Germany to Scotland,or Spain To Scotland or anywhere like that is silly because they have far greater populations of people who will go to watch the game,or watch on TV or be influenced by sponsorship.

 

We live in a small country as everyone knows, football is a popular game within the country - but the amount of people paying for the product by either attending games, watching on TV or being influenced by sponsor is so very small compared to these nations we are always going to be an afterthot financially and i am surprised we have lasted as long as we have with so many full time clubs. Rangers and Celtic have large enough fanbases to hold their own with many medium sized teams from the continent but everyone else is realistically small enough for part time football in the current climate. Football on a whole might even benefit from this - but it will never happen with the tradition and history of the clubs we have,something that can never be forgotton either.

 

Realistically if you were starting football all over again and making clubs bigger you would have to begin with one dundee team,one lanarkshire club, one central club blah blah but that's a pointless and endless argument not worth having.

 

Football is in decline in this country - it may appear to prosper in many other countries but i feel there is a bubble about to burst in the football world within the next 5-10 years that will see the whole game changed on a worldwide basis - especially when a country like the USA starts to become a bigger and bigger influence on the game. They don't have a perfect structure in place but they do have a far superious business model for their game and it may be worth taking note of this business model before the gap between clubs gets so large that half of them will be washed to the wayside forever.

[steelboy]

Rangers and Celtic have large enough fanbases to hold their own with many medium sized teams from the continent but everyone else is realistically small enough for part time football in the current climate.

 

utter nonsense.

[Ya Bezzer!]

Admission is too high in this country, full fucking stop

 

You won't find me arguing with that, however at the same time clubs have very little scope for reducing prices.

 

We are struggling to survive and so are most of the other clubs in the SPL.

 

There is no cash scam where clubs are posting huge profits and fleecing the fans. We simply couldn't sustain a decrease in income of 20% when we are already near to the bare bone.

 

I'm afraid I'm pretty bleak about the future of Scottish football. Will be watching professional football in Motherwell in 2020 or 2030? I'm not so sure.

[mjw]

There semed to be a change in attitude to standing in the eat stand today (although the stewards seem to have a fetish for confiscating flags) also John Boyle was doing a walk round the east stand during the second half,maybe having a look at how the other half live.

[gordy]

There semed to be a change in attitude to standing in the eat stand today (although the stewards seem to have a fetish for confiscating flags) also John Boyle was doing a walk round the east stand during the second half,maybe having a look at how the other half live.

 

 

He was in the Cooper stand in the first half, I wonder if he got a pie?