Obviously the whole Livingston bond stuff has been covered in a previous post and Gretna were stuck straight down as everyone already knew they were going to be liquidated, but with the punishments being at the total discretion of the board at the time, rather than the set in stone 15 points then 5 we have now, I reckon the SFL board had effectively decided that for a second offence they wanted relegation to be the punishment. With Dundee going into administration mid-season contriving a way to relegate them on the spot would have wreaked too much havoc, so a 25 point deduction was supposed to ensure it instead. They ruined it by going 23 games unbeaten and staying up by 9 points. It's possible that the media are just seeing last resort contingency plans that aren't going to come to fruition, it's possible that ICT are just shambolically adding to the wage bill despite not being able to afford the existing one. A not completely implausible alternative scenario is that they're looking to get relatively cheap loans in now while the window is still open, so that when higher earners leave following the announcement of administration they can put a more credible team out with a few loanees than if they were left with Cameron Ferguson. Obviously in that scenario when they come out of administration football debts will need to be paid in full as a condition of the licence, but in the meantime you'd expect it'd be much easier to keep up with whatever they're paying Dundee for Reilly's wage than continuing to scramble enough together to pay the likes of McKay and Devine every month.

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Well we have previous of skewing our stadium to make the most of the sectarian pound. The question is finding the Goldilocks seating capacity where you can take advantage of that income (which is pretty much unique to our league and maybe Spain), don’t alienate your own fans, keep the atmosphere robust against the other league teams and the build cost. It’s quite a balancing act. There’s pro’s and con’s on both sides of the debate and as long as you go into it knowing you’re not going to get universal support from the entire fan base, we’ll that’s ok too. I’ll post the document when I get home. I also feel I’ll have to add a number of caveats before folk start pulling it apart or knee jerk their responses.

As I said the other day, not really a massive loss as he’s ultimately not good enough to be much more than backup where we are, and certainly not good enough for where we want to be, but a shame to see Wasiri go. He really does seem like a fantastic guy - that podcast he did with Brian Welsh was a tough listen in places but he came across brilliantly - and I sincerely hope that it works out for him whatever’s next. I can see him having a long career playing in the Conference down south, and good luck to him.