jagsfan57

How much does it cost to install. For most clubs it is installed for more than 19 games. Did the premiership clubs get a one off charge ?

No, I am trying to understand what we are actually paying for. Nobody seems to know. I have already said that I don’t think it is reasonable for the SPFL to charge for it without an additional allowance in the “off the top” cut of the playoff game to cover this additional cost.

He didn’t say £1.2M was installation costs. He said it was the annual cost.

So it costs the premiership clubs £1.2M per year for 228 games in a league season. That’s just over £5000 per game on average.But the championship club has to pay double ?

A five figure sum is a very wide band. Not significant is less than five figures ?

And one of the nominations for championship player of the year.

Irrespective of whether the clubs voted for it or not, asking them to pay for it for one game, without adjusting the off the top cut to cover costs of hosting the game is unreasonable.

The Premiership clubs were paying for it for more than one game and in most cases more than one season. Do you think that justifies asking another club that isn’t in the premiership to pay for it for what could and did turn out to be one game ?

What’s the justification for paying for VAR

Is he not asking about the justification for paying for VAR for 1 game.

Although I wouldn’t put it past them, surely the SPFL are not charging the championship club for the installation of VAR for one game. If we haven’t banked close to £50K for the playoffs, there’s something wrong.

I think when we played QP on the 2nd Jan, that was the 8th time in a year and a day - not quite all in the one season.

I think we must have made something from the playoffs last year. We had close to 20,000 people at Firhill over the 3 games

I am sure if you thought hard enough about it you would figure it out.

Presumably, you would still have to pay for a neutral venue.

I didn’t say that. Like everything to do with football this will be down to money. In Scottish football, the first failing is with Doncaster and Maxwell not being able to negotiate good enough TV and Sponsorship deals.

You are of course ignoring the fact that the Lowland League and the Highland League aren’t part of the SPFL.

There was a discussion about this last year. If I remember right. The home team gets 15% off the top and the remaining 85% is split equally between the home team and the SPFL. So, 57.5% to the home team and 42.5% to the SPFL.

To where ?

Only in the final

I think understandably other clubs fans don’t remember that we got into the playoffs on goal difference only last season. We only won one of our last 4 games. The momentum only built in the playoffs.

As I said, it was just a thought.

I imagine that Ross County had a larger squad than us, which probably would have had an impact on fitness.

Whether we like the playoffs or not, it does cut out a lot of meaningless games. Take our game yesterday, neither of us were in the playoffs there wouldn’t have been nearly 4,000 at the game. The playoff gave it that wee bit extra edge.

It’s a tough call. He won’t want to give up the winning run at Firhill before the playoffs start. Like last season, we were unbeaten in 5 at Firhill going into the playoffs. It might be an opportunity to give O’Reilly some more time. Having got the defence and attack working together for the first time this quarter, we should give it another shot without messing with it too much.