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  1. 15 hours ago, tamthebam said:

    As an Edinburgh City fan I think our board voiced their disappointment at the play offs not going ahead 

    We were still due to play Cove but it was unlikely we would have caught them so I had no problems with them being declared champions.

    The play offs raise an interesting point though- City, Cowden and Stirling, Elgin or Queens Park would have been involved. Our record against the others in the League was not so convincing that I wouldn't have ever said we were favourites. Indeed I think QP were in great form at the time of shutdown and I might have backed them to go up. So it can be argued that by not having play-offs more than 1 club was denied their possiblity of promotion.

    This is my point also, especially with the way Tom English spouts forth. Everytime he(or others to be fair) brings up Kelty and Brora being denied promotion. They weren't/haven't been, they've been denied a play off to have a play off see if they can win a promotion. As have...

    ICT

    Ayr United

    Dundee

    Arbroath (possibly)

    Dunfermline (possibly)*

    Morton (ossibly)*

    Falkirk

    Airdrie

    Montrose

    East Fife

    Edinburgh City

    Elgin

    Cowdenbeath

    Queens Park

    Many voted to give this up for what they felt was for the best for Scottish Football, not just "f**k Hearts and Partick!" (Stranraer were 9pts adrift).  Them you have English telling Cowdenbeath's Donald Findlay, when this was pointed out, "were you really?" & Telling him your form wasn't good enough. They were in 4th place, a play off place. They had more chance of a playoff than Hearts of avoiding relegation.

    Then there is the lack of relegation for Brechin. I think they mean Brechin avoid a playoff to see if they stay up or go down. Exactly the same as

    Hamilton

    Ross County

    St. Mirren

    QoS

    Alloa

    Forfar

    Peterhead

    Who were all in playoff place or could easily have ended up in it. But, but Brechin

    "Tainted titles", shouldn't get promotion because season never finished, so how does that square with Kelty Hearts? 5 games to go 6 pts clear of Bonnyrigg Rose who had a game in hand. Yet they should be promoted??

     

    There are always going to be winners & losers, it is unavoidable. But there is some amount of truth bending, facts being ignored and similar situations airbrushed if they don't fit the point. In short there is some amount of absolute bollocks talked from press, fans, clubs etc. You can't focus on one "escape"/"wrong doing" while ignoring the rest.

    * Added thanks to DeeTillEhDeh reminding me that they were only 3 & 4 pts off play off place respectfully.

  2. 22 minutes ago, DAVIDB69 said:

    Everything that happened before could see a court case though , the Dundee vote nonsense , the suspicious letter to UEFA before any vote. As a United fan I was never celebrating till we had fixtures , as I knew this would come back at some point . There is little chance of the season starting 1st August

     

    Why? What exactly was wrong with the Dundee vote? As per SPFL rules only Yes votes count. If Dundee's vote was yes then it would have stood. As the clubs had 28 days to vote and the 7 days was a request but not enforceable, again as per SPFL rules it was allowed. The issue with it not being received in time is not untoward. Having worked in ICT for over 20 years including with these types of mail systems, this happens all the time and is not unheard of or unbelievable.

  3. 23 minutes ago, MegaRichJambos said:

    Hard too see Doncaster keeping his job after this. Let hope this is the start of a change in how our league is run.

    Well done Ann Budge! 

    She's made some mistakes with the team but our club is in safe hands.

     

     

    Always amazed.by this argument. Doncaster is the head of the SPFL. The SPFL is the clubs, and only carries out the will of the clubs & takes the shit so they don't have to.

    I'm not saying he's great or doing a brilliant job, but he is not doing anything other than the clubs wishes.

    Is the club I'm safe hands? Genuine question, what happened with the stand? Was that not her and it was over budget,no seats and some "strange" stairwells etc? The budget seems to be blown on a bloated, lesser than the sum of their parts squad.

  4. 1 hour ago, Mr. X said:

    I wasn't talking about Hamilton or St. Mirren, they had decent form. 

    Ross County had worse form than Hearts since the turn of the year with no indication that it was going to improve. Tight-mouth McGregor had the audacity to say Hearts should take their medicine. :lol:

    Bollocks!

    From January to the season's "end", Hearts won 9 points, Ross County 8pts.

    I'm not sure, but to me it looks pretty even, just the 1 point in it. I could list the dates and results if you'd like.

  5. 24 minutes ago, captainkev said:

    At this point English will probably try to claim he doesn't understand why United, Raith and Cove can't just be content with being acknowledged as league winners without promotions.

    That each club's entirely unreasonable expectation of promotion for being declared winners of their respective lower league - after 80% of games played - displays an unforgivable lack of sympathy towards Hearts and Thistle's predicament.

    No doubt Brechin's potential involvement will also need to be scrutinized.

    I could quite believe him going down that route. If he does how will he square that with his championing of Kelty & Brora who in Kelty's case 6pts ahead of 2ñd who had a game in hand & 5 games still to go?

     

  6. 3 minutes ago, MegaRichJambos said:

    Might want to do a bit of research regarding payments due to Sky, BT, BBC and other foreign tv networks.

    Looking like Sky will sponsor the league , at no cost to themselves.

    Brilliant, eh

     

    If the league goes ahead and games are being played that can be broadcast, why would they need refunded, when they are getting what they paid for?

    Since you have answers, then you'll be able to list them and the facts to back them up.

    This is the refunds you are referring to are what you claim is due to these companies if Hearts win the case.

  7. 13 minutes ago, MegaRichJambos said:

    Big thanks to Dundee Utd, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers for guaranteeing a 14 team Premier League next season.

    Hearts are staying up folks. 

    Must be a relief to all the clubs that would have paid the damages. 

    I guess the £6/7 million pound tv company refund will hurt some of the smaller clubs though.

    What a shame. I hope they survive.

     

    Point 1 how? All they have done is, as anyone served notice, is engage lawyers. If it gets thrown out it.stays as it is.

     

    Point 2 what refund? Sky have contract from this season, you win and it's 14 top league the season still goes ahead with (as long as both are in top 6) 4 OF* games. So why would they need refunded, nevermind roughy 20-25% of one season costs?

  8. 2 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

    No matter what system they came up with for deciding final placings Hearts would still be bottom - you can't get away from the fact that they were pish for the best part of the season.

     

    No solution was ever going to be fair - all we hear is how hard done Hearts are - what about those teams who've been denied the opportunity to get promotion through the play-offs? They haven't really complained (bar Falkirk).

     

    Exactly ICT (Spoofer did bump his gums originally) yourselves, Ayr and Arbroath, Falkirk, East Fife,.Airdrie, Montrose, Edinburgh City, Elgin, Cowdenbeath (possibly Stirling Albion)  all lost out on promotion playoffs, many voted to do so as in their opinion it was best for Scottish football.

    This was pointed out to Tom English by Donald Findlay where English told him their form wasn't good enough (words to that effect), they were in play off place.

    All that could be done was find the least, worst option. Loads of clubs affected.

  9. 9 minutes ago, DAVIDB69 said:

     


    Or even got a chance to put that to the test for probably about four weeks twice weekly from about now. I say that as a Dundee United fan.

     

    Don't believe that was possible. UEFA have said Leagues have to be finished by August. Consider the Scottish Government haven't said we can play yet, many clubs wouldn't have survived without the payments I would ask for genuine proposals for how this would have happened?

  10. 1 hour ago, Pet Jeden said:

    Both cases are/would be against the SPFL.

    Of course, DU/RR/Cove will also be getting a warning from the SFA of the severe consequences of legally challenging the SPFL. Aye, right.

    No they aren't DU/RR/Cove is purely in defense of the notice served on them. Why would they receive a warning when they haven't raised any action against the SPFL?

     

  11. 36 minutes ago, johnnydun said:

    Although the banter would be overwhelming, it would be completely wrong (can't believe I am saying this) to take the DAB's promotion away from them now.

    A further reason for me to find Hearts a horrible club, just look at what they have made me have, sympathy towards the Arabs! Utter c***s!

    We know you'd see the light at some stage. 😂

     

    Don't worry, no one from here will tell anyone else😉

  12. Finally got round to listening to Monday's podcast. Having found myself getting increasingly annoyed at Tom English and having read the previous comments on Monday's podcast I approached it with some trepidation. Holy shit, he has lost the plot.  That was a dreadful piece by a publicly funded broadcaster. I could have understood that from a fan podcast, or some sort of commercial broadcaster looking for comments leading to a bigger audience for advertisers.

    "Is it fair? Is it fair?" Put a sock in it. No this whole situation is not fair. There is always winners and losers, that's sport. You can not make everyone happy, what you do is get the least worst plan and see it through.  The ending of the leagues was made by a vote of clubs (irrespective of the voting structure it was over 80% in favour, that's a landslide). Reconstruction has been voted down 2 or 3 times is it? The last by near enough ⅔ against, elections the world over are won on less votes.

    Donald Findlay was pretty much spot on, clubs have voted to end the season knowing they will lose out on playoff places, league placing a and all the financial hit that will entail. Kelty & Brora have not lost out on a place in the league, but on a place in a playoff to then face another playoff to see if they get promoted. All play offs in all leagues have been binned in exactly the same manner, where is your indignation Tom?

    The Ross County free fall comments are laughable last 16 games RC 15pts Hearts 11pts (13 games in his written article as he knew the 16 was bollocks, RC 9pts and Hearts 10pts). 

    Now I have no issues with folk who have a different point of view on the situation, but his myopic tunnel vision  where he fails to acknowledge facts because they don't fit his agenda is wrong. What was the point  of Kenny McIntyre? He is supposed to "chair" the podcast to allow a fair and balanced debate, safe to say he completely failed in that.

    It is doing its job though, we are all talking about it and listening to it, so have we created the monster?

  13. 25 minutes ago, NorthBank said:

    Charlie Mulgrew (Dundee Utd) 

    Can't be bothered checking the ****' players but I doubt if the list is longer than Celtics. So diddy Clubs can develop as many players that go on to be internationalists after being signed up by the OF, than the OF produce themselves. The OF rarely develop players - they buy them.

    Not that I want to give them credit, but Mulgrew came through the ranks at Celtic. He was loaned to United as part of the deal to take Mark Wilson to Celtic.

    The rest of your point stands though and totally agree.

  14. 19 hours ago, Stellaboz said:

    The ease of the lockdown here begun properly on Monday here across the country. Still slightly different rules across all the states I believe but in general. Here's the graph of new cases: image.png.2113420de783c9cdc5fd885bc426aeec.pngAs you can see, there's a declining pattern on average and has been since near the end of March. Also bear in mind that from Monday although restaurants have been allowed to open, many haven't. If you look at all the other major European countries such as France, Spain and Italy, they all have a similar pattern of declining new cases since roughly the same time. 

    Now go look at the UK and the USA...pretty much steady along the same period of time and certainly much higher than Germany. 

     

    19 hours ago, Stellaboz said:

    The ease of the lockdown here begun properly on Monday here across the country. Still slightly different rules across all the states I believe but in general. Here's the graph of new cases: image.png.2113420de783c9cdc5fd885bc426aeec.pngAs you can see, there's a declining pattern on average and has been since near the end of March. Also bear in mind that from Monday although restaurants have been allowed to open, many haven't. If you look at all the other major European countries such as France, Spain and Italy, they all have a similar pattern of declining new cases since roughly the same time. 

    Now go look at the UK and the USA...pretty much steady along the same period of time and certainly much higher than Germany. 

    As I said no one is disputing the over all trend of Germany compared to UK, USA or any other country. That is not in dispute not what was said. Quoted you so that your graph is included

    18 hours ago, Stellaboz said:

    Tuesday 12th May: 933

    Monday 11th May: 357

    Figures taken from rki.de 

    Are you mixing up your numbers, or making this up? 

     

    Yes mixing up figures, my German is poor & was trying to get figures during a quick break. Realised after I'd posted but didn't have time to come back and correct so have to take the flack for that.

    Whether the slaughterhouse cases and/or care home cases are skewing the figures there had been a rise from Sunday to Wednesday with a small number of areas stopping the lifting of restrictions. The R rate as supplied by RKI is above 1, but they believe that as long as its not breaching 1.2 they are OK.

    The original comment was not saying there is massive rises, nor was it saying its worse than UK. It was to do with restarting football. As Germany has lifted, there has been a rise in numbers of new cases, in some cases this is to be expected, as people mingle more etc. Whether this is enough of a trend or whether it was a 3 day blip it was difficult to say as of yesterday. As todays figures show a drop in new cases again.

    I have included screenshots of your supplied graph to show falling new cases, and note the graphs trend showing an upward slant (increasing new cases). which is what I said originally and ties in with the "slaughterhouse and care home cases. Today's shows a not continuing trend and this rise may have been due to these and other "one offs" and not continuation, but the rise (small as it turns out) was inline timewise with the lifting.

     

    Anyway this has f**k all to do with Sportsound

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  15. 18 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:

    The ease of the lockdown here begun properly on Monday here across the country. Still slightly different rules across all the states I believe but in general. Here's the graph of new cases: image.png.2113420de783c9cdc5fd885bc426aeec.pngAs you can see, there's a declining pattern on average and has been since near the end of March. Also bear in mind that from Monday although restaurants have been allowed to open, many haven't. If you look at all the other major European countries such as France, Spain and Italy, they all have a similar pattern of declining new cases since roughly the same time. 

    Now go look at the UK and the USA...pretty much steady along the same period of time and certainly much higher than Germany. 

    Not denying that. But they have had an increase of since Tuesday of approx 7500 cases ( just 2 days and not allnof Wedn as today hasn't finished). 3 areas have breached the limits set. They are in a good position, but the other benefit they have is they,  as a generalisation, have a population less likely to go "f**k you, I'm going out anyway"  unlike here.

    The other half's grandparents were from Germany & she still has relatives over there. So we're in contact with them. Had been looking to.go back over again this year, but situation has over taken us. Still hopeful of getting over later to see 1 FC Lok kick off new season (hopefully) in Bundesliga 3.

  16. 3 minutes ago, Stellaboz said:

    Still can't show me where German cases have gone up since the ease of the lockdown here? 

    Apologies for being slow of the mark with this, for.me the lockdown has made no difference, in work everyday, so not really had the time during the day to go through everything and respond immediately.

     

    Key work and all that!

  17. 1 hour ago, Stellaboz said:

    Care to show me where you get your figures of rising number of cases in Germany? 

    Here is a graph from Bloomberg showing data from Johns Hopkins...

    and an excerpt from the daily report by Germany's Robert Koch institute. 

    https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Gesamt.html

    Cases up 4288 on Wednesday Tuesday it was up 3252 cases.  Three municipalities inSchleswig-Holstein, Thuringia, and North-Rhine Westphalia, reported increases past the threshold that would allow lifting of restrictions to be suspended.

    That's from German media & 2 scientific institutions, but of course everything is "British media" bullshit isn't it?

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  18. 42 minutes ago, bennett said:

     

    Imagine someone not liking one of your excellent posts, that's outrageous

     

    No issue with that. Always been of the opinion if you have different opinion state it, debate it, you know like an adult. I'll like somemething I agree with, if i don't agree, I'll state my case.

    Does that answer your facetious remark?

  19. 10 minutes ago, kingjoey said:

    I've just listened to Monday's Sportsound. Both Stewart Regan and Charlie Adam still insisting that the Premiership has to be played to a finish. Charlie Adam says that we should wait to see what England do. Regan says that Germany and England are going to finish their leagues so why can't we. Just a pair of havering half wits when it comes to football. 

    That will be Germany that's finding a rise in infections since they eased their restrictions and a number of positive cases in teams.

    The league has been called (champ down) & permission gained to call Prem. It isnthte correct decision. Allows everyone to prepare for next season, whenever that maybe. 

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