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2 hours ago, Karpaty Lviv said:
No. Season tickets are basically a prepaid card (can be topped up) and you can use it for tickets/streams, things out the club shop etc.
It is designed to be flexible as we knew there wouldn’t be a “normal” season in terms of season tickets.
So to answer your question, season ticket holders will be charged £10 from the £250 season card they have already bought.
So either you're hoping for 25 home games or it's a donation.
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1 hour ago, oneteaminglasgow said:
Apart from 5 minutes when the stream went down, it’s working much better today. Still not the easiest to tell who’s who, but it hasn’t abandoned an attack to show Jamie Sneddon wandering about so that’s something.
Glass and Graham both look good.
It did follow some pigeons though!
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3 minutes ago, knighthawk said:
I’ll say it again.
The people running the club are disgraceful. The incompetence of Gerry and Co is almost on par with the current UK government during COVID-19 pandemic.
You would think Gerry with all his legal knowledge would have had an input and guided the decision making to best serve the needs of the club.
the blind are certainly leading the blind.
And a lot of the people who were most critical of that leadership are now their cheer-leaders!
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Just popped in from the seaside league to enjoy a bit of schadenfreude at the expense of all you smug Dundee fans who were so sure that you were financially sound due to having such a wonderful insurance policy!
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47 minutes ago, rb123! said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52881608
Positive discussions have taken place between SPFL and potential investor
but what does this mean?
develop a concrete proposal which could make a significant difference to our 42 clubs."
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8 minutes ago, true_rover said:26 minutes ago, ScottyG said:I just hope that the SPFL board don't act like many of the posters on here and just ignore this (perhaps) opportunity. One of the things Budge was complaining about was the lack of interest from anyone at the SPFL. Surely someone, (maybe a highly paid chief exec) should have been jumping all over this and not telling her to get on with it and present a paper? Ann Budge made it plain that her interests lie in protecting Hearts and that's where she wanted to direct her energies. Ok, there is a chance that this is pie in the sky and will come to nothing but surely Scottish football can't take that chance?
If it's as simple as Ann Budge is suggesting, then it would take half an hour to knock up a proposal paper detailing where the money comes from, the purpose of it and any conditions.
But it's not up to her to decide the details, purpose or any conditions, so why should she? If the SPFL don't want it the they should just say so!
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I just hope that the SPFL board don't act like many of the posters on here and just ignore this (perhaps) opportunity. One of the things Budge was complaining about was the lack of interest from anyone at the SPFL. Surely someone, (maybe a highly paid chief exec) should have been jumping all over this and not telling her to get on with it and present a paper? Ann Budge made it plain that her interests lie in protecting Hearts and that's where she wanted to direct her energies. Ok, there is a chance that this is pie in the sky and will come to nothing but surely Scottish football can't take that chance?
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Meanwhile we all, like lemmings, head straight for the cliff edge!
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8 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:
You can make it up because that's exactly what Ann Budge has done
Purposefully misconstruing things there. The SPFL released a statement saying that at no point was it made explicit any cash offers were unconditional.
She said they have donated millions to Hearts.
Can you give us a link to the statement? thanks
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3 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Yet shes decided to offer it out, through her, just days before the reconstruction vote.
It's made clear theres time limit on the offer of the money, and that it hinges entirely on her doing the deal.
Where the f**k did you get that from?
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The idea of hubs is just another straw that folk are clutching at. Has anyone considered what would be needed to allow social distancing at most football grounds?
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1 hour ago, WATTOO said:
SKY have actually very little in the way of football rights and their offering is in fact poor with dross like the MLS taking up their weekend prime time spots.
German and French Football rights are held by BT as are the European Football rights.
Spanish, Italian & Portuguese rights are held by PREMIER.
Sky's contempt for it's viewers is now pushing more and more people towards IPTV and who can blame them.
Except the SPFL have signed a 5 year deal with Sky and we're in Scotland talking about Scottish football.
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1 minute ago, RandomGuy. said:
Well BT are showing games today so Sky wont be the only channel showing games.
Championship clubs have live streamed their matches all season without Sky bothering, so I doubt they would suddenly begin to care now.
Same reason Sky couldnt broadcast games at 3 on a Saturday...
Which championship clubs have done this for UK viewers? If there are no games with spectators then that reason for Sky not to broadcast at that time will no longer be there and if Sky are allowed to broadcast then I'm sure they will try their damnest to tie the SPFL down to exclusivity.
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Why were clubs not allowed to stream live games to UK subscribers in seasons past?
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1 minute ago, RandomGuy. said:
Sky dont do PPV for football, so surely theyll only be bothered if they think subscribers are going to dump their Sky subscription for Scottish Championship games?
1 minute ago, RandomGuy. said:Sky dont do PPV for football, so surely theyll only be bothered if they think subscribers are going to dump their Sky subscription for Scottish Championship games?
So you don't think that if the only football available is on Sky TV they won't be trying to sell as many subscriptions as possible? You sound as though you think Sky and the other media organisations have a benevelent side.
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3 minutes ago, craigkillie said:
I suspect Sky Sports will not be in the tiniest bit bothered if Queen of the South v Alloa is streamed live.No? I'm sure their business model will be to maximise the paying viewers they get.
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18 minutes ago, virginton said:
Well no because we simply don't know what the critical numbers are here at all. Firstly, we don't know the extent of a probable government support package. It's only their shan social distancing requirement that is causing the problem in the first place so it is incumbent on them to at least partly pick up the tab: for professional football as much as every other affected leisure industry going into 20/21. Which is incentivised by the fact that there is also an election in Scotland scheduled for twelve months' time. Today's tabloids also suggest that the SFA might be prepared to back the scheme by taking out a commercial loan; we also don't know the level of additional funds that could be released at FIFA or UEFA level. So you're 'solving' an equation right now despite not knowing several of the most important inputs to make this scheme viable: I don't think any executive thinks that the SPFL clubs can do this scheme off their own backs alone.
All of these buts, what ifs and howls of protest surrounding these schemes simply underline the fact that the most practical solution is to ditch social distancing in favour of a better alternative such as obligatory mask use. Which the English government is already finding out right now as it tries and fails to reopen schools, so we shouldn't be surprised at all if the government backtracks on this between now and the autumn.
Well actually we do know what the government support packages are because they've been available for businesses to apply for some weeks now. You may think that the social distancing strategy is a sham (I'm assuming that shan is a mis-type) so good luck convincing the rest of the country, government ministers and medical experts of that. Face masks have not been enforced as yet purley because the experts are worried that it will encourage people to relax on social distancing. Don't know what "executives" your talking about but are any of them interested in football below the top flight with an interest to TV companies?
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15 hours ago, craigkillie said:
I think this is going to have to be considered if we genuinely can't get playing in front of fans by September/October sort of time. The key will be making the format interesting enough that fans watching at home will care about it, even if it's not a "proper" league.
The big issue here is the new TV deal with Sky. It's allegedly worth something like £160m over the next 5 years, so the SPFL will understandably be hoping not to jeopardise that. This might push them towards the idea of running at a loss playing behind closed doors in the Premiership for a few months in order to meet their contractual obligations, rather than scrapping next season entirely and then having to scramble around for a new deal (no doubt for much less money) for the 2021/22 campaign onwards
The agreement the SPFL has with Sky will have a huge bearing on whether clubs outwith the premiership will even be allowed to stream games never mind the affordability.
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3 hours ago, SpoonTon said:
If there is no football until August 2021 at our level, how will there be any clubs left to resume playing? You'd need some sort of government bailout to prop clubs up for a year.
Society will need to live with test, trace, isolate for the foreseeable future, and football will need to do the same. If football cannot be played until August 2021, then I'm going to be home-schooling until August 2021 as well.
As government don't have any money apart from that which is raised from tax-payers then if football got this money they'd have to bail out every other sport too.
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7 hours ago, Rudolph Hucker said:
^^^ big team found.
Which one is that? Managed to post before explaining the final sentance was firmly toungue in cheek!
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3 minutes ago, Speroni*1 said:
I totally agree - he's as inept as they come and yet he still ran rings around Richard Gordon and Tom English' exclusives.
Neither of them had the balls to treat him the way true journalists should. Thoiugh they are working for the BBC who never question anyone in power.
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10 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:
Does anyone know when this reconstruction discussion is going to be wrapped up/voted on?
Hopefully not too soon. If anyone thinks there is going to be professional football played in front of fans this year then they're kidding themselves. And as for closed door games, the EPL are having doubts about the affordability.
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12 minutes ago, weetoonlad said:
Go and read the BBC sport Scotland and see what the advance was for
The advance is just another red herring as is the issue of loans.
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8 minutes ago, weetoonlad said:
I didn't hear the interview but the BBC football website are saying the above
Doncaster continually deflected the conversation back on to loans. Michael Stewart pointed that out but still couldn't be critical of Doncaster's attitude which was basically "I've gone my way and no one should criticise it."
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The Partick Thistle thread
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