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5 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:

Explain your final point for me please.  

How can promotion on such a basis be "justified", when relegation can't?

Promoting teams does not cause sporting disadvantage to anyone.

Relegating teams does.

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2 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:

It causes massive advantage.  Is that fairer?

Yes. Because sporting advantage doesn't impose major financial and structural harm on a football club, whereas sporting disadvantage sometimes does.

Reconstruction decouples those two things, and has as its object and effect the mitigation of hard edged consequences of the league places arrived at. It is a justified response to the unique challenges presented by the failure to play out a full season as originally agreed to.

Equally, Null and Void or ending the season but without either promotion or relegation would be a fair response but for other reasons is not being pursued.

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23 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

If Scottish football loses the bookies where will they get sponsorship? They might need to go to Cartels. The Lyons League, The Daniels Scottish Cup.

Netflix.

This would be great show.

4 minutes ago, Ad Lib said:

Promoting teams does not cause sporting disadvantage to anyone.

Relegating teams does.

So if Raith and Falkirk are currently offering the same player a deal via PCA, and Raith are promoted and get the player due to playing at a higher level, Raith didnt gain an on field advantage due to deciding to promote them?

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2 minutes ago, Ad Lib said:

Yes. Because sporting advantage doesn't impose major financial and structural harm on a football club, whereas sporting disadvantage sometimes does.

We'll need to do away with relegation altogether then.

You've a problem here.   If your objection is to such decisions being made "off the pitch", then that must apply at both ends of the table.

 

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21 minutes ago, Dee Man said:

 

Literally nothing negative written by Dees between these 2 posts so you decided to make up what you wish Dundee fans were like with that desperate attempt at banter. 

There's nothing been announced yet. Settle the f**k doon.

^^^^ Not bothered.  No, definitely not bothered in the slightest.

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16 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:

We'll need to do away with relegation altogether then.

You've a problem here.   If your objection is to such decisions being made "off the pitch", then that must apply at both ends of the table.

 

No we don't.

The objection is to decisions being taken off the pitch that impose a significant sporting disadvantage on a club which was not known and agreed to at the beginning of the season.

A team being relegated on the basis of an incomplete season imposes a significant and unfair sporting disadvantage.

A team being relegated on the basis of a complete season imposes a significant and fair sporting disadvantage.

A team being promoted on the basis of an incomplete season grants them a significant and unfair sporting advantage, not not (in itself) one that disadvantages other teams.

A team being promoted on the basis of a complete season grants them a significant and fair sporting advantage.

The difference is that one example of unfairness directly, tangibly and substantially harms a football club, whereas the other doesn't.

As a member-based organisation the SPFL should be taking decisions in order to minimise unfair sporting disadvantage even if that means occasionally granting unfair sporting advantage.

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24 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

So if Raith and Falkirk are currently offering the same player a deal via PCA, and Raith are promoted and get the player due to playing at a higher level, Raith didnt gain an on field advantage due to deciding to promote them?

Raith were put at an (arguably unfair) sporting advantage.

Falkirk were not put at an (arguably unfair) sporting disadvantage.

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1 minute ago, Granny Danger said:

Good.  I would be worried if you didn’t have something to occupy your time.

Not that it's any of your business but I'm currently looking after my terminally ill father, you absolute weapon.

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