I honestly couldn’t believe my eyes. Australia?
Several clubs (if not all) are in trouble financially. No club outside the old firm has performed consistently well for years and years, and attendances are well down on previous decades.
Clubs are struggling financially because what used to be 15 000 is now 6 000. Clubs will start doing better at the bank when that situation is reversed and not before. I’m personally sick of people coming up with hare-brained schemes like the top-six split, 10 000 seater stadiums (who regularly GETS 10 000 except a handful of clubs?) and playing in bloody Australia. Every club, and to an extent even the Scottish Government, should be focussing their attention ON GETTING MORE PEOPLE THROUGH THE TURNSTILES. This factor, and this factor alone will see off the financial wolf from the SPL door.
The people who run the SPL should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. Two clubs have won everything for decades (with a very few notable exceptions). The two main clubs are riddled with sectarian drivel related to Ireland, attendances are so low that atmosphere is lacking, clubs are struggling, the national team (who’s stars come from the SPL in the main) is lacklustre - it is simply a joke.
Football is Scotland’s national sport. We have one of the oldest leagues in the world. We have been playing football for nigh-on 150 years, and yet every bloody year some tinpot scheme is dreamt up that is supposed to save us from extinction. Bloody SPL bosses. YOU ARE A COMPLETE SHAMBLES!
Get your acts together. Focus your attentions on one thing, and one thing alone. How do you get more people to visit games? That is your quest. The league system doesn’t need tinkering with every five minutes. We don’t need sub-aqua football played in four quarters of 22 minutes in Timbuktu with no offside and a female referee (nothing against females refs mind). We need folk through the turnstiles. If you don’t redirect your attentions to that factor alone, then the game and system that you sooooo enjoy tinkering with will cease to exist. Get yer posters printed, get yer TV adverts made, get yer concessions sorted, get more people to the games, and STOP coming up with stupid hare-brained schemes that make us look a complete embarrassment. If you can’t do that, step aside and let someone who can.