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  1. In terms of public order, I would have thought it would be better to get the game done sooner. It's more likely to cause problems when a reduced crowd are allowed in and a fewer people are allowed into pubs to watch it. Therefore I think it's about Sky and lining the Old Firm coffers. Blatant and shameless. I'm not surprised. Given what we're going through with the SPFL, I don't feel anger about this. Yes, you should give a toss. We should all give a toss. The whole of Scottish football should give a toss. Unfortunately we have a situation where each member club of the SPFL wants only what it deems to be best for itself. There is no unity, no common purpose, no 'for the good of the game'. It's busted. I can barely raise a shrug.
    4 points
  2. Also makes you invisible it seems.
    3 points
  3. What a ridiculous statement and quite offensive .....the spfl and other clubs have brought this on themselves .....actions have consequences and inaction also has consequences......they could have.... 1. not closed the season 2. voted for reconstruction 3. offered compensation 4. offered arbitration but no we were the sacrificial lambs to give everybody else what they wanted .....no thanks
    2 points
  4. All 3 said 'No'. The brass neck from RRFC is particularly astonishing. Won a watch when 1 point ahead then pulled the ladder up.
    2 points
  5. The SPFL seem to have rather cunningly played Dundee United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers, and used them as a shield. They pushed them to the front and hunkered down behind them. It may not help their legal case, but it does help the public sympathy angle to have the focus on three "deserving" clubs being "denied promotion" rather than the light been shone on the SPFL's own incompetence and dubious manouvrings.
    2 points
  6. Hell mend Dundee Utd, Cove and Raith if they end up with a big bill, they should never have had separate representation from the SPFL. No way would we have gotten arbitration in this timescale without the court action, or access to all the documents the SPFL wanted hidden. Just because the documents aren't going to be made public doesn't mean they won't strengthen our case.
    2 points
  7. That's why it's densely populated.
    2 points
  8. Still haven’t changed my opinion, and yes, I’m one of the ones who are glad we are seen as a pain in the proverbial by other clubs. Some of them totally deserve any pain that may be inflicted upon them - Dundee and Brechin for example. I’m only interested in my club - couldn’t give a monkeys toss about the others. What good will did we have? What have we lost in reality by going to court? Nothing. The other clubs can moan all they want. They would have done exactly the same in our position.
    1 point
  9. The futility or otherwise of action will become clearer on the outcome of arbitration. Sometimes i wish i wasn't seeing this a thistle fan as personally I remain dismayed as a football fan that the spfl board have created the mess through tunnel vision thinking from the outset followed by manipulation to protect their agenda.
    1 point
  10. Why is arbitration futile , we’ll get a result of some sort ,would imagine possibly reconstruction on the table or even some sort of compensation . If you combined either of these scenarios , we might even get rid of Doncaster as I would imagine his job might become untenable. Your advice to bend over and take it is totally off mark , the majority of Clubs all voted out of Self Interest , there is no reason why we shouldn’t fight this unfair relegation and which threatens our own existence as a football club. All we’ve done so far is join the cartel of the Self Interest .
    1 point
  11. It's literally their rules. It's not a question of the SFA or SP[F]L granting or not granting us arbitration. We have a legal right to it under the SFA's AoA. If they denied us the arbitration process we could then have taken them to court for a prima facie breach of the SFA's Articles of Association. I opposed taking it to the courts. I also think arbitration is futile and that we shouldn't bother, but it is at least less objectionable and, importantly, could have been done without involving the courts at greater expense and time wasted.
    1 point
  12. Almost like the New Order LP (1983)
    1 point
  13. In, out, shake it all about.
    1 point
  14. Maybe they shouldn't have been paying wages well in excess of their turnover. Then again, given how their close neighbours also apply themselves, there's maybe no equivalent word in Dundonian for contingency. My heart truly bleeds for them.
    1 point
  15. I know, but I got what @partickthedog was meaning
    1 point
  16. My new mask has arrived. Comfortable and doesn’t steam up the glasses.
    1 point
  17. To borrow from Orwell's Animal Farm (seemingly apt?), "some are more equal than others",
    1 point
  18. What a surprise! Scottish football fixed to meet the needs of the two bigoted scumbags. Scottish football is rotten to the core. Always had been, always will be.
    1 point
  19. I suspect that it is mainly to do with TV coverage, and general public health issues (social distancing in town/pubs for closed door game) than any preferential treatment. I think we have bigger issues to worry about.
    1 point
  20. In some ways I suppose we are as we've been forced to accept SPFL voting against reconstruction. The way I look at things is that if we were successful and weren't relegated (demoted) then those who voted for NO reconstruction would be the clubs to blame for United & Raith staying put. The irony of course being that both Dundee Utd and Raith Rovers voted for the status quo and thus would be contributory to their own misfortune.
    1 point
  21. They all voted against reconstruction multiple times. F*** 'em, they're on the list.
    1 point
  22. The agenda was set when Ian Maxwell intimated that it was their intention to call the Leagues. Doncaster and the SPFL would have looked a bit stupid if the vote hadn’t been passed and I believe that’s how the Dundee scenario happened. Hope the SPFL get called out for Doncaster’s coercion and the illegal vote and we finally get rid of this clown .
    1 point
  23. I’m pleased to see the penny has dropped for at least some of the support that when it comes to courts and legal action, not all methods of sticking two fingers up at the SPFL and Scottish football are necessarily clever, worth it or in your interests. Even and perhaps even especially if someone else is paying.
    1 point
  24. I find that a bit strange also. I'd assumed, as many on here had as well, that SFA arbitration would be an internal whitewash. It's now clear that their procedure is robust, and most importantly completely independent. It might not give us the outcome we're looking for but it will be a fair review of the facts by highly qualified professionals. Begs the question why we didn't go down this route in the first place.
    1 point
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