Shame they voted to end the league then!
Maybe one way out would be for the clubs to liquidate the SPFL and form a new league association.
I would say surely Doncaster and Maclennan cant survive this especially after saying Rangers claims were baseless.
But they survived the most staggering episode of corporate incompetence all played out publicly so they probably will.
comment by Schrödinger (U9373)
posted 2 minutes ago
Maybe one way out would be for the clubs to liquidate the SPFL and form a new league association.
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Didnt they already do that a few years ago?
I seem to remember them transferring to a new company to avoid legal action from the pub industry. Think it was led by Harry Hood, although he has now passed.
Rangers were wrong, the liability stands and will end at £4 million.
The £10 million claim wasn’t about Hearts or Partick going to court.
Nice try
Btw, Hearts and Patrick’s claim is incredulous. Suspect they’ll now face some sanctions too.
just saying - RANGERS VOTED TO END THE LEAGUE
I’m thinking that there’s a fishing rod here-unless your board suddenly developed a use for a crystal ball they found lying around.
BBC pay us around £400,000 a season for radio and highlights coverage so like i said, the liability for TV/radio coverage stands at £4 million and that'll be it done.
We've just signed a deal worth £32 million a season for 5 years.
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 24 seconds ago
BBC pay us around £400,000 a season for radio and highlights coverage so like i said, the liability for TV/radio coverage stands at £4 million and that'll be it done.
We've just signed a deal worth £32 million a season for 5 years.
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Hearts and partick have the best legal minds available they will win
comment by super phoenix rangers - Blacklivesmatter (U14864)
posted 15 seconds ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 24 seconds ago
BBC pay us around £400,000 a season for radio and highlights coverage so like i said, the liability for TV/radio coverage stands at £4 million and that'll be it done.
We've just signed a deal worth £32 million a season for 5 years.
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Hearts and partick have the best legal minds available they will win
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They could have Harvey Spector and they'll still not get £10 million mate.
That's besides the point though, no amount of shifting goalposts will alter the fact Rangers got another thing spectacularly wrong.
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 25 seconds ago
comment by super phoenix rangers - Blacklivesmatter (U14864)
posted 15 seconds ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 24 seconds ago
BBC pay us around £400,000 a season for radio and highlights coverage so like i said, the liability for TV/radio coverage stands at £4 million and that'll be it done.
We've just signed a deal worth £32 million a season for 5 years.
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Hearts and partick have the best legal minds available they will win
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They could have Harvey Spector and they'll still not get £10 million mate.
That's besides the point though, no amount of shifting goalposts will alter the fact Rangers got another thing spectacularly wrong.
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I heard Timmy is on the case
comment by Schrödinger (U9373)
posted 21 minutes ago
Maybe one way out would be for the clubs to liquidate the SPFL and form a new league association.
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Subtle!
comment by super phoenix rangers - Blacklivesmatter (U14864)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 25 seconds ago
comment by super phoenix rangers - Blacklivesmatter (U14864)
posted 15 seconds ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 24 seconds ago
BBC pay us around £400,000 a season for radio and highlights coverage so like i said, the liability for TV/radio coverage stands at £4 million and that'll be it done.
We've just signed a deal worth £32 million a season for 5 years.
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Hearts and partick have the best legal minds available they will win
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They could have Harvey Spector and they'll still not get £10 million mate.
That's besides the point though, no amount of shifting goalposts will alter the fact Rangers got another thing spectacularly wrong.
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I heard Timmy is on the case
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Better take cover then <laugh<
I'm not a huge fan of Doncaster but I keep reading that "he cannot survive this"
In what sense? Rangers make hundreds of statements then claim that Doncaster cannot survive the pressure he is under to quit - the only pressure is coming from Rangers and their fans.
The CLUBS voted to end the season early and financially they may not have been able to wait and finish it with appropriate testing in place and the knock on effect to next season. A decision made by the CLUBS with the information available at that time.
Now BT want some money back as they didn't get all of their games, fair enough that would have been considered when ending the season. Rangers claim it will be £10M, it is nowhere near that. Rangers fans now say Doncaster cannot survive this.
Now, again I am not a fan of his, but at what point has he done something in this whole pandemic that he cannot survive. Or is it simply Rangers fans stamping their feet again
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comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 45 minutes ago
Btw, Hearts and Patrick’s claim is incredulous. Suspect they’ll now face some sanctions too.
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The amount is obviously inflated but to threaten sanctions because the rest of the league decided they were expendable is a bit harsh.
comment by Miller (U9310)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 45 minutes ago
Btw, Hearts and Patrick’s claim is incredulous. Suspect they’ll now face some sanctions too.
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The amount is obviously inflated but to threaten sanctions because the rest of the league decided they were expendable is a bit harsh.
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I think they're facing sanctions because they've threatened an interdict to halt next season.
In my eyes, if they lodge that then both clubs should be suspended.
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comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Miller (U9310)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 45 minutes ago
Btw, Hearts and Patrick’s claim is incredulous. Suspect they’ll now face some sanctions too.
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The amount is obviously inflated but to threaten sanctions because the rest of the league decided they were expendable is a bit harsh.
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I think they're facing sanctions because they've threatened an interdict to halt next season.
In my eyes, if they lodge that then both clubs should be suspended.
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I disagree I think they should be entitled to pursue it in the courts. I think they could even argue that reconstruction was never realistically getting voted through in any circumstances and they were the clubs that were fed to the wolves.
Partick was the only one i felt sorry for.
Hearts are kidding themselves if they thought they were staying up.
It wasn't a perfect solution but the majority voted for it and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Recently a few clubs have pulled off unlikely escapes in the Premiership, St Mirren and Ross County come to mind. I think its genuinely quite worrying how little regard there's been for clubs who's relegation was confirmed by a ballot.
comment by Miller (U9310)
posted 11 minutes ago
Recently a few clubs have pulled off unlikely escapes in the Premiership, St Mirren and Ross County come to mind. I think its genuinely quite worrying how little regard there's been for clubs who's relegation was confirmed by a ballot.
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Unprecedented times, there was no perfect solution but ultimately i believe the right choice was made, albeit it's poor on 2 or 3 clubs.
I still await a bear answering me what was the potential financial penalty for not starting the new season on time? Just so we can have a fair discussion because all the clubs got the same legal opinion on the matter but it didn't seem to sway many, Rangers included.
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Miller (U9310)
posted 11 minutes ago
Recently a few clubs have pulled off unlikely escapes in the Premiership, St Mirren and Ross County come to mind. I think its genuinely quite worrying how little regard there's been for clubs who's relegation was confirmed by a ballot.
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Unprecedented times, there was no perfect solution but ultimately i believe the right choice was made, albeit it's poor on 2 or 3 clubs.
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Partick I feel sorry for also. The Championship is the only league with a real track record of "miraculous" escapes from relegation in recent years. I think that very few teams stranded at the bottom of the Premiership end up staying up and that is why it is easier to identify the one or two.
I'm not saying Hearts couldn't have escaped but form tends to tell a story and when your nearest relegation rivals beat you in a very recent game I think it kills off claims they would have survived.
It's not a guarantee of course.
Partick could have been out of the relegation place had they played their game in hand, they are the ones with more to be aggrieved about.
IMO I would have left that one until they could play that game safely. Then it could have been stopped. Fixtures wouldn't have been too difficult to work out with only two scenarios for the Championship and Div 1
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posted on 19/6/20
Shame they voted to end the league then!
posted on 19/6/20
Maybe one way out would be for the clubs to liquidate the SPFL and form a new league association.
posted on 19/6/20
I would say surely Doncaster and Maclennan cant survive this especially after saying Rangers claims were baseless.
But they survived the most staggering episode of corporate incompetence all played out publicly so they probably will.
posted on 19/6/20
comment by Schrödinger (U9373)
posted 2 minutes ago
Maybe one way out would be for the clubs to liquidate the SPFL and form a new league association.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Didnt they already do that a few years ago?
I seem to remember them transferring to a new company to avoid legal action from the pub industry. Think it was led by Harry Hood, although he has now passed.
posted on 19/6/20
Rangers were wrong, the liability stands and will end at £4 million.
The £10 million claim wasn’t about Hearts or Partick going to court.
Nice try
posted on 19/6/20
Btw, Hearts and Patrick’s claim is incredulous. Suspect they’ll now face some sanctions too.
posted on 19/6/20
just saying - RANGERS VOTED TO END THE LEAGUE
posted on 19/6/20
I’m thinking that there’s a fishing rod here-unless your board suddenly developed a use for a crystal ball they found lying around.
posted on 19/6/20
BBC pay us around £400,000 a season for radio and highlights coverage so like i said, the liability for TV/radio coverage stands at £4 million and that'll be it done.
We've just signed a deal worth £32 million a season for 5 years.
posted on 19/6/20
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 24 seconds ago
BBC pay us around £400,000 a season for radio and highlights coverage so like i said, the liability for TV/radio coverage stands at £4 million and that'll be it done.
We've just signed a deal worth £32 million a season for 5 years.
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Hearts and partick have the best legal minds available they will win
posted on 19/6/20
comment by super phoenix rangers - Blacklivesmatter (U14864)
posted 15 seconds ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 24 seconds ago
BBC pay us around £400,000 a season for radio and highlights coverage so like i said, the liability for TV/radio coverage stands at £4 million and that'll be it done.
We've just signed a deal worth £32 million a season for 5 years.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hearts and partick have the best legal minds available they will win
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They could have Harvey Spector and they'll still not get £10 million mate.
That's besides the point though, no amount of shifting goalposts will alter the fact Rangers got another thing spectacularly wrong.
posted on 19/6/20
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 25 seconds ago
comment by super phoenix rangers - Blacklivesmatter (U14864)
posted 15 seconds ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 24 seconds ago
BBC pay us around £400,000 a season for radio and highlights coverage so like i said, the liability for TV/radio coverage stands at £4 million and that'll be it done.
We've just signed a deal worth £32 million a season for 5 years.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hearts and partick have the best legal minds available they will win
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They could have Harvey Spector and they'll still not get £10 million mate.
That's besides the point though, no amount of shifting goalposts will alter the fact Rangers got another thing spectacularly wrong.
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I heard Timmy is on the case
posted on 19/6/20
comment by Schrödinger (U9373)
posted 21 minutes ago
Maybe one way out would be for the clubs to liquidate the SPFL and form a new league association.
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Subtle!
posted on 19/6/20
comment by super phoenix rangers - Blacklivesmatter (U14864)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 25 seconds ago
comment by super phoenix rangers - Blacklivesmatter (U14864)
posted 15 seconds ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 24 seconds ago
BBC pay us around £400,000 a season for radio and highlights coverage so like i said, the liability for TV/radio coverage stands at £4 million and that'll be it done.
We've just signed a deal worth £32 million a season for 5 years.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hearts and partick have the best legal minds available they will win
----------------------------------------------------------------------
They could have Harvey Spector and they'll still not get £10 million mate.
That's besides the point though, no amount of shifting goalposts will alter the fact Rangers got another thing spectacularly wrong.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I heard Timmy is on the case
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Better take cover then <laugh<
posted on 19/6/20
I'm not a huge fan of Doncaster but I keep reading that "he cannot survive this"
In what sense? Rangers make hundreds of statements then claim that Doncaster cannot survive the pressure he is under to quit - the only pressure is coming from Rangers and their fans.
The CLUBS voted to end the season early and financially they may not have been able to wait and finish it with appropriate testing in place and the knock on effect to next season. A decision made by the CLUBS with the information available at that time.
Now BT want some money back as they didn't get all of their games, fair enough that would have been considered when ending the season. Rangers claim it will be £10M, it is nowhere near that. Rangers fans now say Doncaster cannot survive this.
Now, again I am not a fan of his, but at what point has he done something in this whole pandemic that he cannot survive. Or is it simply Rangers fans stamping their feet again
posted on 19/6/20
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posted on 19/6/20
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 45 minutes ago
Btw, Hearts and Patrick’s claim is incredulous. Suspect they’ll now face some sanctions too.
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The amount is obviously inflated but to threaten sanctions because the rest of the league decided they were expendable is a bit harsh.
posted on 19/6/20
comment by Miller (U9310)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 45 minutes ago
Btw, Hearts and Patrick’s claim is incredulous. Suspect they’ll now face some sanctions too.
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The amount is obviously inflated but to threaten sanctions because the rest of the league decided they were expendable is a bit harsh.
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I think they're facing sanctions because they've threatened an interdict to halt next season.
In my eyes, if they lodge that then both clubs should be suspended.
posted on 19/6/20
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posted on 19/6/20
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Miller (U9310)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 45 minutes ago
Btw, Hearts and Patrick’s claim is incredulous. Suspect they’ll now face some sanctions too.
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The amount is obviously inflated but to threaten sanctions because the rest of the league decided they were expendable is a bit harsh.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I think they're facing sanctions because they've threatened an interdict to halt next season.
In my eyes, if they lodge that then both clubs should be suspended.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I disagree I think they should be entitled to pursue it in the courts. I think they could even argue that reconstruction was never realistically getting voted through in any circumstances and they were the clubs that were fed to the wolves.
posted on 19/6/20
Partick was the only one i felt sorry for.
Hearts are kidding themselves if they thought they were staying up.
It wasn't a perfect solution but the majority voted for it and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
posted on 19/6/20
Recently a few clubs have pulled off unlikely escapes in the Premiership, St Mirren and Ross County come to mind. I think its genuinely quite worrying how little regard there's been for clubs who's relegation was confirmed by a ballot.
posted on 19/6/20
comment by Miller (U9310)
posted 11 minutes ago
Recently a few clubs have pulled off unlikely escapes in the Premiership, St Mirren and Ross County come to mind. I think its genuinely quite worrying how little regard there's been for clubs who's relegation was confirmed by a ballot.
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Unprecedented times, there was no perfect solution but ultimately i believe the right choice was made, albeit it's poor on 2 or 3 clubs.
posted on 19/6/20
I still await a bear answering me what was the potential financial penalty for not starting the new season on time? Just so we can have a fair discussion because all the clubs got the same legal opinion on the matter but it didn't seem to sway many, Rangers included.
posted on 19/6/20
comment by NNH (U10730)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Miller (U9310)
posted 11 minutes ago
Recently a few clubs have pulled off unlikely escapes in the Premiership, St Mirren and Ross County come to mind. I think its genuinely quite worrying how little regard there's been for clubs who's relegation was confirmed by a ballot.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Unprecedented times, there was no perfect solution but ultimately i believe the right choice was made, albeit it's poor on 2 or 3 clubs.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Partick I feel sorry for also. The Championship is the only league with a real track record of "miraculous" escapes from relegation in recent years. I think that very few teams stranded at the bottom of the Premiership end up staying up and that is why it is easier to identify the one or two.
I'm not saying Hearts couldn't have escaped but form tends to tell a story and when your nearest relegation rivals beat you in a very recent game I think it kills off claims they would have survived.
It's not a guarantee of course.
Partick could have been out of the relegation place had they played their game in hand, they are the ones with more to be aggrieved about.
IMO I would have left that one until they could play that game safely. Then it could have been stopped. Fixtures wouldn't have been too difficult to work out with only two scenarios for the Championship and Div 1
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