The Official Scottish Football Thread

[Driver101]

moanthebairns said:

I'm owed five games I think from my falkirk season ticket, even though I'm out of work just now I'd have a red neck claiming the money back from my club.
Falkirk haven't released season tickets yet, I'm now hearing it'll likely kick off in January for league one club's. Sadly, in my position there's no way I'm buying one until this is all clarified.

I've been watching the German football and can safely say football is st behind closed doors and not worth watching. There's no intensity without the crowd. Scottish football has the biggest attendance per population in Europe I'm lead to believe. We rely heavily on arses on seats. It's utterly fked if this doesn't lift.

I agree the German football is st. I watched last week and didn't even add it to the planner this week. I started watching the Bayern game tonight and drifted off.

[Axionknight]

Can we all take this moment to laugh at Hearts and their 14/14/14 proposal?

[abzmike]

Have I missed something, because what is different about this 14/14/14 proposal to the last 14/14/14 proposal that got rejected?

The focus should be on having enough clubs to form any leagues.

[Driver101]

I read there was a suggestion of having playoffs for a Europa League place. The "winner" of the bottom 8 to have a chance to still qualify for Europe to stop so many meaningless games in an early top 6 bottom 8 split.

[Helicopter123]

Having originally been startled by some of Strachan's comments, the reality is "truth hurts".

Even before lockdown, the "professional" game in Scotland was anything but for many.

Clubs won't die, but we may see a number return to the Junior leagues?

[Driver101]

Everything is oddly silent on Scottish football. It feels like everyone has had their moans and shouts and accepted their fate now? Have the threats of legal action all died?

The argument about contract extensions and furlough is still rumbling on.

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/134...

There has been a lot of players released, but equally there is players that have been given an extension for a couple of months, but after furlough payments stop they are gone.

I get on one side that it's to help the guys, most of which are earning a modest wage, but furlough payments were to save jobs. These guys know they'll be unemployed and extending their contracts isn't going to save their job.

It's not really fair to throw a lack of loyalty in the faces of other clubs.

[abzmike]

Seems there is a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. A lot of it seems to start at Tynecastle - the threat of legal action still seems to be floating around, and the have this Anderson chap perhaps investing. Then the same guy seems to have millions to 'donate' to Scottish football, perhaps to fund testing to enable the top two leagues to restart in August - He, and his motives seem shrouded in mystery. As for the restart, I guess a lot of that will depend on the success or otherwise of restarts in England and elsewhere, as well as the general situation. 1st August is a long way away in the current environment. Meanwhile loads of players with contracts up on 1st June have been released, it might be a scramble to assemble enough for some clubs to field teams.

[JuniorD]

Rangers have got Hagi on a permanent deal so that's Celtic's 10-in-a-row dream fked

[Edinburger]

The SPL will start in August and the SPFL have agreed with Sky that they will broadcast 48 live matches and clubs can see 'virtual season tickets' so we can watch games at home. 48 games of 225? I wonder which two clubs will get most coverage...

What about fans who actually have a season ticket? Free to view, I'd hope? But we do need to pay to get Sky Sports.

ETA Sounds like club channels will broadcast live for season ticket holders.

Edited by Edinburger on Wednesday 3rd June 14:07

[JuniorD]

So we are talking games played in virtually empty stadiums?

Doesn't sound much different from the usual situation

Maybe a bit of piped cheering/fan reaction over the Tannoy would improve things at most grounds.

[Driver101]

Season ticket holders get it with their season ticket. I wonder what the pricing for everyone else will be?

Nobody is going to pay big money per game, but you're needing goodwill from season ticket holders if they are effectively paying £25-30 per game and other people watching for a tiny fraction of that.

[Helicopter123]

JuniorD said:

So we are talking games played in virtually empty stadiums?

Doesn't sound much different from the usual situation

Maybe a bit of piped cheering/fan reaction over the Tannoy would improve things at most grounds.

Quite, any game on TV not involving the old-firm often appeared to embrace social distancing way before anyone had heard of the virus. I guess the problems would come when everyone went for the half-time Pie and a quick whizz?

Surely Sky could pipe in some crowd noise over the TV?

[JuniorD]

Helicopter123 said:

JuniorD said:

So we are talking games played in virtually empty stadiums?

Doesn't sound much different from the usual situation

Maybe a bit of piped cheering/fan reaction over the Tannoy would improve things at most grounds.

Quite, any game on TV not involving the old-firm often appeared to embrace social distancing way before anyone had heard of the virus. I guess the problems would come when everyone went for the half-time Pie and a quick whizz?

Surely Sky could pipe in some crowd noise over the TV?

We are, we are, we are the Billy Boys....

and a bit of ?

[Edinburger]

JuniorD said:

So we are talking games played in virtually empty stadiums?

Doesn't sound much different from the usual situation

Maybe a bit of piped cheering/fan reaction over the Tannoy would improve things at most grounds.

Very good. Scottish football attracts more fans per head of population than any other country in Europe.

[Edinburger]

Driver101 said:

Season ticket holders get it with their season ticket. I wonder what the pricing for everyone else will be?

Nobody is going to pay big money per game, but you're needing goodwill from season ticket holders if they are effectively paying £25-30 per game and other people watching for a tiny fraction of that.

Yeah, you'd hope that. Haven't seen any confirmation yet.

[Edinburger]

JuniorD said:

Helicopter123 said:

JuniorD said:

So we are talking games played in virtually empty stadiums?

Doesn't sound much different from the usual situation

Maybe a bit of piped cheering/fan reaction over the Tannoy would improve things at most grounds.

Quite, any game on TV not involving the old-firm often appeared to embrace social distancing way before anyone had heard of the virus. I guess the problems would come when everyone went for the half-time Pie and a quick whizz?

Surely Sky could pipe in some crowd noise over the TV?

We are, we are, we are the Billy Boys....

and a bit of ?

Ha!! Nae ta!

Edited by Edinburger on Wednesday 3rd June 16:44

[CO2000]

JuniorD said:

So we are talking games played in virtually empty stadiums?

Doesn't sound much different from the usual situation

Maybe a bit of piped cheering/fan reaction over the Tannoy would improve things at most grounds.

Aberdeen v Hearts drew a decent crowd, well did

[abzmike]

I hope they have someone with a sweary button to bleep out 'encouragement' from the touchline, and 'feedback' for the referees. Having watched briefly some of the German games, you can hear every word.

[BrabusMog]

abzmike said:

I hope they have someone with a sweary button to bleep out 'encouragement' from the touchline, and 'feedback' for the referees. Having watched briefly some of the German games, you can hear every word.

Have you ever actually played football

[Driver101]

https://youtu.be/XRGd1rU0-y8