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I’d be shocked if 45 points is anywhere near 9th, 40 will probably be enough but isn’t a guarantee

Pretty sure we've offered similar deals in the past. Its a fairly common time for clubs to chase fans at this time of year as they try get their teams over the line in whatever battle they're in. It maybe a cashflow thing, but for me the biggest indicator of that is early season-ticket sales, especially if they involve some lock-in deal where there's the potential you get to watch the team in a higher league for the same money. Unless the fans have already gone full to war with the B.O.D its by far the quickest way to bring a large sum of cash into a club quickly, even if it means leaving Peter beaten in a ditch as you beg Paul to take partial payment and you'll cover the rest later. On ST value, yeah I'll admit by far the biggest reason for me to get one is convivence, if your wanting pure financial value then it doesn't add up.

It was aberdeen who stopped the 11-1 majority being changed. We did actually get a slightly improved distribution model as celtic joined the 10 in agreeing to remove some of the money due for 2nd place.

Yes, however unless your going to completely tear down UEFA, get rid of european football, stop or massively reduce corporate sponsorship and reintroduce gate shares then that dominance is going to be there, even if the completely gave up their entire spfl prize money.

Ok, so now I have been bothered. 14/15 p&l published 15/16 abbreviated accounts published Every year since has been the same level of detail as this year

The cats well out the bag for TV coverage tho and it’s never going back in. At least with live championship games you are reminding the casual viewer that our league exists

Its interesting that nobody in high positions at championship clubs are publicly denouncing the deal. When it was first signed there was suggestions championship clubs pushed for a higher percentage but backed off when premiership clubs said they'd push back if they signed a better prem deal which they did end up doing. We've not long agreed an extension taking the deal to 2029 with significantly improved terms. Unfortunately I don't know what significant means and it would suit both the SPFL and BBC to make it sound bigger than it was. Overall the sfl/spl agreement has been massively beneficial to clubs at our level, if having top tier clubs wanting deals signed at a lower level than we'd ideally agree too then its a price worth paying.

I can't be ***ed trawling back far enough but certainly in later years prior to the outside investment we published the same minimal level of detail as we have now. Maybe more detailed accounts were made available to shareholders etc, but not what was put on companies house.

I'm not sure how true that is, yes the higher up the spfl you are the bigger proportion of prize money you get. However it's also true that spfl prize money makes up a far smaller proportion of there income.

An introduction to potential fans, An introduction for new sponsors and More value for current sponsors. Its slightly intangible but there certainly importance to be visible as a business, if people aren’t thinking of you they won’t give you their money. I’m not disagreeing that there’s cost to this but it’s unfair to completely disregard the benefits of 100k people engaging with your product weekly

Closer to 100k watching each week, that’s a fair bit of attention our league wouldn’t get.

only for the premiership final 1st leg Thursday may 23rd 1st leg 2nd leg Sunday may 26th The rest will depend on TV which won't be decided until the teams involved are known.

Final matches all being friday night is because there will be a TV game and all matches need to start at the same time to try avoid a germany-austria scenario

Can be posted afterwards without any of those consequences. can also do a few teasers that don’t involve direct commitment? ‘Watch out the pars are about!’ generic photo #yourschool” “ourclub”

If were less concerned about a league rival gaining points than we are about a local side well out of reach our mindset is completely ****ed

That was excellent, it’s impossible to not give KRH man of the match but there’s plenty of others who played very well. Top team performance and 4 good goals 🤣

Ultimately his success will entirely depend on results, regardless of how good of bloke people think he is. Not saying he a isn’t a good person btw

First of all, I'd like to thank all for their efforts and don't want my questions to sound like criticism . 1. All these one off events as far as I'm aware occurred early season, I'm curious about how the covered losses as It was assumed the money raised was put towards further investment rather than covering planed losses. I feel quite uncomfortable to be so far away from budget, more than I was about the initial loss. Planned investment is one thing, getting things wrong and having to plug gaps is another and that's too much money to misjudge. On the point that fans would moan if we didn't invest in youth, maybe some but not me, I really don't care where our players come from, If we can have an academy and have it run at a profit directly via player sales or indirectly by providing first team players at lower then market rate then great, if not its pointless and probably harmful. It's mentioned small margins in recruitment, I agree with that, but when the coin falls so often against you then you've really got to question why we can't make those small margins work for us, it wasn't like suddenly in January or February players chose to sign for other clubs, the best players in our division have since last April/may have been choosing that we are not a good fit for them. The package we are offering simply must improve. You've mentioned a few references to strategy in your post, was there any pushback on cook for more detail on this? For me its a really unsatisfactory answer 'trust me there's a plan' You're going to really struggle to get buy in with that, you need to provide some detail, a general outline on how it will work, a timeline and intermediary targets you're going to judge its success by and if it will need readjustment.

KRH has been doing passing drills for weeks in training, he maybe had 2 training sessions going into the rovers game where he could take someone on one on one. It’s only natural he preferred one over the other, I’m sure with a few weeks in full contact training he’ll get his swagger back

If Sutherland was 25 and had shown the same level of performances as he has this season so far nobody would be clamoring for him to get a start. Put the best players you can on the pitch always, regardless of their age.

One thing fisher brings which no one else does is accurate long distance passing, that's bound to help us in attack.

That's something I really wish I knew. We can condemn it as much as we want, but when we don't understand it then how on earth are we meant to convince these guys to stop their behaviour? When there's two sides thinking like the opponent is a very vital skill and I just can't do it in this case.

I think, and I’m not trying to justify the decision here cos we clearly got worse that the logic behind the sub was, it’s getting later in the game, I’m going to go 2 up top, we will try to skip the midfield and have Todd, summers and KRH playing off the front 2, with emptying the midfield like that I want Hamilton back as the best sitting midfielder we have to protect against the counter. But we still spent time passing the ball around the back so we ended up in a weird situation where we looked to play through the phases whilst losing the progressive runner. The later part is so frustrating, our heads go down once we lose one and we completely give up if a second goes in. Honestly with our reaction to conceding we may as well walk off the pitch. Zero fight about us

Am I right that the last idea proposed at a meeting like this was the living true sportsmanship one and that was pushed through regardless despite being a load of bollocks

He won't be, little is worse. The 2nd goal really annoyed me, there's plenty of goals this season we need to do better on, but mistakes happen, not doing the ****ing basics of switching on immediately after a free kick is given is really disappointing completely unprofessional and there's no excuses for it.