The SPL Is Doing Fine

[Go G YellowScreen]

SPL chief Neil Doncaster today claimed that Rangers' demise has not caused anywhere near the financial catastrophe many predicted for the Scottish game's top tier.

Doncaster said the fact that SPL finances have held up overall proved that Scottish football is not all about Celtic and Rangers.

He admitted that individual SPL clubs were facing a drop in income due to a fall in gates now they no longer had visiting Rangers fans to rely on but that centrally the league had suffered little effect.

Doncaster told the Leaders in Football conference in London: "There was a real fear over the summer that the demise of Rangers, effectively demoted to the fourth tier of Scottish football, would lead to a real concern about the financial position across the whole of the game in Scotland.

"For many people Scottish football means 'Old Firm' and what the events of the summer show the game in Scotland is a lot more resilient than that.

"Whilst there are challenges at a club level because the Rangers support is now not going around the Premier League clubs, centrally we are relatively robust so it's not quite what people would have expected.

"In fact finances at league level will not be wildly different from where they were last year.

"So the game has developed and has proved to be more resilient. Part of that is we have been able to rely on our strong partnerships with the likes of Sky and ESPN and Clydesdale Bank and they continue to back the league."

In the summer, one football finance analyst estimated the cost of not playing Rangers four times a season could lead to a £1m drop in revenue for each SPL club.

Aye but, Armageddon 'n aw that!

 

[Mind The Duck]

I'm still waiting on Medro to take that bet

 

[rogueleader]

My, how did all these very clever people manage to make such inaccurate predictions ?

 

[Super hooper]

I think we have got another very clever prediction. A front man for an investment that has fallen short of buying Sevco
Mr Green, has announced that the big clubs in Europe are not going to continue to carry financially the small clubs and
that there is going to be an European League and Sevco will be playing in European League football.
Please SFL control those who claim to speak for your member clubs. Please don't allow these people to bring the Scottish
game into disrepute by saying that a fourth tier team in Scotland has expectations of playing European League football within
the foreseeable future. Can't you see that gibberish is only going to demean any E.L. before talks to bring it about even starts.

 

[Albatross]

Aye but, Armageddon 'n aw that!

Are we being prepared for an SPL minus one side of the Old Firm ad infinitum? Many articles appearing questioning the SEVCO share issue and suggesting that fans will be investing in a TIMESHARE. Need cash for running costs? Are the top dogs inScottish football being made aware that SEVCO may not ever be back in the SPL?

 

[Super hooper]

Albatross, only a matter of time until even the blind top dogs will see that they will never be back.