18 May 2016 10:38:38
I've seen this argument a few times now regarding sky and the money distributed out to Scotland.
the SPFL currently has a £15mil a season deal with BT Sports and Sky sports. this shows 30 games a season. The Eredivisie however receives reportedly £60mil per season, however shows roughly 3-4 games per week. Personally I believe the Eredivisie is far more interesting than the SPFL, I'd much rather watch ANY Eredivisie match than a Ross county vs Hamilton or a hearts vs St Johnstone match. To be honest I'd rather watch ANY Eredivisie match than any Celtic Match (Obviously not including Old Firm Matches)
Basically my point is, you can see why we only get £15mil a season, we have to be polite pish football. we aren't attractive at all, maybe once the current deal is up and the old firm is a regular thing it might hike up a bit, but for the time being I'd take the £15mil and be happy about it. do we want to get greedy again and end up with a £3mil a season deal with Setanta again?
18 May 2016 11:08:39
Imo as soon as we get any decent players or any team gets a decent squad it is ripped apart by trams from other leagues who can pay more £££s. Dundee United is a classic example, or Hamilton a few years ago, and as long as this keeps happening there just won't be any real competition in Scotland.
18 May 2016 11:20:01
Scottish league is far to stale playing each other 4 times is boring . too many teams fear the drop to take the risk of playing youth i think its time we increased the league to 16 or 18 play each other twice, keep play offs and take europa league place away from scot cup giving it to league place hence more competition for european places . its time teams like aberdeen ect stopped thinking of the blue and green pound and started looking at what's best for our game.
18 May 2016 11:27:05
Albertz, that is true. although you could put the blame on fans. fans don't show up in their numbers. gone are the days where you'd go to your local football ground purely to take in a game. TV money alone won't change anything. also are we entitled to anymore money? I read that Scotland only has 645,000 Subscribers to sky sports, which if you go on current costs would be £17,875,000 income from Scotland, which the SPFL receives £15mil of that.
18 May 2016 11:32:15
bigtrfc, I disagree with the Scottish cup bit, however I agree with the rest. a 16 team league needs to be done. 2 being relegated 2 coming up. no playoffs, not until we have a larger Championship league as well. this could promote more TV coverage.
On the Scottish Cup situation there needs to be a European carrot dangling at the end of the stick, if it was removed so would the idea of winning the cup, few teams would care about it if that were to happen.
18 May 2016 11:39:22
It should have been made into a bigger league years ago!
18 May 2016 11:59:07
16 teams 2 up 2 down a playoff and a winter break would help if Scottish football is to move forward. It can't stay the way it is as it has been poor for a while . the league is sponsored by a bookie, the men at the top are not doing the job properly and we should celebrate deals that are not putting money into Scottish football. Scotland needs a radical change from top to bottom we need all our best teams in the prem 16 teams with us Falkirk Raith and hibs it brings something different . I know people will say Dundee u and other teams should suffer relegation but I don't care we are back and it's about us now. with Warburton at the helm we are in for some really exciting times ahead.
18 May 2016 13:33:00
The play offs should be like England's imo. Bottom two in spl straight down.
18 May 2016 14:22:49
I totally agree lads but there is one problem with that is the tv deals would be cut as they only pay that much because of 4 guaranteed old firm matches like onlyshowaround said nobody want to watch st Mirren v Hamilton in know it will never happen but I wish the atlantic league thing that murray tried to stet up years ago would happen because English german and spannish football are killing the rest of the wee leagues.
18 May 2016 14:50:51
James it could do 2 things, make things better or make things worse, what it would do is make the old firm even more attractive. 2 games a year that could win or lose you the league. it genuinely could work.
18 May 2016 13:23:39
the problem with the sky money is the fact with the exception of rangers, celtic and aberdeen, the greed of the rest took setantas money then were left high and dry when they went skint when sky came back it was for a pittance had we stuck with sky we would be on a far better deal today but that's what happens when the inmates run the asylum.