02 Apr 2020 12:09:06
With everything that's going on atm worldwide with this virus the silence is deafening from all the highly paid professional football players and with some wealthy clubs going down the furlough route for their non playing staff when their highly paid first team players are still on full pay I would like to see our club take the lead and the players to voluntarily take a significant reduction in their wages as I'm sure they could afford it we're talking about players getting paid £10,000 + per week I'm sure they have plenty in their bank accounts and they should do the right thing and forego some of their salary and have the money go to the other club staff some who I'm sure are on minimum wage and could possibly be struggling a bit and as for Spurs and Newcastle united and most of the English premier clubs don't even get me started it just shows how greedy these players are some of these guys are multi millionaires and are still sitting tight holding out until they are forced to take a pay cut by their clubs it's not about the contracts they signed or whatever as this is unprecedented times and they should do the right thing and see other not as fortunate as themselves get paid, its totally shocking that clubs like spurs are taking money from the government when they could probably afford to cover the wages themselves after all they were able to spend good knows how much hundreds of thousands of pounds building a new stadium but are taking much needed money from. the government.
02 Apr 2020 13:03:38
true mate the all kiss the badge let's see what there made off even give a % to NHS.
02 Apr 2020 13:16:52
think all the players on big money shoukld forgo most of it.
02 Apr 2020 14:55:41
To any of you who are SNP supporters, thank our lucky stars wee jimmy kranky didnae get independence .
Where was all this 80% wages subsidy to come from? .
Scotland on it's own is financially worse off than Rangers.
Please get rid of her at the next election.
02 Apr 2020 15:29:05
Not the time for politics, but they would have just borrowed it the same as the Tories are doing. Do you think that Boris had this under his mattress.
02 Apr 2020 16:55:32
Where would they have tried to borrow it from follow, the UK government of course .
But would the UK government give it to a place that dumped them? .
Also we in Scotland would also be out of the EU as Scotland on it's own would have to apply for membership.
02 Apr 2020 17:53:51
& where is the UK borrowing it from.
We will have at the very least another 10 years of austerity after this not even thinking about the poor guys out of work.
KEEP POLITICS OFF THE PAGES ED!
{Ed001's Note - then scroll past, there is no footie to talk about so something has to be discussed.}
02 Apr 2020 17:57:52
Lol so an independent Scotland would have borrowed from the UK government? why not France or USA. That is not how it works. You reckon Ukraine and belarus go back to Russia?
They would have done the same as any government when borrowing money by creating bonds and gilts that investors can take up or in worse case scenario the World Bank.
02 Apr 2020 19:42:16
If you don’t want politics don’t join in, it’s really that simple mate,
02 Apr 2020 21:09:38
Post looks like it is a mixture of football finance and some political comments to me guys, so what's the prob wi some of you.
As Ed says not much football to talk about so no likey no readey eh.
02 Apr 2020 21:30:17
Bluebilly it might have escaped your attention but it seems the bulk of the EU would have welcomed Scotland with open arms had it been a yes vote in 2014 and it would not have taken 5 years to get in so we would not be in between two stools as you choose to imagine it.
I'm pretty sure you don't know that despite being in massive debt we are a country who cannot borrow. Yes we have debt already but can't borrow. We get landed with UK debt, even for projects that have absolutely nothing to do with us, rail lines from the Midlands to London, we get our share of the debt, London Olympics, we get our share of the debt. Were you aware of any of this Bluebilly?
Have you read the McCrone report (buried under Callaghan's Government) which stated that with Scotland's oil and potential revenue from it "The country would tend to be in chronic surplus to a quite embarrassing degree and its currency would become the hardest in Europe with the exception perhaps of the Norwegian kroner. "
The hardest currency in Europe bar one (another small oil rich country) and you choose to compare it to Rangers finances, Bluebilly please stop discussing financial things your knowledge is somewhere between bankrupt and in liquidation. :)
03 Apr 2020 09:10:31
There is no Scotland's oil now (already been sold) Gazo, only a quid or two per barrel comes our way mate.
03 Apr 2020 11:08:11
Stop Bluebilly, more inaccuracy, fed to you by who? The very folk who sold it off on the cheap and didn't start an oil fund years ago despite the SNP suggesting they should. Any thoughts on the McCrone report?
03 Apr 2020 14:20:10
Seeing the country rally in this time of crisis reinforces my belief in the United Kingdom. Britain never ever shall be slaves!
03 Apr 2020 14:00:10
Gazo, no oil ever found in Scotland belonged to Scotland, it belonged to the British government,
03 Apr 2020 15:43:49
Does England not borrow, lots of things from Scotland, like water, electricity, gas, etc etc etc etc all for nothing.
04 Apr 2020 04:28:03
Paulellen I think that is the very issue Independence is about, a small oil rich country that should be as wealthy as Norway is saddled with debt for things it doesn't even see the benefit of. You are right it was found with Scotland as part of Britain, however some of us are sick to the back teeth not getting a government we voted for in majority terms, sick of not getting what we voted for from Brexit and equally sick of oil that IS Scottish in geographical terms getting used to finance England only projects.
And by the by Paulellen, just before Scotland got Holyrood Dewar and Blair signed off on a deal that gave vast swathes of Scottish east coast waters to England, they are now English waters, if we have all the same owner (UK Government) why was it even necessary?
04 Apr 2020 08:02:43
You're forgetting one major thing Gazo.
The majority of the country voted to stay as part of the UK. So all of the above Independence talk is irrelevant. ðŸ‘
And in regards to the NHS, that's a devolved power. We have a brand new Children's Hospital in Edinburgh 5 years overdue lying empty. We could have done with that in the current crisis. That's the SNP's fault.
The brand new QE2 Hospital in Glasgow has been plagued with issues and tragedy since it opened. That's also the SNP's remit.
And the SNP always worked their figures out in regards to oil when the price of a barrel was high - so all this Rainbow and Unicorn of how an independent Scotland would look under the SNP is pure Fantasy Island.
04 Apr 2020 15:51:17
Explain MrTupacman how in most comparable fields that the Scottish NHS outperforms the rest of the UK? Independent talk isn't irrelevant simply because the majority of the UK votes another way, it suggests that Scotland as a sovereign nation, which it is, is entitled to feel it should approach a different path, enough people permitting.
In 2014 we were told the oil was running out then miraculously new fields were found after the vote. As for oil I looked into this years ago in an Illinois based company, in the 30's their oil was 10c a barrel and while it fluctuates in short periods, even for several years at a time, the long term trend of oil prices is northwards, anyone who uses their eyes can see that.
Again I'll ask anyone keen to reply, any thoughts on the McCrone report? Any of you?