RicoS321

I don't believe there is a player in our game that gives a shite whether their team makes £100K more for finishing an extra place higher in the league. They want to win because that's what the game is about. Same as I do when I play at sports village or goals. I'm not preventing the issue of win bonuses either, which they may give a crap about because it directly affects them. The "cash for places" is only ever brought out after a team doesn't get the money. For example, the dons missed out on 250K last season by finishing third, but I can guarantee that no player in that team (nor McInnes I expect) gave a shite about the cash - they wanted to finish second. Money talks, perhaps, but there is only one team that would be significantly financially affected by sharing the wealth amongst the other teams - the Tims. If we split the £20M the tims made in prize money alone the season before last (don't have recent seasons figures, but expect it'd be in the teens(£millions)) and split it evenly amongst the teams in the division along with the existing SPFL prize funds, then every other team would be better off from day one and it would instantly make the league stronger. So I'm not convinced it's a case of money talks, more a case of fear of change/risk and a happy as we are mentality.

I'm not suggesting all players get paid the same. I'm suggesting that teams begin the season with a known budget as the league payments are the same for every team. How a team spends that budget (one ace player, ten shite) is up to them. If Aberdeen play well and get good crowds then that boosts their budget, but the extremity of the current system where Celtic get nearly all the revenue that comes into the Scottish game can only be changed by making it fair for everyone and giving everyone the same starting chance.

Aye, that was f'n shocking today like. Stopping the play at the end of the first half was worse than thon chunt (Thompson was it?) a month or so ago. It was calculated, he actually waited until Hayes was through before pulling it back. The red card was f*cked up ina. The linesman waited 2 or 3 seconds before waving his flag roon like a feel. Ruined the last part of that game, Utd were more likely to score when we had 11 (still very unlikely) as we just shut out the entire space. Hopefully the card will be rescinded. I'm nae sure now is the right time for the club to be making a massive deal about it. Either way, you ken some jumped up hun-tim cunt will be making it impossible for us against them in a few weeks.

Wow, really? That really is a sad state of affairs if true. It's a sport, about being the best. It has f*ck all to do with the money. Crowds will improve the better ye play - there's yer money. I love winning when I play fitba, and it has f*ck all to do with money. One of the things I'm slightly concerned about if the huns don't get up any time soon, is that we've just bought two captains of our rivals this season. I dinna want us massively outspending teams around us, that's nae much fun. If we want an equitable and sporting league, with 16 (or even just 12) strong teams, then it's important to get them all to a decent standard. The more equal the league is, the better it will be. We can all improve together for the betterment of the whole league. Split the euro income and I might even support the tims in europe (nae likely!). Not only do the above, but market the shiite out of it. Make it known that we have "the fairest league in the world", and make a big play on the equality and excitement. Talk it up. There's a huge niche there with our neighbours to the south being an embarrassment of plastic wealth. Make our league the antithesis of theirs, and milk it to death. Make Scottish fitba fashionable, and unique. The whole team x wins, team x gets mair cash, team x wins again formula is what drives people away. If we want teams like QOTS in our league, then we need to make them strong. Share the wealth man..

Fit Tubs says. I wrote an article (or rant, more apt) on dons mad saying that if we could have a serious look at our revenue sharing, TV agreements (SPL TV) and move to a 16 team league then I couldnae give a f*ck fit happened to the huns (this was at the time when they were just going to be shoe-horned back into the top flight). To me, 16 teams is progressive and we can easily accommodate it (adding any four of Hertz, Hibs, Huns, Falkirk, QOTS, Raith; even Dunfermline, Livi) and would give us a solid base of good teams. One of the key things for me at the time was the horrendous blackmail we were subjected to as SPL clubs - via Doncaster - warned of the terrible loss of revenue if the hun were not invited straight back into the league. With nothing changed since their departure, we're inviting that blackmail once again. If der scum win the play-offs, then we're back to Killie etc budgeting for them remaining and the crowds that brings. I suggested at the time of their demise that the only way that we can ensure that this situation didn't happen again would be to move to a 16 team league and have us only "relying" on the single visit of Tim/Hun per season. Otherwise, it's a case of sitting back and waiting to see how long it takes for the hun to re-establish themselves in helicopter sunday "excitement". Personally, I'd go further and remove the cash prizes for league placings and split evenly across the division, as well as taking a large percentage of euro prize funds (not gate receipts) back into the league. Last season, I think it was over 70% of the cash coming into our game went to one team. That's not sport.

Fit will be your lasting legacy like? Ye intending blowing up a school? Weird cunt.

Aye in the garage makin shite oot o' wid mainer section C Straight hame to mak the wife supper

Surely the only input to the fixtures that the TV companies would have is look at the draft list and decide which games they'd like to televise and thus move to Sunday (or Friday or Monday etc.)? I'd like to think that they have no sway in organising the fairest distribution of fixtures in our league.

Aye aye mins. Will be whoorin masel atween here and AbMad for a while. Adverts preventing use of dons mad. This place seems pretty cool. I will try not to be a total dick.

That wisnae a nice response. Anyway, the goals of war-mongering and scientific understanding are complete opposites, but the funding of Trident is far more likely to be diverted from food provision than those allocated to CERN. Additionally, scientific understanding is exactly the way we should be spending our money. These human goals are precisely what we need to actually progress as a race. Food provision is merely a supply chain issue. We have the technology already to feed the entire planet (and more) we simply choose not to. Indeed, capitalism cannot solve the problem of food shortages as it's built in requirement of profit (and perpetual growth) ensures that someone will always not be able to afford to feed themselves. By suggesting we divert funds to feed the poor, you're effectively providing the QE of food provision. You're capitalism's bailout, socialising the risks of profit at all costs. Probably.