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I know I don't tune in if the game doesn't feature Aberdeen there must be several thousand others like me and the same again for other non OF teams throughout the UK so I'd be interested what the projected difference between gaining that audience on top of all the Tims that will tune in to watch their team against losing the Hun subscriptions. An SPLTV isn't just going to show one game a week like ESPN or SKY do. I understand your point regarding advertising revenues dropping for a purely SPLTV station but I'd counter that by honestly saying I'd pay twice what I do for ESPN if Aberdeen were on once a month minimum. Add to that; what's to stop that business model buying UK rights for say the German or more pertinently some Eastern European leagues and generating additional subscriptions and advertising revenue from the UK's immigrant populations. I also understand your points regarding accessible highlights programs and we are 15 years too late to that party but to not try seems defeatist. Also for kids is the standard of football really that important? Surely at that age its about establishing loyalties and gaining brand recognition. I also don't think there are Spanish games on Terrestrial TV either and there's no reason why a terrestrial highlights can't be timed to be after MOTD on a Sunday morning. I also realise there are very few homes without SKY nowadays. I just consider this the ideal opportunity for the SPL to sort out the balance of power and try to implement positive change to the game. To not even try really is the death knell of Scottish football. I realise the jungle jims have never done anything for the good of Scottish football but standing up to them now without their bastard brothers to back them up could result in that ability to be taken away. And really who cares if they walk the league for the next 4 or 5 years minimum if at the end of it there is a chance (however slight that may be) that we end up with a more competitive league.

Is having the ability to show more games that do not feature one or other of the the OF really narrowing you audience? Likewise is a highlights program on terrestrial TV at a decent time and thus available to the younger generation narrowing your audience? Surely the Tims by themselves would one not weild the power to arse rape the rest of the league and two not have the wish to do so for the exact reason you have posted? This is true but surely a major consideration in the discussions in how to proceed following the demise of the Huns.

Aye if Sky want to pull out the non old firm part of the SPL surely wouldn't be that worse off if SPLTV was started with a fair distribution of revenue. I'm sure we'd also get a bit of cash for a terrestrial highlights show that can be shown at a decent time on a Saturday evening or repeated on a Sunday morning.

It's no surprise to me that he's not been paying HMRC when it looks likely that his plan all along was to take the club into administration to avoid paying the £50 odd million liability.

Livingston Rangers Football Club? Even installing Catholics as the management team to put people off the scent.

HMRC will have to weigh up the value of the assets and what percentage of that they are entitled too, if the club is liquidated, against the the value offered by a set amount in the pound with a given timescale that a going concern can pay at.

So basically what I said earlier today?

It would be really quite funny and contain more than hint of karmic retribution if he was one of the players let go by the administrators with only a small percentage of his contract paid up.

I'm sure with only 9 months as a Director it will be hard for any of the following to be pinned solely on Whyte 1)Failure to submit annual accounts to Companies House on time 2)Failure to submit annual returns to Companies House on time 3)Excessive salaries or drawings when the company was plainly insolvent 4)Trading on when he or she knew the company was insolvent (trading whilst knowingly insolvent) 5)Continuing to take credit when there was "no reasonable prospect" of creditors being paid. 6)Misrepresentation of the facts about the company 7)Failure to respond or comply with a liquidator's requests That will depend on what interested parties are prepared to pay. The administrators will try to get as much as possible for it but buyers will be conscious of the implications of a large mortgage on a Stadium to any future football club. Fair enough.

Not sure, just something I picked up from somewhere and can't find where now, I think the suggestion was; that was part of the deal in securing the club for a quid. Didn't really make any sense to me as I thought, according to UEFA, football debts had to be repaid first and I believe they owe money to at least Hearts, Sone Aluko and Dundee Utd. But... What would be stopping Whyte being the one creating the new Hun club? With his mother or similar buying Ibrox for a fraction of it's value and starting again without the threat of the HMRC case? I suppose it'll be said that he gambled on Europe and they failed but it seems incredibly short sighted not to have factored that into his business plan when he bought a club on the brink and haemorrhaging money 9 months ago, and lest we forget the guy is a chancer who seems to have always had an angle that worked in his past business dealings. Plenty of them about, for sure, but few who seem to have pulled it off so successfully over a sustained period of time.

With the suggestion that Administration happened now (rather than later) because Whyte would lose his preferred creditor status had HMRC won their Tax case. What's the likelihood that Whyte as a major creditor could force the Huns into liquidation, allowing someone to start-up "Glesga Huns Fitba Club" thus avoiding the HMRC case altogether? Or is that a bit too Moon landings, to be likely?

I assumed it was a made up group for the sake of a Standard Grade art project.

I take a Berocca most mornings now to get rid of the hangover and a spoonful of manuka honey to stop me getting AIDS.

Nah he was let off once it was revealed he paid more Tax than the Huns and Diet Huns combined.

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They'll be raking up penalties like nobodies business. First rule of running a business is always pay your tax liabilities first. With this and the Huns problems we could see a domino effect of clubs folding around Scotland.

They do have a transfer window. The English (and I thought the Scottish started this season) football leagues also have a loan window that runs 8th September to 25th November and 8th February to 24th March. In which clubs can loan a player on an "emergency" loan for up to a maximum of 93 days in one season with no recall within the first 28 days unless the player is a goalkeeper. Youth loans are for players under 21 and can be open ended with no recall within the first 28 days at all (whether the player is an outfield player or goalkeeper). These rules have applied in the Football League since the inception of transfer windows but FIFA are unhappy with them and have told the Football League that all loans outside of a transfer window must be abolished by the 2014-15 season.

I'm sure Chris will enjoy furthering his career in League Two.

Didn't realise she was an Alford quine. She's been writing top songs for other folk and just about to release her own stuff, what's the chance I can be the first* to suggest she clubs together with Annie Lennox and buys the Dons??? (*Coming to all lesser Dons forums soon as an exclusive rumour)

Hope you don't work in payroll.

and Foster

Just think Murray would have won multiple grand slams by now, if he'd only put as much focus into his tennis as Rocket does into disliking him.

What if you don't want to enjoy you life though? What if you are Tom Widdows?