SCOTTISH football last night stood on the brink of revolution amid fears more than one SPL club is going to the wall.

 

Record Sport understands a move towards the restructuring of the SPL will start as soon as this season's championship and relegation issues have been decided.

 

Concerned chairmen have been holding emergency talks in secret for weeks. Matters are now coming to a head in advance of financial figures being released which will show the catastrophe that's on the way unless the Top Twelve is expanded into an 18-team league.

 

SPL chairmen met at Hampden yesterday as calls mounted for a change of direction and even the SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster has now publicly admitted the split isn't the answer to falling crowds and declining standards.

 

One concerned club spokesman said: "There are balance-sheet figures about to come out which are appalling.

 

"Clubs will go to the wall. unless there's change across the board, and soon.

 

"We can't go on paying salaries that the clubs just can't afford. Income must become relative to clubs' expenditure.

 

"Chairmen have been talking to each other in the background but it would be inappropriate to speak out before the major issues have been settled.

 

"Scottish football needs restructuring because the game is the big picture.

 

"If you sort out the product then the financial picture gets better in time.

 

"It might be sore to begin with, and income might drop by as much as 30 per cent, but if we don't take steps to find our true level then there will be serious consequences."

 

Rangers manager Walter Smith has already stated his preference for an 18-team Premier League, reducing the number of fixtures to 34.

 

That would take away the complaint that the same teams are meeting each other too many times during the season.

 

Support for that change to the current system was growing last night .

 

Formal moves to alter the structure of the SPL and redraw the remainder of the clubs in the Scottish Football League are now only a matter of weeks away.

 

Taken from the Daily Retard so may be utter bollocks, but I certainly hope not.

Scottish football ran by utter arseholes.

Get the impression that these meetings are pretty much like the scene at 3:30 in this clip

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8xv_WPOl_4

Get the impression that these meetings are pretty much like the scene at 3:30 in this clip

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8xv_WPOl_4

 

Not available on mobiles . Get tae fuck.

Have to say that I can see why smaller teams are wanting to study financial model put forward by SPL. Not as if SPL have a great track record when it comes to finances.

Due dilligence in football. Hahahaha

I see the two pricks are up for spearheading the new SPFL, obviously I know they would gave interviews, but I hope they go for someone with a fresh approach and drive.

I see the two pricks are up for spearheading the new SPFL, obviously I know they would gave interviews, but I hope they go for someone with a fresh approach and drive.

 

Cockwomble appointed as the leader

 

Neil Doncaster has been appointed as chief executive of the Scottish Professional Football League.

The Englishman, who was chief executive of the Scottish Premier League, has beaten off the challenge of Scottish Football League counterpart David Longmuir to lead the new 42-club organisation.

Both men were interviewed by a three-man panel at Hampden Park on Wednesday, which was reported to be Aberdeen chief executive Duncan Fraser, Celtic director Eric Riley, former Scottish Premier League chairman Ralph Topping and Stenhousemuir director Bill Darroch.

An SPFL statement read: "The Remuneration and Appointment Committee of the SPFL can advise that Neil Doncaster has been appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer of the SPFL.

"The SPFL looks forward to continuing with the implementation of one representative body and the commencement of season 2013/14 for the benefit of all 42 member clubs."

Doncaster appeared to be the clear favourite after the merger agreement was held up last week partly by the emergence of an outstanding £100,000 bonus for Longmuir, of which some SFL board members were unaware.

The limited selection pool has been widely criticised but it is believed that considering a fresh candidate could have fallen foul of employment law.

Doncaster's most important and pressing task is to secure a sponsor for the new league with the season starting four weeks on Saturday.

 

 

Longmuir did the interview wi his cock out.

Panel: What are your strengths, Neil?

 

Neil: I'm not David Longmuir.

 

Panel: You're hired.

The limited selection pool has been widely criticised but it is believed that considering a fresh candidate could have fallen foul of employment law.

 

eh?

eh?

 

Presume ti will have been TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment Regulations) where if your contract is taken over by another company you have rights to employment.

How convenient. I'm sure there were several alternatives that could have been followed which may have resulted in a better appointment for the good of the game in Scotland, but this was the cheapest and easiest route to go. Then again I'm sure there were more than enough grounds for dismissal last year, jobs for the boys eh!

The law was introduce to protect low income workers in particular cleaners - not cunts like those two.

Duncan Fraser is the only one of these cunts we have a chance of doing anything about. Get him to fuck.

The 3 man panel that was made up of 4 men?! High quality reporting there...

Two months on Doncaster has still to find a sponsor...

 

SPFL chief Neil Doncaster insists “uncertainty” remains the key reason that the Scottish leagues remain without a sponsor.

With Clydesdale Bank’s deal to name the SPL running out at the end of last season, the newly formed four tier SPFL is still searching for a title sponsor, almost a month into the season.

Speaking at the draw for the third round of the League Cup, Doncaster said that “lengthy conversations” were still taking place with potential backers but added that the uncertainty of the summer was still having an effect.

He said: “Work is ongoing to bring in a title sponsor for the league and also to support the League Cup.

“There has been a huge amount of uncertainty as to what any sponsor would be getting involved with.

“It is only since the end of June that we have agreed the way forward for a single league covering all 42 clubs.

“Conversations are ongoing and we’re extremely hopeful of getting the right sponsor in to be part of an exciting time in Scottish football.

 

 

Two months on Doncaster has still to find a sponsor...

 

What a waste of a shirt

I know not SPL related, but still.  Seems like Armageddon is around the corner...

 

 

Raith Rovers have posted an £81,350 profit.

 

 

They truly are a well run club.