http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/aberdeen/1331176-the-real-state-of-the-scottish-game-how-our-top-flight-compares-to-europe/

 

Interesting read and confirms what we all expected, Neil Doncaster is an absolute moron and selling the league short. The latest deal would be a prime example. TV companies must have laughed him out the building with their agreement, given the probable hunnery promotion.

 

Also, surprisingly our wage bill is 50% higher than the 3rd highest wage bill.  I'm presuming it is the Arabs but could be wrong.  You could argue that on that basis alone we should be achieving a bit more.

It certainly shows that we could do a bit better on the TV deal, but the main issue in our league is the wealth distribution, and everyone knows it. The dons' 50% higher wage bill is no real surprise (with the HIV duo being in the championship the main driver I would think). The dons fully bought into taking up the hun position in the league of being better than the rest whilst retaining the 11-1 voting system. The percentage of the money that comes into the game that goes directly to one club is the biggest problem in our game, which the stats only slightly touch on, and is completely protected by our voting system. The 5x multiplier on wages from 1st to 2nd or 7.5x to 3rd shows that the sport in this country isn't actually a sport. Anything that Doncaster does over and above this reality is irrelevant. Does anyone really give a fuck if we get £5M extra from our TV deal, if that money is only re-distributed in the same fashion? I think Scottish fitba has got its wages and investment at about the right level in society, with players getting paid a premium on yer average punter's salary, but not some obscene EPL fantasy wage. For me it all comes down to whether we want to improve the league as a whole, or remain as single entities chasing individual exponential growth and decreased competition. Scottish fitba (not just Scottish fitba, obviously) is a perfect mirror of crony capitalism in society but in the guise of a sport. It's a bit fucked up really.

The wage bill is total wages players and 'suitage' we are over burdened with non football salaried staff so it wont all be players wages