Obscenity of TV money

[They Gnu 11,553]

Just heard Cardiff City earned £103m from TV for their season in the EPL, outside of the Premiership only Spain’s big two earned more. A club with our fan base and we’re light years behind, it totally skewed .

[.Williamson. 82,016]

I actually like the standard of Scottish football in a really strange way

[BridgeIsBlue 66,604]

Why would anybody pump money into the game up here only to see stadiums that are 70% empty on live television? 

Football up here is fucked for good. 

[Moody Blue Legend 61,407]

Nice little earner for a Welsh club playing in the English leagues.   

Make it happen.....,

[They Gnu 11,553]

3 minutes ago, .Williamson. said:

I actually like the standard of Scottish football in a really strange way

In a perverse sort of a way I do to.

[Blue Avenger 22,567]

Look no further than those self serving incompetent cunts who run the game here.

We are in the fucking dark ages. Far less our top tier, just look at the nick of the tartan trannies ffs.

Progressive we are not. Taig infested we are. As long as the odds are stacked against the rest and the lion's share filters to nonce fc, nothing changes.

[BlueKnight87 17,281]

Just now, BridgeIsBlue said:

Why would anybody pump money into the game up here only to see stadiums that are 70% empty on live television? 

Football up here is fucked for good. 

Money that sky has been pumping into english football for years. Now you have BT and Amazon throwing money at it. 

We had the chance to stay with sky back when our league had a lot of quality in it. 

Us, taigs and sheep wanted to stay seeing the long term benefits. Rest voted to leave and it's been one bad tv deal after another. 

[pcbear 10,913]

9 minutes ago, They Gnu said:

Just heard Cardiff City earned £103m from TV for their season in the EPL, outside of the Premiership only Spain’s big two earned more. A club with our fan base and we’re light years behind, it totally skewed .

The standard of player and the football aint getting any better, it just means average players get superstar money.

[They Gnu 11,553]

37 minutes ago, pcbear said:

The standard of player and the football aint getting any better, it just means average players get superstar money.

True, I think we’d tank them and Fulham who got similar money.

[AlCapone 7,678]

38 minutes ago, BlueKnight87 said:

Money that sky has been pumping into english football for years. Now you have BT and Amazon throwing money at it. 

We had the chance to stay with sky back when our league had a lot of quality in it. 

Us, taigs and sheep wanted to stay seeing the long term benefits. Rest voted to leave and it's been one bad tv deal after another. 

Yeah. But if we had of stayed with Sky we wouldn’t be earning much more, you don’t sell many more tv packages because you have Scottish football 

[AlCapone 7,678]

41 minutes ago, pcbear said:

The standard of player and the football aint getting any better, it just means average players get superstar money.

The standard is way higher than it was 30 years ago, the top teams in England now would hump the great Liverpool teams 

[SeparateEntityMyArse 53,622]

Setanta. That's the solution.

[Courtyard Bear 41,357]

1 hour ago, .Williamson. said:

I actually like the standard of Scottish football in a really strange way

 

1 hour ago, They Gnu said:

In a perverse sort of a way I do to.

 

[Negri's lovechild 13,877]

31 minutes ago, SeparateEntityMyArse said:

Setanta. That's the solution.

You just have to wonder sometimes don't you?

[35 Yard Dangerman 3,475]

1 hour ago, .Williamson. said:

I actually like the standard of Scottish football in a really strange way

Same. Its shite. But it's an honest type of shite for the most part.

Prefer it to any other league to be perfectly honest.

 

[Bearsden bear 2,376]

50 minutes ago, SeparateEntityMyArse said:

Setanta. That's the solution.

They bastards still owe me money.

[BlueKnight87 17,281]

56 minutes ago, AlCapone said:

Yeah. But if we had of stayed with Sky we wouldn’t be earning much more, you don’t sell many more tv packages because you have Scottish football 

No where near the English leagues. But I think we would be on a much better deal than now. 

After setanta went bust we had to take whatever deal sky put on the table. 

[Reformation Bear 6,453]

Familiar poor quality games played by (in general) familiar poor quality players with (outside Rangers) deadbeat donkeys of managers with games officiated by taig-leaning familiar referees under a football association which is a serial cap-doffer to the taig team who think themselves the only team that matters in Scotland.

A backward football country going backwards ever faster where the traditional life and blood of the game is being drained out of it by those who run it and perform in it.   

Yeah, makes for prime financial investment with the potential for booming sales and world class football entertainment.

If we could, if there was enough of a will and a clear way, then we'd be far better off out of it.     But there isn't.    Even the latest reform talks for European games have collapsed with everyone seeming to say Plan A (whatever it was) now needs to be replaced by a Plan B (which nobody has).     The end result will be the EPL and the other big European leagues will continue to get richer and top clubs will be able to afford players we could never hope to attract whether financially or because the game here was so outstanding (because its not).

How about league reform in Scotland to try to improve the quality?   For a start get back to playing teams twice a season in league games and ban plastic pitches.    Keep on the same pathway the game is Scotland is currently on and imo all it is doing is travelling to a perpetual dark age of turgid hoofer and hacker type of football so far removed from the technical and entertaining excellence served up elsewhere by top clubs as to make the gap utterly unbridgeable.

The game here needs to reform for the better or if not it withers and finds its place settled as bottom dwellers of the European football heap.  And compared to the top performing leagues and clubs, only a few financial scraps off the table as far as TV money goes.  

[SIRB_72 3,987]

I remember hearing ages ago when Sevilla were winning the Europa League just about every year and getting into the CL that they had the budget of a English Championship side. Just shows you what can be done with a well run club.

Scottish football needs a total revamp from top to bottom from the leagues, to coaching, to the national side, to who runs the bodies. I'd even go as far and say the media cause they're part of the problem too. The whole thing is a fucking shambles so much so that about the most "innovative"thing Scottish football has done the last 5 years is put a penalty shootout and the end of League Cup group games!

 

[East Enclosure Row N 2,820]

2 hours ago, BridgeIsBlue said:

Why would anybody pump money into the game up here only to see stadiums that are 70% empty on live television? 

Football up here is fucked for good. 

Only 30k at Wembley tonight and they are live on ITV

[SeparateEntityMyArse 53,622]

1 minute ago, East Enclosure Row N said:

Only 30k at Wembley tonight and they are live on ITV

30k is excellent at Wembley when the game is at Southampton 😁

[35 Yard Dangerman 3,475]

Kosovo, population of 1.5m and giving them a game. 

[35 Yard Dangerman 3,475]

Kosovo would be up 2 nil on Scotland right now. These countries have their shit together these days. Scotland doesn't.

[Leeds_Bear 8,103]

2 hours ago, BridgeIsBlue said:

Why would anybody pump money into the game up here only to see stadiums that are 70% empty on live television? 

Football up here is fucked for good. 

Will never understand why clubs don’t fill up the three stands you can see on TV. 

Saying that, there’s a lot I don’t understand about the back water that is Scottish Football.

[Jelavic191 4,399]

2 hours ago, .Williamson. said:

I actually like the standard of Scottish football in a really strange way

It’s shite but at least it’s real football with passion and proper rivalry and hatred.