Ozblue 4,331 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Saw this on the BBC Sports page just a minute ago.http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/motherwell/8615637.stm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossDas 1,071 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Can't say I blame them; the split is a joke and it's past time to scrap it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
derekweir29 505 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 The split idea is a fucking joke TBH, and a rather strange concept of a league structure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozblue 4,331 Posted April 12, 2010 Author Share Posted April 12, 2010 I think most people would regard it as a total joke and a concept that should be scrapped.When you look at the bottom 6 for instance,Aberdeen play 20 home games and 18 away games... the other 5 sides play 19 each home & away.How fair is that when relegation from the SPL will cost a team a motza.Weird science indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueballss 2,969 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 every year teams feel an injustice, go back to normal league structure, no problems at all, while their at it expand to 16 or 18 team format!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orangeclement 570 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 heres an idea , stop saying no to an exanded league then you wont have this fixture pish oh wait thats right you'll lose revenue that way as well , we'd be as well asking them when and where you want to play as your never fucking happy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Stars Bearette 1 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 I think the split doesn't work...something unfair always happens to someoneSt Mirrin are also annoyed about their Falkirk fixtures Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lando 249 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Is SPL the only league that has split fixtures? Just wondering. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossDas 1,071 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 I think most people would regard it as a total joke and a concept that should be scrapped.When you look at the bottom 6 for instance,Aberdeen play 20 home games and 18 away games... the other 5 sides play 19 each home & away.How fair is that when relegation from the SPL will cost a team a motza.Weird science indeed.I knew those scum would get the benefit of the split, and they need those home games less than their relegation rivals.Hopefully Falkirk and St Mirren can use this as dressing room material and Aberdeen will get relegated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemc 305 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Is SPL the only league that has split fixtures? Just wondering.Austria do it and Belgium have donr something similar but 8 teams in 2 groups from what i can make out Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaD CoW 3 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 The SPL is a joke the spilt never works. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieD 18,940 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 What exactly is supposed to be the benefit of the split? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueshoff 11,810 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 They are lucky that they aren't made to play all their games away from home because of the state of their midden of a pitch.However the split is a total joke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_RFC87 761 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 The split Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boab 73 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 The whole of Scottish football needs shaken up.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_McLeish Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofb1988 61 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 did i hear him say parkhead has the best atmosphere in scotland Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castilian 8 Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 In 2008 Rangers were handed consecutive away fixtures to Celtic after the split. One of those was a "pre-split" game that had been postponed in January. We still had two other "pre-split" games outstanding - Motherwell and St Mirren.The Celtic fixtures were in between the UEFA Cup semi-Finals, so we had Celtic-Fiorentina-Celtic-Fiorentina.Why did we not play St Mirren in place of the first Celtic fixture. We would have to have played them, if they needed points to get into the top six, so it would have been possible.In my opinion we were deliberately given the hardest possible end to the season, when we were trying for a European Final.Who was involved in the decision making process? What was the rationale behind this fixture allocation? Two away games at Celtic Park between trips to Florence. We ended up winning neither the League nor the UEFA Cup.If people in Scotland want to talk about corruption in Scottish football, look no further than season 2007-08. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castilian 8 Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 In 2008 Rangers were handed consecutive away fixtures to Celtic after the split. One of those was a "pre-split" game that had been postponed in January. We still had two other "pre-split" games outstanding - Motherwell and St Mirren.The Celtic fixtures were in between the UEFA Cup semi-Finals, so we had Celtic-Fiorentina-Celtic-Fiorentina.Why did we not play St Mirren in place of the first Celtic fixture. We would have to have played them, if they needed points to get into the top six, so it would have been possible.In my opinion we were deliberately given the hardest possible end to the season, when we were trying for a European Final.Who was involved in the decision making process? What was the rationale behind this fixture allocation? Two away games at Celtic Park between trips to Florence. We ended up winning neither the League nor the UEFA Cup.If people in Scotland want to talk about corruption in Scottish football, look no further than season 2007-08.In addition to the above, our last game of the season was at Aberdeen.Celtic were allowed to postpone a game (against Rangers) because of the death of a former player, whilst the Dundee United team, who witnessed Phil's death, were not allowed to have their next game postponed. Every team had to play on Gretna / Motherwell's glue pot pitch, except Celtic, who played one of the Gretna games at Livingston's ground.Equity? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozblue 4,331 Posted April 13, 2010 Author Share Posted April 13, 2010 Is SPL the only league that has split fixtures? Just wondering.I watch football from all over the world and the SPL is the only one that I know of that has a split where teams get cut with 5 games to go and some teams play more at home than away or vice-versa.....Maybe some fuckin diddy place likeWhiddleydiddleystan has picked up the concept but ain't telling us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castilian 8 Posted April 13, 2010 Share Posted April 13, 2010 Is SPL the only league that has split fixtures? Just wondering.I watch football from all over the world and the SPL is the only one that I know of that has a split where teams get cut with 5 games to go and some teams play more at home than away or vice-versa.....Maybe some fuckin diddy place likeWhiddleydiddleystan has picked up the concept but ain't telling us.It's to cut down on the number of fixtures. Clubs would have to play 44 games if we played each other 4 times. Could you imagine the crisis that would have caused, in the season of Rangers UEFA Cup Final? That season we played 38 league games, 19 games in Europe, and also played in two Cup Finals. Could you imagine if we had to play another 6 league games?There are alternatives - a 10 team league playing 4 times, but that was thought to be too small a league. A 14 team league would mean playing three times, or having 52 game league if we played 4 times. A 16 team league playing twice or an 18 team league playing twice. The last option is where we moved from back in 1975.Despite it's crtics, I think the split is a reasonable way of reducing the fixtures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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