Hearts Game Moved Again, Back To Saturday - Spfl Shambles

[1690tamRFC 5,001]

Sporting integrity reigns supreme

To be fair, it was crazy moving it in the first place, as all last games should be the same KO times, for indeed "sporting integrity".

[Frank Reynolds 3,359]

[Wearethepeople72 1,847]

Playing it on the Saturday at the same time as all the other games is the right thing to do.

It's the fact that they didn't realise that and changed it to the Sunday that makes them so fucking stupid.

[Mr Soprano 13,964]

Hahahahaha :lol: :lol: what a fucking mess.

[eskbankloyal 19,446]

It's the right thing to do but what a fucking shambles. How that clown is still in a job I'll never know.

[Leeds_Bear 8,121]

The Tynecastle club released a brief statement that told fans not to make plans to travel to Ibrox on Sunday, May 3.

DR on the ball again!!!! Why the fuck would they be traveling to Ibrox?

To be fair - they are right in what they're saying.

[rfc_watp 1,503]

Standard SPFL fuck up. Ive come to expect this sort of shambles.

[jintybear 8,578]

To be fair - they are right in what they're saying.

True!

[B1872 20,878]

What time is kick off then?

[ElBufalo20 7,929]

It's all about the Rangers yet again. No one gives a fuck about the lower leagur kick off times before.

Now all of a sudden it's about tv coverage.

[Moody Blue Legend 61,774]

To be fair - they are right in what they're saying.

Covering all bases!

[onefootwillie 1,518]

They could not organise a piss up in a brewery that lot

[ThenNowForever 232]

Are we still on TV? I was looking forward to seeing this game as I don't think I can get a ticket

[broomloan blue nose 91]

Scottish football, total laughing stock because of this shower of wankers.they should be chased out as soon as poss.

[Gaz52 11,837]

All these women running football clubs these days, bitch & moan until they get what they want

[pcbear 10,924]

I'm so glad we have fit and proper leaders of the game in this country, to make it run like a Swiss watch

[Shuggy 1,308]

I assumed the other fixtures would move likewise to Sunday. What a cock up.

Mind you, perhaps Sky want Rangers in the Premiership next season and tried to pull a sneaky one.

I still think Sky have a clause in the secret TV deal to push the nuclear button if Rangers don't get promoted in May.

[NixonRFC 1,392]

I assumed the other fixtures would move likewise to Sunday. What a cock up.

Mind you, perhaps Sky want Rangers in the Premiership next season and tried to pull a sneaky one.

I still think Sky have a clause in the secret TV deal to push the nuclear button if Rangers don't get promoted in May.

I don't think they have but even if they did SKY only contribute a poxy £8m to the deal, I'm almost positive the SPFL could do a deal with BBC/STV and even increase their deal with BT Sports - I highly doubt a loss of SKY would be as devastating as it once would have been

[BLUEDIGNITY 33,684]

Ach it's only Rangers and their fans, jist throw them aboot like a scud book they'll dae fuck awe aboot it anyway, we've goat them where we want them !

[Ger77 742]

Between the Rangers debacle, the failure to get a league sponsor and now this embarrassment, one question;

How does this idiot Doncaster keep his job?

No wonder Scottish Football is down the pan.

[GioVB 8]

I know it's the rag - but this article is a decent effort at emphasising how bad those numpties that are supposed to be running our game have messed up the fixtures. This really could be total carnage!!!!

Michael Gannon: SPFL fixture farce means that sporting integrity has just left the building

• • 12:11, 16 April 2015
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  • by MichaelGannon

MICHAEL examines the unbelievable situation where league chiefs actually WANT certain teams to get beaten in the final run of matches.

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The post-split fixture list is a nightmare for fans and clubs alike

THE Dundee and District Dog and Duck Division seem to manage it.

The Forfar Fox and Hound Pitch and Toss Premiership don’t seem to struggle.

Even the Coatbridge Conkers 
Championship completed their campaign despite half the trees getting the chop.

It’s not that hard arranging a bunch of clubs and getting them to play each other in competition.

But it seems to be totally beyond our lot.

And it’s beyond a joke. The post-split fixtures in the Premiership are the usual minefield. The bottom six don’t know if they will be playing on the Friday or the Saturday and the Championship finale is a dog’s dinner.

Hearts facing Rangers 24 hours after Hibs finish their season? No wonder Hibs chief Leann Dempster is demanding the League protect its “unimpeachable sporting integrity”.

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Chief executive Leeann Dempster and Chairman Rod Petrie

Blimey. That’s super duper turbo charged sporting integrity. She’s got a point, though. What if Hibs are two points ahead of Rangers on the last day? Expecting any favours from the Jambos?

Thought so.

There’s farce all over the shop here and there’s more trouble on the way with an issue the SPFL have done their best to ignore for as long as possible.

It’s the dirty big brown envelope in the kitchen drawer that they have hoped would disappear but has been growing more menacing by the week.

Well, time’s up guys, the bailiffs are at the front door and the bruisers with the baseball bats are out the back.

Get your head around this. We are now in a situation where the SPFL are needing results to go their way to untangle the wretched mess they have created.

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Who will Neil Doncaster be cheering on at the end of the season?

Our administrative body actually WANT certain teams to get beaten.

Just let that sink in a second. It won’t just suit them if some teams get gubbed
– they are actually HOPING it happens.

There’s currently a Plan A in place for the play-offs and a Plan B. The latter would plunge the campaign into June and open up an entire world of problems.

The SPFL are set to hit the button next week if Hibs make the Scottish Cup Final.

It’ll bump the play-offs and set up a chain reaction of chaos.

So Neil Doncaster and Co are practically praying Falkirk beat the Hibees in the Scottish Cup on Saturday – and the Bairns get pumped out of the play-offs by Queen of the South beating Alloa.

Seriously. Doncaster will be watching the classifieds come in this weekend like a pub desperado clutching his coupon.

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Motherwell's general manager Alan Burrows

The alternative is a nightmare for the SPFL. If Rangers don’t get to the play-off final, the season is heading for chaos.

Hibs – or Falkirk for that matter – getting to the Cup Final and play-offs means mayhem for everyone involved.

The season will have to be shunted beyond May 31 and then all hell could break loose. It could throw up all kinds of mayhem with player contracts. As it stands, if Ross County get dragged down to the play-offs and it’s in June, they will only have three players available under contract.

Motherwell have potentially 17 men whose deals are up on May 31. If the games get bumped and Rangers eventually make it, they could be rushing around begging a dozen players to stay for another week.

The same guys who already know they are getting binned. Good luck with that one.

The way it’s heading we might as well shelf the play-offs and have a game of five-a-sides. The smart clubs will be making moves just now to cut it off at the pass. It won’t be easy, though. Any player who is up at the end of May can ask for the earth to hang about another week or so. Never mind postpone my holiday, weigh me in big style and I might give it some thought.

If fact, make it another year while you are at it. If not? I’m offski. All the best with promotion lads.

We’ve got a nightmare on our hands yet again – and that’s even before we swallow the annual s*** sandwich that is the 
post-split fixtures.

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A fan sends out a message to the SPFL at Celtic Park

We all just need to take a bite of that one, though, as usual. Celtic fans won’t have a Saturday 3pm kick-off until August.

Inverness could be playing Dundee United at 2am in the Royal Highland Hotel car park at this rate. The fixtures were late in coming out to boot. Give us strength.

Apparently the Police had a role to play in that one. Concerns about certain clashes. How’s about the Bobbies wait for the fixture list first and then worry about their rota, rather than the other way round?

Forget about the cops, though. When you have stumbled blindly into a situation where the governing bodies are keeping their fingers crossed for certain results you know you are in bother.

What if one of the clubs suffered a dodgy refereeing decision? It would totally reek if your team got sunk by a last-minute penalty and the result gets the SPFL out of a hole.

Unimpeachable sporting integrity? It has left the building. It’s bolted off to Brazil and is sinking pina coladas.

Football administrators are meant to be spread sheet folk. Stick the teams into the formula and let them get on with it.

Instead, our lot might be blindly 
staggering out of the Dog and Duck, hoping for the best that they wake up safely in their beds the next morning.

Meanwhile it’s a nightmare of a mess for the rest of us.

[Clemdog 39,389]

Doncaster is a fucking moron.

Hopefully gets it tight after, yet another, farce.

[sandyinroyalblue 16,478]

Doncaster will go when Lawwell tells him to go.

[simplythebest 11,453]

Doncaster ahead of Longmuir was a great decision...

[sandyinroyalblue 16,478]

Doncaster ahead of Longmuir was a great decision...

Longmuir had no chance after the mhedia and the usual haters portrayed him as pro Rangers.