And so it continues - SPFL clubs discuss contingency plans

Said it in the Monday papers thread

The narrative is being set, they will work some way to stop the league and not award us anything
They will stop it before a pre-determined number of games have been played and they then have their excuse not to award the title to us!

W.A.T.P.
 
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I want a full season unaffected by covid. No injuries no postponements no games in hand. We don't need any of that and it'll be all the sweeter without it if we win the league. I want no argument and no asterisks in this historic year.
 
Lot of needless panic here - the precedent was set last season, even our corrupt regime wouldn’t get away with a 360 turn. Also, there is no way we wont be able to complete at least 75% of games before May, so forget null and void. The only way trouble will arise is if we’re trailing them badly and that simply isn’t going to happen given the fixture pile up.

In short, relax everyone.
 
The League will be decided on alphabetical order with the letter A disqualified because the Sheep Fans pronounce it Eberdeen.

Although there may grounds for appeal as everyone of them think they watch Sellik.
 
Don’t get why it won’t finish , Especially now with testing in place, if any team has outbreaks like St Mirren has then they postpone games and play them at a later date.
 
Up until May this year, I felt exactly the same.

Now - as long as we have an incontestable lead and everyone is at the same amount of games played - I want them to call the league and get our team photo with the trophy the next day! Just to rub their noses in it.

We'll come back stronger than ever, retain our championship for our 150th season and get direct entry into the Champions League.

Let them choke on that, too!
Doesn't need to be an incontestable lead. We could have caught them last season. Thistle got relegated despite having games in hand which could have taken them out of relegation place.

Doesn't matter. They will call it as early as possible if we are too far ahead and null and void it. If they go 1 point ahead it will be sporting merit, precedent set last season.

It will be impossible to get an answer out of them to what they intend doing. They are only interested in how it ends with us fucked again.
 
So they are confirming that the administration of the professional game in Scotland is run by amateurs who cannot consider making a call on this before the season was started.

Its not like they had an idea it could happen or had any form of precedent .....

Clownboots - the lot of them
There was an opportunity to create a rule if the scenario arose again.
Instead of taking such a simple step, they wanted powers to decide on an ad-hoc basis, obviously dependent on how the mentally challengeds were doing at any given time.

Scottish football deserves to watch us win the title.
 
'If we've learned anything from last season it's that it's not fair to hand out trophies based on incomplete seasons, regardless of how many points Rangers are ahead the season must be played to a conclusion or it'll be null and void'.

'No, last season's decision still stands. We must now all pull together for the good of the Scottish game.'
 
You just know in which direction this will go, depending who is on top at certain times.

I have massive concerns how this will be handled. Massive concerns.
 
We would need to be at least ten points clear which is highly unlikely. They calculation they used last season to declare the winner was “they wur gonna win it anywiy“, the precedent has been set. Not even slimy bass lolwell could stop the exact same shit happening again just because it’s not his club.
Decision was average points, nothing to do with how big a lead they had.

Hibs lost a place (and strangely still voted for it)
 
In the interest of sporting integrity should it not be possible to play the season to completion the SPFL board have decided that table standings should be ignored and the league awarded to the team that has won it most in the past decade. Obviously they would have won it this time out and anyone saying otherwise is an anti-Irish racist bigot.
 
Lot of needless panic here - the precedent was set last season, even our corrupt regime wouldn’t get away with a 360 turn. Also, there is no way we wont be able to complete at least 75% of games before May, so forget null and void. The only way trouble will arise is if we’re trailing them badly and that simply isn’t going to happen given the fixture pile up.

In short, relax everyone.
Null and void would mean them not getting their 10 in a row so it ain’t going to happen as you say.

FYI, a 360 turn means you are going the same way as before you started your turn :D, but there should certainly not be a 180 deg turn.
 
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They cant make an early decision as that would leave no wiggle room. Best to play along and then make a call on null and void or awarding a title when they need to ( if Celtic are behind, null and void will become flavour of the day). If Celtic are in front then of course it might be better to award as was the case last year. To go into a season and have this as an open ended item is nuts. But expected with this lot.
 
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The fear is for them if season comes to an end due to current Covid situation and we re top this time without new powers they would have to hand it to us. but! If they get the powers they’ll come up with a way of not giving it to us Or dragging it out.
you can guarantee they won’t just go nah seasons can’t be finished so rangers are champions!
They’re like the SNP keep having a vote until u get what they want.
 
Are they looking for carte blanche again? Then they'll be quite rightly told to fuck off again.

The protocol should have been set in place before the season started because we all knew covid would inevitably cause disruption again. It's pretty simple stuff and something you'd hope someone earning 400k a year would understand.
 
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Null and void would mean them not getting their 10 in a row so it ain’t going to happen as you say.

FYI, a 360 turn means you are going the same way as before you started your turn :D, but there should certainly not be a 180 deg turn.

I agree 110%. Smileys dont work.
 
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I’m afraid some of you expect fairness and equity. We are not dealing with people who play by the rules, they make the rules to suit their preferred outcome.
If we remain ahead when the league is stopped they will state that this season is different to last due to The fact that <insert made up pish here>.

1. last year was called because the beaks couldn’t see that games would return before the summer.

2. Celtic bribed Dundee to change their vote.

This year it’s unlikely sport will be ceased but we may end up with such a high backlog of games due to postponements that Lawwell and Doncaster will work out a way to void the league.

this of course will only kick in if we are in pole position.

do not expect fairness.
 
I’m afraid some of you expect fairness and equity. We are not dealing with people who play by the rules, they make the rules to suit their preferred outcome.
If we remain ahead when the league is stopped they will state that this season is different to last due to The fact that <insert made up pish here>.

1. last year was called because the beaks couldn’t see that games would return before the summer.

2. Celtic bribed Dundee to change their vote.

This year it’s unlikely sport will be ceased but we may end up with such a high backlog of games due to postponements that Lawwell and Doncaster will work out a way to void the league.

this of course will only kick in if we are in pole position.

do not expect fairness.
Amen to that
 
So this has taken till mid October, full round of fixtures and it is intent to hold a consultation , the outline of which they do not seem to have. So that probably will not be out till November. It is complete mismanagement.
 
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