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Most of those are completely unenforceable
3 and 4 should be league requirements.
Most of those are completely unenforceable
I've wanked to worse
Where does the money come from?3 and 4 should be league requirements.
The product on the pitch, in general, is shite in Scotland. We were brought up in a different time when there wasn't na option of what you did for your entertainment - you played football, you watched grandstand, you went to the football. We were a captive audience.Scottish football will never attract big TV money. It doesn't have the marketable stars that foreign TV companies will want to show. It's basically schedule filler. For UK broadcasters? Pretty much the same thing. There's a bigger attraction for lower league English football than for top flight Scottish football.
What we really need is to sell our game to fans. Get more fans though the doors of clubs. We have an ageing fanbase and have had for the past 30 years. I went to my first Rangers game in 1987 (3-1 win over Dunfermline if I remember correctly) when I was just about to turn 8. Growing up I was one of the few in my class who went to football games on a Saturday afternoon.
If we don't get fans through the turnstiles then we won't have a game to try to sell to TV. Get more fans to go along on a Saturday. Change the age profile of your typical Scottish football fan. A bigger and younger crowd opens up marketing opportunities but the key thing is trying to ensure that clubs have a fan base in the first place. Too many clubs are losing fans to old age, illness or disengagement with the game.
Have commentators who actually like the game, and have them commentate.
The idea of a commentator is to describe the game. Why, then, is the standard for scottish football commentary to have incredibly long periods of dead air? I counted a few times during our Europa League run last season, and Rob Maclean was having up to 95 seconds with him saying nothing while play went on. Our commentators just sound like they want to be anywhere else.
Also, just listing the players' names is not commentary (especially when you get them wrong). This is a standard but of commentary on our games - "McGregor. Tavernier. Tavernier to Jack. Arfield. Kent. Morelos. Mo-RE-LOOos. Well, you could see what he was trying. Headed back by Goldson."
Beyond Tavernier giving the ball to Jack, and Goldson heading the ball back, we've been told nothing whatsoever about what's happening. Did McGregor roll it to Tav? Did Tav come short? Where were Tav and Jack respectively when the pass was played? Did Arfield run into the halfspace to make space for Jack to pass? How did Kent get past his marker? Did he go inside or outside? Where was Alfie when he picked up the ball? What did he do? What part of the goal did he hit the ball towards? Left or right foot? Powered, passed, curled or chipped? Was it saved by a diving keeper? Caught comfortably? Wide? Over the bar? How did the ball end up with Goldson heading it back? What part of the pitch was he at?
What has that commentator actually added to the viewing experience? Compare with Archie, McNee, Tyler, Motson who all actually told the story of the game they were watching, or more recently the American boys who commentated on the tournament we were at in Florida - sure, there were a fair few alien sounding terms used, but the commentary added to what we were watching, not took away from it.
Some folk will do anything to see a fannyNaked Michael Stewarts........
Pricing at the NFL can be horrific, entrance and beers, etc. I love it as a sport but it’s priced beyond many.The product on the pitch, in general, is shite in Scotland. We were brought up in a different time when there wasn't na option of what you did for your entertainment - you played football, you watched grandstand, you went to the football. We were a captive audience.
Now, our kids can see practically any game in the world, with more skill and entertainment on display. Yes, we can bore them shitless by telling them what Rangers means to us, but unless that can be parlayed into an enjoyable experience then they aren't going to embrace it and ultimately, this great institution will be a relic of a bygone age.
On field, there needs to be an outlawing of the more industrial sort of stuff that is the standard across Scotland. Teams need to be encouraged to play football, not hoof all.
We need a full root and branch overhaul of the match day experience too - think NFL and MLB style fan zones, decent food, pricing structures that make every game accessible to everyone (prices start at £5), seats that are comfortable, stewards and police who are there for safety reasons - not to criminalise folk.
I know there are some who are reading this and recoiling in horror, cause that's not what football is all about. Maybe not to you, but it's about making it attractive to the next generation. Nae offence, Da, but your money is guaranteed.
Americans would lap up all the history stuff for example.
True about the NFL (depending on team) but certainly baseball has a pricing structure that makes it open to most. What we could do better in the style of the NFL is treating fans like they matter. The fanzone idea for one. Why can't the car park area between the underground and the megastore get used for tailgate party style events? The only reason I see for it not to be is because over the years we've been conditioned, and allowed the idea to be perpetuated, that football fans mean trouble.Pricing at the NFL can be horrific, entrance and beers, etc. I love it as a sport but it’s priced beyond many.
I assume your cheap pricing is for clubs that struggle to sell tickets? If so, yes, a good idea.
The quality of the product needs to improve and that comes down to a cultural change and training kids on how to play with the ball.
Our home games sell out, so the tv companies will want to show their games to a larger audience. Not sure where you are going with this?STOP SHOWING LIVE GAMES FROM SHIT STADIUMS
Show our matches from the best stadiums.
Theres a start.
STOP SHOWING LIVE GAMES FROM SHIT STADIUMS
Show our matches from the best stadiums.
Theres a start.
Where does the money come from?
I hate plastic pitches. Did the money come from the local authorities or the clubs? The clubs will plead poverty and cite rental usage. The SFA should demand they are replaced.The same place the money came from tearing up the pitches in the first place. On the gantry issue, 30/40 years ago the TV companies stuck their main cameras on a cherrypicker at Somerset Park, Douglas Park, East End Park, etc. The broadcasters should be absorbing that cost. Instead of a subbuteo scaffold like at Inverness, Falkirk & Hamilton
but i enjoy flicking over to see the sheep playing in an empty stadium it makes me happy puts a smile on my faceTV money in Scotland is influenced by how watchable the average SPFL team is, so it's in our interest for all games to be more watchable on TV. There are a lot of simple ways to make games look better on TV that don't involve having to bring in World class players. Here are some rules I'd propose that would make Scottish football a better TV product and improve the value of the TV contract:
(1) If a club's average attendance falls below 60% of capacity over a season the club must:
(a) Install multi-coloured seats to create the impression of a fuller stadium and make the empty sections of their stadium look less terrible on TV (like this: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r-691SzkXb0/hqdefault.jpg )
(b) In the following season the club must sell tickets in the stand opposite the main TV camera, and behind the goals, before selling tickets to other parts of the ground.
(c) The club must play background crowd noise in the stadium to create the impression of an atmosphere. [Before going mental over this one, remember that this is as much about punishment and the stigma of having to do this. Not all teams would have to do this, just the ones that are currently dragging the quality of the TV product down.]
(2) Referees should be instructed to officiate all games in exactly the same way a Champions League game would be officiated. That simple change (which could happen overnight with zero cost) alone would make life for 3 or 4 teams in the league impossible and they would have no choice but to start playing a more visually attractive style of football.
(3) The location provided in a stadium for TV cameras must be a certain height and distance from the touchline. This would stop games looking rubbish on TV because the camera angle is too low or too close to the pitch. Some Scottish top league games look like Sunday league football simply because of the location of the TV camera. If a club is unable to create a TV gantry in a suitable location then they would not be eligible to play in the top league.
(4) Pitches must be real grass and be would be assessed each game to make sure they meet certain quality criteria; not just to be playable, but also to be nice and green. A pristine, rolled grass pitch immediately creates a high quality impression, and also gives players the best chance to put on a good game of football.
(5) All clubs must contribute to a PR/marketing fund to pro-actively create a brand for Scottish football. There are a lot of good things about Scottish football to build a brand around, such as history. For example, a lot of football firsts are from Scotland, and there must be 100s of Scottish people that founded football clubs/associations around the World. At the moment the image of Scottish football is created by the media, and because negativity sells in Scotland it drags down the brand. The league as whole has to get pro-active about building a brand and a story to help make it relatable to people. Americans would lap up all the history stuff for example.
Some of these ideas would have a cost but I think it would be more than covered by the increase in the value of Scottish football as a TV product. Wealth in football is all about TV these days so we should be willing to consider major changes to keep pace with that.
I agree with this. However for the TV companies, showing a game at Ibrox means their TV veiwing figures are 50,000 lower than if they showed the equivalent away game.
It's not just on the officiating side though - look at the response to young Oduwa who produced a wonderful piece of skill and was derided by pundits, players, fans for 'coming up here and taking the piss'.Refereeing is shocking in this country.
All semblance of skill is brutalised out of the game here.
It's no wonder we get so consistently skelped in world and European football when our players don't have any skills
Its a thread about improving the overall image of our game.
No one down south or abroad turns over the channel, sees a match at Dens Park, Inverness or Hamilton and thinks “this looks like it could be a good game”
It looks shit. The stadiums look shit so 9 times out of 10 your minds made up before you get onto the actual match.
If you turn a match on and see Ibrox, their shit pit, or say Easter road Tynecastle, it looks half decent so its attractive to the viewer.
Plastic pitches and half empty stadiums do damage to the image
but i enjoy flicking over to see the sheep playing in an empty stadium it makes me happy puts a smile on my face
(b) In the following season the club must sell tickets in the stand opposite the main TV camera, and behind the goals, before selling tickets to other parts of the ground.
Naked Michael Stewarts........
The product on the pitch, in general, is shite in Scotland. We were brought up in a different time when there wasn't na option of what you did for your entertainment - you played football, you watched grandstand, you went to the football. We were a captive audience.
Now, our kids can see practically any game in the world, with more skill and entertainment on display. Yes, we can bore them shitless by telling them what Rangers means to us, but unless that can be parlayed into an enjoyable experience then they aren't going to embrace it and ultimately, this great institution will be a relic of a bygone age.
On field, there needs to be an outlawing of the more industrial sort of stuff that is the standard across Scotland. Teams need to be encouraged to play football, not hoof all.
We need a full root and branch overhaul of the match day experience too - think NFL and MLB style fan zones, decent food, pricing structures that make every game accessible to everyone (prices start at £5), seats that are comfortable, stewards and police who are there for safety reasons - not to criminalise folk.
I know there are some who are reading this and recoiling in horror, cause that's not what football is all about. Maybe not to you, but it's about making it attractive to the next generation. Nae offence, Da, but your money is guaranteed.
Most of those are completely unenforceable
(2) Referees should be instructed to officiate all games in exactly the same way a Champions League game would be officiated. That simple change (which could happen overnight with zero cost) alone would make life for 3 or 4 teams in the league impossible and they would have no choice but to start playing a more visually attractive style of football.
(3) The location provided in a stadium for TV cameras must be a certain height and distance from the touchline. This would stop games looking rubbish on TV because the camera angle is too low or too close to the pitch. Some Scottish top league games look like Sunday league football simply because of the location of the TV camera. If a club is unable to create a TV gantry in a suitable location then they would not be eligible to play in the top league.
You know the rules bud.Have Greta Spinks and Anne Lundon presenting it.
Pole dancersTV money in Scotland is influenced by how watchable the average SPFL team is, so it's in our interest for all games to be more watchable on TV. There are a lot of simple ways to make games look better on TV that don't involve having to bring in World class players. Here are some rules I'd propose that would make Scottish football a better TV product and improve the value of the TV contract:
(1) If a club's average attendance falls below 60% of capacity over a season the club must:
(a) Install multi-coloured seats to create the impression of a fuller stadium and make the empty sections of their stadium look less terrible on TV (like this: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r-691SzkXb0/hqdefault.jpg )
(b) In the following season the club must sell tickets in the stand opposite the main TV camera, and behind the goals, before selling tickets to other parts of the ground.
(c) The club must play background crowd noise in the stadium to create the impression of an atmosphere. [Before going mental over this one, remember that this is as much about punishment and the stigma of having to do this. Not all teams would have to do this, just the ones that are currently dragging the quality of the TV product down.]
(2) Referees should be instructed to officiate all games in exactly the same way a Champions League game would be officiated. That simple change (which could happen overnight with zero cost) alone would make life for 3 or 4 teams in the league impossible and they would have no choice but to start playing a more visually attractive style of football.
(3) The location provided in a stadium for TV cameras must be a certain height and distance from the touchline. This would stop games looking rubbish on TV because the camera angle is too low or too close to the pitch. Some Scottish top league games look like Sunday league football simply because of the location of the TV camera. If a club is unable to create a TV gantry in a suitable location then they would not be eligible to play in the top league.
(4) Pitches must be real grass and be would be assessed each game to make sure they meet certain quality criteria; not just to be playable, but also to be nice and green. A pristine, rolled grass pitch immediately creates a high quality impression, and also gives players the best chance to put on a good game of football.
(5) All clubs must contribute to a PR/marketing fund to pro-actively create a brand for Scottish football. There are a lot of good things about Scottish football to build a brand around, such as history. For example, a lot of football firsts are from Scotland, and there must be 100s of Scottish people that founded football clubs/associations around the World. At the moment the image of Scottish football is created by the media, and because negativity sells in Scotland it drags down the brand. The league as whole has to get pro-active about building a brand and a story to help make it relatable to people. Americans would lap up all the history stuff for example.
Some of these ideas would have a cost but I think it would be more than covered by the increase in the value of Scottish football as a TV product. Wealth in football is all about TV these days so we should be willing to consider major changes to keep pace with that.
Some decent points raised in the OP.
Can’t see Celtic splashing out for 50 odd thousand multi coloured seats though.
With big bouncy diddiesNaked female cheerleaders!
And crags!Sacking sutton & stewart and andy walker would be a good start
He offered to do it for free in 2002.give Barry Hearn the gig as chief exec , could not do any worse , than the corrupt mental pygmies in charge just now
He would have certainly got a better tv deal , and it would certainly be interestingHe offered to do it for free in 2002.
Mate its a no brainer.Multi ball system to keep the game flowing.
Punishing time wasting with yellow cards and actually adding any time wasted onto the end of injury time. This will deter players from doing it.
Referees keeping the game flowing more with more advantages and only stopping the game if a yellow card is going to be produced or if it’s a genuine injury.
I like the camera angle to make the stadiums appear fuller idea. And I do agree that we should be marketing the game better. There’s a lot going for the game, the rivalries, the history, the characters, and so many unique things about the game here too. A more gritty and authentic product that the Premier League.
Scrap the 4 home game max on tv rule. Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen... any game between these teams, no matter where, have on tv. Rangers vs Hibs in August 2017 was a very entertaining game full of incidents yet it wasn’t on tv, mental.