New Policy to help Scottish clubs in Europe

[L72 35]

32 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

If we use it to get into the Europa and Celtic use it to get into the Champions League, was it really to our advantage?

Only really helps us if it were for the latter stages of the Europa League 🤭

 

100% this is to ensure those cunts don't fall on their faces and miss out on UCL. 

[buster. 5,548]

22 hours ago, Uilleam said:

Would it be bitter, twisted, and downright cynical to suggest that this change comes in when Pederasts FC has to play a qualifier in CL for the first time in a few years ??

I think that has definitely transformed the annual conversation into an actual rule change. 

 

The ongoing political manoeuvres of Lawwell bearing more fruit.

 

That said, we should benefit from the change as well.

 

 

[der Berliner 4,107]

4 hours ago, Idisi said:

I think Der Berliner told me about a strange decision by the Scottish authorities in 2008. Before (and after?) the final against St. Petersburg, Rangers had to play a dozen games before a set date that "could not be moved"! And Celtic was somehow involved in this for something obscure and irrelevant? DB?

... and Zenit was given a week off before the final. Too bad our club had the dignified silence motto ... and for years thereafter. (That means, we didn't really act on this and other strange things.) I am pretty sure that instead of doing that cast-into-stone journey, they hire half a dozen Japanese players a decade later. I think Dundee also waits for that money-spinning friendly they were promised by the Scum for changing their vote after it had landed in the spam folder of the SFA/SPFL/"whatever corrupt institution responsible". Thing is, Scotland never learns, Scottish clubs never learn ... 

[alexscottislegend 2,650]

4 hours ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

If we use it to get into the Europa and Celtic use it to get into the Champions League, was it really to our advantage?

Begs the question; we need the title.

[L72 35]

2 hours ago, der Berliner said:

... and Zenit was given a week off before the final. Too bad our club had the dignified silence motto ... and for years thereafter. (That means, we didn't really act on this and other strange things.) I am pretty sure that instead of doing that cast-into-stone journey, they hire half a dozen Japanese players a decade later. I think Dundee also waits for that money-spinning friendly they were promised by the Scum for changing their vote after it had landed in the spam folder of the SFA/SPFL/"whatever corrupt institution responsible". Thing is, Scotland never learns, Scottish clubs never learn ... 

Was the same for the UEL final just recently, Frankfurt were chilling. We'd been through an absolute gauntlet of games.

 

SFA didn't move any fixtures to accommodate.

[buster. 5,548]

34 minutes ago, L72 said:

Was the same for the UEL final just recently, Frankfurt were chilling. We'd been through an absolute gauntlet of games.

 

SFA didn't move any fixtures to accommodate.

We played 5 games in May prior to the final, Eintracht played 4.

 

Both teams played on the Saturday prior to the final. I don't know about ze Germans but in that game against Hearts, we didn't start with anyone in the lineup for the final.

 

A better example would have been 2008.

[Gribz 1,197]

Only One specific game? The Bundesliga are the best for it - but it happens throughout Europe that they get pretty much most of their games moved before big European nights. 

Its not going to help in the qualifiers at all but the rest of the SPFL are getting knocked out by teams you cant even pronounce never mind recognise. 

[ranger_syntax 4,758]

19 hours ago, buster. said:

That said, we should benefit from the change as well.

 

 

Not really.

 

The rule change is anti-competitive.

 

If you want the league table to be the same every year (we are second) then you should favour this rule.

 

If you want to watch competitive football matches then this rule is bad.

[Bluedell 6,041]

At that time in the season, we're usually still needing games to allow the team to gel, so we may not make use of it. It would be far better to have the option to keep it for later in the season.

[buster. 5,548]

1 hour ago, ranger_syntax said:

Not really.

 

The rule change is anti-competitive.

 

If you want the league table to be the same every year (we are second) then you should favour this rule.

 

If you want to watch competitive football matches then this rule is bad.

I don't think you can say that with anything approaching certainty at this point.

 

However, I am open to be persuaded otherwise if you can present the reasoning behind what you state.