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I knew the SPL was bad, but this bad?

WSSWSS
edited March 2008 in General Charlton
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gretna/7282594.stm

The fact that the top 2 teams get 50k and the bottom teams gets 501 fans - there needs to be some serious thinking done up there.

I know it's been a long standing issue but I really do think Rangers/Celtic should come into our league at the bottom tier (i.e. League 2). The crowds would probably be bigger...

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  • KetmanKetman
    Gretna's rise has been meteoric through the Scottish League's ala Wimbledon many years ago down here. It appears they both have the same problems in attracting fans.
  • WSSWSS
    501 though Kets - 501 in the top tier of scottish football!

    501!!!
  • GoonerhaterGoonerhater
    Gretna dont play in Gretna no more.


    also just herd Dundee Utd top forward is out of their game this week after falling through his glass coffee table !! mmmmmmmm sounds familiar that
  • CAFCBourneCAFCBourne
    Thats a false figure and include ST so really your looking at 472 poss ZZZZZZZZZZ
  • Stu_of_KunmingStu_of_Kunming
    Maybe we should sign him up gooner, sounds like just the player for us!
  • nollynolly
    gretna have better away support than us,fact!
  • DA9DA9
    [quote][cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite][url][url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/g/gretna/7282594.stm[/url][/url]

    The fact that the top 2 teams get 50k and the bottom teams gets 501 fans - there needs to be some serious thinking done up there.

    I know it's been a long standing issue but I really do think Rangers/Celtic should come into our league at the bottom tier (i.e. League 2). The crowds would probably be bigger...[/quote]

    Cant see it ever happening, I go to see Rangers play regularly, purely from a fans point of view, both clubs, even though I hate sellick with a passion, have a large away following wherever they go in the world. Plus you have to add the nature of the support, ie where sellick are concerned, there would be plenty of clubs in the EPL queuing up to take a pop at their supporters due to the link with IRA support/republicanism, the trouble it would cause week in week out would be to much to handle. Rangers would also attract that attention just becuase they are Scottish, the policing bills would be enormous.
    Can only ever see them joining a Euro super league.
  • GoonerhaterGoonerhater
    English/ scotish FA wouldnt have it. I wouldnt want it from the CAFC point of view. Both Grs and Septic would get in the Prem in a cple years no matter what level they are put in and that just makes ihard for us. Mind you hw about leting all scotish prem teams play in the League Cup ? or make the FA Cup a British Cup ?
  • WSSWSS
    edited March 2008
    DA_9 - me neither to be honest.

    I suppose its an equivalent to the Greek league where you have Olympiakos and Panathinakos playing and all the rest are crap.

    Wouldnt mind seeing the league cup turned into a UK cup though as a starting point.

    (Great minds GH)
  • nollynolly
    mate most celtic fans dont sing about bombing,from a neutral point of view as johnny adair said if he was born down the road he would be a catholic,so of course catholic celtic fans are going to be republicans,but agree about certain songs,though rangers have a fair few.
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  • nollynolly
    league cup would be great,rangers or celtic at the valley,love to see it.
  • GoonerhaterGoonerhater
    Nolly lets dont go there mate but i have to say a very good friend of mine now dead was an Irish Catholic who did fight the IRA and ended up in hospital on more than once.
  • DA9DA9
    Nolly, agree with the adair comment, but I could drag up loads of examples from the net of their support singing IRA tunes, examples of club officials singing "Up the IRA", the Wolftones, a republican band being allowed to film their video on the sellick pitch. Not saying Rangers dont have fans who sing loyalist songs, but you cant deny the facts regards the majority, not all, of their supports leanings, and this does ( I know for a fact) make them a target for a lot of English clubs hooligans.
  • SaladSalad
    [cite]Posted By: CAFCBourne[/cite]Thats a false figure and include ST so really your looking at 472 poss ZZZZZZZZZZ
    lol!
  • InspectorSandsInspectorSands
    edited March 2008
    [cite]Posted By: Ketman[/cite]Gretna's rise has been meteoric through the Scottish League's ala Wimbledon many years ago down here. It appears they both have the same problems in attracting fans.

    Gretna's bubble's gone pop, though - the SPL (which insists on 10,000 all-seater grounds) wouldn't let them use their ground, so they're playing miles away in Motherwell (Carlisle would have been more sensible, boundary issues aside, but for the all-seater rule). The SFL wasn't happy with the state of their ground in Scots Div 1 either, so they may end up being double-relgated to Scots Div 2.

    And just to make matters worse - the bloke who's bankrolled them is not in the best of health.

    Doubt the Unibond League would have them back...
  • Weegie AddickWeegie Addick
    And the Motherwell pitch is in a dreadful state and can't cope with two teams playing on it - despite them re-laying it a couple of weeks ago, matches are still being called off because it is waterlogged. (And it's not been raining that much more than usual up here.)

    Gretna are viewed as the 'Chelsea of the North' by some here because of their sugar daddy backing, but as the Inspector said that is all looking very shaky now.
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