Fury As Scottish Football Association Halts Payments To Clubs Fielding Under-21 Players

[fine-n-dandy]

TOP-FLIGHT and lower league sides will lose out on thousands of pounds after the SFA’s 11th-hour removal of the Performance Awards Scheme that encouraged managers to play youngsters.

 

FURIOUS SPFL clubs will be hit in the pocket this season after a last-minute decision to scrap payments for fielding Under-21 players.

Top-flight and lower league sides will lose out on thousands of pounds after the SFA’s 11th-hour removal of the Performance Awards Scheme that encouraged managers to play youngsters.

Crisis club Hearts will be the most severely hit and will miss an estimated £76,000 this season which could have been accrued by the youthful Tynecastle squad.

A £2000 award was paid to clubs last season for every game where three Under-21 players were included in the starting line-up, dropping to £1500 for two players.

St Mirren chairman Stewart Gilmour insists withdrawing the scheme will have severe financial consequences for many clubs.

And he said: “It’s a poor decision. The rug has been pulled from under the feet ?of the clubs and I don’t ?understand why.

“The SFA asked clubs to spend on youth development and more young players are now being introduced at first-team level.

“We’d already worked out our budgets to factor in these payments, as others have.”

Several clubs have written to SFA chief Stewart Regan over the board’s decision to divert funds into performance-based programme Club Academy Scotland.

 

 

what a bunch of cunts. They try to make sure clubs have better youth policies & help Scottish football in the long run & then they go & fkn shaft them.

[zander]

No doubt be changing it to how many English born players with a Scottish grandfather can you field.

[RUL]

Terrible decision IMO

[HH_is_back]

Run by amateurs!

 

Scottish Football had a chance to change and we've stuck in the dark ages. Summer football was a must now a ridiculous decision to hamper youth development.

[K-9]

Entire SPL voted unanimously for changes saying they knew they would be getting less cash as it is filtered into lower leagues.

[Jonty]

Shows you how big the gap has become between English ans Scottish football.

 

Up here our teams dont even get £2k anymore for playing three under 21's in a game. Down there Arsenal have to pay Southhampton £10k every time Alex Oxade Chamberlain plays for 20 mins or more.

[fine-n-dandy]

Hasn't really affected us so far this season cos Robertson is the only U21 we've started in any games but £2k or even just £1.5k a week is a lot of money to most clubs other than the tims & could cover a wage for a player in some cases.

 

Shaughnessy turned 21 in July so doubt he'd count towards it

[Dynamo]

Let's be honest here though, say £6000 a game (3 players)...that's 261 fans through the gate paying £23. If we're doing as well as hoped i'd like to think, we'll average around 13k this season, up nearly 4k from last.

 

It's fuck all in the grand scheme of things. Financially, everything depends on how we play and win.

[Bluto10]

Let's be honest here though, say £6000 a game (3 players)...that's 261 fans through the gate paying £23. If we're doing as well as hoped i'd like to think, we'll average around 13k this season, up nearly 4k from last.

 

It's fuck all in the grand scheme of things. Financially, everything depends on how we play and win.

 

agreed.

its chump change.

[boboisared]

haha no way, really?

Appearance fees etc Frankie.

 

The fee quoted at the time he was signed was about £12 million or so. I think the bulk of it was add ons.

[boboisared]

Let's be honest here though, say £6000 a game (3 players)...that's 261 fans through the gate paying £23. If we're doing as well as hoped i'd like to think, we'll average around 13k this season, up nearly 4k from last.

 

It's fuck all in the grand scheme of things. Financially, everything depends on how we play and win.

Is the amount nae £2000 for 3 players?

 

That could be 2 decent signings for Partick for example. They could even put it towards contract renewals for next year if they stay up.

[The Boofon]

Is the amount nae £2000 for 3 players?

 

That could be 2 decent signings for Partick for example. They could even put it towards contract renewals for next year if they stay up.

It is.

 

It encouraged youth development and even if 2 grand seems to be buttons to some posters, I'd rather it was still given out than not.

[Bluto10]

It is.

 

It encouraged youth development and even if 2 grand seems to be buttons to some posters, I'd rather it was still given out than not.

 

of course.

 

but its such a paltry sum its amazing when set against the money in the game in general (and i dont mean the european game).

if these amounts are dished out; what could achieved if the clubs were run like a proper buinesess?

[Dynamo]

It is.

 

It encouraged youth development and even if 2 grand seems to be buttons to some posters, I'd rather it was still given out than not.

 

Yes, but the money is being redistributed elsewhere to clubs with even less money than those in the SPFL. Why should SPFL teams harbour all the 'wealth'?

[The Boofon]

 

Yes, but the money is being redistributed elsewhere to clubs with even less money than those in the SPFL. Why should SPFL teams harbour all the 'wealth'?

They shouldn't. Do you mean outwith the top league as the SPFL is all 4 divisions now?

[dave_min]

Yes, but the money is being redistributed elsewhere to clubs with even less money than those in the SPFL. Why should SPFL teams harbour all the 'wealth'?

 

'cause they generated it.

[fine-n-dandy]

the whole thing sounds bizarre, IMO. Just fucking play your best players every game and cop the wage bill...or am I being a bit simple? Since when has Scottish football given a fuck about the big picture?

 

Given the decision made, that's a rhetorical question.

The whole reason for the introduction of this benefit in the first place was to encourage clubs to field more youngsters & hopefully this would benefit Scottish football in the future.

 

Could also help clubs keep hold of their youngsters a little longer.

[K-9]

The whole reason for the introduction of this benefit in the first place was to encourage clubs to field more youngsters & hopefully this would benefit Scottish football in the future.

 

Could also help clubs keep hold of their youngsters a little longer.

Shouldn't really have disbanded their SPL then.

[Ke1t]

If I were the suspicious sort, I'd think that the two English cunts running Scottish Football were deliberately trying to Sabotage Scottish football.

 

Can anyone genuinely be as inept as Regan and Doncaster?

[fine-n-dandy]

If I were the suspicious sort, I'd think that the two English cunts running Scottish Football were deliberately trying to Sabotage Scottish football.

 

Can anyone genuinely be as inept as Regan and Doncaster?

Ooh! I love a good conspiracy theory when it's not coming from a weegie or weegie supporting wanker

[Ke1t]

I'm genuinely intrigued as to why these two twats are running the Scottish game.

It certainly isn't based on any kind of results driven criteria.

[fine-n-dandy]

I'm genuinely intrigued as to why these two twats are running the Scottish game.

It certainly isn't based on any kind of results driven criteria.

Money & bribes.

 

Money being there over inflated wages & bribes being the added extras from both cheeks.