Barry Hearn On The Spfl

[boboisared]

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/barry-hearn-scottish-football-chiefs-4743738#rlabs=4

 

It's pretty sad when it's as clear as day to folk down the road too.

[Dynamo]

 

 

It was maybe just as well SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster had left the room during the speech.

 

 

He's hit the nail on the head.

[barassie_afc]

Best line if you had no sponsor and worked for me you would be sacked. I know Hearn can come across as a shady cocknet geezer (bit like my old man) but he is a world class sports promoter

[boboisared]

It's the simple things like "why don't you promote yourself" that cracks me up. How can you expect to be sponsored when all you do is slate the quality of your own league.

 

The EPL don't tell us all that Stoke versus Hull is going to be shite.

[Pudgie]

This isn't difficult and I'm sure over half the people going to the games would have told Doncaster et all the same thing if given half a chance. Very well put points though, but it's just a shame penguin heid left before he had his job done for him.

[fine-n-dandy]

It's the simple things like "why don't you promote yourself" that cracks me up. How can you expect to be sponsored when all you do is slate the quality of your own league.

 

The EPL don't tell us all that Stoke versus Hull is going to be shite.

Quite a simple reason for this though. If they promoted our league & we gained decent sponsorship through this it would go against their statement that

Scottish football will be fucked without the huns & the fact they tried everything in their power to shoehorn them back in.

 

They want our league to look shite to prove they were right. They are corrupt as fuck & EVERYONE knows this & they will do anything (no matter how damaging) they can so that they come off looking like the saints & saviours.

[boboisared]

Quite a simple reason for this though. If they promoted our league & we gained decent sponsorship through this it would go against their statement that

Scottish football will be fucked without the huns & the fact they tried everything in their power to shoehorn them back in.

 

They want our league to look shite to prove they were right. They are corrupt as fuck & EVERYONE knows this & they will do anything (no matter how damaging) they can so that they come off looking like the saints & saviours.

It was promoted like shite before the Huns were liquidated anyway. 'Only games that matter are the old firm games' was the crux of it.

[zander]

Spot on.

Will the people that were at the speech listen? No

Too many in Scottish football looking after their own interests, league reconstruction, setanta to name but a few

[Bluto10]

Good for him.

 

Just compare where we were 30-40 years ago with now.

 

Its enough to put you off the sport for life.

[StandFree1982]

Spot on.

 

Will the people that were at the speech listen? No

 

Too many in Scottish football looking after their own interests, league reconstruction, setanta to name but a few

This is pretty much fit the Hearts wifey said a few days ago.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Fantastic speech from Barry Hearn, ive only just got around to reading it.

 

More power to him.

 

Ive always liked him, I knew of him from boxing. He was always much better than Frank Maloney (look how he turned out, FFS). Eddie Hearn so far seems a worthy successor, as far as the boxing goes.

 

The governance and leadership of scottish football is piss poor, completely moribund. Much more concerned with preservation of the status quo, than any positive change or innovative thinking. (They should be driven to a forest and shot.)

 

It is thus with most institutions in fat, too comfortable, dont-know-how-good-theyve-got-it nations.

[fifered]

It's the simple things like "why don't you promote yourself" that cracks me up. How can you expect to be sponsored when all you do is slate the quality of your own league.

 

The EPL don't tell us all that Stoke versus Hull is going to be shite.

This is the very heart of the matter. All we got during the sevco nonsense was armageddon this armageddon that. What's happened since has been anything but, crowds up, various different cup winners and almost every club debt free. Some top youth players coming through and clubs now being able to get decent money for them. We've heard nothing about the good state of our game from those at the top, all they are interested in is promoting the championship as the 'most competitive league'. Hearts are currently making an arse of that prediction and they'll win it easily I've no doubt.

 

Not finding any sponsor at all is criminal. I cannot believe there is not one single company who would sponsor the league.

 

It's even more simple things than that. How many folk on here play the official Barclays fantasy football? Over 3 million people play that across the world, it generates interest all over the world in all of the games every week as well as advertising I'm sure. That's just a simple website and I'm sure it's a small drop in the ocean of the income generated for the epl but we can't even do something as simple as that.

 

With our clubs getting their shit in order it would be incredible if they all got together and punted the morons are the top of our game and employed someone with an actual clue.

[ericblack4boss]

The morons in charge of our game Donkeycaster and co were put there by the club's let's not forget Afc were just as complicent in appointing that cunt

[rumpus]

This is the very heart of the matter. All we got during the sevco nonsense was armageddon this armageddon that. What's happened since has been anything but, crowds up, various different cup winners and almost every club debt free. Some top youth players coming through and clubs now being able to get decent money for them. We've heard nothing about the good state of our game from those at the top, all they are interested in is promoting the championship as the 'most competitive league'. Hearts are currently making an arse of that prediction and they'll win it easily I've no doubt.

 

Not finding any sponsor at all is criminal. I cannot believe there is not one single company who would sponsor the league.

 

It's even more simple things than that. How many folk on here play the official Barclays fantasy football? Over 3 million people play that across the world, it generates interest all over the world in all of the games every week as well as advertising I'm sure. That's just a simple website and I'm sure it's a small drop in the ocean of the income generated for the epl but we can't even do something as simple as that.

 

With our clubs getting their shit in order it would be incredible if they all got together and punted the morons are the top of our game and employed someone with an actual clue.

 

 

Good post min.

[oilcat]

Im willing to bet that companys were queuing up to sponsor the three lower English divisions before SkyBet won the contract. I reuse to believe that with a bit of forward thinking that Doncaster and that other arse Regan couldnt have at least got involved in talks with some of the companys that didnt win?

 

Absolute shambles that they cant (or more likely wont) find a sponsor...yet the whore out kick off times to Sky and BT on a whim.......Be interesting to see how much if any telly coverage the Championship gets next season if Sevco come up

[strachanmcgheegoal]

Or go down.

[Boooooth]

 

Eddie Hearn so far seems a worthy successor, as far as the boxing goes.

 

 

Not so sure on that.

This is the man who just brought us bellew Vs Cleverly on PPV!

[tightbreeks]

the bellend is right. he may not realise it but he's having a dig at the Scottish psyche as a whole.

[Merkie84]

Hit the nail on the head with the " two donkeys racing is entertaining comment"

 

How many times to we hear how wonderful the quality is in other leagues but how scottish football is so poor. So what if it is?

 

Going for a few pints with my mates , going down to the ground , having a shout and cheer and a sing song at the match then a few celebratory / drown the sorrows beers after is far more entertaining to me than sitting at home watching Chelsea or arsenal on the TV.

 

It is easy to point out the flaws in our game, of which there are many, but how often do we hear people talking up its virtues?

 

We have a passion for the game at all levels in this country , from the national team down to junior and amature football , rarely matched in other countries. By head of population we have one of the highest pt attendances in Europe. We don't get 30-40 thousand at each of our grounds but niether do most countries football leagues. We are a small country and there just aren't that many people available to go to our matches, so we should stop expecting it.

 

The matches are fiercely contested, with passionate and fierce rivalrys and fast paced matches. Personally when I turn on a lot of foreign leagues on TV, with undoubtedly higher quality teams and players, i find a lot of the matches are very slow, dull and the atmosphere seems very flat.

[muttonhumper]

if I was a copper I wouldn't be too pleased if alcohol was re-introduced into grounds.

 

I couldn't give the slightest of fucks how displeased or otherwise a copper would be.

Why would anyone. Fucking weird.

 

How many times to we hear how wonderful the quality is in other leagues but how scottish football is so poor. So what if it is?

 

I was at an EPL game last month and it was absolutely pish.

As most games in that league are that I have carelessly stumbled upon due to remote control indiscipline.

The team walking that league are the most boring shitfest cunts on the planet to watch. Truly fucking putrid.

 

Wondered what games were on today..thinking...*may watch*.

Here's the choice.

Wet Ham v Swansea & Aston Villa v Leicester.

Thankfully my eyeballs have more gratifying tasks to hand...like being removed from my skull and submerged in battery acid for 90 minutes.

[tommo1903]

 

Wet Ham v Swansea & Aston Villa v Leicester.

 

"Super" sunday!!!

 

Cunts.

[Merkie84]

The difference being, sky will hype those games up as part of "the most exciting league in the world."

 

The people in charge of Scottish football shout from the rooftops how only 2 of our teams are worth watching.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

 

 

Thankfully my eyeballs have more gratifying tasks to hand...like being removed from my skull and submerged in battery acid for 90 minutes.

 

[Clydeside_Sheep]

 

Not so sure on that.

This is the man who just brought us bellew Vs Cleverly on PPV!

 

If he can get ppl to pay PPV money for that, then Id say hes doing a brilliant job for Matchroom Boxing!