The Sfa & Spfl Are Fucking Shite Thread

[Panda]

Excellent assumption that the main worry should be keeping Old Firm(defunct) fans apart. Fuck them, use Murrayfield

 

Edit: maybe slightly harsh, it was only one of your main points, not the main focus........

My thought was for the innocent tourists caught up in it.

[shut up meg]

^^^^

 

We shouldn't be making decisions based on the OF being arseholes.

If they can't behave, then boot them out of the competition.

[Panda]

What I'd like the SFA to do (they won't though), is hold the Scottish Cup semis at Murrayfield. Give it a try, see how it gets on, then listen to fans feedback afterwards.

 

Plus I've a wedding in Edinburgh on the Friday and I'm staying within walking distance of Murrayfield, so Aberdeen having a semi-final there the next day would be superb.

[shut up meg]

Good shout Panda, won't happen though.

[Reliablesource]

The folks that say Murrayfield has a better view are way off. Granted the east stand runs fairly close to the pitch, similar to the north stand at Hampden but that's it. The rest is shite for fitba and has been designed entirely with rugby viewing in mind.

 

Pandas Stuttgart example of how to redevelop a football ground that has a large running track is very good. Hampden would be very easy to develop because their is virtually nothing there at present.

 

It makes me fucking mad sometimes when I think about what the fucking English get at Wembley and the funding they got. They even have an Olympic stadium around the corner that had been developed for football.

 

Thatcher the cunt refused to fund the redevelopment of Hampden when it should have been done properly, way back. It was eventually thrown together with about 8 million quid iirc.

[BWG]

The national ground needs to be out of fucking Glasgow if we're ever going to break the weegie bias in our sport.

[Henry]

If Millertime and Bluto both favour Hampden its a no-brainer

 

Murrayfield.

[V for Vendetta]

What I'd like the SFA to do (they won't though), is hold the Scottish Cup semis at Murrayfield. Give it a try, see how it gets on, then listen to fans feedback afterwards.

 

Plus I've a wedding in Edinburgh on the Friday and I'm staying within walking distance of Murrayfield, so Aberdeen having a semi-final there the next day would be superb.

Excellent idea.

 

Or even just play a couple of finals there and see what the feedback is in that.

 

They don't have to make a long term commitment straight away.

[aberdeen1970]

What I'd like the SFA to do (they won't though), is hold the Scottish Cup semis at Murrayfield. Give it a try, see how it gets on, then listen to fans feedback afterwards.

 

Plus I've a wedding in Edinburgh on the Friday and I'm staying within walking distance of Murrayfield, so Aberdeen having a semi-final there the next day would be superb.

Good idea. Even if they hold one of them there. One of the games with a Glasgow team in it if they get that far. I'm not sure fans of those two have had to travel outside Glasgow for a semi final for decades if ever

[RAZOR]

Murrayfield v Hampden

 

They're both poor choices in truth.

 

Murrayfield's advantages:

• Bigger capacity
• Two-tiered which means you can close off the top tier and just use the lower decks for games expecting around 30,000. So better atmosphere than at Hampden when often the bulk of the support are behind the goal.
• Genuinely neutral venue if we play one of the Old Firm. Be interesting to see how many tickets they sell when the ground isn't in their own city and they're playing Inverness or Falkirk.

Hampden advantages:

• I'm bemused by the transport argument favouring Murrayfield. Hampden has train stations at both ends of the ground. Murrayfield has one tram stop. The main train stations are walking distance from both grounds. By road Murrayfield isn't any easier and those who complain they are stuck for hours after a game at Hampden clearly take the wrong roads.
• Easier to segregate fans. Hearts/Hibs in 2012 - Hibs fans got on trains at Waverley that took them direct to King's Park. Hearts fans got on at Haymarket and were taken direct to Mount Florida. Great operation. Now try doing that for Old Firm fans going to Murrayfield. The only way to keep them separate is to have one support go to Waverley and then use shuttle buses. Who on earth would propose shuttle buses from a train station to a football stadium?

Would rather we rebuilt Hampden. Just do what Stuttgart have done.

 

 

 

From this

 

To this

For the love of God, not more of these stadium world cup gaylord posts. I'm still getting over the last 8

[dj_bollocks]

The folks that say Murrayfield has a better view are way off. Granted the east stand runs fairly close to the pitch, similar to the north stand at Hampden but that's it. The rest is shite for fitba and has been designed entirely with rugby viewing in mind.

 

What pray tell is the difference between viewing rugby and football at Murrayfield ? I quite enjoyed our little jaunt to Murrayfield if not the game, and felt it was a far more inclusive experience than any trip to Hampden, mainly because we have lost there quite often...

[caledonia]

As long as its not iprix or parkhead i am happy with the other two

Split between Hampden being a better view ie nearer to the crowd and Murryfield being a better place to spend the morning drinking (prefer Edinburgh to Glasgow)

[Panda]

For the love of God, not more of these stadium world cup gaylord posts. I'm still getting over the last 8

Tell us more about how you spend every Sunday in lycra "running" with the lads.

[Chewie37]

My thought was for the innocent tourists caught up in it.

Haha touché, nicely played! Also a fan of the trial run for Murrayfield, maybe Regans replacement will be forward thinking and actually try something new...outside of Glasgow

[muttonhumper]

 

 

 

 

 

That view is exactly the same one as I had at a WC game in 2006..

Spain v Tunisia.

 

It's a decent idea.

Though the slope seems hooring shallow in the filled in bit.

Could be slightly illusory like.

[Henry]

Regan going is good news.

 

Probably be replaced by an Ian Durrant/Paki Bonner dream team.

[paddy]

Was very pleased to hear about Regan pissing off.

 

I hope his replacement is someone who actively bigs-up the Scottish game. One of the problems with SR was the fact he was so negative about Scottish football.

[NEM]

History.

Tradition

Fact it’s a football stadium.

Fact it’s not a rugby stadium.

 

It’s been poorly revamped.

So it’ll be expensive to re do.

 

But alongside Wembley it is whatmskesbritish football great

 

 

Tradition? Like traditional ends for Maris Piper FC and the Orcs you mean? Get that to fuck

[BWG]

Fucking Doncaster being touted as a replacement for Regan.

 

[V for Vendetta]

Fucking Doncaster being touted as a replacement for Regan.

 

 

Yep.

 

Leanne Dempster too.

 

Can't see the Masons approving her though.

[zander]

Walter Smith for me.

[V for Vendetta]

Walter Smith for me.

 

 

 

You are joking right?

[zander]

 

 

You are joking right?

We need someone who knows the game up here.

 

No split arses or ex Cricket CEOs.

[V for Vendetta]

We need someone who knows the game up here.

 

No split arses or ex Cricket CEOs.

 

Smith doesn't have the nous to effectively run such a large organisation - he has zero experience of anything other than playing and coaching football - that doesn't qualify you to deal with legal and commercial aspects involved or the political skills likely needed to get things pushed through the system.

 

The football knowledge Smith has would be suited for the Performance director position (or whatever Malky's role is) IMO but not the SFA Chief Executive position.

 

Also Smith would just be another old boy that would offer the same old rubbish and bow down to the same pressures as everyone else at the SFA.

 

Someone like Hearn would be a much much better option but absolutely won't happen.

[zander]

^lol

[V for Vendetta]

^lol

 

Its a woosh moment right?

 

I mean you don't actually believe a guy like Walter Smith could effectively run any sort of proper sports body?

[muttonhumper]

 

Yep.

 

Leanne Dempster too.

 

Can't see the Masons approving her though.

 

Apparently she had a season ticket at Ibrox for 20 years....

 

 

So, a shoe-in.

[Henry]

Walter Smith is a stick-on.

[BWG]

Walter Smith for the job definitely. Well done SFA, very forward thinking appointment. #TheFutureIsBright

[V for Vendetta]

Ok, you've convinced me, I'm in let's back Smith for the job.

 

About time the SFA had a real sharp tack like Walter running things.