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| 1. Author: Jock Par36 Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 15:23 The quality of the Scottish Championship, is of poor football teams. I hate to say that Falkirk are the only decent team in our league. If they get promoted, they will have a decent chance of staying up. The rest of us are not very good. Livingston were the worst team in the Premiership last season and the look maybe 2cd best in our league, but they have no chance of winning a play off, if they make it. Reply |
| 2. Author: PARrot Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 15:59 It isn`t poor because of the players or managers Nobody on this forum would get anywhere close to being involved at this level. There is plenty of quality, but they are all terrified of relegation, so mostly set up not to lose. There is little difference between the individual players and coaching staff at this level. It would take a lot bigger income advantage than we have to make a significant difference. Most games are won on a rub o the green Familiarity and equality stagnate the product. There is no point saying players are crap when they are just being cancelled out by opposition players of equal ability. Until the league structure is changed, decent players will look poor, and managers will take the flack.  Reply |
| 3. Author: Bucuresti Par Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 16:25 David Martindale spoke very well about the need for larger divisions a few days ago. I hope others start to speak up about this as well. Reply |
| 4. Author: Rigger Al Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 16:30 Bucuresti Par, Wed 23 Oct 16:25 i hope they do increase the leagues Reply |
| 5. Author: Kdy Par Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 16:36 Jock Par36, Wed 23 Oct 15:23 I’d be willing to bet that Livi win the league by 5 points. There’s no chance that Falkirk have the squad depth or alternative playing style to win the league. McGlynn has always been a one trick pony. Post Edited (Wed 23 Oct 16:36) Reply |
| 6. Author: Bandy Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 16:41 The problem is that increasing the league sizes only benefits Scottish Football in the long term. Short term - we need 4 OF games a season to keep that sweet sweet TV deal. (sarcasm, I know it`s rubbish, but it`ll get worse without 4 OF games). Short termism wins out over long termism every single time. Reply |
| 7. Author: PARrot Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 17:55 Bandy, Wed 23 Oct 16:41 Aye. Jist ask the Germans. Reply |
| 8. Author: Buster_Brown Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 18:12 PARot has pretty much said what I was going to say. I don’t think the league is poor, I just find that with the way it’s set up, teams adopt a must not loose policy which becomes boring to watch Bucuresti Par, Wed 23 Oct 16:25 I’ve just listened to the Open Goal podcast where he said that, and I’m in 100% agreement with him. I’m old enough to remember bigger leagues and would love to see them return (without B teams). Reply |
| 9. Author: neilholland999 Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 18:21 Kdy Par, Wed 23 Oct 16:36 What exactly is McGlynn`s one trick? If he is so predictable, why haven`t all the other managers sussed him out yet? Reply |
| 10. Author: Rusty Shackleford Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 18:29 neilholland999, Wed 23 Oct 18:21 Well he`s been in management for 20 years now and not won anything outside of League 1. I`d rather be where Falkirk are right now mind you. Reply |
| 11. Author: Rigger Al Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 19:01 Bandy, Wed 23 Oct 16:41 lose of 4 plus OF Games can only make people return back to watch the games live Reply |
| 12. Author: Kdy Par Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 19:16 neilholland999, Wed 23 Oct 18:21 Look at his record with Raith. Started on fire most seasons, as soon as the clocks change and the pitches get muddy his teams struggle. He’s only got one way of playing. Normally once teams have played them once they work out how to play against them. Don’t get me wrong I’d rather have a manager that plays attacking football, but considering his time in management his trophy record is pathetic. Reply |
| 13. Author: kelty_par Date: Wed 23rd Oct 2024. 21:00 I don`t think you can say that teams are more afraid of relegation this season over any other in the 12-10-10-10 era (which IIRC us actually now the format that has lasted longest, at least post war). The quality of football in many of those seasons was pretty good (the year we won the league under McIntyre had four or five decent footballing outfits) and this year`s league seems to be devoid of that sort of quality. The biggest issue is that Premiership teams get to use 5 subs from 9, which means they stockpile more players which mean fewer good footballers get released or loaned out, and so Championship sides fill their squads up (as we also can use 5 subs from 9) with poorer players; add to that more Scottish players head south at a younger age now even from Championship clubs and you can see why the talent isn`t always there. Ironically, League One is a pretty decent foot calling league now since the best part time players play there and all the clubs play in a less direct way than they once did. League Two on the other hand suffers from part time players playing Lowland League or West of Scotland League for decent money at your East Kilbrides, Darvels, BSC Glasgows etc. Reply |
| 14. Author: NMCmassive Date: Fri 25th Oct 2024. 13:34 Jock Par36, Wed 23 Oct 15:23 I’ve got to be honest, I think you’re looking at the first quarter of this season and projecting that forward over seasons disregarding the thousands of variables… First thing to remember is that Livi have the biggest budget in the league this season so should be attracting more of the better players for this league. Also worth noting that Myles Welsh-Hayes would get into most if not all teams in this league yet Livi have put him on loan. Martindale obviously feels he has better Falkirk may well go up this season but if they do, they’ll be well up against it and the likelihood is they’ll come straight back down. Apart from anything else, they’d need to rip up the plastic pitch and also find themselves new training facilities while also paying their players more and trying to attract new players. I don’t see Coll Donaldson etc being able to perform at the required standard every week in the premier league. While working away I done a bit of football tourism and ended up in Pittodrie for a couple of games. I’d suggest the step up from Championship to premier league is bigger than the step up from League 1 to Championship. COYP Reply |
| 15. Author: DA-go Par Adonis Date: Fri 25th Oct 2024. 14:10 Is it not the case that the last 12 teams to win the Championship have all stayed up the following season - With Utd likely to make it 13? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love it when we go sell Kevin Nisbet, He's gonna pay for everyone this season. Reply |
| 16. Author: da_no_1 Date: Fri 25th Oct 2024. 15:38 I`ll hazard a guess that most of the teams that were relegated in that spell really shouldn`t have been down in the Championship in the first place. (Hearts Hibs United Dundee Kilmarnock Ross County etc & also Sevco. When they do go back up they`re much better placed financially to remain there. "Some days will stay a 1000 years, some pass like the flash of a spark" Post Edited (Fri 25 Oct 15:39) Reply |
| 17. Author: SeasonedPar Date: Fri 25th Oct 2024. 16:35 Always interesting to see the opposing teams. So often, they have players who’ve played for us, while we contain players who’ve also played against us. Ethan Ross, Dom Thomas, Todorov, O’Hara, Callum Fordyce, Ewan Murray spring to mind. It doesn’t help quality when they all seem to know each other inside out. We need a bigger league. Reply |
| 18. Author: MinnesotaAndy Date: Fri 25th Oct 2024. 17:10 Time to revert to two leagues with simple home and away against other sides. Telly money these days is all about the European competitions. Having a couple of extra Old Firm games amounts to zip in the grand scheme of things. Reply |
| 19. Author: Buster_Brown Date: Fri 25th Oct 2024. 21:20 MinnesotaAndy, Fri 25 Oct 17:10 Definitely don’t want 2 leagues, however league reconstruction (without B teams) is a must for me. However it will never happen, clubs will not vote for it because Sky will pull the plug on the telly deal, and SPL clubs know they’ll pull more money in if they are playing the OF twice at home than if they would if they played any of the Championship sides that would come up, or the likes of Ross Co, St.Mirren etc etc Reply |
| 20. Author: d3monstrate Date: Fri 25th Oct 2024. 22:11 What about maintaining the status quo in the Premier, but changing the 3 lower Leagues to two? Reply |
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