Motherwell board...It's no fair!

[jwok]

The club board is not happy - here's the statement

The Board of Motherwell FC wishes to express its extreme anger following the publication of the SPFL Premiership fixtures earlier this morning.

Motherwell, along with Partick Thistle and Hamilton Academical, have two home ‘Old Firm’ games pre-split, whereas some of our closest rivals have four, something that has never happened in the history of the SPL / SPFL, as far as we know.

This has a serious financial impact on our club, and we cannot and will not accept it.
It creates a significant financial advantage for some clubs over others and in our view, just as important, compromises the integrity of the competition, both in terms of the potential/need for adjusting respective player budgets up or down and the amount of games teams have to play at what has historically been the most challenging venues.

In previous seasons since the split, there has always been parity where clubs had the same amount of home games against both Old Firm sides (almost always three) and were expected to travel to both Celtic Park and Ibrox the same amount as every other team in the division prior to the split.

There was no hint of this fundamental change until we received the fixtures at 8.02am today and, therefore, like the other clubs in our position, now find ourselves significantly worse off than we were on Thursday night and with insufficient time to make appropriate adjustments.

We expect this unacceptable position to be reversed immediately.

In addition, whilst having sympathy around the difficulty of selecting games for certain times of the year, Motherwell FC believes having two midweek matches away at both Inverness CT and Ross County (the Inverness trip being three days after Christmas) sends out the wrong message.

Where possible, consideration should be given, particularly around the festive period, to the needs of all supporters given we now have two fixtures that will be largely inaccessible for a significant portion of our fan base.

[texaco cup]

SFA must stand for Screw Fans Always?
SPFL stands for Stuff People from Lanarkshire?
Looking at the first three games appears the powers that be are looking for Servco to get off to a good start and be at the top of the league early doors and to hell with everyone else!

[Handsome_Devil]

Sorry but that's absolutely pathetic...I hope we wake up this morning ashamed we put that out.

[wellin]

Typical of Scottish football. The only league in the world this would happen.

[Dorset_Steelman]

Typical of Scottish football. The only league in the world this would happen.

Exactly, i know the way we run the game, we are a laughing stock down here, along with the debacle of the Scottish cup final. I am still waiting for the authorities to fine themselves for failing to control both sets of fans for entering the field of play.