Quote Originally Posted by The_Moog View Post
The essence of good sport is competition - without that you have very little "product" to sell.

Slag the yanks all you like, but they recognise this with the way they structure their sports. Ok we cant do that here but there is, and has been, no attempt to encourage competition with Scottish football for many years - unless you count the two horse ugly sister borefest as competition, which sadly too many up here (including our club) do.

More people would pay the inflated prices if there was the remote chance of their team challenging and competing - not just AFC fans. As its an entirely predictable borefest, with a sh1te standard of football, zero competition for most & hugely inflated prices, so its hardly surprising only diehard types go regularly - & even they have a line in the sand as to how much dross they'll watch.

Add in the fact we're right on the doorstep of the most popular league in the world, & incredibly react to that my selling ourselves under the exact same model (even down to leagus names ffs) with an infinitely inferior product, its little wonder things have gone downhill rapidly.

People can also watch football from all over the world now & when you see the quality on offer elsewhere (where the money is to be fair) you realise the utter dross we are subjected to here & the ridiculous prices we are asked to pay for the privelage.

Doncaster will trot out the most watched league by head of population line. That may be true due to 2 teams - but the reasons for the draw those 2 teams have gets conveniently overlooked and ignored year after year...
The crowds all over Scotland must be down except for these 2. Livi crowd was full of celtic fans, it's quite insane.
Every game seen on tv is an almost empty stadium bar hearts/hibs them 2 & our fake numbers.
It's only a matter of time before they are forced to come up with some kind of radical structure to create a sort of equality. IMO
but with the voting structure in place can that happen.