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Can Hearts do it?

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penno13 said:
Surely in this format it would make sense if you top the league before the split, you should play all your 5 games at home as a reward for the advantage, second place you play 4 games at home and then play 1st place away, third place gets 3 games at home and play 2nd and 1st away and so on. (6th place will play all 5 games away) seems a waste to win the league like hearts have to potentially lose it in a run off play off games. Glad this format is not in our leagues. Nonsense
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A similar format is used in Belgian, Greek, Danish and Czezh leagues.

Your idea is even more stupid as you'd end up with one of Celtic/Rangers/Hearts having had 2 home games while another team would only have 1 home game. Which is completely unfair.

It's done so the league gets it's 4 Glasgow derbies to satisfy the TV companies. It's also to add more excitement just like it is in the other leagues as the TV deals are tiny in comparison to England etc. Most of these leagues top flights are smaller than England to boot.

Greek league is how Scotland should have their league. It's a better version of the split. But the league voted to not change from 12 teams.

Don't talk about a subject with authority if you've no real understanding on the subject.
 
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Roker-73 said:
Would have been really keen to see them (or any team) beat the old firm monopoly

But that wanker Downie supports them (second team after the mags no doubt) so hope they win fuck all
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The whole league voted to relegate Hearts during Covid, even though they were easily in with a chance to stay up

Their comeback against the odds has been magnificent.

Their fall and rise has replicated our own. They've led the league most of the season.
Haway the Hearts!
 
andy78 said:
Hibs (a)
Rangers (h)
Motherwell (a)
Falkirk (h)
Celtic (a)

I don't think they have enough points in hand going into this split.
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The derby next up is huge for them. Need to start winning games away from home and the momentum boost that beating Hibs would bring would be massive.
 
mackembhoy said:
A similar format is used in Belgian, Greek, Danish and Czezh leagues.

Your idea is even more stupid as you'd end up with one of Celtic/Rangers/Hearts having had 2 home games while another team would only have 1 home game. Which is completely unfair.

It's done so the league gets it's 4 Glasgow derbies to satisfy the TV companies. It's also to add more excitement just like it is in the other leagues as the TV deals are tiny in comparison to England etc. Most of these leagues top flights are smaller than England to boot.

Greek league is how Scotland should have their league. It's a better version of the split. But the league voted to not change from 12 teams.

Don't talk about a subject with authority if you've no real understanding on the subject.
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Surely that advantage would be fair as you’ve earned it over the course or the season, would be the incentive to finish as high as possible to have more home games.
Anyway, your right, I’ve no real understanding of the subject, fuck Scottish football and its Mickey Mouse format
 
Stella Spark said:
The whole league voted to relegate Hearts during Covid, even though they were easily in with a chance to stay up

Their comeback against the odds has been magnificent.

Their fall and rise has replicated our own. They've led the league most of the season.
Haway the Hearts!
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Not sure how that’s relevant to my post like
 
penno13 said:
Surely that advantage would be fair as you’ve earned it over the course or the season, would be the incentive to finish as high as possible to have more home games.
Anyway, your right, I’ve no real understanding of the subject, fuck Scottish football and its Mickey Mouse format
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This season in the first 33 both Rangers and Hearts have already hosted Celtic twice. So they have already had an advantage over Celtic before the split.

Your idea makes the game even more unfair as that would give one of them a third home game over Celtic in a season an even bigger advantage to win the league. After having an easier set of fixtures.

So the idea is completely daft as makes the league completely unfair based on how the fixtures get decided before a ball is kicked.

Imagine Sunderland not getting a home game against Newcastle. That's in the same wheelhouse as your idea.
 
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Roker-73 said:
Not sure how that’s relevant to my post like
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Ha! Was meant to reply to the post above yours

Stella Spark said:
The whole league voted to relegate Hearts during Covid, even though they were easily in with a chance to stay up

Their comeback against the odds has been magnificent.

Their fall and rise has replicated our own. They've led the league most of the season.
Haway the Hearts!
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alunb said:
I didn't realise the format in the SPL.
What a shame, the league is rigged for the Old Firm
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As usual the scottish league ain't shite @penno13 It's the highest attended league per capita in Europe.

So for the size of the country it does well on the European club stage. Especially over the years. If you look at Scottish football compared to english football in Europe pre Sky in 1992 for example.

Wonder what made that gap as big as it is. Oh yeah it's gets a £60 mil a year TV money, instead of billions the PL gets and billion or so the EFL gets.
 
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mackembhoy said:
As usual the scottish league ain't shite @penno13 It's the highest attended league per capita in Europe.

So for the size of the country it does well on the European club stage. Especially over the years. If you look at Scottish football compared to english football in Europe pre Sky in 1992 for example.

Wonder what made that gap as big as it is. Oh yeah it's gets a £60 mil a year TV money, instead of billions the PL gets and billion or so the EFL gets.
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Spot on, it's a great league, sone of the football is good too.
 
mackembhoy said:
As usual the scottish league ain't shite @penno13 It's the highest attended league per capita in Europe.

So for the size of the country it does well on the European club stage. Especially over the years. If you look at Scottish football compared to english football in Europe pre Sky in 1992 for example.

Wonder what made that gap as big as it is. Oh yeah it's gets a £60 mil a year TV money, instead of billions the PL gets and billion or so the EFL gets.
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Quite an interesting fact if true, but how much could that be skewed by Rangers and Celtic’s large crowds? I don’t know if it is, just wondering.
 
Sgt Pepper said:
Quite an interesting fact if true, but how much could that be skewed by Rangers and Celtic’s large crowds? I don’t know if it is, just wondering.
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It is true has been since countries went back to normal after COVID

I should have added the stat relates to just the top flight league rather than the entire league system of countries.

Looks like Portugal jumped into second last season Netherlands have been second on the list for the previous seasons.

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I actually really want Hearts to win it by my word that penalty yesterday hahaha that’s poor officiating
 
mackembhoy said:
As usual the scottish league ain't shite @penno13 It's the highest attended league per capita in Europe.

So for the size of the country it does well on the European club stage. Especially over the years. If you look at Scottish football compared to english football in Europe pre Sky in 1992 for example.

Wonder what made that gap as big as it is. Oh yeah it's gets a £60 mil a year TV money, instead of billions the PL gets and billion or so the EFL gets.
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The question you have to ask is why Scottish football only generates £60m in TV revenue per season? Could it be that the gulf between the top two teams and the rest is usually so big you only ever get an old firm champion so it's not an exciting watch? Btw last team that wasn't an old firm team won it was 51 years ago and rangers were out of the championship for 4 years. Don't get me wrong I quite like Scottish football myself and really want hearts to win it this year but it needs to have at least 3 or 4 teams a year who could win it to generate more interest.
 
phunboy said:
The question you have to ask is why Scottish football only generates £60m in TV revenue per season? Could it be that the gulf between the top two teams and the rest is usually so big you only ever get an old firm champion so it's not an exciting watch? Btw last team that wasn't an old firm team won it was 51 years ago and rangers were out of the championship for 4 years. Don't get me wrong I quite like Scottish football myself and really want hearts to win it this year but it needs to have at least 3 or 4 teams a year who could win it to generate more interest.
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But that would only come from additional telly revenue as the Old Firm get millions extra each year from The Champions League.

The Champions League has been terrible for a lot of domestic leagues, particularly the “smaller” ones.
 
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