Author: James Proctor

March Stats 0

March Stats

After the whirlwind start to 2007 reality started to bite in March as Rovers dropped five points from a possible twelve and suffered the first defeat in two months. However gaining 1.75 points per game was still good enough for fourth best in the division and saw the team maintain...

SFL bite back 0

SFL bite back

SFL President, John Smith, has hit back at claims made in the leaked PKF report which stated that the organisation wasn’t fit for modern business practices. Smith states that the report, which was commissioned by the SFL itself, is unbalanced and doesn’t represent the true situation. The Scotsman, Herald (editorial)...

SFL ‘outdated’ 1

SFL ‘outdated’

A report commissioned by the Scottish Football League has found that the organisation is not fit for the modern day business environment and staff are “institutionalised and demoralised” The report by accountants and business advisors, PKF, also states that the SFL lacks a ‘commercial engine’ which, given that two of...

Game of Two Halves 1

Game of Two Halves

With three quarters of the season over and given that the Rovers have been on a bit of a run of late I thought I’d take a wee look at some stats just to see if there was anything unusual about results. Fortunately the good people at Football365 (other stats...

Exec and SPL Partner for Employment Program 0

Exec and SPL Partner for Employment Program

Interesting announcement last week that the Scottish Executive had teamed up with the SPL clubs to help fund employment programs for 16-19 year olds who are not in education, employment or training – NEET’s in the Executive’s parlance. The KickStart program will target around 5,000 of the estimated 35,000 teenagers...