Scotsman 14 Mar 07 – “SFL clubs have set up a working group to explore the merits of launchung a second tier of the SPL. Some clubs hope to have a ten-team SPL2 in place by the start of next season and the six-strong working group includes 2 members from...
Venue: The Boat House, Aberdour Present: Alan Russell (AR), James Proctor (JP), Graeme Condie, co-optee (GC), Mike Melville, co-optee (MM), Tom Phillips (TP) and Tam Cunningham, co-optee (TC) Apologies: Neil Langtree (NL), John Mainland (JM) George Howie (GH) and Blair White, co-optee (BW)
Venue: Novar Bar, Kirkcaldy. Present: James Proctor (JP), Graeme Condie, co-optee (GC), George Howie (GH), Blair White, co-optee (BW), Tam Cunningham, co-optee (TC) Apologies: Mike Melville, co-optee (MM), Neil Langtree (NL), Alan Russell (AR), John Mainland (JM) and Tom Phillips (TP)
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)...
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...
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...
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...
The Guardian’s blog is fast becoming one of my favourite websites. Here’s a match report from last night’s game that made me laugh out loud and then bang my head on the table repeatedly – I nearly went along to watch this (as I’m in London on business) but decided...
As part of our low-key relaunch of the Trust website late last year, we joined an affiliate scheme which gave us an online shop selling pretty much anything you can think of from over 100 retailers. www.buy.at who pull these offers together for us have just announced that they have...
This story hit the news a couple of weeks ago and despite a bit of press attention it seems to have faded away again, despite the current controversy regarding the conduct of high profile players such as Cristiano Ronaldo. Torquay United announced at the end of November that they were...
