{"id":1074,"date":"2011-01-05T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2011-01-05T17:45:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:45:59","slug":"spl-press-ahead-with-plans-for-a-10-team-spl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"SPL continue to ignore supporters&#8217; opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who completed the Supporters Direct survey over the last few weeks. You&#8217;ll have seen that the last few days&#8217; newspapers gave the survey results very prominent coverage (see the links at the bottom of this post for some of the articles, and enjoy our James&#8217; appearance on Reporting Scotland last night!)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, the reports of yesterday&#8217;s meeting of the SPL clubs suggests that they haven&#8217;t taken the slightest notice of what their customers think. Just to recap the results of the survey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>76% of fans would prefer a 16 or 18-club SPL to the proposed ten teams<\/li>\n<li>88% oppose a reduction from 12 to 10 clubs<\/li>\n<li>76% support the idea of play-offs between the top two divisions<\/li>\n<li>92% believe they have not been properly consulted on proposals<\/li>\n<li>87% believe fans should be represented on the SFA<\/li>\n<li>80% agree that fans should have more say in the running of their club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The SPL&#8217;s latest announcements fly in the face of public opinion. So we still need to make our voices heard. There are a couple of quick and easy things you can do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2f7yosz\">The Scotsman is running a quick poll on the league size<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2e3kw8g\">BBC Radio Scotland&#8217;s Sportsound has a facebook page that you can join and make comments on<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Media coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/29ujhlt\">Scotland On Sunday article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/24e7bvq\">Scotsman article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2chxsu6\">Sunday Mail article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/i\/x7627\/\">Reporting Scotland (approx 20 mins in to the programme)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who completed the Supporters Direct survey over the last few weeks. You&#8217;ll have seen that the last few days&#8217; newspapers gave the survey results very prominent coverage (see the links at the bottom of this post for some of the articles, and enjoy our James&#8217; appearance&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}