{"id":1423,"date":"2012-03-20T22:02:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:21:43","slug":"the-fans-plan-for-the-future-of-scottish-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"The Fans&#8217; Plan for the Future of Scottish Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters Direct Scotland, the voice of football supporters\u2019 trusts in Scotland, today publishes The Fans\u2019 Plan \u2013 key recommendations to shape the future of Scottish league football based on the results of supporters\u2019 surveys over the past two years and a detailed analysis of the issues facing the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Fans\u2019 Plan calls for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>greater competition within Scottish league football structures<\/li>\n<li>equal funding for each team in a league<\/li>\n<li>support for clubs by central league management to increase the average attendance over a season of 20% by 2016, and achieve an average stadium capacity utilisation of 65% within 10 years<\/li>\n<li>two leagues of 16 teams, and a qualifying league of 10<\/li>\n<li>re-introducing the League Cup, with a mini-league qualifying format structured on a geographical basis with four teams in each group<\/li>\n<li>improved training and professional development for all players including greater use of Modern Apprenticeships and post-career planning<\/li>\n<li>the establishment and implementation of a strong club licensing scheme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supporters-direct.org\/news\/item.asp?n=14911\" target=\"_blank\">Supporters Direct website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters Direct Scotland, the voice of football supporters\u2019 trusts in Scotland, today publishes The Fans\u2019 Plan \u2013 key recommendations to shape the future of Scottish league football based on the results of supporters\u2019 surveys over the past two years and a detailed analysis of the issues facing the game. The&#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":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-in-general","category-supporters-direct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","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=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}