Dick Dastardly

Less any money due to tv companies in compensation for the incomplete season

I think we are in violent agreement

That is what I thought, but you were asking what if 2 or 3 clubs do this. I would expect all clubs to take this option

I'm not sure what they mean by "mothballing". Most L1 and L2 clubs, plus a few in the Championship, will have no contracted players by the end of June and I can't see any of them recruiting until there is a prospect of football. I would also expect that we would honour our contracts, but can't see anything beyond that. Maybe reduce pitch and stadium maintenance to basics. Whats to stop them doing that and thus getting outgoings down to the absolute minimum.

That depends on what you want the statistics to prove

But not as dense as a 20 storey residential block

If only it was just you and me allowed to vote. Sadly BJ’s approval rating is rising as we go though this

Not in anyway condoning anything that the UK government has done, but I don't think it is a coincidence that the largest city in Europe (London) and U.S.A. (New York) have by far the worst statistical evidence of virus spread. London had gone a long way to skew the UK figures.

and it takes the SPFL 35 minutes to digest the 200 pages and issue a statement to say there is not a shred of evidence against them. I wonder how thoroughly they read it

I have checked and these are not percentages but raw numbers. So England has a far bigger population than the other uk nations, so is bound to have more deaths. This is a completely pointless comparison that proves absolutely bugger all.

I have no idea what the figures are, but I am highly skeptical of that chart which shows England being so much worse than the rest of the UK. We all did the same things at the same time, so while there may be some regional variation, I would expect them to be broadly similar. (I am assuming that the numbers are a % over the average for time of year. If it isn't, then I'm not sure what comparison it is trying to make).

Or Falkirk get promoted from League One !

I'd settle for that. wonder if it is a permanent change, of just for a season. It would be difficult to go back to the old system, so I guess permanent

I am told that 87.2% of statistics are total bollocks

It is also dependent on the population density. Countries which have large rural areas have in general terms been less impacted

Putting on Devil's Advocate hat Why ? Dundee Utd and Cove were both on the brink of winning their leagues. Why should they suffer ?

I think there was a suggestion for pay out out on lowest possible league placing, then top up when final places were known. I think that could have worked. At the end of the day it was all academic as there was never much prospect of completing the season and so our 10th place was always going to be the problem that we had no way of getting out of. As I mentioned earlier, there was no solution that didn't hurt someone, we were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I see no horses racing.

If we can't play any more games then there are only 2 solutions. Current placings or Null and Void. Both hurt an equal number of teams unless there is some sort of reconstruction of the leagues, which is also going to hurt some teams.

I also worry about the Premier League in Scotland for next season. I don't see how clubs like Ross, Livvy, Hamilton and St.Mirren can make playing behind closed doors financially viable. Some championship clubs and below in England will have a similar problem. I can see a doomsday scenario developing where in a years time there might be only 40-50 professional clubs in the UK.

Don’t start what you can’t finish ! ps. Another 133 pages to catch up with New Owners

0.2%. So it is ok for 1 in 500 footballers to DIE just to get a sport .... an entertainment.... to restart.

Whether it was possible to grant loans, there does at least appear to be a precedent to give advances based on lowest possible finish. Why was this not put forward as an option?

Surprising when we don't know when football will restart. I would have thought that most clubs would want to get outgoings off their books asap. Perhaps if they are part time, the bulk of the players wage will be appearance money.

I guess that they will have no, or very few players on the books and probably a very small coaching staff. With the plastic pitch, overheads are likely to be low and they will have had a higher prize money than was budgeted for this season. If they were OK financially before the lockdown, Alloa might be one of the clubs in a better position to survive.