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McCall has come in and done a great job. With the players we lost over the summer, I'd be have content with a top 6 this season and a chance of European football. Safe to say my expectations have been comfortably exceeded. The gaffer has done a terrific job, not just at managing the team, but in his attitude to the game. Every time I see him giving an interview he is enthusing about the Scottish game (which makes a change from the daily misery in the media). Undoubtedly been a good deal for all parties, so he if he did go, he'd leave with my best wishes. An as other said, with 2 years compensation in our back pocket and the chance for a new boss to build a new team over the summer, it wouldn't be a disaster. I'll be happy if he stays though, as you can tell how much the players enjoy working with him and the confidence he has instilled make this one of the most exciting teams I can remember.

Don't know why, but if you click on the number itself it will tell you 'who'.

Or stick him in that spare empty bedroom.

The variety of his goals has been impressive too. Left foot, right foot, overhead kicks, headers and now banging them in from outside the box.

The blue strip still looks cracking too.

I love the guy, but he is nowhere near an England call up.

Was thinking that too. But then again, it's us thinking this way that makes it easier for them to get away with it. Bottom line, though, is that, if I could, I would go to the game to help support the team rather than stiff Utd. Completely understand the other point of view though and certainly not against their actions - especially after the problems they have had there in the past.

Because it was still the case that you had to take all or none. If there had been cherry picking involved St Mirren (or whoever) could have taken the financing and the governance but left the league reconstruction on the table.

It's funny because google says "overreaction" is one word, amirite?

The sad state of Scottish football means I don't trust St. Mirren any more than I trust Aberdeen. I hope I'm wrong, but I'll wait to see what the next set of proposals bring.

MLB and NFL are supposedly handicapped, but for me it's irrelevant to this discussion as they exist purely to serve the playoffs and the TV punter. Nobody cares about winning a league, and there is no promotion/relegation, there is a draft (and salary cap in the NFL) - there isn't really a comparison to be made. *handicapped in that the better teams are supposed to get the tougher schedules so as to maintain parity (particularly in the NFL).

Any concept of a league where teams don't play each other the same number of times, where there is a split, and where you can end up playing more games away than at home, is just mental. The fact that we are even proposing it shows what a state our game is in.

If it was just Celtic, all it would take is the other 11 clubs to vote it through regardless.

We tried that before, and it was a bit of a disaster as groups were often decided early on. Wouldn't be averse to trying it again, but I'd be surprised if it made up for the lost revenue of league games.

The question remains though - how do you do that? There are clubs who feel they need the OF to survive, and without their votes nothing can get approved. If it was that easy, the proposal would have been tabled today and we'd all be applauding the result.

It almost certainly changed their "Sevco-into-the-SPL" vote as all the noise coming from the Board prior to that was heavily biased towards a "Yes". Regardless, I'm not expecting miracles at this stage, but I'd expect more influence when the Society picks up more shares. Baby steps.

That, plus (as it was relayed to me) 11-1 voting was getting dumped so even when Sevco returned we could no longer be held hostage to the OF's whims. If that is no longer the case, then it's an absolute deal breaker for me.

Ah, got ye big man. Hopefully being a Well Society member will help influence some of the decisions, but not this one, it seems.

In what way? I still support my team (including financially) and want them to compete in a league that follows a league format. Leave the one-offs for the cup.

Not this fan. I think playoffs undermine the entire concept of a league.

Aye, but he grew up in Leeds as a Leeds Utd supporter and played schoolboy level there too did he not?

I would have thought the Leeds job would hold his interest too.

While I wasn't sold on it, I could understand the club being in favour of the "all or nothing" package that included a voting change. If the voting procedure remains at 11 - 1 it becomes pretty pointless.

You and me both, but I guess sponsors and TV companies like the idea of the relegation/promotion playoffs, points resetting and the like as it adds excitement and meaningful games. It looks almost like they want to move to an American sports model where the league is secondary to the play-off structure.