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According to Jamie Borthwick they've rejected reconstruction and so have constructed a situation where, all clubs being faced by a common threat, they reject the approach of looking to protect the whole of Scottish football and prefer instead to let some fellow clubs suffer.
In that atmosphere the cost of a court case will just make the finacial threats even worse for some clubs.
I don't want any club to go to the wall but it's a real possibility - if eg Dungdee Utd or East Fife or Stenny or whatever when they had the choice of thinking of all their fellow clubs or not, chose to put themselves first there'll be much gnashing of teeth if Hearts/Partick/Stranraer then don't put DU/East Fife/Stenny's future above their own interests.
Sad day.
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The only clubs I want to survive this are the one's who voted to keep us ( and the others ) up. Any club that voted to harm us can die, and the sooner the better. lets see all these club chairmen who voted against reconstruction, face their fans as their clubs folds.
Have to say I am surprised Budge didn't roll over and I hope we take this all the way and the whole of Scottish football gets a shake up. Doncaster and all the weegie loving scum can gtf, hope every one of them lose their cushy jobs and have to work for a living from now on.
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I don't hope clubs will go to the wall, as it's individual blinkered chairmen who voted (not to protect all member clubs equally) rather than the communities and the fans of where the clubs are. But we have a situation now where the clubs have to find the money for a court case and, if it's decided in our favour, the damages plus costs, since the spfl itself doesn't hold money for this sort of thing, it's a consortium of clubs: each one is liable.
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Partick Thislte have been helped financially to join in our court case, They had said previously they would have joined us but couldn't due to costs. Good news for them and us. Just need Stranraer to join too and we have a full house.
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From what I heard the French & Belgian cases will be different to ours and sounds like they might not set that much of a precedent - closing the season early there was a decisoin by their FAs. With us of course it was a majority decision by the clubs themselves.
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Papers lodged but no request for an interdict at this time but we reserve the right to apply.
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HC - as a non-Jambo what's your take on it?
My DungdeeUtd mate thinks we're wrong of course, but his side benefitted from the early end to the season so I'm not sure how much vested interest theer might be in that.
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I think the relegation is a scandal. Just consider the arbitrary timing that lockdown started. If it had been a week earlier (and several knowledgeable people say it should have been), we wouldn't have been bottom. We're now (I think) the only country in Europe (the world?) to have relegated a team before the season ended properly.
I think the Belgian case could be a precedent, as it went to the competition authority. It's clearly (surely) an anti-competitive practice for competitors to vote you out of a division.
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The plot thickens, Doncaster voted on to EUFA ethics committee. Big Peter helping those who helped him.