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The under 15s reach a final of a tournament in Holland , can they play in the final?? no they cant!!!Why not i hear you all ask. 1) Ferry times were booked wrong, the management(U15s) didnt get them changed 2) They didnt book another nite in the accommodation for the boys so they could play in the final. 3) The coaches asked the organisers to change the time of the final, such arrogance on their part expecting tournment organisers to change things because of their own incompetence. Parents paid out a lot of money for the young boys to go out there and play and take part in the tournament, they reached the final , a trophy could have been brought back, the boys could have had winners medals. Now they have nothing. ICT a SPL team??? They dont have the ambition of one. The club cant afford to buy players they have to try and bring them through and what happens they reach the final AND nothing else is done for them . Hang your heads in shame ICT and those involved in this catastrophe. As for the young boys well done, you all played your part like professionals , pity the same could not be said about those in charge of you.

Nothing wrong with their site or their aim within their fantasy league, good luck to them, but FFS, the initial info posted on the site made it sound like it was an organisation which would lead a "real world" campaign to get the OF out of SPL football or at the very least run at the same level/tier as a 'real' league. Even if it was a real campaign, some of the verbage made it sound preposterous as well as pretentious to the extreme. And I quote ..... We have come to the conclusion that its time for major change. We have come together for the first time in order to promote our own league. If they mean providing a table that would show how the league finished without the OF, it has been done many times before on a casual basis by various sites and news organisations. Its hardly ground breaking. The aims of the Real SPL are both ambitious and forward-looking. It is a league that is not scared to think of football in Scotland without the Old Firm. We are excited by the challenge of bringing back football to the fans, making football accessible, increasing crowds going to games on a weekly basis, improving the financial outlook of the teams we support, providing a fairer basis for all teams to compete, creating a more competitive league and increasing the interests of Scottish football throughout the world. REALLY ? HOW ? We understand that the Real SPL will not take over running the league from the SPL in the short-term. So thats a long term aim is it ? If the writer seriously believed that then their head was so far up their arse that they could actually see the utter shi** they were talking !!!! We have therefore, come to the decision to run in parallel with the SPL. Bully for you. A mickey mouse league with no mandate running against another one which at least does have a mandate ! The Real SPL will allocate points on the same basis as the SPL for games played but no points will be awarded when a team plays one of the Old Firm. These games will be deemed as “friendly” against a team from a different league. The Real SPL will run from the start of the season until the normal SPL split. The team with the most points will then be awarded Champions of the Real SPL. At least now we know that this 'mission statement' was grossly over-exaggerated and all that it really is is a half-baked fantasy league that will have zero impact on the actual league itself !!! Its basically a fixtures/results table with games V the OF omitted rather than a campaign and therefore more like forum spam than any proper cause we can all get behind such StandUpSitDown or Show Racism the Red Card. Good luck to them, hope the site works, not personally interested as I think it is codswallop but thats just my opinion. As for posting any more info on here, I would rather that not be the case ... We dont mind worthy causes or campaigns but this is just an unsolicited and thinly veiled advertisement for another site and therefore forum spam. If the owner wants to advertise it more, he can email us to find out our rates !

Thoroughly enjoyed the game. Best for a few months for sure. PC brigade were there as usual. Flag had to be removed due to it being a fire hazard... luckily the linesmans flag didn't burts into flames and my 3.99 Primark t-shirt managed to last the whole match without exploding! Seriously though, despite the poor atmosphere, I enjoyed the game and fantastic performance. Gillet was a wee bit ropey though - a few stray passes, other than this, job well done.

That's still excluding the OF. You call yourself "The Real SPL" yet your entire idea/site is based around pretending two teams just don't exist...is that meant to be some kind of irony and I'm somehow missing the punchline? The foundations upon which it is set will only serve to give the powers that be something else to use to undermine the word of the fans and anyone who tries to give it any kind of legitimacy will only serve to do more harm than good. By all means, have your fantasy league. On that basis I think it will draw interest in terms of curiosity or novel distraction, but it is certainly not an idea on which to base any kind of serious campaign. What Scottish football needs right now is for people to be putting their time and effort into campaigning for proper workable ideas and solutions to the problems being faced....a league without the OF is about as far removed from that as you can get right now.

How's about "revalations" from a local journalist that one party has been involved in the use of "free scoring trialists"! Despite all parties as long as anyone can remember being involved in the same practice,beheading is deemed the only appropriate punishment in this case, game aff

I was trying to come up with things to do to avoid it, but then I remembered that Prince Philip would be in attendance and they've invited foreign dignitaries!!!

That's still excluding the OF. You call yourself "The Real SPL" yet your entire idea/site is based around pretending two teams just don't exist...is that meant to be some kind of irony and I'm somehow missing the punchline? The foundations upon which it is set will only serve to give the powers that be something else to use to undermine the word of the fans and anyone who tries to give it any kind of legitimacy will only serve to do more harm than good. By all means, have your fantasy league. On that basis I think it will draw interest in terms of curiosity or novel distraction, but it is certainly not an idea on which to base any kind of serious campaign. What Scottish football needs right now is for people to be putting their time and effort into campaigning for proper workable ideas and solutions to the problems being faced....a league without the OF is about as far removed from that as you can get right now. Oh dear this has struck a raw nerve for some reason. Don't think the people behind this website are under any illusions that it IS just a fantasy league. What's wrong with that? If it is a campaign it seems to me to be merely about trying to highlight the fact that the OF are not the be all and end all of Scottish football. Presumably you think it's ok that Rangers and Celtic have constantly agitated to leave the SPL for well over a decade now, and no doubt would have already gone if anybody had actually wanted them. Such actions have undermined the viability of the SPL far more than publicising a league table without them in it would do.

Talk of getting rid of any team is just nonsense, IMO. I don't have any particular fondness to one or other, but basing any campaign to improve the game in Scotland on trying to oust other teams is nonsense and only serves to detract from finding and implementing solutions that can and will work.....for everyone. I'm not saying we need the OF, or any team for that matter, in order to have a viable and entertaining league. I'm also not of the opinion that without them the game would face financial Armageddon. The problem is not (primarily) the teams themselves, it's the system that allows them to bleed the game dry and leave everyone else fighting over scraps, it's the system that is geared around promoting and sustaining a duopoly to the detriment of all others and unless you change the system then you can remove all the teams you like but nothing will change and others will just move in to fill the void and the problems continue.