Notice on the BBC Scotland Sports web site comments from both
1) Ian Murray saying Hibs have always been a wee bit short of quality
2) Fowler quoted as saying Scottish top tier on the same level as leaque 1 in England although Scottish clubs tend to compare themseves to Championship level.
Think the 2 of them lack a little class considering what Scottish football has given them both.
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17-08-2018 04:32 PM #1
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James Fowler & Ian Murray
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17-08-2018 04:36 PM #3
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17-08-2018 04:42 PM #5
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But then we have the massive “if we had their tv money” argument. If hibs has the same tv money as teams in the English championship, I doubt we would of sold Mcginn, or demanded more, we could also offered McGeouch way more than we did. It’s not really a comparison imo.
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17-08-2018 04:46 PM #6
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45216901
Murray is really praising Lennon in this article, saying he has got the max from the squad and that Hibs need more investment in playing resources.
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17-08-2018 04:46 PM #8
Ridiculous comment by Murray. Does he include himself in the lack of quality comment?
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17-08-2018 04:47 PM #9
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Incredibly tiresome.
Dundee went down last year and roasted a team from league 1. The Scottish Premiership is a step up as described by a Motherwell player today.
He's at Sunderland so he has to say that. League 1 football is dross...they'd probably beat Livi or Hamilton but look at the size of the clubs.
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17-08-2018 04:48 PM #10
If Hibs had the English TV revenue we would be a Premiership club, simple as that.
No-one will convince me that we're a smaller club than the likes of Huddersfield, Bournemouth and Brighton.
It's totally pointless to say that we would be League One standard in England. Maybe we would but when we're on a similar financial footing as League Two clubs in England then if we're League One standard then that's pretty good.
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His comments are reactionary. He is no expert. Just another rent-a-gob ex-player.
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17-08-2018 05:39 PM #12
murray is a failed ex manager, was bang average as a player as well so would take what he says with a pinch of salt
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17-08-2018 06:10 PM #13
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We have little or no chance of ever getting a bigger share of TV monies, as the EPL are the same as the Uglies,we are the biggest and the best, so we get the most money!!!
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17-08-2018 06:11 PM #14
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17-08-2018 06:12 PM #15
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As for SPL being same level as English league 1 again probably right the average club in our league is probably paying similar wages to league 1. Though that is due to Scottish football finances, Hibs are league 1 in comparison to player recruiting but are a much bigger club, if you look at crowd sizes, we had an average crowd of 18100 last season which was higher than all but one League 1 club last season (Bradford) and higher than 10 Championship clubs (Reading, Ipswich, Bolton, Hull, QPR, Preston, Barnsley, Millwall, Brentford, Burton)
If we played in the English league on a level playing field we would be a good Championship club with a good crack at their premier league
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17-08-2018 06:45 PM #18
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17-08-2018 06:53 PM #19
as long as we get shafted from sky and have to compete on an uneven playing field we will continue to struggle. Why can the teams in the premier not get together about this (and the supporters), maybe with political help, and embarrass the companies doing this to us. I would also like to find out if this is a national thing, i.e. are the people making the decisions as to how the money is awarded are English as that is criminal.
Nothing more infuriating to me about football than this subject.Last edited by andybev1; 17-08-2018 at 06:56 PM.
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17-08-2018 07:01 PM #20
The only comparison that is fair is surely with a similar sized country with similar TV revenue. Not sure what that country is though.
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17-08-2018 07:07 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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17-08-2018 07:32 PM #22
You get roughly £170m a season in the premier league
Give any SPL team this amount of cash and then we’d see how well they’d do in Europe
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We’d be brilliant.
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17-08-2018 08:25 PM #24
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2) I wonder how well the Championship clubs would compare with the SPFL if they had to manage on an SPFL-style TV deal.
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17-08-2018 08:41 PM #25
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17-08-2018 08:45 PM #26
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I’ll be honest, think the comments towards Murray lack a bit of class here. Nothing wrong with what he said.
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17-08-2018 08:48 PM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I then found his subsequent statement strange.
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Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeen are all big enough to say that if they had the financial backing that they get in England then they would be Premiership clubs along with Celtic and Rangers.
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17-08-2018 09:28 PM #29
Sportsound have a history of getting "pundits" in when they are looking for a job.comments should be taken with a pinch of salt.nothing too see here.move on.Muppets the pair of them.
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