SPFL Prize Money this season

[hibby6270]

SPFL have announced today the breakdown of £25m prize money to be distributed to all 42 league clubs. Difference between 5th to 3rd, almost £400K, so a definite incentive for our final games. That’s 3 maybe 4 players wages next season?

Full story in attached link. https://spfl.co.uk/news/spfl-prize-pot-reaches-25m

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Big differences between where we might get to and where we were heading before Christmas


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[Billy Whizz]

£250 extra for 4th v 6th

[iwasthere1972]

Will Hearts get the £3.3 million plus a bonus for winning the league by September?

[brianmc]

£250 extra for 4th v 6th

Nah, it's more than that 🤭

[Billy Whizz]

Nah, it's more than that 🤭

250K😄
And Huddersfield get £100m for being bottom of the League

[1van Sprou7e]

£250 extra for 4th v 6th

Enough to get you an hsl membership

[DarlingtonHibee]

250K😄
And Huddersfield get £100m for being bottom of the League

Problem is there is no interest in Scottish football and the start of it was lex gold and his setanta deal.

[NAE NOOKIE]

Problem is there is no interest in Scottish football and the start of it was lex gold and his setanta deal.

Eh, aye ok …. But you cant blame Lex Gold for the price of failure in the EPL being a payout of £100,000,000 is there a sports competition anywhere in the world where being last is of such value?

There is little interest outside of their domestic market for practically every league in Europe outside of the big 5, with possibly only the Dutch and Portuguese leagues slightly bucking that trend and none of them have the biggest and most financially successful league in the world on their doorstep and the national broadcaster beaming highlights of that leagues games and live matches from its national cup competition free to their domestic audience.

Pay to view satellite TV is one thing, but can you imagine the uproar in Denmark, Sweden or Portugal for example if their national broadcaster was showing games from England for nothing which directly clashed with their domestic football schedule? They would go mental, but that is what Scottish football has been putting up with for years now.

We aint doing so bad when you consider what we have to put up with, though I concede we could do better. If it was up to me English football would be banned from broadcast in Scotland on any day there was a top flight match.

[RyeSloan]

Eh, aye ok …. But you cant blame Lex Gold for the price of failure in the EPL being a payout of £100,000,000 is there a sports competition anywhere in the world where being last is of such value?

There is little interest outside of their domestic market for practically every league in Europe outside of the big 5, with possibly only the Dutch and Portuguese leagues slightly bucking that trend and none of them have the biggest and most financially successful league in the world on their doorstep and the national broadcaster beaming highlights of that leagues games and live matches from its national cup competition free to their domestic audience.

Pay to view satellite TV is one thing, but can you imagine the uproar in Denmark, Sweden or Portugal for example if their national broadcaster was showing games from England for nothing which directly clashed with their domestic football schedule? They would go mental, but that is what Scottish football has been putting up with for years now.

We aint doing so bad when you consider what we have to put up with, though I concede we could do better. If it was up to me English football would be banned from broadcast in Scotland on any day there was a top flight match.

Seriously?

Ban just English football from being shown or Spanish, German and Italian as well?

Would you block internet access and streams as well in a North Korean kinda way?

All because Hamilton are at home to Dundee?

[Kaff]

Seriously?

Ban just English football from being shown or Spanish, German and Italian as well?

Would you block internet access and streams as well in a North Korean kinda way?

All because Hamilton are at home to Dundee?

There's merit in what NNookie says, your argument carries water if you're happy with the financial parity Scottish football gets from the national broadcaster?
Bear in mind that Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer combined are paid more than all of Scottish football from them, that's a sobering thought.

And btw I'd rather watch Hamilton v Dundee than Newcastle v Leicester any day of the week

Edit chose them because of Lineker and Shearer but comparable is Huddersfield v Cardiff and that is surely worse?

[NAE NOOKIE]

Seriously?

Ban just English football from being shown or Spanish, German and Italian as well?

Would you block internet access and streams as well in a North Korean kinda way?

All because Hamilton are at home to Dundee?

When you think about it that's hardly outlandish. Countries impose import tariffs all the time in order to safeguard their own industries and for good reason, take cars for example, why buy a crappy home grown model if you could get a superbly engineered German car with higher spec for the same money?

The last time I looked football was a business just the way that car manufacturing is and there is decent evidence to show that Scottish football is adversely affected by its close proximity to the EPL ….. Their product is beamed wall to wall in Scotland and a lot of kids are being lost to our game as they become TV fans of Man City, Liverpool, Man Utd etc.

Take a walk through any Scottish town on a warm summer day and apart from the usual blizzard of Celtic and The Rangers tops how many Hibs, Hearts or Aberdeen tops do you see? Galashiels where I live is a traditional catchment area for both Hibs and Hearts but seeing one of our or their tops on a kid here is highly unusual, whereas EPL or Real Madrid and especially Barcelona tops are reasonably common. It was always the case that Scottish kids usually had a favourite English team, but that was as well as the Scottish team they followed not instead of one which is often the case now.

Even if folk don't appreciate the damage being so close to the EPL and English football in general does to our game, there sure as hell aint no case to be made that its proximity is of any benefit to us whatsoever. Their football is shown wall to wall here and its quality and slick presentation gives our kids and too many adults a false sense of what football is really about, leading them to make ridiculous comparisons and dismiss our domestic game as a result. They snap up any Scottish player who shows a modicum of talent for peanuts and English owned, or at least run, radio stations like Talk Sport or 5 live which broadcast UK wide barely give us a mention and when they do it is never with a positive slant.