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    Ferranti Thistle,Meadowbank Thistle or Livingston fc, call them what you want but they filled a void in one of Scotland's largest modern towns that had no community based football club. the community, is comprised of huge Glasgow overspills and a lot of Edinburgh/West Lothian influx. a good mate of mine, who was a Celtic fan, decided to take his boy to Livi matches just to veer him away from the religious nonsense of the west re-fitba. for that, I applaud him. nevertheless, it is still an uphill struggle for even Livingston. don't like their playing surface, but do admire what their manager has done this season.the ground holds 10k, so they are there on merit


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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven79 View Post
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    Airdrie who get on average 1,000 per game?
    That’s in the third tier, if they were in the premiership they’d average much more than Hamilton currently do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by underscore View Post
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    The livi pitch is one of the worst ive seen. We took an u15 team there last season for a cup game and ended up with 4 injuries, one boy out for the season. All due to the pitch. The amount of rubber chucked on it is unreal.
    I don't really care about how big the crowd of an opposition club is, however this right here is the biggest issue.

    Being able to maintain a suitable grass pitch should absolutely be a prerequisite of becoming a top flight team IMO. If they can handle it up in Dingwall, there's absolutely no excuse for anybody else in the league.

    So completely inappropriate for the professional game.

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    I fully agree about the pitch. Killie, Liv and Hamilton all allowed this plastic pish in the SPL.. Alloa, and probably others too in other leagues

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    There on merit but when you look to negotiations for TV deals and sponsorship you would much rather have the two Dundehh teams in there, even the likes of Falkirk and Dunfermline could replace a couple of the other Mickey mouse teams too in terms of size.

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    We are a generation away from a major structural change in Scottish Football IMHO. It will be akin to rugby with far fewer professional/full-time sides.

    We arguably have only 5 teams with viable crowds e.g. the OF, Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeen - and two of these sides have been bankrupt in recent years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDHibs View Post
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    Teams like Hamilton & Livingston are in our league on merit. They are both well run clubs who manage to compete in this league without anywhere near the same resources as other clubs.

    Livi being above us in the table after losing Gallagher, Halkett & the keeper they had is a testament to good scouting & coaching. Our fans would slate our board for signing players like Dykes & Lamie from the championship, so we go sign players from the championship down south who flop. Shrewd signings who fit the model.

    Hamilton manage to survive using their youth system. Constant conveyor belt of talent that gets game time in the 1st team & gets sold for profit. You arent trying to tell me they have better academy facilities than us? They also take players like Martin, Alston, Oakley & Fon Williams who are deemed not good enough for clubs around them & fit them into their team. Martin & Alston made Hallberg & Slivka look like amateurs last night.

    2 clubs, 2 totally different methods of how to run a football club & they are successful at it, deserve more respect.

    I dont like either clubs style of play, but you know what you are going to get, an organised team, who will press as a team, full of hungry players who play for the coach. Not their fault the local football fans would rather support bigger clubs, but they make do & do it very well.
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    The quality of football at our last game there was abysmal from both teams . The pitch is the main reason as it seems almost impossible to run with the ball or pass it around with any confidence. They have a way of playing that suits the pitch and gets results but it makes for grim viewing and probably one of the reasons next to nobody goes and watches them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IWasThere2016 View Post
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    We are a generation away from a major structural change in Scottish Football IMHO. It will be akin to rugby with far fewer professional/full-time sides.

    We arguably have only 5 teams with viable crowds e.g. the OF, Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeen - and two of these sides have been bankrupt in recent years.
    a generation away? according to the Tories, this should be 40, maybe 50 years away

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