Celtic Banter Archive March 18 2020

18 Mar 2020 19:59:53
With hearts asking their players to take a 50 percent pay cut during the unplanned downtime I wouldn't be against us asking players/ higher earners too take a small paycut (10-15 percent) and the money being put into a fund for the non SPL clubs we should remember the origins of our club at times like this. Our wage bill is over £1million/ week according to our accounts. Teams like Raith are crowdfunding for 25k when we have individuals earning more per week. I don't think the government should have to bail them out when they've got many more deserving causes/ sectors. Tin hat on.

18 Mar 2020 20:32:31
Perfectly sensible and noble idea.

18 Mar 2020 20:56:03
It’s all fine and well bailing out the other clubs and then the Spfl ask them to vote on the outcome of the league because they have no backbone. And we know what the result of the vote would be.

18 Mar 2020 22:06:48
It wouldn't be about "buying votes" tho. It's not inconceivable that the majority of teams will fold without some sort of stimulus. We can't play in a league by ourselves at the end of the day.

19 Mar 2020 00:21:42
I'd rather we used the money to pay the staff who work in the shops stadium restaurant and such during this time whilst they're not able to go to work.

19 Mar 2020 08:45:49
Take care of our non footballing staff. Our money will dwindle very quickly.

19 Mar 2020 20:13:16
If some of the wee teams folded, like Forfar, Brechin, Arbroath and Montrose, they could resurrect as Mearns United, have a brand new ground central to them all and plenty of money in the bank. There are far too many small teams in Scotland.

18 Mar 2020 15:53:17
If there is no football for 4 months that will take us to July.8 games are played Wednesday and Saturday over 4 weeks to finish 19/ 20 season in August. One week off and 20/ 21 season starts late August until June 2021,still having a winter break. Champions League and Europa League start in september, both competitions for one year only are played as a straight two legged knock-out. Sorted.

18 Mar 2020 17:25:25
That’s a good call cormac because UEFA will need to give an extension on June 30th. The season needs to be won in 2020 so there is plenty of time to finish off the season considering it can be finished in a month. The players will have had plenty of rest and it would be easy to follow your plan.

18 Mar 2020 18:13:06
To make the time up for 20/ 21 season we could play each other twice and then the top and bottom 6 play each other home and away. That would be a 32 game season and we would make up for time we lost at the start of the season.

19 Mar 2020 20:17:31
I think starting on a Saturday, 2 day break, then 2nd game then 2 game break then 3rd game and so on. 2 weeks and the league is sorted.
Everyone in the same boat.

18 Mar 2020 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 18th March 2020