The Championship, if they're not careful.

Slow progress

Down to the championship😂😂😂😂

@@Luke0tsPostman ye gd bantr

A struggle,good friend Sam!!!🏋🏻‍♂️

We got student tickets for 19 fuck giving them 35

What you have to accept is that Scottish pro clubs and semi-pro acknowledged long ago that their supporter base was fixed and incapable of expansion. So their business model is based on charging as much as they can from that core supporter base with little or no interest on attracting new fans via pricing initiatives. Home and away support figures in Scotland outside the OF will probably show very little variance year on year. So the clubs bank on exploiting the loyalty of the fans they know will attend regardless, instead of making it attractive to floating fans. The regular fan attending 19 home games will absorb high ticket costs for those 19 games. The floating fan will perhaps attend one match when the price is reduced but not return. So the revenue streams are concentrated on rinsing core fans alone. Sad fact, but too true. Scottish fans outside the OF have to accept that they are playing for 3rd place in the league every season and a cup win now and then. The other harsh fact is that pro football in Scotland is pretty much unsustainable at its current level. Only interest in the OF allows it to continue. The wages on offer at Hibs, AFC etc are pretty astonishing when you consider the league's revenue. SPFL players outside the OF can earn upwards of 5k a week. So that's equivalent of a League 2 English club attempting to compete with a low-ranking Championship club paying upwards of 20k a week. The figures make no sense and fans have to accept that semi-pro football without the OF would be a much more realistic and competitive proposition. If Scottish pro football was allowed to collapse, UEFA would have no alternative to allowing the OF access to another league outside Scotland. The rest of Scotland's clubs would enjoy a much more equitable league if it happened

FTH

😂😂😂😂brilliant comment, wee guy at the start had me in stitches HHGH🇱🇻

Jambos on top

Same

We also sell at the first opportunity. I know that the players have a big say, but the standard of player we have let go over the past 20 years before the team reaches it potential is heartbreaking (2007 and 2016 shows what can happen before say, a McGinn or a Brown is sold). We never have a stable team , I honestly reckon the 2006 to 2008 team could have won the league if intact.

​@@user-pg2kj7ps7oAgreed. Managers carrying the can for having their key players sold and not replaced is normal in football and I'm honestly surprised that nobody has sued for constructive dismissal yet.

as a hibs fan, well put sir!

This is actually 100% accurate. Which explains so much haha

Nah they've already fell apart.

Let’s have it right, the bigger teams didn’t want to take part and hibs were the first to accept, I think they finished 5th or 6th that season

uhuhuh

Copying the early 80s Rangers seat strip.

I thought the exact same thing lol. I think the point was meaning the rest of the table is pretty changeable, but when the top hasn't been won by anyone outside the OF since I was months old and I turn 40 this year, it fell pretty flat.

We shouldn't care about that. We will never be able to compete with the wealthy European leagues, or the plastic leagues in other parts of the world, and we shouldn't try. We chased that dream in the early 2000s and it blew up in our faces. Instead, we should focus on creating a great experience for match-going Scottish fans instead of trying to appeal to TV viewers in other countries - fair pricing, competitive matches, no VAR, great media that gets us behind the scenes, a real connection between clubs and communities.

Unfortunately, the extreme tribalism of those two means that is almost impossible. It’s literally a struggle to the death and every point dropped is a disaster. Whenever a team remotely challenges them , the players of that team are mercilessly disgruntled by the MSM here in Scotland. All the players are miraculously linked with big money transfers. Hibs had a team in 2006 that could well have won the league if it remained intact. However, the “old firm” tore it apart. It’s why we have such a great stadium though!

The OF each have 10 times the resources of their nearest challengers. Between them that have half of all the income for the whole of Scottish football every year. It's not like the difference between Man City and Leicester, it's like the difference between Man City and Reading. It's impossible for anyone to break their stranglehold and there's no point thinking about it.

@@gordon1545 I know the issues, I just wish there was a way.👍

Thanks mate. I use a GoPro Hero 10 and a Sony a6000. Both seem to do the job!

*Pitiful, like your English 😉

@@avalanche816 here comes the auto correct police. Gimp

Hibs fans have it sussed too many seasons getting served up dross so they stay away.

What a load of shite. Any fanbase would be the same after constant disappointments.

@@Support-your-local-team not true in the slightest. You wouldn’t see that at Tynecastle, Ibrox or Celtic Park. I know plenty hibs season ticket holders that say the same. Fans are only there when it’s good!

@@HandsomeFlackoJodye Celtic and Rangers have about 80% of the fans between them and you think it's an achievement to sell out a 50-60 thousand stadium? When have they been as bad as Hibs for a decade? Didn't Celtic's support split in half when Rangers weren't there (and that was when Celtic were still winning titles). Comparing anyone else to Celtic/Rangers with their gloryhunter supports is irrelevant. Hearts have had very good attendances for the last number of years but their attendances have fluctuated in the past as well.

@@HandsomeFlackoJodye in the early 80s when Rangers were a mid table team, they were regularly playing in front of very low crowds at Ibrox, with the stadium well under half full for many matches

Watch out for the "ULTRAS"... The whole 12 o thum 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🇬🇧🇬🇧

Quiet, zombie. ​@@tazernuts5930

Correct. Aberdeen were...there is a story as to why The Dandy Dons didn't play in Europe but i don't know what it is!!🤔

Huh 🤣

@@yasmineelbekhti2758 Full on shite

You referring to hibs or sam 👀😂

@@jamesyyy4840 Sam , love watching his videos and atmosphere great at rugby park

@@user-vt1qo6en1c aye a like rugby park aswell mate been there a few times wae rangers was there last gear was close

vamos azules 💙 everyone is behind stranraer

@@just_some_guy_innit will be a sad day for Scottish football if the third oldest team goes out of the SPL system.

@@BALHAM69 exactly and its even sadder when east kilbride were only formed in 2010 as a glorified mcdonalds soccer school franchise and have no identity as a club whatsoever

@@just_some_guy_innit Sam could go there on Saturday and we shall see what happens

You know if you translate this comment It comes up as - Leith still looks good 🤣

That's Lochend

@@raithrover1976 Lochend still looks mingin eh

@@MrMmnngghh Lochend isn't exactly Morningside, that's for sure😂

Aberdeen are similar. Over achieved in the 80s due to a great manager, but are now where you’d expect them to be. Another medium sized stadium that the fan base can’t fill.

No bad for a pub team considering there the only team to beat real Madrid in a European final 🖕🔴⚪️🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐑

How's that funny ya helmet. Name four bigger.

Correct

Yes. They are comfortably in the 5 biggest clubs in Scotland. Hibs and Aberdeen have double the average attendances of the next-best supported club.