Neil Doncaster: Nine-year TV contract shows I am the real deal

[54andcounting 0]

a nine year deal is a long time to be tied down on the same money

 

So ridiculous isn't it

[54andcounting 0]

This rubbish about Scottish football not needing the OF game is just echoing the mhanks claim cos they had CL last season.

 

Doncaster thinks what happened last season is normal.

 

God help us all without a C**t** persuasion

[der Berliner 3,283]

I just hope the Scum get dumped at the earliest opportunity ... too bad that due to the CL rewards and the Wanyama transfer (which will sure take place sooner or later), they will not need any "Scottish" money for at least two more seasons, I would assume. And once more SPFL 1 sides bite the bullet, they'll cry for English salvation ...

[Guest cail]

Another 9 years of doing his Master's bidding,see Lieswell for that.

 

The new SPFL chief said: “Scottish football used to be sold on the back of the Old Firm derby games.

 

“But we haven’t had one of those for over a year and we won’t have another one in a league competition for another two seasons. The interest in the Scottish game clearly runs deeper than that rivalry.

 

“It’s about the intensity of the game here and the decent level of attendance.

 

“That’s why the nine-year deal won’t be renegotiated when Celtic and Rangers are back in the same division.”

This just proves it.

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No one with half a business brain in their head would commit to a 9 year TV deal. Surely this isn't correct ?

[Gribz 743]

This make Alan Pardews 8 year contract seen sane.

 

He was given the job 12 hours after his interview but was already booked on a flight to Italy at 4am the next day...just confirmed that it was a fix all along.

[SteveC 150]

No one with half a business brain in their head would commit to a 9 year TV deal. Surely this isn't correct ?

 

He'll have sold it this way to get future revenue paid partly or fully in advance to pay off current debts. Selling the future down the river to cover up previous mistakes.

 

The buyers get a bundle of cheap shit to fill up schedules till 2022 and the bookies in all countries like that for in play live betting addicts. Their adverts will help the TV companies make an easy profit by the time this deal is over.

 

The game here will get virtually no income in the deals last years. Doncaster will be long gone, caring not a jot that he will have left the game in the grubber and claiming it was not his fault anyway.

Edited July 7, 2013 by SteveC

[ian1964 10,447]

Hugh Keevins: Doncaster didn't stand a chance..whoever is in charge of our game is disliked, distrusted and dismissed

7 Jul 2013 00:01

 

HUGH KEEVINS says Neil Doncaster's legal training and successful period of running a club at the highest level of the British game makes him look like the perfect candidate.

 

 

 

WHAT is it people think they’re missing exactly when it comes to Neil Doncaster and his appointment as chief executive of the new SPFL?

 

To borrow Billy Connolly’s line, he is about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit in the minds of many of the general public and certain sections of the media.

 

But what if a head-hunting agency was asked by our game’s authorities to come up with a man with the right skill set to run Scottish football?

 

They might like the look of someone with a legal background, a successful period running a club at the highest level of the British game and who was diplomatic, intelligent and fair minded. Someone like Doncaster in fact.

 

He grew Norwich City’s income sufficiently well to get the job of running the SPL.

 

And anyone with a legitimate claim to have negotiated a nine-year contract to show Scottish football to 60 different countries has a flair for deal making.

 

Particularly when the fans who pillory Doncaster are the first to tell you the game’s on its last legs.

 

I’m as nostalgic as the next guy for the days when Ernie Walker and Jim Farry were the game’s figureheads, but nostalgia clouds the reality where they’re concerned.

 

Ernie was a man of the people who proved it during a debate over the anthem for the national team. He said: “They can play ‘She’ll be coming round the f*****g mountain’ so long as we win.”

 

Bertie Auld called Ernie the “Ayatollah” because of his uncompromising leadership.

 

But once he retired from the SFA, Ernie would say of his critics turned cronies: “They only like you when you’ve gone.”

 

Farry was one of the wittiest, smartest men I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet but was guilty of one grotesque error of judgement that finished him.

 

He was damaged goods after Jorge Cadete was wrongly prevented from playing for Celtic against Rangers on the pretext his registration wasn’t in order.

 

But whoever is in charge of our game is disliked, distrusted and dismissed, more often than not on the flimsiest of evidence. That’s just the way we are. But if a club like Rangers is handed over to

a man who does a more than passable imitation of a fantasist and who proceeds to run the whole thing into the ground, what’s that got to do with Doncaster?

 

And if a financial basket case at Tynecastle is then delivered into the hands of a reckless Eastern European who makes things even worse for Hearts, what blame should be attached to Doncaster?

 

He has, in the midst of chaos, kept broadcasters on board and actually achieved an increase in revenue from those sources.

 

And he’s done it when there’s no Old Firm game to offer as bait.

 

The fact Doncaster made the deal known to the media the day after his appointment showed he knows about jungle warfare.

 

“You don’t think I’m up to it? Well, what about this?”

 

That seemed to be the subtext of his revelation.

 

Doncaster’s difficulty is that his legal training makes him come across as something less than a song and dance man when it comes to dealing with the media.

 

Which is why, I understand, a PR man will shortly be added to the SPFL wage bill.

 

Doncaster, and SFA chief executive Stewart Regan, might have to learn the wisdom of Walker’s words and wait until they’ve departed this country before they get recognition.

 

But there’s an undeniable hint of xenophobia attached to some of the criticism directed the

way of the two Englishmen by supporters.

 

And patriotism is, as they say, the last refuge of the scoundrel.

 

I repeat, what is it you think you’re missing?

 

The man’s doing a decent job.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/hugh-keevins-doncaster-didnt-stand-2034135

[26th of foot 5,857]

I think I have the rationale behind Nuremberg Hugh's piece?

 

Nuremberg has spent the last year banned from attending ra Stydome in a working capacity because he penned a pre-season piece expressing concern at his beloved Sellik's preparation for the CL. Neither his Editor at the Record, Allen Rennie nor his Radio Snyde boss, Jim(ra Tim)Delahunt bothered their arse to ensure he was allowed to plight his trade at ra Stydome. Thus, a way back into the fold is to write ridiculous pieces lionising both of Peter's pals, Neil and Stewart. Of course, get a few digs in at Rangers and Hearts, remind the readership of the victimhood of ra Yahoos, and offer an insight into the way ahead at the SFA.

 

Don't worry Hugh, you'll soon be a Peter's pal too.

[andy steel 0]

Nothing so conspiratorial.

 

His rationale is fairly accurate, that no-one else would be any more popular. What he misses is the time - not much, but some - granted to a new face, and the lessening of the mistrust and vitriol which comes with a Doncaster or even a Longmuir.

 

What he also misses is the history of abuse Doncaster & Regan have taken from the media, quite a few of whom have, for whatever reason, decided to perform a volte face and who now think he is an absolutely smashing guy.

 

It might be unfair to chastise Doncaster - I don't think it is, since he insults the intelligence of every fan when he goes on telly or radio and refuses point blank to answer any of his customers' questions - but life often isn't fair.

Edited July 7, 2013 by andy steel