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Kilmarnock Football Club wishes to express its disappointment following the publication of the Scottish Premiership post-split fixtures. 

As has already been alluded to there is always the possibility of an imbalance of home and away fixtures. This year we see a relative balance being struck with the reallocation of additional home matches to another team in the league, which ultimately results in Kilmarnock FC facing three trips to Ibrox with Rangers having made only one trip to Rugby Park. 

While we share the frustration of our supporters at this outcome, we hope you will continue to provide the magnificent backing you have shown to our team over the course of the season. 

The connection between the club and supporters has been a critical factor to our upturn in fortunes. While an additional visit by Rangers would naturally provide a boost in terms of income, the passion, ambition and focus of everyone at the club remains on continuing to grow our home crowds.

Your strong vocal backing of the team has seen Rugby Park rocking and made our home a place our opponents respect once again.

We are focused on finishing the campaign as strongly as possible and ask that our fans back us in numbers both home and away in our remaining matches of this fantastic season and we look forward to the forthcoming launch of our season ticket campaign for the 2018/19 season over the next few weeks.

Together, We Are Stronger.

http://www.kilmarnockfc.co.uk/Article?id=7061

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Sums up perfectly how we feel about the way that the Governing Body bows down to 'another team'. Even though we have had a fantastic season after a bad start, the Governing Body and TV companies still treat us with disdain. Still, f**k them all. We fear no one, whether it's at home OR away :hurrah:

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1 hour ago, killieblues said:

I'm disappointed that it is only pointing out Rangers. I think it's more relevant that we have away games against BOTH Rangers and Celtic, and that we are the ONLY team in the top 6 that has this situation. Not entirely fair, but it will make those 6 points for us all the sweeter.

We were due an away match against Celtic.

We will have played the rest of the Top Six twice home and away apart from Rangers. 

 

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It's annoying that everything revolves round Celtic and The Rangers.  Fixtures have to be changes so that Celtic shouldn't win the league while playing Rangers, TV companies decide which games they want to broadcast and get the fixtures juggled to suit.  It's just wrong the dates and times of football matches are set by those NOT attending!

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The clubs, including us, voted to break away all those years ago to form the protectionist SPL, in order to stop those pesky lower league teams getting a share of their TV money. 

The clubs, including us, were happy with the split. When Rangers went bust, we had the chance to change the Old Firm veto but bottled it. 

If turkeys keep voting for Christmas, they can't moan when Santa comes calling. 

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1 minute ago, Scooby_Doo said:

The clubs, including us, voted to break away all those years ago to form the protectionist SPL, in order to stop those pesky lower league teams getting a share of their TV money. 

The clubs, including us, were happy with the split. When Rangers went bust, we had the chance to change the Old Firm veto but bottled it. 

If turkeys keep voting for Christmas, they can't moan when Santa comes calling. 

Yup.....could have buried Rangers for years to come but no, we shat it.

Didn't even change the fcking voting rights!!

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A whole lot of issues that can easily be avoided next year by doing away with the split. It was Ok the first few years but its boring now and only upsets everyone. A bigger league would be great BUT there are those that would want the Ugly Sisters twice a year at home for the dosh....However, that would not always be possible either unless you have a split. There are teams in the bottom half of the split that will only have had Celtic or Rankers once at home with obviously no more for rest of season. Is it not time to expand the leage and have no split?

As i have said before, we fear no-one anyway so bring it on.

When we push for the league title next season :) , we will need to do both halves of the OF away from home to have achieved that goal.

Witrh SSC at the helm, anything is possible as he has already shown.

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11 minutes ago, Bigdodge said:

A whole lot of issues that can easily be avoided next year by doing away with the split. It was Ok the first few years but its boring now and only upsets everyone. A bigger league would be great BUT there are those that would want the Ugly Sisters twice a year at home for the dosh....However, that would not always be possible either unless you have a split. There are teams in the bottom half of the split that will only have had Celtic or Rankers once at home with obviously no more for rest of season. Is it not time to expand the leage and have no split?

As i have said before, we fear no-one anyway so bring it on.

When we push for the league title next season :) , we will need to do both halves of the OF away from home to have achieved that goal.

Witrh SSC at the helm, anything is possible as he has already shown.

Can't agree with the boring comment.  We have 5 big games coming up with something to prove and something to play for.  That's also true for another 7 out of the 12 clubs.  That to me is a lot more exciting that rounding out the season with meaningless games and meandering to the final day.

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5 minutes ago, SaucyJackPirate said:

Can't agree with the boring comment.  We have 5 big games coming up with something to prove and something to play for.  That's also true for another 7 out of the 12 clubs.  That to me is a lot more exciting that rounding out the season with meaningless games and meandering to the final day.

Totally agree with that.

I'd say it's more than 7 clubs though. 5 in top 6 and at least 4 in bottom six still got Europe/survival to play for.

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There should definitely be some sort of financial compensation for the sides who end up with one fewer home match- for instance, a share of gate receipts from the sides who end up with an extra home game.

It wouldn't have to be much- 20% of gate receipts would at least be a gesture in the right direction.

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It's all seeded the split and as Neil Doncaster was saying, this has happened before.

We're performing above expectations, hence the uneven schedule of matches.

Unfair.  But thats the way the seeding system for the split works.

Finish consistently in the top 6 and it becomes someone elses problem.

 

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10 minutes ago, fraz65 said:

There should definitely be some sort of financial compensation for the sides who end up with one fewer home match- for instance, a share of gate receipts from the sides who end up with an extra home game.

It wouldn't have to be much- 20% of gate receipts would at least be a gesture in the right direction.

Definitely agree with this. Don't mind the occasional 1 home / 3 away mismatch (ALL clubs have had to deal with this at some point) as long you have a 19/19 overall share of home and away games.

 

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10 minutes ago, RAG said:

It's all seeded the split and as Neil Doncaster was saying, this has happened before.

We're performing above expectations, hence the uneven schedule of matches.

Unfair.  But thats the way the seeding system for the split works.

Finish consistently in the top 6 and it becomes someone elses problem.

 

I wouldn't mind so much if it all went to the computer and that's what we were handed. 

It is the fact they hand pick the fixtures which leads to accusations of bias and it looks like a fix. 

The Rangers never had a problem with balance of fixtures when they were newly promoted and finished top 6.  

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1 minute ago, Prahakillie said:

The Rangers never had a problem with balance of fixtures when they were newly promoted and finished top 6.  

But they can't play at home the same day as Celtic, Hearts and Hibs the same for policing reasons.

They'll be TV factors at play here too.

I reckon in practice, they'll work it round the Edinburgh Glasgow team fixtures, so it probably is a grand conspiracy..

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4 hours ago, killieblues said:

I'm disappointed that it is only pointing out Rangers. I think it's more relevant that we have away games against BOTH Rangers and Celtic, and that we are the ONLY team in the top 6 that has this situation. Not entirely fair, but it will make those 6 points for us all the sweeter.

It's pointing out rangers as we have already played them twice away and now we have to play a third away game at ibrox rather than evening it up to 2 each. We've played Celtic twice at home so it's only fair we play them away.

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5 minutes ago, RAG said:

 

I reckon in practice, they'll work it round the Edinburgh Glasgow team fixtures, so it probably is a grand conspiracy..

The computer algorithm should be able to handle these restrictions. 

In practise it is only really the final round of games which are all played on the same day at the same time which would have to be meet such requirements. 

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4 hours ago, Squirrelhumper said:

Kilmarnock Football Club wishes to express its disappointment following the publication of the Scottish Premiership post-split fixtures. 

As has already been alluded to there is always the possibility of an imbalance of home and away fixtures. This year we see a relative balance being struck with the reallocation of additional home matches to another team in the league, which ultimately results in Kilmarnock FC facing three trips to Ibrox with Rangers having made only one trip to Rugby Park. 

While we share the frustration of our supporters at this outcome, we hope you will continue to provide the magnificent backing you have shown to our team over the course of the season. 

The connection between the club and supporters has been a critical factor to our upturn in fortunes. While an additional visit by Rangers would naturally provide a boost in terms of income, the passion, ambition and focus of everyone at the club remains on continuing to grow our home crowds.

Your strong vocal backing of the team has seen Rugby Park rocking and made our home a place our opponents respect once again.

We are focused on finishing the campaign as strongly as possible and ask that our fans back us in numbers both home and away in our remaining matches of this fantastic season and we look forward to the forthcoming launch of our season ticket campaign for the 2018/19 season over the next few weeks.

Together, We Are Stronger.

http://www.kilmarnockfc.co.uk/Article?id=7061

We are killie

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