22A Posted March 28, 2017 Report Share Posted March 28, 2017 Britain leaves the EU and Scotland leaves the UK. Does that limit the number of foreign players we're allowed? Think back to the late 70s; Gerry Gow, Peter Cormack, Donnie Gillies, Tom Ritchie and John Shaw, Geert Mayer & Perti Jantuunen. Would only three be allowed of the field at any one time? If such a ruling does come about, many Prem teams will have to dump so many of their current first teams meaning their transfer fee will drop. Meanwhile the price of English, Welsh & NI players would increase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjam!n Ultra Posted March 28, 2017 Report Share Posted March 28, 2017 There are no current limits on the amount of foreign players allowed in the Premier League, they must however register a minimum of 8 home grown players. I see no reason as to why Brexit or a Scottish independence would change this current ruling. Work permit rulings, applicable now but only to those outside the EU, will extend to EU national players but that is probably the only major change we will see from what I've read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivorguy Posted March 28, 2017 Report Share Posted March 28, 2017 If Scotland leaves UK its players will be classed as foreign (1) unless England and Scotland agree that those born British will have dual nationality, and (2) Scottish players as foreign would also be included in any of the solutions in next paragraph EU players will immediately on implementation of Brexit be treated as non EU players are now, i.e. On current Home Office rules they will have to have played a given number of times for their home country. However, (1) Mrs May could negotiate some freedom of movement deal with EU which could include footballers, and (2) a British Government post Brexit could relax those Home Office rules in any way it wished, and I imagine they would, unless the call for ultra strict immigration rules win the day here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 28, 2017 Report Share Posted March 28, 2017 The goal posts will be moved appropriately to fix any problems that develop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted March 28, 2017 Report Share Posted March 28, 2017 If Scotland leaves the UK, this should mean no more Scottish football results on English TV. Yipee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bs3 Posted March 28, 2017 Report Share Posted March 28, 2017 7 minutes ago, pongo88 said: If Scotland leaves the UK, this should mean no more Scottish football results on English TV. Yipee! And the end of Rangers and Celtic dream of getting in the Premier league. Yipee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midred Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 19 hours ago, bcfcfinker said: The goal posts will be moved appropriately to fix any problems that develop. Didn't the Scots try this at Wembley in the mid 70s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppyDAZE Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 18 minutes ago, Midred said: Didn't the Scots try this at Wembley in the mid 70s? They tried to raise the bar (well, lower it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 1 hour ago, Midred said: Didn't the Scots try this at Wembley in the mid 70s? It was in 1967 just after England had won the World Cup. Looking at this picture, all we need is a few horse punchers, and it could be Rovers fans at the Minimal Stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted March 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 In 1967 the Scottish fans dug up the Wembley centre spot. The above photo was the May 1977 Home International. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Dicks Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 3 hours ago, pongo88 said: It was in 1967 just after England had won the World Cup. Looking at this picture, all we need is a few horse punchers, and it could be Rovers fans at the Minimal Stadium. 1977 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitchurch1966 Posted March 29, 2017 Report Share Posted March 29, 2017 23 hours ago, pongo88 said: If Scotland leaves the UK, this should mean no more Scottish football results on English TV. Yipee! No more Scottish pundits commentating on English matches? I can turn off subtitles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
22A Posted March 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 Early hours of this morning the impact of Brexit on football was discussed on the CNN news channel. Their studio expert reckons that Brexit will put off many players from coming to Britain in future. Could this be a way of nurturing home grown British talent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natchfever Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 29 minutes ago, 22A said: Early hours of this morning the impact of Brexit on football was discussed on the CNN news channel. Their studio expert reckons that Brexit will put off many players from coming to Britain in future. Could this be a way of nurturing home grown British talent? Money talks it will make no difference. Does this mean though that every other advert voice over wont have a ******* Scots accent? Hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddevon Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 I think I read somewhere that there are around 400 EU (non-uk) players registered in English football (and around 20 in Scotland) that would not qualify for a work permit under current foreign player rules. Given that most British men/women under 30 can kick a football, I struggle to see how any special case can be made for future foreign players from the EU, any more than say EU builders. It,s not as if they have vital skills needed in the UK. Maybe clubs will become more innovative and fly players in for matches or play matches in mainland Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonBristolian Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 5 minutes ago, reddevon said: I think I read somewhere that there are around 400 EU (non-uk) players registered in English football (and around 20 in Scotland) that would not qualify for a work permit under current foreign player rules. Given that most British men/women under 30 can kick a football, I struggle to see how any special case can be made for future foreign players from the EU, any more than say EU builders. It,s not as if they have vital skills needed in the UK. Maybe clubs will become more innovative and fly players in for matches or play matches in mainland Europe. Am I right in thinking Magnusson, hegeler, giefer, kodjia and engvall would all have been likely refused work permits? Admittedly the last one probably would have had minimal impact... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppyDAZE Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 On 29/03/2017 at 18:06, pongo88 said: It was in 1967 just after England had won the World Cup. Looking at this picture, all we need is a few horse punchers, and it could be Rovers fans at the Minimal Stadium. On the subject of Gas, anyone old enough (like me) to remember the Rovers fans regularly trying and sometimes succeeding to bring down the big flag pole in the old open end? It happened one game and a big rumour went around that one of them had been killed, or had a fractured skull or something. Thinking caps on please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pillred Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 On 3/28/2017 at 22:05, pongo88 said: If Scotland leaves the UK, this should mean no more Scottish football results on English TV. Yipee! yes outside of a handful of games in Scotland most are attended by 1 man and his dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sglosbcfc Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 On 28 March 2017 at 22:05, pongo88 said: If Scotland leaves the UK, this should mean no more Scottish football results on English TV. Yipee! That would be sad, East Fife 4 Forfar 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire Corner Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 On 28/03/2017 at 21:02, bcfcfinker said: The goal posts will be moved appropriately to fix any problems that develop. Move the goal posts? Let's move them both to the same end and make them both the opposition's goals. Without a City goal we'd have a great goals against ratio. Probably still draw 0-0 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sglosbcfc Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 7 hours ago, pillred said: yes outside of a handful of games in Scotland most are attended by 1 man and his dog. Always have to defend the Jocks on this, best supported league in Europe based on attendances compared to the nation's population. Little Ross County average 3,500 and yet their town of Dingwall has a population of 5,000. For comparison it would be like City averaging 250,000 every week. Even the Gas don't carry that sort of support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tully Bascomb Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 The trouble is nobody knows what leaving the European Union actually means, me included but surely the whole point of leaving is so we don't follow European law and make our own, hence our government decides who enter this country.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midred Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 1 hour ago, sglosbcfc said: That would be sad, East Fife 4 Forfar 5 On the plus side Brechin city wouldn't be messing with my heart rate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyredredrobin Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 If Scotland left the UK it would be a bancrupt 3rd world country within 10 years and come crawling back. No decent footballer woyld remain in Scotland due to the punative tax rates its leftie government would impose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star of a gunner Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 and we wont have to listen to jimmy crankie banging on about independence On 29 March 2017 at 13:23, Whitchurch1966 said: No more Scottish pundits commentating on English matches? I can turn off subtitles. no more Scottish mp's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slippin cider Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 They've had their vote ...live with it Sturgeon! ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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