(FirParkCorner is happy to be associated with views put forward by Stuart at Hibs.net – it’s about time the opinions of the fans were taken into account – read on! - jwok)
You know you are important to the game because at the end of the day without people like you there would not be a professional football league in Scotland, there would not be any television deals to squabble over, and Rugby, Hockey and Curling would be thriving sports 
Pick up any newspaper any day of the week, glance through the back pages, and sometimes it would be very easy to forget all of this. We read of the political double-speak coming from those who are running the game, and we are left to wonder just how far out of touch these people have become. And such is the disagreement many of us have with these people, we let them know exactly how we feel about the manner in which they are bringing our game to its knees. We do so by finding something else to do on match-day, we are simply fed up with being fed the same old same old so many of us take to the shops rather than the stands, and that sends a message to the clubs who see the falling gates. A message that they are just not paying enough attention to!
Fans around the country, other than perhaps those who support either half of the Old Firm at least, have taken some heart from the stand, long overdue, made by ten clubs in the SPL (I just refuse to go along with this 'Premierleague' nonsense). After years of putting up with eating the scraps from the table of the Old Firm, most football fans were delighted to finally see some guts develop in the boardrooms, to finally see those running our clubs speaking the truth and demanding that either things change or the clubs would take long-overdue action of their own, and create the type of competitive league we all hanker after, the type of league where all clubs are regarded as equals - at the start of the season at least! It was not an easy decision for these guys to take, the easy way would have been to continue accepting the scraps and hope that when they eventually took their heads out of the sand the bad guys will have gone away.
How bad is it then that just as this show of strength has been gathering support, just as fans of our game were beginning to think that perhaps this time our clubs would not bottle out, at least three of them are threatening to do just that. The men at the helm of Kilmarnock, Partick Thistle and Livingston are showing all the signs of people who have lost the plot, they are showing all the signs of men who have decided that the opinions of their fans count for absolutely sod-all when measured against the might of their Old Firm friends (or should that be masters?).
All of this comes in the face of Rangers and Celtic using every tactic in the book to split their opponents, the old phrase 'divide and conquer' has never been more aptly appropriate than in this context.
There is now a genuine concern that the Old Firm are winning the battle through their use of such tactics. Tactics that draw away from public attention just what the Old Firm wish to gain from all of this. The fact that they wish to retain a top league in Scotland they and they alone, will control. A league where each and every club must either accept the line taken in the boardroom of Parkhead and Ibrox, and of course that means each and every football fan accepting that line. The Old Firm see the future riches of football not in punters turning out at games, but at millions of fans tuning in to images of these games via the new technology, technology such as that brought by broadband internet. They wish to control the theoretical riches that await via that media, their theory being that those who control the media control the game, and ultimately - control the fans.
Quite simply, it must not be allowed to happen. But it will happen, in spite of the fact that most of our club chairmen are well aware of what the Old Firm are trying to do, unless everyone concerned gets firmly behind these guys it will happen, the power held by these two clubs will increase, their stranglehold on the game will simply become tighter. It will become tighter until the day arrives when they have squeezed the very life out of our game, and when that happens they will seek new pastures without a backward glance at the wreckage they leave behind.
So if you care about our game, then is it not perhaps time to do something other than pick up the shopping bags on a Saturday afternoon? We can all understand why people no longer wish to attend football matches, in a league where you are playing for third place, where your club manager openly admits that in his view games against Rangers and Celtic simply don't count any more, they don't care. Such a picture makes even cramped shopping precincts seem attractive! But even if you can't bring yourself to return to the game you can still have an influence on the future of the game. You remain a customer, you remain the single most important aspect of football in Scotland because face it, without you the battle for control of the game is meaningless. So if, like the chairmen of Livingston, Kilmarnock and Partick Thistle, you are content with what we have had then fine, that is your choice.
On the other hand, if you would like to see a Scottish league that is truly competitive, then how about doing something about it? Contact your club chairman and tell him how you feel. Contact your local newspaper, get on to your club websites, make your voice heard and make your opinion count. And when you do you never know, it might just be enough to help some of these guys rediscover their backbone.
Many of the unofficial sites in Scotland support this campaign. Show your support too by posting on the board and by emails/letters to the ten clubs. Let’s stick together.