Latest Scottish football league reconstruction plan will be welcomed by all fans

[pete 2,499]

If clubs want to merge that is their business not yours. Who the hell are you to tell one of these supporters who make up a 400/500/600 crowd that they can't go and enjoy watch their local team?

When we got our arse kicked by the SPL teams voting us out of their league, and then had to realise that we were at the mercy of the other small SFL clubs as to whether we got a licence to play or not, it doesn't look like you learned a lot about showing arrogance to those who prop up Scottish football.

I'll keep these smaller clubs because when we are at the top again and pulling all of Scottish football behind us, somewhere in those smaller clubs will be another Jimmy Baxter or Ian MacMillan.

F*ck, do you never learn that not all of Scottish football is Chelsea?

 

Agree totally. Even Donald Trump needs a postman.

[Hildy 0]

Firstly, another attempt at reconstruction is likely to diminish the standing of the game even more. The more we mess about with the system, the less credible it is.

 

Secondly, a new system which is as complex as this one is not a good idea. It has certain good points, but whatever system is used should be simple and easily understood.

 

Thirdly, whatever system that is used will have little effect on Rangers and Celtic, assuming of course Rangers can get back to being a major player. The Old Firm need a continental option - an Atlantic League of sorts - because their future if exclusively in Scotland will drag them down and remove them from the glamorous side of the game altogether.

 

Fourthly, mergers of smaller clubs can't be forced on smaller clubs, but they can sometimes work. Inverness and Aberdeen came about due to clubs merging.

 

Fifthly, here's one for the future. Rangers and Celtic to merge into a superclub which will be welcomed into the top league in England. Sleep on that.

[barca72 440]

Firstly, another attempt at reconstruction is likely to diminish the standing of the game even more. The more we mess about with the system, the less credible it is.

 

Secondly, a new system which is as complex as this one is not a good idea. It has certain good points, but whatever system is used should be simple and easily understood.

 

Thirdly, whatever system that is used will have little effect on Rangers and Celtic, assuming of course Rangers can get back to being a major player. The Old Firm need a continental option - an Atlantic League of sorts - because their future if exclusively in Scotland will drag them down and remove them from the glamorous side of the game altogether.

 

Fourthly, mergers of smaller clubs can't be forced on smaller clubs, but they can sometimes work. Inverness and Aberdeen came about due to clubs merging.

 

Fifthly, here's one for the future. Rangers and Celtic to merge into a superclub which will be welcomed into the top league in England. Sleep on that.

 

You were doing fine up until #5.

NEVER, in the lifetime of this club's support could we agree to anything to do with that club.

Has the last four years meant nothing to you?

Edited May 24, 2015 by barca72

[Hildy 0]

You were doing fine up until #5.

NEVER, in the lifetime of this club's support could we agree to anything to do with that club.

Has the last four years meant nothing to you?

 

It's not something I'm wishing for but if Rangers and Celtic play to poorer crowds, fail repeatedly in Europe as the Scottish League becomes like the one just over the Irish Sea, and if they struggle to compete with CL glamour, any commercial suggestion that a merger could have them playing as one in the EPL will be seriously looked at.

 

Did you ever imagine that the Irish Republic would one day vote for the legalisation of men marrying other men?

 

The future is a very strange place and it almost never turns out the way we expect it to.

[Bearman 9]

It's not something I'm wishing for but if Rangers and Celtic play to poorer crowds, fail repeatedly in Europe as the Scottish League becomes like the one just over the Irish Sea, and if they struggle to compete with CL glamour, any commercial suggestion that a merger could have them playing as one in the EPL will be seriously looked at.

 

Did you ever imagine that the Irish Republic would one day vote for the legalisation of men marrying other men?

 

The future is a very strange place and it almost never turns out the way we expect it to.

 

Yeah, hard core real men who know what side their bread is buttered on who follow Rangers and Celtic will one day marry each other...wow!

 

Glad I'll be confined to history when that day comes.

[barca72 440]

It's not something I'm wishing for but if Rangers and Celtic play to poorer crowds, fail repeatedly in Europe as the Scottish League becomes like the one just over the Irish Sea, and if they struggle to compete with CL glamour, any commercial suggestion that a merger could have them playing as one in the EPL will be seriously looked at.

 

Did you ever imagine that the Irish Republic would one day vote for the legalisation of men marrying other men?

 

The future is a very strange place and it almost never turns out the way we expect it to.

 

1. You won't mind if I completely disagree with you on that, eh?

2. I don't for a second ever attempt to imagine what the Irish proclivity for sex is ! Maybe it has something to do with being completely surrounded by water.

3. I shall say this, you do have a fertile imagination.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

Well I like the plan.

 

Yeah I like it to.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

There's a reason none of the top leagues in Europe use mid-season splits and daft systems where 2 leagues split into 3 for part of the season and the reason is that it doesn't make any sense.

 

Other than the 18 team Bundesliga the top leagues in Europe all use simple, logical systems with large premier leagues of 20 teams. The teams only play each other twice which stops it becoming monotonous and the system works flawlessly.

 

The Italian football league system would be absolutely perfect for Scotland because they have 42 teams like us, 20 teams in Serie A and 22 teams in Serie B with 3 regional leagues beneath that creating a pyramid system. That is exactly what Scotland needs to go for.

 

There would be hundreds of meaningless games.

[ranger_syntax 4,422]

F*ck, do you never learn that not all of Scottish football is Chelsea?

 

None of Scottish football is Chelsea.

[ranger_syntax 4,422]

It's not something I'm wishing for but if Rangers and Celtic play to poorer crowds, fail repeatedly in Europe as the Scottish League becomes like the one just over the Irish Sea, and if they struggle to compete with CL glamour, any commercial suggestion that a merger could have them playing as one in the EPL will be seriously looked at.

 

Did you ever imagine that the Irish Republic would one day vote for the legalisation of men marrying other men?

 

The future is a very strange place and it almost never turns out the way we expect it to.