compo 7,042 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 8 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said: How is a 14 team premiership going to work ? Play each other home & away then split after 26 games? That’ll lead to lots of meaningless games. And how many will be relegated? Bet the likes of Hamilton, St Mirren etc will try to have just one up & one down.. The is going to be a bigger shambles than last weeks vote If it's got to change might be better with an 18 team premier league 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 4,322 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 I don't think that any attempted reconstruction will be valuable or even win approval. Budge, et al, may end up looking very foolish at the end of this. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 4,322 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 11 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said: How is a 14 team premiership going to work ? Play each other home & away then split after 26 games? That’ll lead to lots of meaningless games. And how many will be relegated? Bet the likes of Hamilton, St Mirren etc will try to have just one up & one down.. The is going to be a bigger shambles than last weeks vote Nobody will present any clear metric for success. The whole thing is a distraction tactic. Scottish football fans will swallow it whole. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaffer 1,665 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 1 minute ago, ranger_syntax said: Nobody will present any clear metric for success. The whole thing is a distraction tactic. Scottish football fans will swallow it whole. It is 100% a distraction tactic and can't believe the other clubs are so stupid to fall for this. None of the current premier league teams (except Hearts) will vote for it because it means fewer games against the old firm and therefore less income for them. I don't even think Dundee thought it would go anywhere. I still think Dundee have been offered something else but used this as a distraction from that. What a complete waste of time and effort. I'm so glad we have nothing to do with it. For what it's worth, I think a larger league would be better for the game in the long run but to get it we need clubs to vote for it. They won't and so it's a waste of time even thinking about it. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 4,322 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, Gaffer said: For what it's worth, I think a larger league would be better for the game in the long run but to get it we need clubs to vote for it. They won't and so it's a waste of time even thinking about it. It might be good. Many people out there will say so too. Nobody will say how any imagined benefit is to be measured. Even if someone did nobody would be held accountable if it failed. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 850 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Its not just the larger top flight that will look easier on the eye but the proposal is 14-10-10-10. One problem has always been having 4 divisions since the 90s. When you have 24 clubs in each division in England you get away with it but in Scotland 3 divisions at the most is enough. 14 is an awkward amount, If they cant extend it to 16 or 18 then it should either be kept at 12 but then increase the Championship and League one to having much more teams. If gives clubs more to play for when they know they can reach the top flight in 1 or 2 years. But the biggest loop hole is the TV money who want 4 OF games in a season plus all the other sides want 4 home OF games a season as well. The shambolic way this has went about though is the most unprofessional thing in football Ive seen (off the park) but certainly not surprising as they have been incompetent for too long now and Doncaster is obviously just a spokesman. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whosthedado 1,685 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 It'll be lie turkeys voting for Christmas - the restructure wont happen. This all a ploy so that they can award the title imo 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 5,194 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, ranger_syntax said: I don't think that any attempted reconstruction will be valuable or even win approval. Budge, et al, may end up looking very foolish at the end of this. Apparently, if there is no change to the financial model, (percentage payments to all current top tier teams and for top 2 or 4 of Championship) a vote to be passed only needs 75%, ie, 9 votes rather than 11. Edited April 18, 2020 by buster. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,717 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 2 hours ago, ranger_syntax said: It might be good. Many people out there will say so too. Nobody will say how any imagined benefit is to be measured. Even if someone did nobody would be held accountable if it failed. That's a horrendous idea. If you start out in these matters by saying what you want to achieve and quantifying the benefits then there's a very real danger someone might actually deliver them by accident. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 4,322 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 10 minutes ago, buster. said: Apparently, if there is no change to the financial model, (percentage payments to all current top tier teams and for top 2 or 4 of Championship) a vote to be passed only needs 75%, ie, 9 votes rather than 11. Not sure what change would win 75% approval. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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