League structure change

[menniet4]

SPL clubs are poised to vote on transforming the league set-up.

Under the radical plans, the SPL and SFL are ready to merge to form ONE body to govern the club game.

Scotland's top flight is set to be reduced to ten clubs with up to two sides relegated each season.

The controversial split would be scrapped with an earlier start and winter break introduced.

And a 36-game league season would allow clubs scope for money-spinning friendlies.

SPL teams will vote on the astonishing raft of proposals at a Hampden summit next Monday. If they approve the recommendations, the entire senior set-up will be redrawn.

And the changes would take effect at the start of the 2012/13 season in time for SPL chief Neil Doncaster to negotiate a new TV deal.

The plans represent the biggest shake-up of football in Scotland since the SPL breakaway in 1998.

If the top 12 give their approval, the SPL and SFL would come together again after more than a dozen years apart.

The top two divisions would each feature ten clubs and nail-biting play-offs would return.

One proposal would see the bottom club relegated from the SPL and replaced by the winners of the First Division.

The eighth and ninth-placed sides in the new-look top flight would face the second and third-placed teams in the second tier in play-offs.

Scottish football powerbrokers want to force through their revolution after being hit by several setbacks this term.

Celtic, Dundee United, Motherwell and Hibs all crashed out of Europe before the end of August.

The crucial coefficient is also plummeting and SPL top brass believe that an earlier start to the domestic season would give clubs a better chance in Euro qualifiers.

Even though a vote is expected on Monday, that could be delayed until the New Year to allow time to digest the proposals.

As SunSport revealed in May, the SPL Strategic Working Group - headed by top-flight chairman Ralph Topping - has been drawing up proposals for months.

They have looked at everything from an 18- club set-up to the ten-team blueprint they are set to put before the clubs next week.

It's understood certain elements of the scheme would require a hard-to-obtain 11-1 vote to be pushed through.

But Doncaster - who has worked tirelessly with officials from five top-flight clubs - will urge them to embrace every aspect of the proposal.

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/3273272/2012.html#ixzz17ymYep8S

 

[EDGE]

****e proposal.

10 team league - pish.

4 times a season - bollocks

 

[EDGE]

On a serious note, what does David Leggat think of this?

 

[menniet4]

On a serious note, what does David Leggat think of this?

**** knows man, Im waiting for his blog to go up

What's the bet he will say it is all Celtic ideas tho

He hate's that impostor from the BBC forum tho, Any idea who the impostor is Edge?

 

[EDGE]

**** knows man, Im waiting for his blog to go up

What's the bet he will say it is all Celtic ideas tho

He hate's that impostor from the BBC forum tho, Any idea who the impostor is Edge?

Well, it's certainly not me!

So legoland on the BBC is not Leggat?

How do you know this, unless, you are Leggat <BUSTEDMUIR>

 

[menniet4]

It was on one of his blogs EDGE http://leggoland2.blogspot.com/2010/12/most-sincere-flattery.html

The only reason I know about Leggoland on the BBC forum was because their was a 10 page thread on FF after he commented on something to do with the takeover

 

[EDGE]

I reckon he's double bluffing!

I see "legoland" posted on an apology on his blog comments!!

mmmmm!

 

[menniet4]

I reckon he's double bluffing!

I see "legoland" posted on an apology on his blog comments!!

mmmmm!

Thats what I thought as his info was guff, and rather than admit it was wrong he invents an impostor, but leggoland's comment put me off that

 

[menniet4]

On a serious note, what does David Leggat think of this?

Have a read of this Edge http://leggoland2.blogspot.com/

Not really David Leggat's thought's, More bumping his gums about Bain and the changes