A more competitive league

[NaeMairNeeps]

How about 1 instantly rescindible red card, per game, per difference in league position, favouring the lower placed team at time of kick off?

So, as we are second, we can get ours in early, get Scott Brown, or Craig Gordon 'served' wi a full set o studs ( i.e. baith feet ), tae the throat.

Worst case scenario, injured party recovers ... but that would be our assigned assassins fault for ****in up.
Best case, injured party is stretchered aff ... but nae afore two of his team-mates retaliate and get red carded .... and proper sent aff ... whilst our guy stays on via the 'get out of jail free' card.

If we're lucky, 9 man Timmy will be a wee bit hot under the collar, mak a few rash tackles, give awa a few tasty free kicks, and we might even get a pen, maybe even win ... and the three points will be handy ahead o' oor game the week efter v bottom side Dundee ... wi 11 'get oot o jail free' cards

[Aldo1983]

That’s not even near being true.

Only one team has won the super bowl more than once in the last 10 years.

Edit sorry 2 teams have won it twice in the last 10 years,still more competitive than our league though.

The North Korean election night is more competitive than our league.

We had this discussion a few years back on here about copying the NFL for the European cup and I made the argument that the same amount of teams have won over the last 30yrs or so.

The NFL is too different to copy for our league. Way too different.

The draft system would never work. Ever.

[actonsheep]

That's a decent starter for ten, Mason.

FWIW .... They need to take a look at the techniques used over in America. Although there are NFL teams and NBA teams that are big fish, the competitions are typically won by a variety of teams over the years.

Ideas for Scottish Football to achieve what the thread title asks:

1. Salary Cap. Not a % of turnover - a hard limit in £'s
2. Squad size restriction. A fixed number of players - to get rid of all this loan nonsense.
3. Young Player Draft. Doesn't matter which Academy they were at. Bottom team gets first pick etc.

Something like this is far too scary for the closed minds of not just Scottish Football, but European and World Football.

Pipe dream I'm unlikely to witness in my lifetime but if they want to avoid European football eating itself to oblivion it's something they need to look at.

Its not closed minds of Scottish, European and World football that would be scared of this - its any footballer, or want to be footballer - they're entitled to the same freedoms as any one of us. That includes the agency to choose their own employer and earn whatever they can. They're not slaves ffs.

[andoplzcumbak]

There's almost a general feeling of f*ck it! That's just the way it is.
It doesn't have to be like this, but the desire to change and maybe take steps backward to go forward needs to be there.

For a start, and before anything can be done, the dinosaurs at the SFA need to go!

[DollyLongstaffe]

I've said this before but what we need is serious, embarrassing, medium term failure in Europe, especially from Celtic. It's easy to come up with great ideas for redistributing cash, but as long as our bigger clubs see domestic football as primarily a springboard to get on the European gravy train they have no interest in a competitive league or fixing the domestic game. Hunco's game plan is also at some point in the future to get onto the gravy train, so they have no interest in fixing it either. Maybe once the Tims are going for 15 or 20 in a row on the back of European cash they will capitulate and admit that they have some common interest with the rest of the Scottish clubs in addressing the lopsidedness, but that's a long way off.

But even Celtic fans will get fed up of European fitba if it just means an entirely predictable horsing from richer clubs every time out. Every half-way respectable result they get in Europe perpetuates the delusion that their proper place in going up against the big boys. That's what the media wants as well: a trip to Munich to report on a Champion's League game makes them feel they matter in a way that a trip to report on Ross County v Kilmarnock can't.

At the moment Celtic have Champions League qualification almost as a right, and access to funds that mean their income will dwarf the rest of the Scottish game, a self-perpetuating cycle that could go on for decades unless something changes. Despite what money obsessives like Milne think, ever greedy for the wee trickle of Euro money coming down to us, that's what will eventually kill the Scottish game.