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[TheDeeDon]

I'm reading that the spfl are looking to cut the size of the top division to ten clubs.

It could be an April fool, though. Hopefully the two clubs who are getting the dunt will be the huns and their pals across town.

Reduce it to two and have a 20 club chapionship.

Has to be an April fool, surely.

[swaddon2]

There's a few media outlets running the story, so it may be legitimate. Apparently, "fixture congestion" is the driving force behind it. There are also plans under consideration for a 14 or 16 team top flight.

The fact they "need" four Old Firm games per season for the telly rules out a 14 or 16 team setup.

[Mason89]

I dont know if I could watch a 10 team league again.

[TheDeeDon]

I dont know if I could watch a 10 team league again.

Same here.

A huge backward step if any truth in it.

[Bojangles9]

A 10 league team to reduce games to aid the cheeks in Europe?

Seems to me there’s an obvious answer here.

Just have the bigots set up their own two team league and play each other fan their nae fatigued.

There you go Doncaster, my consultancy fee is in the post.

[Jupiter]

Whatever format the league is, it will still be utter shiite.

[ZakkTheMakk]

The one and only reason that the league isn't expanded is to facilitate the gruesome twosome playing at least 4 times a season. Funny how that wasn't an issue for several years when Rangers died and Sevco finally came up to the premiership.

Why don't we write off the new year fixture between the 2 as a league event and have them contest the shiny Glasgow Derby New Year Cup with baubles and ribbons etc. with the winner picking up all gate receipts, TV money and whatever else can be thrown their way? That's 1 of the 2 redundant fixtures sorted.

And for the remaining one they can arrange a fixture between themselves anywhere in the world, with a few days break before and after guaranteed, and again the winner gets all the money from it. This can be decided after the league fixtures are out and before the end of Sept to allow the other clubs to plan for it and all the fans time to arrange travel.

There you go, a guaranteed 4 Septic Vs Sevco fixtures a season. They get to add to their trophies and bring their bile across the globe until countries ban them due to their fans.

That gives the rest of the us what we're after which is a 16/18 team league playing those 2 only twice a year.

[57vintage]

I dont know if I could watch a 10 team league again.

I watched 18-team league fitba from 1966 to 1975. Everything was decided (2 clubs challenging for the title, another 3 looking at European places, and 4 scrapping against relegation, by March. I watched some frocking awful mid-table, sod-all-at-stake dreck from March to May most seasons. If that?s on the table, I?m eating elsewhere.

[TheDeeDon]

I watched 18-team league fitba from 1966 to 1975. Everything was decided (2 clubs challenging for the title, another 3 looking at European places, and 4 scrapping against relegation, by March. I watched some frocking awful mid-table, sod-all-at-stake dreck from March to May most seasons. If that?s on the table, I?m eating elsewhere.

Doesn't mean it can't work now. Was it really as bad as watching a shyte Motherwell/Livi/Hearts team up here twice a season kicking anything other than the ball.

Would only have four games against the cheeks, which is better than the current eight, if we finish top six.

Make it interesting and relegate four teams a season. With so little between clubs, you could see some interesting developments.

Not a cat in hells chance we would ever see a league with less cheek games.

[57vintage]

See post 163. Believe me, it was verkin dire once everything had been settled around March, unless we were still in the Scottish Cup. The bruteball to which you refer has an antidote in scoring early against the ****s, drawing them out, and giving them a sound spanking, admittedly something with which we have struggled. However, the bland, dull, boring, tedious fitba which we had to watch when ferkall was at stake for both participants, bearing in mind that we’d had two credible championship runs in 70-71 (probably my favourite-ever squad) and 71-72) was the worst period I have been party to since 1966.