Thought this was 100% defiantly going to happen if the Rangers didn't get promoted?? Seems to have died a death, is it still up for discussion?
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25-06-2015 05:32 AM #1
Whatever happened to league reconstruction
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25-06-2015 05:39 AM #2
Just wait til half way through the season and we're romping away with the league....
Our west coast overlords won't risk sevco s play off route again
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25-06-2015 05:54 AM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
There'll be talk of a bigger league soon, that's not to shoe horn the rangers in though, it's because Scottish football has shown it's got enough big teams to justify it.
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29-06-2015 09:09 AM #4
Interesting and well thought out piece here -
http://90minutecynic.com/90mc-scotti...tion-proposal/
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29-06-2015 09:14 AM #5
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29-06-2015 09:16 AM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Interesting ideas there.
If they could just get rid of the ridiculous name for the second tier of 'The Championship' I'd be in
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29-06-2015 09:40 AM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You can fill in the blanks
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29-06-2015 09:48 AM #8
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Yetanother piece of the great conspiracy theory thrown out the windae.
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29-06-2015 09:53 AM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteEvery gimmick hungry yob,
Digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us,
He'll die before he's sold.
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29-06-2015 10:06 AM #10This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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29-06-2015 10:31 AM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Then each team plays home and away against the other three in thier group this gives a guaranteed 6 games to each team in addition to the 30 played in the league season with a 16 team league.
Top two finishers in each mini league qualify for the knock out stages while the 8 third place finishers enter the challenge cup alongside the teams from the lower divisions and the bottom placed teams are out completely.
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29-06-2015 10:35 AM #12
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We could maybe end up benefitiing from this. The rangers are throwing their money about and have a decent manager now so its not unrealistic to think they could finish top. Personally I feel with the signings we've made like keatings etc we can win it but its not unrealistic to think we could finish 2nd again. Should in that instance we fail to get up in the playoff a leauge reconstruction could take us back up anyway. I think they will push through with it for next season (16/17) as this ensure that both us and Rangers are back in the top flight irrespective of who wins the leauge next year.
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29-06-2015 12:00 PM #13
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I don't think it was ever going to be for this season. Can see this still being on the cards for next year.
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29-06-2015 06:04 PM #15
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29-06-2015 06:14 PM #16
Think it may happen the season after next, throw in a winter shutdown for season 2016/2017, and we'll be happy bunnies
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29-06-2015 06:37 PM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The clowns in charge of running the game in this country may not think the same way as me though!
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29-06-2015 07:11 PM #18
Plenty time for reconstruction yet. Remember they only confirmed which league newhun would play in a few days before their first fixture 3 years ago.
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29-06-2015 07:14 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Possibly the most convoluted competition ever dreamed up, and I stoped reading before the end. Does anyone win?
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29-06-2015 07:52 PM #20
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I was told this was a certainty and that I was naive for not thinking it would happen.
I admit I'm not paranoid.
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29-06-2015 09:59 PM #21
I'd have thought to get something in for 16/17 they'd have to announce it before the start of 15/16. I thought they would, and there's clearly still mumblings and talks going on but getting them to agree something isn't looking great.
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29-06-2015 10:01 PM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteFollow the Hibs podcast, Longbangers, on Twitter (@longbangers)
https://longbangers.hubwave.net
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30-06-2015 01:59 PM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
They also have a firm hold on HMRC.
Something has to be done.
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30-06-2015 02:20 PM #25
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The only way I could see a wholesale reconstruction taking place would be if SKY or/and BT got really behind it and seriously upped the ante in terms of finance to get a fresher product
● 16 Team Premiership
● Two Regional Championships directly below
● Promition/Relegation Play-Offs
● League Cup revamped into CL Style (with 3 home group games being on your ST)
● 3 week Winter Shutdown after the New Year Fixtures
● Premiership clubs enter Scottish Cup after New Year (last weekend in Jan)
● Introduce a Scottish Super Cup
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30-06-2015 02:29 PM #26
Scrap all the league cups and have a UK cup.They want us in the UK afterall.
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07-07-2015 07:41 AM #27
Doncaster is in today's Herald discussing possible reconstruction for next season.
For those unable to view the article....
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The chief executive of the Scottish Professional Football League doesn't pretend to have all the answers but a change to, say, an 18-team league could well be a solution to many of the problems that he, the clubs and supporters face,
The need for a winter break is obvious. But it's not quite as simple as finding a few weeks in January to give the top teams a rest. So much football is crushed into an ever-expanding season that teams would end up playing almost every midweek to accommodate two weeks off.
And then there is the problem of players not getting enough time off during a close season that has almost become closed. Summer football is worth talking about, but that has its own problems as well, so what can be done to at least go some way to sorting this out?
Doncaster, at Hampden yesterday to oversee the first-round draw of the Scottish League Cup, was asked whether league reconstruction would help with all the issues mentioned above.
"That's really the nub of it," said Doncaster. "Within the current league format we have, there is very limited flexibility. If you were to look at a different league format that would create fewer league games than the 38 we have in the top tier at the moment, it would create a much more flexible set-up to enable us to perhaps have a winter break or schedule games away from the worst of the winter weather.
"We have 42 clubs and I suspect you would get 43 different answers. There are many formulations we can use, but we've ended up with a 12-team set-up in the Premiership for many years now - since the split was devised - because that is currently the consensus.
"Now that might change but ultimately you would need from next year - when the three-year fixed term, if you like, of this set-up expires - 11 out of the top 12 clubs to vote in favour of any different format.
"The only certainty of any league format is that the one you have is never as good as the one you might have. There is no magic solution. There may be a better format than we have at the moment but until you get a consensus of what that might be, we have what we have."
There are strong cases to be made on both sides, and the most pertinent question is whether there are enough 'big' clubs to support an 18-team Premiership. Given how many in the Championship are openly talking about part-time football, a larger top tier should help them. But would that help the rest?
In the 1980s, when the Premier League boasted four different title winners and competition was much greater than today, few complained about Celtic and Aberdeen facing one another four times in a season.
But this is not 1985. What can be said is that the current situation needs at least tweaked. How that can be done is not a simple thing to answer.
"There has been a lot of discussion about summer football and a winter break, " said Doncaster. "It is absolutely right and desirable that we have a proper debate around the league season and when we play our games. Obviously if you ask anyone they would rather play games in nice sunshine than horrible winter weather.
"The frank reality is we played seven games in January last year, not because we like January, but because we had nowhere else to put them.
"That's because of the restrictions we have to work with, particularly those put down by FIFA and UEFA.
"If you ask anyone whether they like summer football, you do get broad support. The more pertinent question perhaps is do you want the league season at the same time as a European Championships or a World Cup when Scotland may or may not be there?
"You won't know whether they are going to be there when you schedule the season. That's a far more difficult question for people to answer. I would imagine many who support summer football wouldn't like the idea of the season taking place at the same time as a World Cup.
"At the moment we start playing in July and end in May. We play pretty intensively throughout the whole of the year.
"The fundamental problem we have is the amount of games we play. There are 38 games in a Premiership season, two cup competitions, all the UEFA games, the FIFA games; our scope to restructure the season format is actually very limited."
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