How about this for a reform to our the Scottish league? It’ll get shot down almost straight away from everyone saying that’s sh*t
But how about introducing two points for a win and no points for a draw. Combine that with an 18 team league playing each other twice. Two automatic relegation spots and the third bottom team in a playoff (one off game) against the 3rd placed team in the Championship. Reason? What we have now is boring 🥱
Results 1 to 30 of 37
Thread: League Reform
-
03-04-2024 08:05 PM #1
League Reform
-
-
-
03-04-2024 08:11 PM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
03-04-2024 08:11 PM #5
- Join Date
- Feb 2022
- Posts
- 8,373
Sorry mate. But that’s ****.
-
03-04-2024 08:13 PM #6
- Join Date
- Apr 2002
- Location
- West Auckland, NZ
- Age
- 40
- Posts
- 20,302
- Gamer IDs
-
That is absolutely **** to be fair
Sent from my Pixel 7 Pro using Tapatalk
-
03-04-2024 08:13 PM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
03-04-2024 08:20 PM #8
- Join Date
- May 2016
- Posts
- 99
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
03-04-2024 08:50 PM #9
- Join Date
- Jan 2007
- Location
- Pride Park, Bulgaria
- Posts
- 7,523
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"Play for the name on the front of the jersey and the supporters will remember the name on the back"
-
-
03-04-2024 09:10 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Nothing personal OP. But it's terrible.
-
03-04-2024 10:52 PM #12
- Join Date
- Oct 2017
- Posts
- 125
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
So still 3 points for a win no point's for a draw but you get a point if you score.Even if you are getting beat 3-0 for instance you would still be attacking trying to get that bonus point oh my disclaimer is I'm on holiday and been drinking a lot 🤣
-
03-04-2024 11:50 PM #13
Just about the idea of a bigger league .
I listened to a Scottish premier league manager awhile back who managed in England and he said in a bigger league it's easier for clubs to give young players a chance rather than in our league because it's smaller , more competitive and a run of 3 defeats could see a team drift down into relegation trouble and put a manager under pressure . ( Other reasons too mentioned) .
My questions to you on this is , is this one of the reasons there are more foreign players that are coming into the Scottish game ? . And how will this effect young Scottish players and your national team in the future? .Last edited by Donegal Hibby; 03-04-2024 at 11:53 PM.
-
04-04-2024 03:22 AM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I agree about playing each other twice being a positive too. I think the split is also crap.
-
04-04-2024 05:08 AM #15
- Join Date
- Nov 2014
- Posts
- 155
The league should simply be 18 teams play each other twice. This would effectively close the gap in points between old firm and other sides challenging as we won’t need to play them 4 times.
-
04-04-2024 07:31 AM #16
14 team league, play each other twice then split into top 7 and bottom 7. Play each team twice. 26 games pre split, another 12 games post split. 38 game season, old firm get their 4 games a season as do the teams who get in the top 7. Will also mean theres no uneven home and away fixtures
-
04-04-2024 08:00 AM #17This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
04-04-2024 08:16 AM #18
It’s pretty good the way it is right now.
Maybe expand the bottom league to allow more ventilation and get rid of b teams from the lowland league.
-
04-04-2024 10:43 AM #19
Ideal league reform:
Scottish Premiership (two teams, no relegation, teams play each other 38 times a season)
Scottish Championship (twenty teams, play each other twice a season, no promotion, winner automatically qualifies for Europa League)
-
04-04-2024 11:04 AM #20
- Join Date
- Apr 2016
- Posts
- 44
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
04-04-2024 12:04 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I would like to see a limit put on subs allowed. 3 subs allowed, 5 if they are Scottish qualified. With 1/3 of the squad to be home grown/Scots qualified.
It'll never happen but this would be my preference.
Oh and foreign refs and no VAR while we're at it.
-
04-04-2024 12:07 PM #22
- Join Date
- Apr 2011
- Posts
- 3,181
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
04-04-2024 12:22 PM #23
I'd favour a 14 team league. Teams play each other twice then the league splits and the teams in each half play each other twice giving a total of 38 games.
It won't happen simply because clubs can't afford to lose 2 games against the arse cheeks. The revenue from Hibs, hertz and Aberdeen's travelling support is important too.
-
04-04-2024 12:54 PM #24
- Join Date
- Jun 2012
- Posts
- 10,644
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
In terms of the number of teams in the top league it is either the same as we have now where the vast majority of games have meaning or taking a longer term view and having a bigger lead which may be good for player development but ultimately means more meaningless games. Splits could be used to mitigate that though. Ultimately, it will always be a crap league if the Uglies are in it and football is decided on who has the most money with everything weighted in the bigger clubs favour.
-
04-04-2024 01:25 PM #25
18 team league - no split - 3 points for a win - 2 points for a score draw - 1 point for a 0-0 draw
we also need to completely change the penalty rules. Only a foul that stops an obvious goalscoring chance should be a penalty - all other "fouls" in the box should be free kicks - at least that would lessen the influence that cheating Rangers supporting VAR operators can have on a match.
-
04-04-2024 01:45 PM #26
- Join Date
- Oct 2022
- Posts
- 874
This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It ensures equal home and away games for each club which the current arrangement doesn't. The current post split home and away game arrangement is a mess.
This new set up would give the same number of home pay days for each club as at present, 19. That is the current set up when not messed up by the post split fixture anomalies.
It would allow a 7th team to be in the top split and would provide more stability for the less rich clubs with 14 places in the top league instead of 12.
As you say the only downside for those clubs is 5 would lose a home pay day against all the big clubs once every 2 seasons. The flip side is 2 other teams that don't get them at the moment would get one.
Makes perfect sense.Last edited by PHeffernan; 04-04-2024 at 04:00 PM.
-
04-04-2024 01:50 PM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
That’s before you realise that at various points in the last 10 years or so that would have seen one or more of Arbroath/Alloa/Dumbarton getting beat 5/6-0 most weeks as part time sides. We’d have less interest in a league in that format from tv/fans/sponsors than now
-
04-04-2024 01:51 PM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
-
04-04-2024 02:20 PM #29
Is this in addition to the reforms Hearts are leading? They were doing it for the good of Scottish football after all and not self interest. Coincidentally, I’ve not heard anything from them since they got promoted.
-
Log in to remove the advert |
Bookmarks