SPL cancel ten team league vote

[s.a.m]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9351767.stm

......or at least delayed.

[1two]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9351767.stm

......or at least delayed.

Is that a cigarette someone has got hidden under that flag?

[Viva_Palmeiras]

Sounds to me like this will happen but the lower division and relegation candidates need assurances about parachute payments and a phased move to a bigger league when standards and conditions are appropriate ie expansion ain't happening any time soon

[Dunbar Hibee]

Is that a cigarette someone has got hidden under that flag?

:top marks

[SkintHibby]

I can't believe everyone is missing the best proposal and solution of all.....

12 team league everyone plays each other twice (22 games).

It then splits in two.

Top 6 play each other twice more to settle title and European places (32 games overall).

Bottom 6 play each other twice more to settle relegation with bottom team automatically relegated and second bottom involved in a play off with second top of SPL2 (32 games overall)

DUH!

[down the slope]

Seems they have come to their senses for the moment

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9351767.stm
Now maybe Rod can concentrate on keeping us in the SPL instead of dreaming up such a crock of merde.

[Future17]

Seems they have come to their senses for the moment

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9351767.stm
Now maybe Rod can concentrate on keeping us in the SPL instead of dreaming up such a crock of merde.

I don't think they necessarily have, I just think they messed up their own procedures so no vote could have legally taken place by their own rules.

[sleeping giant]

They won't take a vote on it until the outcome is a certainty IMO.

[down-the-slope]

i predict we will see stories about the Old Firm going to England...needing to break away from reducing finances...blah blah....other clubs not supporting their needs in europe etc etc as a form of black mail to try and get agreement on what they want...and maybe even threats of breaking away.....via press of course

[Sir David Gray]

They'll just do what the EU did in Ireland with the Lisbon Treaty, i.e. keep putting it to a poll until they get the outcome that they really want.

[ScottB]

As was suggested by someone else on here earlier, I suspect they will get it once they insert cast iron guarantees to increase to a 16 or 18 team league 'once standards have risen' to get rid of the current excuse.

Whether they will get that or not I don't know. But it's not like being stuck with the current 12 set up spells disaster, so I doubt those in favour will be able to bully those against into it.