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It's not an issue of ambition though. Sadly, we live in a country where it matters more to follow a club based on sectarian/political lines than it does based on where a person is from. As long as hoards of buses are going towards Parkhead or Ibrox each week from Inverness and Dumfries, nothing is going to change. These clubs will forever hold a significant advantage over the rest of us. The only real chance any club has of competing with them is if some mad man comes in and starts throwing his dodgy cash around and we seen how well that ended with our neighbours.
That's not strictly true. Outside of the central belt the vast majority of Old Firm supporters follow those two because they are the most successful. We saw the same thing happening with Aberdeen in the 80's, they attracted a huge amount of new supporters because they were the best team in the country by a considerable margin and were beating the Old Firm on a regular basis.
If the Old Firm were to start playing in a bigger league outside of Scotland then it would be the same effect but on steroids, they would attract even more support. It's never going to happen though so we have to find solutions with them still a part of our league. I mentioned ambition earlier, I don't just mean the ambition of individual clubs but of Scottish football as a whole.
With the European prize money giving the top clubs in several European leagues an advantage that increases every season then it's time for those leagues to band together and lobby for more of that money to be given to the leagues themselves.
We could maybe look at sharing gate receipts for league games again. We may never see a fifty fifty split again but maybe the away teams should get a percentage of what's taken in. There are ways to level the playing field a bit but it needs to be fought for.