THE SPFLPL PREMIERSHIP LEAGUE

[Del-icious]

We need to be firing on all cylinders for when Rogers fucks off. Hopefully they bring in a flop and we can push them like Aberdeen and Ronny Deila

It'll be Lennon.

[Ray Winstone]

Any advancement of the SPFL as a brand and a product will never happen under the current regime unfortunately.

Doncaster is doing more damage than good.

[Herman Boyce]

Bin the split, it's gimmicky as fuck and make it an 18 team league.


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[pondlife]

If people really are against modern football and all the money driven crap that goes on in other leagues in particular, you could do a lot worse than to look towards our league.  Market it as a niche product, a league that's about the football and not about extravagant costs and overhyped prima donnas.

I've said this countless times but with the advancement in technology and the relative minor costs for decent HD cameras BT sport could employ an army of fanatics to get those shots at pitch level, from within stands, dressing rooms, etc, etc. Just needs creativity and access.

Scottish football is marketable, it just needs a bit more effort put into it.

Bin the split, it's gimmicky as fuck and make it an 18 team league.

This too.

[Zizou]

Sometimes I think the split is the worst idea in the world but there are times where it provides some sort of 'drama' or at least interest and usually keeps dead rubbers to a minimum. It compliments the play offs very well.

[Herzog]

The split is shite. The only way it would be interesting is if every team started on zero. The league is won well before the play offs. Just no point.

Change the voting structure and be done with it.

[Herman Boyce]

It's unfair too. Certain teams will play the same side three times at home, which is a definite advantage.

It's been around long enough that if it was actually a decent idea, some other European league would h e adopted it too.


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[Bill Cosby]

The split was just another way to shoehorn in another OF game. A 12 team league also gives the OF an advantage as you have to play and beat each of them three times to realistically win the league.

18 league home and away fixtures with a pyramid structure made up of everyone else would be ideal.

[Rory Breaker]

It's veen said a million times before but a 16 or 18 team league with a 1 home 1 away fixture and an extended league cup(not to dissimilar to what they done this season) would need out the fixture list and give ourselves, Aberdeen, and Rangers a realistic chance at closing the gulf on Celtic

[Snake Plissken]

It's veen said a million times before but a 16 or 18 team league with a 1 home 1 away fixture and an extended league cup(not to dissimilar to what they done this season) would need out the fixture list and give ourselves, Aberdeen, and Rangers a realistic chance at closing the gulf on Celtic

Yeah but it didn't work in the 1970s so couldn't possible work now

18 teams would look like this:

Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, Dunfermline, Falkirk, Inverness, Hamilton, Hearts, Hibs, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Queen of the South, Rangers, Ross County, St. Johnstone, St. Mirren

Livingston and Morton could be thrown in to make it 20 teams for a 38-game season. I think once you get past Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen, and ourselves there really is not much between any of the teams listed.

[It's utter shit]

Yeah but it didn't work in the 1970s so couldn't possible work now  

18 teams would look like this:

Aberdeen, Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, Dunfermline, Falkirk, Inverness, Hamilton, Hearts, Hibs, Kilmarnock, Motherwell, Partick Thistle, Queen of the South, Rangers, Ross County, St. Johnstone, St. Mirren

Livingston and Morton could be thrown in to make it 20 teams for a 38-game season. I think once you get past Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen, and ourselves there really is not much between any of the teams listed.

Some of those teams.   

You need Ayr United in there for the derbies v Killie. It always attracts decent crowds and having Ayr in the top league is far better than pish like Livi, Ross County ICT etc who attract three men and a dog.

[Mr A]

The split is shite. Don't see what excitement it adds at all.

All teams starting at zero points for the split would make it exciting and I could get behind that.

More positive about the league now than have been for donks but at the current set up nobody apart from Celtic will win the league for at least a decade imo. The gulf in finances is too big.

It's still too expensive to be a league for 'proper' football fans imo. Know it's not the league but let's not forget we were charged £34 plus an admin fee for the cup game on Sunday.

[shaun.lawson]

All teams starting at zero points for the split would make it exciting and I could get behind that.

Yet it would also be the most abject nonsense known to mankind - because what in the world would be the point of Celtic and (if they ever sort themselves out), Rangers' first 33 games?

Belgium has an interesting system though. 16 team top division, play each other home and away = 30 games. Then the top 6 enter the Championship playoffs, in which all their starting points are halved (and rounded up to the nearest integer). They play each other home and away, so end up having played 40 matches, and the winners are crowned Champions. The way Belgium decides promotion, relegation, and Europa League berths is even more complicated, and just for once, there's no way I'm boring you all with that.

As far as Scotland goes, I've always favoured 14 teams. Play each other home and away = 26 games. Then split into top 7 and bottom 7, who then play each other home and away once more: meaning 38 games for everyone, and no unbalanced fixture lists.

[Picards Forehead]

there's no way I'm boring you all with that.

[Half Time Guest]

Some of those teams.   

You need Ayr United in there for the derbies v Killie. It always attracts decent crowds and having Ayr in the top league is far better than pish like Livi, Ross County ICT etc who attract three men and a dog.

Why? A team that's bounced regularly between the first and second division?

Invenress and County may not be the biggest names but they both merited their place in the top flight (or at least ICT did when they were still up). Both have won major trophies in the last few years as well.

Ayr Utd would be well behind those two if you had to choose teams to make up an expanded top flight.

[Array]

two big divisions mean some variety in away trips etc but also that for a lot of teams there's nothing to play for after Christmas, so after a bit of promotion to change the faces in the top league there'd be Dundee playing their reserves & youngsters v Brechin, with attendances to match that mouth-watering prospect.
It'd be a nice change, but the potential for a drop in paying punters would prob make it a non-starter from the clubs' perspectives.

[It's utter shit]

Why? A team that's bounced regularly between the first and second division?

Invenress and County may not be the biggest names but they both merited their place in the top flight (or at least ICT did when they were still up). Both have won major trophies in the last few years as well.

Ayr Utd would be well behind those two if you had to choose teams to make up an expanded top flight.

Not grudging them their cup wins or what they achieved in reaching the top flight and staying there but crowd wise they add nothing to the league and they are too far away for teams to take a decent away support apart from the OF & Aberdeen. A strong Ayr in the top flight would sell out v Killie and the Old Firm and would get regular crowds of 6/7 thousand. The Highland clubs get nowhere near that, even when they are going well.

[Timothy Dugshite]

If there was more money in the game up here the league structure would be irrelevant.

[Snake Plissken]

Not grudging them their cup wins or what they achieved in reaching the top flight and staying there but crowd wise they add nothing to the league and they are too far away for teams to take a decent away support apart from the OF & Aberdeen. A strong Ayr in the top flight would sell out v Killie and the Old Firm and would get regular crowds of 6/7 thousand. The Highland clubs get nowhere near that, even when they are going well.

Ayr United would not suddenly become the 6th best supported club in the country if they were in the premier league

The Killie and Old Firm games would pull in decent crowds but you'd have to go back to 70s to see them getting the kind of figures you're suggesting. Showing your age a bit there, IS.

[It's utter shit]

Ayr United would not suddenly become the 6th best supported club in the country if they were in the premier league  

The Killie and Old Firm games would pull in decent crowds but you'd have to go back to 70s to see them getting the kind of figures you're suggesting. Showing your age a bit there, IS.  

Hugh Sprott ya bass!