Serious question, would appreciate a serious answer!

How well do fans of Rangers and Celtic (or Celtic and Rangers if you prefer) think their current teams would do if the EPL invited them to join the league starting this Saturday?

What teams do you think you are comparable with?

palace and west brom

Celtic - Manchester City
Rangers - Bolton
Hearts - Rotherham

Since when were hearts part of the Old Firm?

There about the only other team who could compete in the top two leagues. If all three went to the English league then i think all would eventually be sucessfull, but at the moment, no. Hearts are a club in a big city and English football would be the spark that the people of Edinburgh need to get off their arses.

Scottish style of football probably wouldn't do to well. Both OF temas are about Sunderland level.

Sorry, but the Old Firm in the Premiership is never going to happen. Why would first division clubs just let the old firm bypass 110 years of history? The Premiership does fine without them

I think they would be better in the premiership. It would cut down on the bigotry, sectarionism and would most importantly, rid us of them. I think the OF should leave, as they make the SPL boring. I think Hearts could also compete in it, if they were in their best form, as could Hibs. But I think only the OF should go. okay, the Hearts/Hibs thing could become the new OF, but for now, only Rangers and Celtic should leave.

EDIT:

cant we get rid of Partick aswell?

Put them in the conference, honestly.

Then they can work their way upto a level they are suitable for. Putting them straight into the Premiership or the Championship just screws teams from the leagues below.

Old Firm in the premiership
Lets fukin hope so

I think everybody is missing the point here IF Celtic was to be invited into the EPL then we would get our hands on all that lovely TV money As it is I think only 5/6 EPL teams have a higher turnover than Celtic, EPL TV money would put Celtic in the top 5 teams in the country easily, we have the best stadium and atmosphere so the best players ould end up here. Celtic in the EPL would be a huge club in world terms IMO.


HOWEVER....we are Scottish whether you lot like it or not, we need to make the SPL work, and that is a fecking hard job

Aw didumms will the big tv companies no give you enough money.Porto got millions for playing in the hotbed that is Potugese fitba.
Maybe it's time to ditch fater wilfred,he should have had the foresight 130 years ago to set you up in a bigger country with a bigger league where you'd get all the tv money you think you somehow deserve.
Do us a favour and either fuk off down to england NOW or shut up and get on with it.

That wasn't directed at you particularly LHH.You are the only celt on here that talks any sense.
However for all you think Scottish fitba should improve WITH the old firm I think it's been too long now and the only way for the old firm and SPL to survive and thrive is to seperate.I liked your idea about strenght in numbers,I think all other non-OF clubs should do what they threatened to do and kick the old firm out before they leave.
This isn't meant to wind anyone up and it's not just another chance to have another go at the old firm.
I honestly believe that:s the best way forward for Scottish fitba and the old firm.

I'm sure if we tried hard enough we could get relegated with the old firm still here.
Wait a minute I get it now.The Well usually give the old firm a bit of a spanking so we'd miss the points we'd pick up of you .
Sh1te your right please don't leave

For most Old Firm fan's it's all about winning.

Just listen to the open line on Clyde 2 if they can't beat Hearts, Aberdeen etc. It's a crisis if they don't win all the time.

Would the interest still be there if they were competing about the level of Everton or Blackburn?

The big comparison seems to be that teams such as Everton get about 10 million or so more to spend from TV deals but no one (journalist/pundits/fans) seem to mention that these teams are in the shit financially.

Just because you get 50-60 thousand every home game (not to mention every dubious decision from referees) doesn't give you the right to be challenging in the English league.

Old Firm - i fuckin' hate them!! That said if they did go down south then all the paper and TV coverage would still be about the Old Firm. Don't pretend it would be otherwise!!!!!

Send them down to england, get them oot our faces for a few years.

Just let them go, I'm sick of them and their fans.

The old firm wouldn't make an immediate impact in the EPL despite Celtics recent European wins over their english opponents, I don't think they could do it regularly.

With the fan bases that they both have they could generate some ridiculous amounts of money and players who are succesful wouldn't leave to join a better league cos we'd already be in one (Van Bronckhorst, Laudrup, Regi Blinker etc).