I'm fed up with this nonsense..All of this to protect 6 SPL clubs TV money.Clubs who were perfectly happy to collude with the toxic two in impoverishing everyone below the SPL.
GIRFU the lot of them.SFL 3 or nothing.Like most people in my city i dont want to see workmates without a team to support this season,but stick to the rules FFS.For too long we've tolerated a structure that has systematically destroyed our game.
I'm old enough to remember an 18 team first tier and you know what?It worked.Players were blooded and came through to become respected internationalists in a decent Scotland team.Our clubs were successful in Europe.
Have a geographical split for the second tier thus saving for example Elgin travelling to Stranraer etc,along with play offs in a pyramid structure from the juniors upwards.I can think of many junior ,highland and east of scotland clubs who would bring something positive to the senior leagues.
As for meaningless games,if we had 2 automatic relegation and a play off between 3rd bottom and the 2 2nd teams in the north/south leagues then anyone below 10th in the top flight would be involved to the end of the season.The top half vying for Euro qualification.And as our home grown talent came through our coefficient would also improve.Even teams from Ireland do better than us these days and no offence to the Irish,but thats how far along the road to utter pish we are thanks to the SPL self interest club.