Vandy

Why is it trolling to back up what a guy who’s forgotten more about football than anyone on here? Tinkering around the edges of a broken system has got the Scottish game absolutely nowhere. There needs to be radical change,carrying on the way things are is not an option.

That’s the point there should be a distinction between full time professional clubs and part time community clubs. Thats all Strachan was saying!

The part time teams generate absolutely no income for the SPFL? Is that what you're suggesting? Virtually none.

The Professional game is what sells. Part time clubs with a few hundred fans have their place as community clubs to bring players through. Strachan was right in criticising some part time clubs because they aren’t even community clubs! Dumbarton don’t even have a youth set up! Just 16 guys who turn up and play for a few quid in their spare time.

But they’re not a Junior club?

It’s not the part time clubs that generate the money that’s why! What tv company would pay to put Elgin v Albion Rovers on? Who would sponsor the bottom two leagues and for how much on their own?

Something like £1.2 million is shared out to part time SPFL clubs yet Lowland,Highland,EoSL,SoSL and the new WoSFL will get zero. Why should these part time clubs share cash thats generated by the full time game and not the rest of the part timers who after all are just the same as them?

It would mean more money for full time clubs to keep players in full time employment. Part time football has its place but those clubs shouldn’t be deciding what happens in the professional game.

Correct and if they are prepared and able to be a real full time professional club then they should be promoted into a professional league. If it’s a team of brickies and plumbers that train 2 nights a week then they can stay playing in leagues full of other community clubs with part time players.

League reconstruction in the SPFL is like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. There needs to be a fresh look at Scottish football.Gordon Strachan was right when he said that the SPFL should be for full time professional clubs. The part time clubs should be playing in regional leagues along with all the other part time clubs.

Andy Robertson could still have come through at Queens Park playing part time football. Strachan isn’t saying those clubs shouldn’t exist! What part of that does nobody get?

Full time clubs should run professional football. They are offering jobs to people. Part time clubs who’s players main employment isn’t football are a different thing altogether.

The usual hysterical reaction from people at lower league clubs in today’s press. Strachan wasn’t saying the clubs shouldn’t exist! He was merely pointing out that they weren’t full time professional clubs and shouldn’t be voting on things that were relevant to full time clubs. Part time clubs have an important role to play as community clubs and in allowing kids to come through and play at a decent level before moving on to professional football.

You’re welcome.

If the part time clubs weren’t being subsidised by the full time clubs then they wouldn’t be able to afford to play in a national set up. Clubs with a few hundred fans and part time players aren’t professional football clubs. They are just the same as all the rest of the non league part time clubs who train 2 nights a week and play on a Saturday.