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For a while in England there was talk of a game 39, where teams would play an additional fixture abroad; there's often talk of which is the best league in the world; Celtic and Rangers are always keen to play Europe's bigger clubs, but an Atlantic league has issues over fixture scheduling and big-fish-no-longer-in-small-sea.

So...eachseason l'd like to see a day where the Scottish Premiership takes on the top league in, say, Portugal: 1st plays against 1st, 2nd v 2nd, etc down to 6th v 6th. Points awarded as normal for wins and draws, but added to an overall Scottish tally that may or may not beat their rival league's points total.

It would give the biggest names against each other, and some smaller names a bit of competitive European experience, but would avoid an exhaustive everyone-plays-everyone league.

If it worked, we could have a mini-league, pre-sesson between Scots, Dutch, Belgian and Portuguese top divisions (for example), with just 3 fixtures dates required to complete the tournament.

So you'd have, maybe, Celtic v Porto, Ajax, Liege; Rangers v Benfica, PSV, Brugge; Aberdeen v Sporting, Feyenoord, Leuven; etc, but with points accruing to a league v league total.

Well, maybe not; but I'd like to see it.

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I’m not keen on these kind of proposals. First off, let’s see if we can complete a week, then a month, working up to a full season. Secondly, I wouldn’t care about St Johnstone playing Beerschot, Utrecht or Famalicao (unless in Europa qualifier or group lol) so why would Rangers v Benfica capture my interest? Glorified friendlies. Yawn.

 

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Several problems with this.

1) When could it be played, there is very little room for it in the calendar.
2) Currently? Covid? This isn't happening.
3) Who covers the cost?
4) We already have European competition.
5) Why would the OF want to participate in this rather than some glamour friendly that would earn them a ton of cash?

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Why restrict such a brilliant concept to football and elite football clubs ?

All Scottish football clubs and teams from other sports and indeed other workplaces  and organisations throughout Scotland could go into a random unseeded draw. Another “hat” would contain the game or discipline that each of the paired teams would  compete at against each other (eg Jenga , completing a crossword ). With an appropriate prize or forfeit  for the winners and losers of each tie , nominated by each entrant. So a football club could nominate 3 league points as their chosen prize or forfeit , depending on the outcome of their tie

So ,for instance,  the Caledonian Braves (whoever the f**k they are) might be drawn against the Kirkcaldy Bowling Club committee, to compete at assembling a flat pack wardrobe.

 

 

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Different sports against one another in a two legged affair. Celtic FC v Ayr RFC at football followed by Ayr RFC v Celtic at rugby.  Might be a bit biased towards the rugby with an aggregate score of 126-10 to Ayr, but ach, f*** it.

Eta: Bon Accord/Orion/Whatever need a shot at cricket vs an Arbroath team to even up that 36-0 game.

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4 hours ago, A96 said:

Why restrict such a brilliant concept to football and elite football clubs ?

All Scottish football clubs and teams from other sports and indeed other workplaces  and organisations throughout Scotland could go into a random unseeded draw. Another “hat” would contain the game or discipline that each of the paired teams would  compete at against each other (eg Jenga , completing a crossword ). With an appropriate prize or forfeit  for the winners and losers of each tie , nominated by each entrant. So a football club could nominate 3 league points as their chosen prize or forfeit , depending on the outcome of their tie

So ,for instance,  the Caledonian Braves (whoever the f**k they are) might be drawn against the Kirkcaldy Bowling Club committee, to compete at assembling a flat pack wardrobe.

 

 

You could have an idea here. Chris Sutton v Tom English at chess boxing, winner takes on Psycho Dave the Bouncer from The Fergie Park Bar

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