29 May 2020 08:40:03
Football next season for our part time clubs looks bleak.
They have no players and a rebuilding process can take shape for the 2021/ 22 season.
We should be looking to save the full time clubs were it’s the players livelihoods.
Scottish football could run only 2 leagues next season.
Play a 14 club Premiership which would keep Hearts happy and also bring up ICT.
The Championship could run with 12 or 14 clubs. The top 3 clubs in that division are also full time clubs Raith Rovers, Falkirk and Airdrie.
In reality because of the testing, it might be only the Premiership that plays next season.
29 May 2020 10:19:50
We've always known that Scotland was far too small to accommodate four leagues of 40+ teams and it's enormous credit to lower league chairmen, chief execs and investors; these teams survive at all.
Supporters have always been against amalgamation and take-over and defend vehemently their right to support 'their own team'.
I can only ever recall it happening once with Caledonian FC and Inverness Thistle in the 90's? forming ICT.
This crisis and indefinite uncertainty does look like the end for our wee teams unless finances are generated immediately, but with 'closed-doors' matches looking likely after such a long time without any other income; it does look ominous that we see more clubs go the way of Third Lanark, Gretna and Clydebank.
Maybe the SPFL can play the Sevco card and save them all?
29 May 2020 10:35:35
Celtic Mad
Great response mate. ðŸ‘.
29 May 2020 13:38:07
If there's teams that aren't going to make it then surely the colts idea has to be revisited. I'm still unsure why it was deemed a bad idea previously.
{Ed007's Note - I always wondered that myself but I vaguely remember someone telling me one of the main reasons was it would create more Glasgow Derbies into the mix and all the hassles that goes with them.}