sancho_panza

A 14 team league with a 6-8 split seems the most popular option, but it's actually a bit of a halfway measure that would probably make things worse in my view. Think about the teams that are 7th-10th at the split - they'd be faced with another 14 games of largely meaningless football where they'd be clear of relegation, but couldn't rise higher than 7th. It's basically a pretty good way to make a very large part of the season pointless for a lot of teams, which is presumably the exact opposite of what restructuring is supposed to do (i.e. make the league more entertaining). For me, it has to go up to 16/18 or stay at 12.

Is the squad still much the same as it was last year? This is Stuart (Brown) - not sure if you remember me as it's been a while since I played. I'm now in one of the teams that plays in a Monday night league so I can fit it around my work, but if you're playing friendlies over the summer maybe we could give you a game at some point. By the sounds of it you'd probably hammer us.

I don't really want them to be thrown into the Third Division because they'd just steamroller their way up the league and come back to where they were. Their fans would actually enjoy the experience and by the time they made the SPL again they'd have rejuvenated their entire support. I'd rather they were kept in the SPL, but hit with such draconian punishments that they had no opportunity to compete. Once they'd settled in to the soul destroying nature of floundering around in the bottom six for years their fans would leave in their droves and they'd be reduced to the level of everyone else. The reason they're so powerful is because they have so many fans, so we should be pushing for whatever will alienate them and turn them away from the club.

Even though the punishment in those proposals for a Newco is a bit of a joke, I haven't read anything anywhere which said that the rest of the SPL clubs are actually going to support this. Dodgy voting procedures aside, it's a democracy at the end of the day so these proposals being put out there don't really mean a lot at this stage. I've read a lot of things on other sites branding the SPL a disgrace over this, but if it goes through then it's the fault of the clubs, not Ralph Topping, Doncaster or anyone else.