Reconsgtruction - Yes, But Not This

HERE we go again - league reconstruction is apparently back on the agenda - with the SFL (Scottish Football League) floating vague plans about a new three-division set-up in Scottish senior football of 16 - 10 and 18 clubs, two more than at present; these two "new" clubs are to be the second XIs of Celtic and Rangers.

 

I have long been in the we must reconstruct camp; I believe, given the huge support which both Old Firm clubs command, finding a place for their reserve sides would be a good thing, fiscally, for the other clubs, but, and there has to be a but - this latest idea is crazy.

 

Scottish senior football does not need more clubs, it needs fewer; that much has been apparent for years. The "cake" is getting smaller by the year, so the clubs should be looking for larger, not smaller slices.

 

As far as I can see, this plan calls for amalgamation between the SPL and the SFL - all well and good, but, this will still leave us with two governing bodies in the senior game - the new composite league and the SFA, still in everyone's view, except those Hampden "blazers" with vested interests to protect, one too-many.

 

 

 

PARDON me for being cynical, but, when you consider the number of calls-off (or is that call-offs)? there have been from Billy Stark's originally-named squad to travel to Luxembourg for tomorrow night's "International Challenge Match" - why bother?

 

The match is meaningless, I haven't met too-many Tartan Army foot soldiers who are champing at the bit to get to the Principality - lovely place though it is to visit - in fact, it's all a bit of a non-event.

 

I cannot help thinking, the SFA should maybe have contacted their Luxembourg counter-parts, made their excuses, promised an early re-scheduling and taken the severe hit on the "blazers" air miles.

 

If they had to have something, they should have acted quicker to replace Craig Levein and maybe got the new guy in to bring the squad together for a "getting to know each other" session, with maybe something like a Home Scots v Anglo-Scots charity game at the finish.