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Topic: League Reconstruction
1. Author: DJAS Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 17:05 SPFL have put out a statement confirming there would be no reconstruction of Premier League but they will be looking at whether they can reconstruct lower leagues. Surprise surprise. Predictor league winner 2012/2013 Post Edited (Tue 29 Apr 17:19) Reply
2. Author: buffy Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 17:17 I demand to know which stadium ! 😉 ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Reply
3. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 17:27 It was never going to happen……… Reply
4. Author: GJS93 Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 17:55 stephen.mcgowan @mcgowan_stephen Discussions next month will revolve around SPFL Championship expanding to 12 or 14, with a new third tier of 16 or 18 teams said for a few years a 12 team championship should be on the cards, id prefer that over a 14 if it is going to change. Reply
5. Author: gegganpar Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 18:09 Wouldn`t change the Championship it`s the best league in the country. The standard could be better but it`s always competitive and very few meaningless games... J angus blacklaws Reply
6. Author: veteraneastender Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 18:14 "The standard could be better" - that`s the understatement of the year IMO. Reply
7. Author: obiwanyouknowme Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 18:17 Increase the Championship but still only have 1 team go up automatically - crap Reply
8. Author: gegganpar Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 18:34 veteraneastender, Tue 29 Apr 18:14 "The standard could be better" - that`s the understatement of the year IMO. I could have said its Rank Rotten but there`s too much Doom and Gloom on here as it is......😂 J angus blacklaws Reply
9. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 18:56 obiwanyouknowme, Tue 29 Apr 18:17 Increase the Championship but still only have 1 team go up automatically - crap Got to protect the elite, too many “big” clubs gone down in the last decade. Expanding Championship to 12/14 wont make it more exciting as still 3 or 4 league games against same sides. Make it 16 and ditch the split. 30 game season with play offs for promotion/relegation and put in a winter break to protect the pitches. Reply
10. Author: Buster_Brown Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 19:06 I’m all for expanding the lower league to 12 teams and the country having 4 leagues of 12….it’s 100% not my preference and doesn’t address the biggest problem for me (playing each team 4 times), but I would prefer the extra 2 over 10. Reply
11. Author: DunPar Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 19:20 What about 3 leagues of 14. Split into two leagues of 7 after playing each other twice then play each other twice in the “super 7s”. 38 games a season. Maybe promote and relegate two teams at the split and also after the super 7s ? Reply
12. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 20:54 DunPar, Tue 29 Apr 19:20 What about 3 leagues of 14. Split into two leagues of 7 after playing each other twice then play each other twice in the “super 7s”. 38 games a season. Maybe promote and relegate two teams at the split and also after the super 7s ? Great, minimum of 4 games against teams again, then draw them in the cups and play them 7 times a year…….how enthralling…..oh add in another 2 in the play offs for 9! Post Edited (Tue 29 Apr 20:54) Reply
13. Author: kozmasrightfoot Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 22:37 I quite like your idea dunpar but the old firm wouldn`t go for it. I`d like to see 3 leagues but have the 3rd division bigger (18-20) teams to allow more room for extra Highland and Lowland league teams. 4 relegation places to allow 2 from Highland and Lowland teams to come up. It`ll never happen though even though the larger Championship and 3rd division makes no difference to the Sky Sports teams. Football communism at it glorious best. Pars fan. Magpies fan. Mens tennis fan. Alternative rock fan. Not a fan of much else. Reply
14. Author: parsfan Date: Tue 29th Apr 2025. 23:26 Dave_1885, Tue 29 Apr 20:54 DunPar, Tue 29 Apr 19:20 What about 3 leagues of 14. Split into two leagues of 7 after playing each other twice then play each other twice in the “super 7s”. 38 games a season. Maybe promote and relegate two teams at the split and also after the super 7s ? Great, minimum of 4 games against teams again, then draw them in the cups and play them 7 times a year…….how enthralling…..oh add in another 2 in the play offs for 9! Same league cup group, finish first and a best second then get drawn together in the knockout stages to make it 10. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The universe is ruled by chance and indifference Reply
15. Author: red-star-par Date: Wed 30th Apr 2025. 00:05 Just have one big 42 team league. Each team plays the others once only, either home or away. The following season whoever the team played at home, they play away from home. Then, at the end of the season, the top two clubs play each other in a best of 7 games play-off final for the Championship. Bottom 6 teams get automatically relegated, 3 to the Lowland League, 3 to the Highland, to be replaced by the top 3 teams in those leagues. Bring in regional youth football and have a draft with the worst team in the league getting first pick. Reply
16. Author: General Zod Date: Wed 30th Apr 2025. 06:13 I don’t know why so many fans (basically all of them) want to reconstruct one of the worst top flights in world football. It’s perfect the way it is obviously! Further proof that the fans really don’t matter in this country. I wonder how much Neil Dumpcaster gets paid to oversee this stuff. Reply
17. Author: Indiapar1 Date: Wed 30th Apr 2025. 13:37 I think you need a development path for younger players so an inflated lower division would make sense. I don`t know tge rules on this but rather than having a reserve team, you could create an affiliated club of reserve team players and allow a route to the first team based on a set of restrictions. This would permit the reserves to play in a competitive league with promotion opportunities but still have a route to the first team a bit like loan players. A more holistic solution is needed in Scottish football given the size of the country G Wardrope Reply
18. Author: Playup_Pompey Date: Wed 30th Apr 2025. 13:43 restructuring is heavily constrained by TV deal (which in itself is a shambles after clubs sold souls to setanta back in the day). The loss/reduction of 4 glasgow derbies a season isnt pallatable for viewing figures. Reply
19. Author: Ianoappar Date: Wed 30th Apr 2025. 14:15 League reconstruction could mean no relegation this season,be a few clubs hoping that`s the case. Reply
20. Author: kozmasrightfoot Date: Wed 30th Apr 2025. 14:18 I mentioned this idea in another thread regarding reconstruction. England have the Charity Shield before the season starts. So how about creating and Old Firm cup the week before the season starts. Play it over 2 legs. That way they can make a better top league in the same format as the Belgian league. 18 teams, play each other twice then split into 3 groups of 6. The middle group fights it out for the Conference league place so all 3 mini leagues have something to play for. You`d get 5 Old Firm games that way, making for happy tv people. It makes 39 games though which could be a problem as they want less games. You could get around that by having a 16 team league. Play twice then split into 2 groups of 5 and 1 of 6 which makes it 34/35 games. Probably make the bottom group 6 teams as they definitely won`t be in Europe. Pars fan. Magpies fan. Mens tennis fan. Alternative rock fan. Not a fan of much else. Reply

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