This is some joker Graham Spiers, his view on the proposed 18 team SPL, and how it affects the well.
' Listen, I know exactly who an 18-club top league would suit, and why it is so popular in some quarters. It would precisely suit the flabby midriff of Scottish football — St Mirren, Motherwell, Hamilton Accies, St Johnstone, Dundee, Partick Thistle, Raith Rovers and the rest — the yo-yo boys of our game who either spend their time worrying about SPL survival, or bleating that they can’t quite make it. Oh, it would be great for them all right.
Craig Brown, the Motherwell manager, thinks it would be marvellous to have an 18-club division. Why? Because Motherwell could be guaranteed stashes of points against the punch-bags that are brought in, finish eighth in the league (or thereabouts) and feel complacently good about themselves and their SPL safety. This is what an expanded SPL is about. It is a charter for safety, for resting on modest laurels. '
Link to report is http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/col...icle7052395.ece
Thoughts on this complete load of garbage ?