grizzlyg Posted Friday at 07:17 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 07:17 PM 3 minutes ago, weeyin said: I've seen Arbroath beat us more than once when we were supposedly the superior side. Are you MJC....Are you MJ.................sorry folks 🤣🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropy Posted Friday at 07:48 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 07:48 PM 1 hour ago, texanwellfan said: Ok so the two lower leagues would play 3 times and then a split for 5 single games, same as the top league does now? Yes, that would be the thinking, but it’s only an option.  We would need to be confident of 18 strong teams and that the second league wasn’t too weak. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewarkfanclub Posted Friday at 08:12 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 08:12 PM The biggest problem with any change of league structure is the tv deal. Sky want 4 × The Rangers v Celtic games a season, end of. We can advocate for bigger leagues and we all know it would help youth development and reduce the issues that come with familiarity, but if Sky say no, and no one else will pay, its dead in the water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Dosser Posted Friday at 08:18 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 08:18 PM 1 hour ago, weeyin said: I've seen Arbroath beat us more than once when we were supposedly the superior side. Yes, they have smoked us a couple of times in my experience........ Sorry, I'll leave the building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted Friday at 08:39 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 08:39 PM 21 minutes ago, Happy Dosser said: Yes, they have smoked us a couple of times in my experience........ Sorry, I'll leave the building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Dosser Posted Friday at 08:54 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 08:54 PM 13 minutes ago, weeyin said: We’ll  both get into trouble from the site Puritans…….. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
well_said Posted Friday at 09:50 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 09:50 PM 1 hour ago, joewarkfanclub said: The biggest problem with any change of league structure is the tv deal. Sky want 4 × The Rangers v Celtic games a season, end of. We can advocate for bigger leagues and we all know it would help youth development and reduce the issues that come with familiarity, but if Sky say no, and no one else will pay, its dead in the water. They can have 38 if they want . We dont need them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Grew Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago The genesis of the current top league set-up was season 1975/76 with a 10-club Premier Division where clubs played one another 4 times giving a 36 game league season. Prior to this, the top league (1st Division) had 18 clubs that played each other twice, giving a 34 game league season. I’m pretty sure that under the 18-club 1st Division, the away club got a percentage share of the home club’s gate receipts, but under the 10-club Premier Division this was scrapped and the home club was allowed to retain all its gate receipts and I believe this is still true today. I don’t know if it make any difference or whether it would be acceptable, but maybe if this was re-introduced it would provide clubs outwith the OF with a bigger source of income. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmcalpin Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 9 minutes ago, El Grew said: I’m pretty sure that under the 18-club 1st Division, the away club got a percentage share of the home club’s gate receipts, but under the 10-club Premier Division this was scrapped and the home club was allowed to retain all its gate receipts and I believe this is still true today. I don’t know if it make any difference or whether it would be acceptable, but maybe if this was re-introduced it would provide clubs outwith the OF with a bigger source of income. Thats correct. The OF were prime movers in getting that arrangement binned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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