Change coming for the SPL

[mfc88]

52 minutes ago, thewelllfan said:

They had a meeting about it with all the SPFL clubs on Friday and a lot of the top flight teams pushed back on it including ourselves if Open Goal is to be believed but the main issue you 'll then get in Scottish football is us and other top flight clubs will then further stump players developments for the sake of them playing maybe 5 games in our first team in the cups and the league games once Europe/Relegation is no longer a possibility rather than going out on loan and getting 30 games at senior level

I know there was a meeting friday, didn't realise there was pushback from clubs already. That podcast is as far as i've listened and it all seemed fairly positive.

I can understand the pushback from certain angles. But theres valid points made about players brought in from down south or abroad no better than our own youngsters taking up a place in the squad. I'm sure we could point to many of our own examples there.

The cup game thing i'd struggle to agree with to be fair (2x U21 players to start each cup game).

[Kmcalpin]

Its a half baked daft idea which will achieve nothing. Larger clubs would simply ignore any requirement and take the relatively modest financial hit. 

[dennyc]

2 hours ago, Kmcalpin said:

Its a half baked daft idea which will achieve nothing. Larger clubs would simply ignore any requirement and take the relatively modest financial hit. 

I agree. It would achieve next to nothing. The SFA are only proposing it so they can say they are taking action.

Quotas for cup games and/or league games will merely throw a few youngsters in at the deep end every now and then and most will sink. They need regular game time at a decent level to prepare them for what lies ahead. At the moment that can only be achieved by way of Loans which relies on other teams and is limited in numbers. It can work with Whyte looking to be a good example. But success is relatively rare.

Oh for the days when Craigen was in charge of our youth team, playing competitive games every week or so against top division youth teams. A group of youngsters being prepared for a step up when they were ready. Does that even happen now or is it all closed door run outs, training and bench sitting? That competitive environment seemed to stop when certain teams, backed by the SFA, were allowed to enter B teams in the lower leagues. How did that work out? Covid didn't help either.

I get finance is an issue but perhaps if the SFA invested some of their cash in funding youth leagues in which  participation was compulsory for all top division Clubs it could be possible. A bit like Premier League 2 down south. Surely something can be worked out if the Clubs are rewarded financially.