The SFA, SPL and SFL have issued a joint statement on how they intend to reconstruct the league structure to accommodate Sevco.
Two years after the much heralded McLeish report recommended a reduced 10 team SPL the SFA want to increase the size of the top division providing extra promotion spots from the First Division where they hope to place Sevco.
On Friday the SFL will vote on whether Sevco are to be given a place with the SFL board then looking to negotiate a new league set up in return for providing Sevco with a First Division place.
Against a background of dire financial warnings and Stewart Regan’s ‘slow lingering death’ prediction the SFL, SPL and SFA issued the following statement.
It reads: “The Scottish FA, the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League have, for the past two years, been involved in a series of discussions at Board level with the objective of securing radical and co-ordinated reconstruction of the game in this country.
“Today, we are asking clubs to consider a package of reforms which have the potential to rejuvenate Scottish football at senior level and safeguard its future at a time when uncertainty and fear prevail.
“The proposals are based on five principles previously outlined by the Scottish FA as key to streamlining governance, ensuring greater financial distribution and above all, providing better entertainment, enhanced competition and value for money for supporters.
“Upon agreement by the respective Boards, the proposals will placed before the SPL and SFL clubs for approval, to be activated immediately and phased in over a two-year period.
“A working party will be formed, including three representatives from both the SPL and SFL, to devise a new structure for the senior professional game in Scotland.
“This group will have an independent Chairman appointed by the Scottish FA. They will be tasked with delivering by 30thNovember, 2012, a recommendation for structural change effective 2013/14.
“This will incorporate primarily:-
a)The introduction of an enlarged top tier for Scottish Senior Professional Football.
b) A new detailed model for senior professional football in Scotland including number of divisions; number of clubs per division; number of matches per season per division; number of promotion and relegation places per division and the introduction and operation of play-offs.
c) An all-through distribution model providing certainty for all clubs as to the percentage of distributable income which will be received. As a minimum, clubs in the current third and fourth divisions will receive the settlement agreement proportion guaranteed as per the current arrangement. In addition, the value and number of parachute payments to relegated clubs will be considered.
d) The introduction of a pyramid for Scottish football to provide a route for licensed clubs to enter the new structure effective 2014/2015
“In the event that a final decision is not reached by 30thNovember, 2012, the Scottish FA will seek to implement a new structure in time for the 2013/2014 season. The members of the working party, including Chairman, will be announced in the near future and will ensure consultation with all stakeholders prior to final recommendations being made.”
With a distinct lack of detail in the proposals supporters, or stakeholders as they are better known as, are likely to be concerned about any changes being drafted by Neil Doncaster and Regan.
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Here’s the first draft in the masterplan to railroad clubs. it’s going to get ugly now as we hopefully see more like Clyde and Raith voicing objection.
We are in danger of having the clueless crew shape our game to meet their wishes. We’ve already seen the methods they’ll use to bully and bait.
Ineligible to vote as you are potentially to gain from it is my favourite. Didn’t seem to matter when RFCiA did it!
Said it from day 1.CIVIL WAR IS DECLARED.ARE YOU READY BHOYS………………
It is absolutely shameless the lengths these reprobates will go to to get the new entity into the first division.
If this comes off there can be no doubt of the preferential treatment given to one club or entity attached to the former club.
No one will ever forget.
Every decision will rightly be questioned. Anything connected to TCFKAR is the team of the SFA. It is a disgrace.
Am I right in thinking that Dungcustard and Regan were dead against a 16 team league a few months ago? Has something changed since then? Oh yeah, I remember. The establishment team died.
These guys just don’t have any morals or ideals at all. It’s hard to know whether to laugh at them, or just cry. The weird thing is they’re probably doing the right thing for Scottish football in the longterm, but, unfortunately for all the other clubs in the country, they’re not doing it to save Scottish football; they’re doing it to save their favorite team.
Before this fiasco, I couldn’t have cared less where the Newco ended up- as long as the Oldco lost its cheating titles, and the Newco had to call itself Govan United, or something like that. But now, I’m praying that the SFL chairmain show some real ‘dignity’ and put Sevco where it belongs- in SFL 3.
I’m still firmly of the view that the newco should not be allowed anywhere near the SFL/SPL at all, until they have been able to provide convincing documentary evidence that they are a financially viable business with three years accounts to demonstrate this.
Until that time they should not be considered for membership of any Scottish pofessional league.
There are plenty of other teams out there who have a better claim to be allowed into Div 3.
The one thing I keep hearing from old club rangers fans is that Dundee and Livingston were not set aside for three years. But the difference is that they were in administration. i don’t believe they were ever liquidated, were they?
No they weren’t they agreed a CVA certainly Dundee did. As for Livi I think thy could not guarantee 2 complete their league fixtures so got dumped down to 3rd altho a bit more to it than that think they got shafted a bit like dundee wi there 25 point deduction.
What a complete farce! Doncaster and Regan wants to improve Scottish Football but only if they get their way and Sevco are given preferential treatment over all other clubs and are allowed to start from Division 1?
Presumably, if the club chairmen vote NOT to allow Sevco into Division 1, then Doncaster and Regan won’t allow the improvements to go through? This is incredible! They can’t see how ridiculous that sounds. It is paramount to obvious bribery and blackmail. Why do they think restructuring Scottish Football for the better good of the game is conditional on breaking the rules to allow a new club with no audited accounts straight into Division 1? This is surely the last straw!
You cannot build a solid foundation on the basis of allowing cheats back in – Doomed to failure from the start. Fans have very long memories, I for one will never attend another Scottish Cup or League cup tie nor any Internationals – EVER
Doncaster and his henchmen MUST go & go NOW for the true good of Scottish Football
Enforcement of new structures & rules sfa. spL &.SFL. what a giggle. when they can’t lead or control what is at present. REGAN/DONCASTER sorry (DISASTER) These people are morally bankrupt. p45’s for the lot. HAIL HAIL.
Well stand together Celtic, Aberdeen, Hibs, Hearts, Dundee Utd, Motherwell, St Johnstone, Raith Rovers, Morton, Clyde, Dunfermline all all other genuine teams except kilmarnock (shame on them)we stand together for what is right sporting integrity.
Div 3 for the sake of Scottish football I have no doubt rangers will be back, take the punishment and move on
I do not think the SFL clubs will entertain Sevco going to Division 1.