SPL silent on Dundee decision
Neil Doncaster announced on Monday that Dundee had been promoted based on sporting merit but didn’t give any reasoning for the decision.
Relegated Dunfermline feel that they have as strong a case for a place in the SPL as Dundee who finished second in the First Division.
The SPL don’t have any rules on which to make a judgement with John Yorkson wanting to know why his side was overlooked.
“We contacted the SPL to ask what the sporting merit was that they decided upon to put Dundee into the Premier League,” the Dunfermline chairman stated. “We’re still waiting on a response. I find it very strange, probably they don’t have an answer to give us.
“We were originally told we would be told in two weeks which is once the competitive games have started. Obviously it makes it very difficult when we’re working out what we’re going to do.
“We have to speak to our legal folk and see what they make of this latest development. We’ve been kept out of the SPL and we haven’t been told why.”
The First Division will provide the Pars with eight Fife derbies and no trips to the highlands with Ross County and Inverness Caley Thistle both in the SPL.
Jim Jefferies has build a squad for the First Division with Yorkson wanting clarity rather than an SPL place.
“We are now resigned to playing in the SFL,” he added. “Any challenge that we do would be against the decision for us not to play in the SPL now.
“We’re not going to be the club that holds everybody up by appealing and delaying the start of the leagues.”
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