Falkirk have become the fourth club to announce their opposition to the proposal of the SPFL board to conclude the 2019/20 season based on an average of points won per game.
Such an outcome would see the Bairns remain in League One with Raith Rovers promoted on the back of holding a one point advantage at this stage of the season.
Despite sitting on the board of the SPFL Stewart Robertson’s club came up with the bizarre claim yesterday that prize money should be paid out without the final positions being determined. The Ibrox club claimed that this was to help financially distressed clubs, two days earlier their players had their wages deferred.
No alternative proposal has yet been put together other than to empty the prize pot with Hearts and Partick Thistle announcing their opposition yesterday.
Tomorrow the votes will be counted on the SPFL plan for the three lower divisions with approval needed from all four divisions from 75% of the clubs in the Premiership, Championship and Leagues One and Two combined.
This morning the Falkirk website announced:
The Falkirk FC board is in unanimous agreement that we cannot support the SPFL resolution in its current form.
We do draw some comfort from the SPFL’s desire to consult with clubs over league reconstruction for next season – something which Falkirk FC has long advocated – but the warm words in the statement do not go far enough in our view.
If the SPFL were to formally commit to the introduction of a suitably restructured setup effective from next season, then Falkirk FC would seriously reconsider our opposition to the SPFL’s resolution. We are also of the view that such important decisions should not be rushed, and that there remains time to consider the best way forward.
The current situation makes it extremely difficult to play this season’s outstanding games and while we are confident that we would have had a successful end to the season, we accept that a decision has to be made to draw matters to a conclusion.
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No club has felt the need to support the SPFL proposal. The SPFL will wait on further directions from UEFA before deciding on an outcome for the Premiership.
