Hi folks. Apologies, but Blogs will be infrequent this week as we are on holiday - great weather as ever for the tattie holidays!
After Aberdeen were robbed of a deserved three points on Saturday by the maroon hammer throwers from Edinburgh I was thinking of how Scottish football could be improved.
A poster on Aberdeen Mad had a great idea which was basically for the rest of the teams in the SPL to resign and re-enter the SFL, meaning the Old Firm were left high and dry. This is an excellent idea. After this happens (!) I would suggest the following:
Reconstruct the leagues - have two leagues of 16; 32 teams in total. We are a tenth of the size of England with around a third of the teams so something has to give. I think 32 is still too much but it's a start. Play each other home and away, 30 games a season.
Promotion and relegation from Division 2. 2 teams go down to be replaced by two non-league sides. These would be the champions of a reconstructed regional non-league - North and South.
Promotion and relegation from Division 1. 2 teams relegated. Top two from Division two promoted. Third bottom on Division one, plays off against team which is third in Division two at Hampden, winner takes all.
League cup back to being a short and sweet competition at the start of the season. Straight knockout, no seeding. Final by the end of October.
Ask Fifa if we can experiment with a new points system. 4 points for an away win. 3 points for a home win. 2 points for a scoring away draw. 1 point for a home scoring draw. 1 point each for a no score draw. Extra point for a team if they score 3 or more goals, that includes in a defeat.
This should ensure more attacking football as there are plenty of incentives to score goals.
This is obviously a simple rough plan but I think there's merit in it. I remember the hoo ha when 3 points for a win came to pass, now you can't remember what it was like before it was implemented. It needs bravery from all - and that's why it will never happen.
Music tonight comes from Elton John - Tiny Dancer. It's got a pedal steel guitar in it - that's good enough for me!
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Too much common sense here - so you've no chance. On a lighter theme I've seen ex-Dons on every one of my recent Costco visits. Sadly they are on a diminishing scale. I've gone from Simmie & Doog the Roog to Ryan Esson & John Gardiner. Sadly whilst I think I've done well to stalk, I mean spot, these ex Reds in a retail environment, I have to bow to superior powers to actually play pool with former Dons. I've even heard some folk help ex Dandies to their cars with bags of shopping....
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