A lot of good points on this thread. If the OF went, it would certainly tip the apples out of the cart in many ways. I also think the league would benefit. The OF bring money into the OF primarily, any distributed income is purely by accident as we have seen with the 5% ticket fee nonsense. I think local crowd would increase, with the chance of their team actually winning something. Wages would stabilise, and players ambitions would beceome more realistic. The national team would see very little difference, except maybe less drinking As for Glasgow, I predict that Particks support and status would swell enormously. The SPL would become more democratic and, hopefully accountable and take the SFA with it. Who knows refereeing standards might even improve!
This is pure conjecture of course as it will never happen. Rangers fans blotted the copybook for both sides with the Manchester debacle. This disgusted Joe English who has not seen that kind of behaviour from football fans on British soil for a long time.
As a PS isn't it great how "the OF" is seen as a monolith in business terms. They will never make a business decision independently, showing to these eyes at least, how interdependent they are, and how this talk of rivalry only goes as far as the football field. Bigotry is good for business, (another reason they are alien to the English layman), and no amount of Saturday stabbings will change that.