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Please bear with me as this is a long post but I think it gives some points to ponder. With all the uncertainty over what is happening in Scottish football at the moment, surely this is the time to take the bull by the horns and sort out some re-organisation of the leagues while we are going to be in a state of flux anyway. Now my take on the Rangers thing is that it now appears likely that the newco is not going to have its application to have the oldco share transferred, however everyone appears to think that this immediately means that and SFL club would be promoted and leave a space in the SFL for newco to apply for. Does that necessarily have to be the case ? Indeed has not John Yorkston said that Dunfermline and possibly Dundee/Falkirk, having set up for Div1 football next season, may not be able to play SPL. Also with the SFA appeal board reconsidering the case of oldco bringing the game into disrepute, one option they have is to suspend or expel the club. If the newco are looking to hang onto the history then they surely have to take the consequences so they may not even be able to apply for SFL should there be a vacancy. With that in mind I have thought up a grand plan for the future of the Scottish League system, some points of which have likely been mentioned in various places already I admit. This would take the above points that no-one is promoted from SFL to SPL for season 2012/13 and that the result of the SPF appeal tribunal is a 1 year suspension for Rangers that prevents newco applying for SFL. Season 2012/13 played in SFL as currently, SPL play as 11 teams with Club 12 games being bye weeks At the end of this season, the bottom 9 clubs in SFL Div 3 2012/13 relegated to regional leagues, ie Highland League, South of Scotland league, RFC Newco can apply to join a regional league for 2013/14. 2013/14 season; Amalgamate SPL and SFL 2 Leagues of 16 Top league previous years SPL plus top 5 from SFL Div 1 Second league is other 5 Teams from SFL Div 1, all of SFL Div 2 and winner of SFL Div 3 Top League; All teams play twice home and away Champions:- Top 6 teams after 30 games have play offs to decide Champion and other European places 6th play 3rd home and away 5th plays 4th home and away Lower placed team remaining plays 1st home and away Higher placed team remaining plays 2nd home and away Winners play in league final at neutral ground Relegation:- Bottom club relegated to second league Top 2 clubs from second league promoted 14 and 15th in top league go into play off with 3rd to 6th in second league as for top league champions. Winner of playoffs goes in top league next season, others in second league. Second League; Promotion:- As per relegation for top league Relegation:- Bottom club relegated to relevant regional league Top club from each of 2 regional leagues promoted 14 and 15th in second league go into home and away playoffs with 2nd in each of 2 regional leagues, playoffs winner goes into second league. Regional leagues may need to be realigned to place teams in correct area. Regional round robin League Cup League cup to have North, South, East and West sections and each to draw 2 round robins of 4 clubs to play home and away. Winners of each round robin goes into knockout draw. Each team in each league therefore gets 15 home league games and 3 home League cup guaranteed. Potential for 1 or 2 more home games for those teams in playoff positions. Now I know that this may mean a few less home games for those teams in places 7 to 13 however as the league may be more competitive it may increase attendances at games to overcome this. The larger league also reduces the fear of relegation, so games are played to be won rather than not to be lost, increasing entertainment. Many on here have said that lack of entertainment is one reason for dropping attendances. I don't expect everyone to agree to all of this, one of my work colleagues has already said to me he doesn't like the play-offs for the top league winner as it means sixth place 20 points down could be champions, but I think it brings an element of the season will always go to the end rather than be settled 5 or six weeks early. I'll leave the debate on distribution of TV/League sponsorship money to one side just now, suffice to say that it should not be heavily weighted towards one or two teams.