Colinstein69
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Interesting idea that has merit. I've advocated for exactly what the OP suggested, the tricky part is introducing enough jeopardy for the bottom half post split to keep it interesting, and hopefully encourage bigger crowds to these games. Your idea (or Ogilvie's I guess) does that.When I was writing my dissertation at Uni I had a meeting with Campbell Ogilvie while he was working at Hearts.
He told me of an idea he had for league reconstruction which I quite liked.
2 x Leagues of 12. In both leagues, teams play each other twice for 22 games. After this, the two leagues split into 3.
The top 8 of the Premier would play each again home and away to decide League title, European places etc, playing a total of 36 games.
The top 4 of the Championship would then join the bottom four of the Premiership and all of the teams in this set up revert to zero points. They play each other home and away and the top four of this section at the end of the season then start the following season in the Premier with the bottom four going into the Championship.
The third section would be the bottom 8 of the Championship who would play each other another 2 times. There wouldnt be much to play for in this section outwith survival in the Championship.
Edit- This also gives the league the chance to get back to 36 teams. 42 is too many for a country of Scotland's population.
Going back to an 18 team league playing each other twice will hopefully never happen. The amount of dead rubber games would be enormous.
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