Arbroath: Dreams Up in Smokies?
Second Division Play Off First Leg
Queen's Park 2 (Weatherston, Trouten) - 0 Arbroath
Play-off time again. Don’t understand why they are played. Don’t understand why the Scottish Football League promote them so miserably. I have an idea that faced with the realisation that the lower leagues need a major overhaul the SFL chiefs hurriedly scribbled down a...
Brooks Mileson denied being worried
So it’s the final day of the First Division and everything is still play for. The title will be Gretna’s or St Johnstone’s. Either Airdrie United or Ross County will be relegated. On paper Gretna’s game against bottom placed Ross County should be easier than St Johnstone’s trip to Hamilton. But with Gretna not so much stumbling towards the title as...
In
Owen Coyle,
St Johnstone,
Rowan Alexander,
Gretna,
Queen of the South,
First Division Play Off,
Ross County,
Scottish First Division,
Airdrie United,
Scottish Football League,
SFL
St Johnstone’s cup runneth over. A second semi final in the same season. And the chance to go one better in the Scottish Cup. They’ll fancy themselves against Celtic, of course, but will hope for Hibs (who they could have beaten in the CIS Cup) or Dunfermline (who would probably be underdogs against the Saints). The real treasures lie, inevitably, in the SPL and St Johnstone aren’t done...
The SPL2 is a misguided plan wrapped up in a monumental folly.
We don’t need a second tier of the SPL. We do need a debate on the way all our leagues are structured but the SPL2 is a muddled compromise that will do little good for Scottish football.
We have too many clubs, in all divisions, playing for nothing. We play too many games in all our divisions. We don’t have enough movement between...
