I've spent some amount of time agonising over the state of Scottish football over the past few years. Every recent change and action which has been made or taken has been to the detriment of the game, in my opinion of course.

The one thing which bugs me most, though, is Stewart Milne's Aberdeen taking sides with Celtic after the Rangers debacle, and the overall failure to alter the voting structure, where two clubs could outvote the other ten in the top division. The authorities always hankered for a return to what they saw as the best scenario, whereby two teams dominate the rest.

I reckon Aberdeen thought they were going to step into the discarded Ibrox shoes, and didn't want to take the opportunity to alter key structures.

But now instead of a duopoly, we have a monopoly for the foreseeable future.

motherwellarab wrote:

Mass Debates wrote:

I honestly think we are now away to see Celtic winning EVERY domestic trophy for the next five to seven years. Realistically they should have done this over the past four, but there manager choices were questionable and they never really needed to spend any real money with the other side of their arse being reconstructed after death.

Now they have a seemingly decent manager with a pedigree of working with big budgets at a top 6 side in England they are loosening the purse strings from their CL war chest. This is to counter the other arse cheek being in the same league now.

The Rangers are IMO pulling the big boy routine but haven't got a pot to piss in and will continue to be miles off the pace, each trophy less season that passes the larger the gap will be become through CL money compared to europa league (which they'll struggle to qualify for too)

So how or when will the time come when total domination by only 1 team becomes too much and some sort of leveller is brought into effect??  or am I just being hopeful that one day we might have some actual top flight excitement (including us of course)

 
U honestly think Celtic will win the treble for the next 7 years? They have only won the treble 3 times in there entire history of about 125 years

 
There was never such a disparity between them and the rest of Scottish Football as there is now though (in financial terms and in terms of support).

They probably WON'T win everything in sight over the next few years but probably will do 10 in a row at which point even their most ardent supporters must think 'what's the point of this?'.

Do the Celtic supporters feel any real joy winning these trophies i wonder.

I think eventually something's got to give and probably would have done years ago (i.e. invitation to play in england) but the sectarian and religious nonsense surrounding both clubs has created a dichotomy whereby the religious aspect of their following has created monster sized clubs in terms of support in this country (and afar) but on the other hand this ongoing status and brand that both clubs wear as if it's a 'badge of honour' is effectively the 'albatross around their neck'.They have created a glass ceiling now by forever being caught in the wee Scottish football fishtank.

My guess is that a new British league/s format will be introduced at some point in the next ten years.

The Rangers and Celtic will be invited to enter at the bottom rung of the ladder and work their way up.

Scottish football will survive but will have to think outside the box a little to keep it vital (Summer football,amalgamate the league cup with irish and welsh sides to make it a British league cup etc etc).

blackandtangerine wrote:

The premiership is finished. There's no point in it when you think about it as the rest are playing for fuck all. Overpriced keech. Until celtic and the huns fuck off then basically we're all doomed.

I'd agree with most of that, but for Celtic and the Huns leaving. Nobody wants them, but even if that changed, there'd still be an insistence that they field teams in the Scottish system too. 

They are part of the Fabric of Scottish Society. Or so we are told.
 

That's a good point however you'd still think the majority of knuckleheads on both sides would stick with the big bigots version 1.

Would absolutely love to see them both fucking off, the league would be so competitive it would really see a boom in attendances IMO

This may be the daftest idea ever but what about similar system to the one they use in the super league in Rugby league.  Expand the league.  Play each other home and away once. Split the league and wipe the points Top half go into play offs to decide who's champion.  That's obviously a very simplified example. I'm not saying it would work but just throwing it out there. Need something fresh imo.