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SPL vote cancelled. Nothing whatsover to do with that the realisation that the 10-10 set-up did not have the requsite 11 votes to pass

 

:lol::O

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/s...rem/9351767.stm

 

 

by Jim Spence

 

The Scottish Premier League has scrapped plans for a vote to introduce a top division of 10 teams. At a meeting on 17 January it was intended to push the plans through but they have been put on hold.

 

Dundee United chairman Stephen Thompson, a critic of the scheme, met SPL bosses Neil Doncaster and Ralph Topping at Gleneagles on Saturday.

 

All 12 clubs were due to vote on the idea at the meeting but no formal resolution has been agreed.

 

The SPL's chief executive Doncaster and its chairman Topping had hoped that the clubs would vote in favour of the changes which would be introduced the season after next.

 

But for a vote to happen a formal resolution needs to be put to clubs 14 days before the meeting and that has not happened.

 

One SPL chairman told BBC Scotland: "There has been no resolution so there is nothing to vote on."

 

With four clubs - Dundee United, Hearts, Inverness Caledonian Thistle and Kilmarnock - against the changes and St Mirren also saying they preferred a 14-team top league, the proposals for two leagues of 10 now appear to be on hold.

 

The meeting itself will still go ahead on 17 January - but without the vote.

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That's a fair point.

 

They crashed headlong into this without any serious consultation with paying fans and season ticket holders across the land.

 

The proposal from the committee lacked any imagination, long term view or bigger picture perspective.

 

All they wanted to do was propose the most lucrative format based on what Sky/ESPN would pay.

 

TV has become the pivotal component and the evidence of Joe's meeting backs this up. This pause for reflection should be to redress some of the points above.

 

Our involvement in this is shameful - The board should be ashamed of themselves.

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Not before the clubs that forced Doncaster to try and sell the 10/10 league. Hopefully we'll hear about Motherwell's removal at the general meeting, along with St Mirren and the Old Firm

 

Clarify please in case I read you wrong, you think 4 clubs should resign from the league? Ours being one of them.

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