There's been a lot of talk about Scottish players not being developed due to the cut throat nature of Scottish football.
Would increasing our league to 24 teams including each sides B team solve that issue? The B teams can't be relegated or qualify for Europe so the B team only drops out if the A team is relegated.
To prevent the loss of the Glasgow Derby, Celtic and Rangers could still play each other 4 times but with the final two matches points only counting if it puts them ahead of the other.
Could be a potential solution.
Here's the article
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c75nv296dl1o
by giantsoftheartic
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I find that suggestion to be ridiculous, which makes me genuinely terrified it might happen.
Imagine the 1st team drop points to the B team and lose the league by a point? Or a B team player breaks the leg of a star forward in a challenge gone wrong?
So the obvious thing would be those matches become effective gimmes, but how far do you take it? Would the score from then effect goal difference in the league? So would they have cricket scorelines?
Naw
No I think the best solution would be for a B team to apply for entry to the English league system and slowly work their way up the leagues. At some point in the future celtic will surely outgrow scottish football and that B side could become the A
The B Team struggle against teams with names like East Donblinkyshire most weeks so they’ll get beat about 10-0 by the worst Premiership team.
One of the dumbest suggestions for Scottish football I’ve seen in quite a while and that’s saying something