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Starting a new thread on league re-construction and quite simple solution !! There are far too many teams in Scotland for our game to be profitable to the clubs outside of the O.F. We currently have 42 teams spread over 4 leagues with a population of just over 5 million. The average attendances are an embarrassment when compared to the crowds in England. The English game has approximately 80 teams in their 4 league set up, playing each other home and away for the season like we used to have up here many years ago. Englands population is 11 times that of Scotland so why do we have as much as half as many clubs ? Would we not have greater quality with fewer professional teams, sourcing the talent from within the country rather than from the EU ? Stronger Junior teams would provide the breeding ground for the natural talent we have always had here in Scotland , so surely a return to a 2 league set up of 18 teams each, on a 2up - 2down basis , dropping the least supported 6 to Junior status and playing 34 league games a season would be the simpler and more effective system all round ? Also a 70/30% share of the gate would pump a bit more money into the less well off clubs who could grow stronger with the extra revenue !!