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There are a few ideas floating around the various threads regarding this, so thought a separate thread would be useful. I'm not sure if this was lost in the large number of threads on the go the other day or if it was simply ignored as it was a shite idea, but here's what I think (and I have wider ideas on how it ight work, but willl leave that for now, have discussed it on here before anyway). I would love to see 2 top leagues of 16 and a league of 12 (with a pyramid system below that) starting in time for season 2013/14. Simple really, but here's how it can bring about the balance between sporting integrity and commercialism that everyone seems to want. SPL/SFL1 promotion would continue as is for the coming season (1 up 1 down), and those finishing 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th would make up SPFL1 with the other 11 SPL teams. Newco win SFL3 (because that's the ONLY league they should be allowed to play in, at best) and go into SPFL2 along with the bottom 5 SFL1 teams, the relegated SPL team and the other 9 SFL2 teams. Bottom SFL2 team this season coming drops to the new SPFL3 along with the 9 remaining SFL3 teams (and could even continue with the play-offs for this season too). Then SPFL take applications from others for the 2 slots created by league reconstruction. That reduces Newcos time out of the top league by a year, sporting integrity will have been salvaged (if it at all can be due to this saga), ALL clubs will benefit financially as Newco climb the leagues and gives us the kind of league reconstruction the majority of us are wanting. Teams coming with Newco from SFL3 to SPFL2 will benefit from 2 seasons of Newco, but they are the ones who need it the most anyway. That seems too neat and tidy for me. If you've kept up with what Im saying (even I struggled at times), can you spot any flaws in that scenario? Apart from the obvious that the SPL might not see 16 teams as financially viable of course. Haven't considered the distribution of TV/sponsorship/prize money, but Jaggernaut had some thoughts on that elsewhere on the forum, but a single financial structure for all leagues would be my recommendation.