Inverness Chief Slams SPL Plans

26 April 2011 15:54
Caley Jags chairman says 10-team league serves only to benefit big clubs. CALEY THISTLE chairman George Fraser has described the idea to relegate two teams from the proposed 10-team Scottish Premier League as “inappropriate”. The SPL’s Strategic Working Group has recommended that the team finishing bottom of the restructured SPL would be automatically relegated to a new 12-team second tier, while those who occupied eighth and ninth place would play-off to avoid the drop. However, Fraser fears that Caley Thistle could well become one of those clubs continually fighting for their lives at the bottom end of the table, making it impossible to plan for the future. He told the Inverness Courier: “We feel as a club that it would be inappropriate for the teams who finish eighth and ninth to go into a play-off. “Clubs such as ourselves would generally be involved in this play-off situation and you would find some would even yo-yo between the two divisions, therefore making it 
very difficult to put in place long-term plans. “There’s no doubt that this proposed new league will see the bigger clubs guarantee more money for themselves and that means less and less money is distributed to the other clubs. “It just seems that clubs down the bottom end of this new SPL will hardly get anything, while the big teams who stay up the top get the money.”

Source: FOOTYMAD