Source: Team_Talk
Smith favours greater expansion
The SPL have revealed they are considering increasing the top flight from 12 to 16 teams.[LNB]Smith said: "Sixteen teams only gives you 30 games really, doesn't it? Although there has always been a call for fewer matches.[LNB]"I heard Jim Jefferies and Craig Brown both state recently that playing each other four times is not right and they feel there should be a change.[LNB]"I would agree with that, I would like to see a change. What that change is, I'm not quite sure.[LNB]"I don't know whether a lot of teams quite like playing each other four times because it means they play the Old Firm twice at home and that gets them a level of revenue they would maybe lose otherwise.[LNB]"The ideal set-up is to have an 18-team league. If we could find a way of working towards that, I would be in favour of that.[LNB]"It comes into line with all the other European teams and means we don't have the embarrassment of a split with teams finishing seventh on more points than teams who finish sixth.[LNB]"It's something I would like to see but is very difficult for us to achieve because we have gone down that road before and felt we needed change.[LNB]"It's an awkward situation that our country finds itself in."[LNB][LNB] Rangers 1/6, Draw 5/1, St Mirren 14/1
