Scottish Premier League chief executive Neil Doncaster has asked the clubs set to oppose his restructuring proposals to declare their own plans for change.
All 12 top-flight clubs met at Hampden on Tuesday to discuss plans for league reconstruction amid other radical reforms including an earlier start to the season, a winter break and the re-introduction of play-offs.
Doncaster said in The Scottish Sun: "If you don't like the plans, what is it that you want? There is a consensus that we need change. All 12 clubs would accept that. But no-one else has put any other plans forward. If they have different ideas on how we should move forward then bring them to the table. We will see what happens on January 17."
After the meeting on Tuesday, SPL chairman Ralph Topping and Doncaster claimed to be optimistic the plan to have an SPL 1 and 2 with 10 teams in each division would be ratified at the next meeting on January 17. An 11-1 vote is required to push the proposal through.
But Dundee United, Inverness and Kilmarnock reacted with scepticism to the plans yesterday and Hearts reportedly remain unconvinced.
Doncaster added: "The issue is people have different visions on what form change should take. But when you ask people what they are advocating that's when you get nothing back."
All clubs admit change is necessary, but are not in favour of all of the reforms proposed by the strategic review group featuring Topping, Doncaster and representatives from six clubs - Hibernian, St Mirren, Motherwell, Celtic, Rangers and Aberdeen - following research by Doncaster.
The SPL chief executive believes that a 10-team top flight is the only proposal that can deliver on a financial basis, but admitted the process is "at the beginning".
He added: "Although the process is eight months old we are still very much at the beginning. I have never been one to try and predict what is going to happen in football.
"Ultimately it comes down to the clubs."
Source: PA
