Smith favours greater expansion

The SPL have revealed they are considering increasing the top flight from 12 to 16 teams.Smith said: "Sixteen teams only gives you 30 games really, doesn't it? Although there has always been a call for fewer matches."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."I would agree with that, I would like to see a change. What that change is, I'm not quite sure."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."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."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."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."It's an awkward situation that our country finds itself in." Rangers 1/6, Draw 5/1, St Mirren 14/1  

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