McKennan

Yeah, but apart from that small detail?

I wish it were that simple. We'll have a summer and early autumn of brave words about boycotts. Some of us will do it and some of us won't. Given the shite we've seen from Thistle over the past three years, I suspect that if the Jags get back to living up to our highest hopes on the pitch, then boycotts won't matter at all.

That problem is a stinking pile of dooh-dooh that should be trucked to Hampden before the day is out.

Bang on.

Not enough fans for what? Too many teams is really a bit of a straw man. The trouble (certainly for clubs like Thistle) lies in the way resources are divided.

You missed the point of my post, Jaggo. You say there's a 'fundamental truth' that there are too many football teams in Scotland. Why are there too many?

Name them please.

I often wonder why it is that when league reconstruction comes around, the team that's had a turd of a season and came in dead fecking last is thrown a lifeline over a team in the league below that has put in a challenge at the top. With Hearts, I guess there are ... considerations beyond sport.

Hmm, surely there's no way a potential SPFL benefactor with Hearts connections who is offering a £5 lifeline to the leagues could have persuaded Scottish football's Machiavellian prince to try again? Or is that 'at all'? Nah. Clickitty

Job with the Tayside Administration Regulars. Glass houses and stones come to mind

Part of me would not be surprised if the chancers who run the game thought they could cut League 1 and League 2 teams adrift. There would be a hell of a stushie, but I think these characters would stop at nothing to 'unburden' themselves from diluting the piss-poor prize pot they'll be crowing about when football 're-starts'.

On what calculation is this based, Javeajag?

It's funny, when the 'too many teams' klaxon goes off the spotlight falls on the smallest and the poorest teams as the problem when the elephant in the room might be the top flight. Just sayin'.

The club tried that in 2006 - and it backfired.

With red and yellow sheep to match?