Change is Afoot

By: Brian | March 8th, 2011
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Ok so I used a cliche as my title, big freaking deal, the more important thing is the changes my faithful readers, there are some of you out there right?, will see for at least the rest of this season, if not longer. For those of you that have not heard, The Offside was recently purchased by the very large and talented SBNation. While this won’t mean a whole lot in terms of how this site changes in look, you are going to be seeing some new and exciting content here on The Everton Offside. SBNation already had an Everton site known as Royal Blue Mersey, and now both sites will be partnering up. The plan is to share duties on things such as match preview and reviews, along with various opinion articles that will posted. This means that sometimes I will be sending you over there for fantastic articles, and other times we will have some new folks over here.

So without further ado, head over to www.royalbluemersey.com and check out their great site

On twitter you can follow them @rbmersey

As for me, I can be found on twitter @Brian_Goodison, and you can also follow this blog @evertonoffside

As one final note, a big welcome to all the new folks coming to visit from Royal Blue Mersey, I look forward to getting to know everyone and hope you enjoy everything you find here. Until next time everyone COYB!

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Changes afoot for SPL

The 12-team Scottish Premier League appears headed towards a 10-team, two-division format after a general meeting at Hampden on Tuesday.

SPL chairman Ralph Topping believes proposed moves to expand the league to 16 or more teams would not be financially viable, but a proposal of two divisions of 10 could be voted on at the next meeting on January 17.

Some SPL managers are against the idea of a 10-team top flight, but Topping told the BBC he felt as though they had persuaded clubs a larger league would be unworkable.

“If you look at Scottish football, a 16-team league wouldn’t work economically and it would have a knock-on effect in terms of the quality of players you can attract,” Topping said.

“It’s two 10s or the status quo in my view.”

The clubs will also weigh up the reintroduction of a winter break and an earlier start to the season – both recommendations of former first minister Henry McLeish, whose report into the state of the Scottish game was published in December.

St Johnstone chairman Geoff Brown backed the two-league system to be a success, should it be voted in.

“I would be fairly confident of the two 10-team leagues,” he said.

“It has not gone ahead, all we have had is discussions and every club can make their own minds up, but I would like to think we have a consensus.”

Tue 4 January, 2011

Changes afoot for SPL

The 12-team Scottish Premier League appears headed towards a 10-team, two-division format after a general meeting at Hampden on Tuesday.

SPL chairman Ralph Topping believes proposed moves to expand the league to 16 or more teams would not be financially viable, but a proposal of two divisions of 10 could be voted on at the next meeting on January 17.

Some SPL managers are against the idea of a 10-team top flight, but Topping told the BBC he felt as though they had persuaded clubs a larger league would be unworkable.

“If you look at Scottish football, a 16-team league wouldn’t work economically and it would have a knock-on effect in terms of the quality of players you can attract,” Topping said.

“It’s two 10s or the status quo in my view.”

The clubs will also weigh up the reintroduction of a winter break and an earlier start to the season – both recommendations of former first minister Henry McLeish, whose report into the state of the Scottish game was published in December.

St Johnstone chairman Geoff Brown backed the two-league system to be a success, should it be voted in.

“I would be fairly confident of the two 10-team leagues,” he said.

“It has not gone ahead, all we have had is discussions and every club can make their own minds up, but I would like to think we have a consensus.”

Tue 4 January, 2011