Rangers have received further support in their hopes of getting a colts team admitted to the SPFL after Albion Rovers manager, Brian Reid, threw his weight behind the proposal.
Speaking to The Daily Record, Reid feels that expanding the lower leagues would reduce the boredom caused by sides playing each other as often as six times a season:
“The way to solve everything would be reconstruction this season. Whether the colts are involved or not, it would be something fresh ahead of the new season.
“I’ve always been a fan of only playing teams twice a season, home and away. I played down in England with Blackburn and Burnley and it was so much better. If League One and Two were expanded then it would be more refreshing for everyone.
“There are some ambitious clubs down the pyramids who have spent money and would bring value to the league. I wouldn’t be against a bigger league and players would really enjoy it. I enjoyed it as a player and it was miles better.
“Sometimes you can draw a team in the cup and play them six times in a season. It’s ridiculous and far too much.
“Supporters get fed up with it as well and that shows in the attendances. I’ve always been a fan of it so that could be a possibility and it would be good for the pyramid.”
Scottish football must be one of the worst for cutting it’s own nose off to spite it’s face, the extra money that a Rangers colts team would bring to opposition clubs is an obvious attraction and for teams claiming that they are “struggling for survival” to turn it down is nothing short of bizarre.
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The same teams moan about the SPFL, lack of money and officiating on a weekly basis, maybe if they had supported Rangers call for change, they might be in a better place, you would think they’d have learned their lesson by now.