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Should Scottish teams join the EFL?

Should Scottish teams compete in the EFL?

  • Yes

    Votes: 26 12.9%
  • No

    Votes: 171 85.1%
  • Not sure

    Votes: 4 2.0%

  • Total voters
    201






GT49er

Well-known member
Feb 1, 2009
46,467
Gloucester
Why not FFS ?
We have Welsh teams in the Premier League and English Football League AND an English team (Berwick Rangers) playing in the the Scottish Leagues.
Historical anomaly. Live with it. If alcohol hadn't been discovered before, and someone invented it now, it would be banned as a class 'A'. It was, and so it isn't. Welsh clubs in the Football league go back nearly 100 years ffs, just get on with it.

Perhaps it would benefit football in both countries to have a couple of Scottish clubs competing on a level playing field with England's best.
No it wouldn't.

What could work would be combining the league cups, with lower teams only in the lower rounds, and the Prem. and Championship teams only coming in at the later stages - with a European place available. The early rounds could guarantee Scottish clubs a game against English (or possibly Welsh) opposition - over two legs, an Anglo-Scottish tie in the early rounds could be quite an attraction for division 3 and 4 clubs (English and Scottish), maybe even the Conference - oh, sorry, National League - clubs too.
 








GT49er

Well-known member
Feb 1, 2009
46,467
Gloucester
It will never happen because the Scots are terrified of losing their status as a seperate nation in FIFA hence their refusal to engage with the GB team at the Olympics. It would also cause massive problems with European qualification.
Precisely - and they're quite right. One whiff of Celtic and Rangers in the EPL, and England, Scotland, Wales and NI teams would disappear overnight - UEFA and FIFA would love to stuff us, and force us to have just a GB team. No bloody thanks!
 


GT49er

Well-known member
Feb 1, 2009
46,467
Gloucester
why not?

Dundee away

Middlesbrough away

it's all the same :lol:
Geography not your strong point then? Brighton to Middlesbrough 313 miles - quite a long haul to be sure. Middlesbrough to Dundee another 224 miles! Quite a bit different, wouldn't you say?
Scotland is bigger than you think.......
 


easynow

New member
Mar 17, 2013
2,039
jakarta
Precisely - and they're quite right. One whiff of Celtic and Rangers in the EPL, and England, Scotland, Wales and NI teams would disappear overnight - UEFA and FIFA would love to stuff us, and force us to have just a GB team. No bloody thanks!

Ok, so I guess someone needs to convince some billionaire to buy Berwick Rangers? :lolol:
 




Gregory2Smith1

J'les aurai!
Sep 21, 2011
5,476
Auch
Geography not your strong point then? Brighton to Middlesbrough 313 miles - quite a long haul to be sure. Middlesbrough to Dundee another 224 miles! Quite a bit different, wouldn't you say?
Scotland is bigger than you think.......

a bit tongue in cheek

meaning it's all passed Crawley

never mind
 


Sussex Nomad

Well-known member
Aug 26, 2010
18,185
EP
Why don't we move to the SPL and get a couple of dozen titles under our belt with a few years in Europe?
 






Sussex Nomad

Well-known member
Aug 26, 2010
18,185
EP
What could work would be combining the league cups, with lower teams only in the lower rounds, and the Prem. and Championship teams only coming in at the later stages - with a European place available. The early rounds could guarantee Scottish clubs a game against English (or possibly Welsh) opposition - over two legs, an Anglo-Scottish tie in the early rounds could be quite an attraction for division 3 and 4 clubs (English and Scottish), maybe even the Conference - oh, sorry, National League - clubs too.

Yeah right, could you imagine the policing with the bigger Scottish/English clubs? Totally non viable.
 


studio150

Well-known member
Jul 30, 2011
29,553
On the Border
There is more chance of the top teams in England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France breaking away from their national leagues to form a European Premier League than Scottish teams being accepted into the EFL
 


GT49er

Well-known member
Feb 1, 2009
46,467
Gloucester
Yeah right, could you imagine the policing with the bigger Scottish/English clubs?

Yes. Not a problem. It can be done - English and Scottish teams have played each other in European competitions, with no major or out of the ordinary problems. And that's even involved traditionally bunches of thugs like Leeds and Rangers.
Non viable? Huh! Far less non viable than, say, Birmingham vs. Villa, the Owls vs. the Blades, Stains vs. Skates - or Brighton vs. Palarse for that matter.
 




Sussex Nomad

Well-known member
Aug 26, 2010
18,185
EP
Yes. Not a problem. It can be done - English and Scottish teams have played each other in European competitions, with no major or out of the ordinary problems. And that's even involved traditionally bunches of thugs like Leeds and Rangers.
Non viable? Huh! Far less non viable than, say, Birmingham vs. Villa, the Owls vs. the Blades, Stains vs. Skates - or Brighton vs. Palarse for that matter.

I would suggest it is a headache the authorities in all their entities could do without.
 




graz126

New member
Oct 17, 2003
4,146
doncaster
100% no from me. if they ever did would have to work their way up from the bottom of the pyramid to even begin to make their entry fair to all other clubs
 






Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
30,521
There doesn't seem to be any great movement towards a Scandinavian League or Benelux League, so why a British League?

I would have thought Celtic would be happy to pursue a record 10 titles in a row while Rangers would struggle just to stay in the Championship.

It seems to me there are too many teams in Scotland. Inverness merged two into one and have never looked back while neither Dundee side has challenged for the title since the days of Jim McLean more than 30 years ago.
 


I quite like the idea of the Scotch top league teams joining our league, then after 3 straight relegations being back in the Scotch league.
 



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