A huge mistake! St Johnstone owner Adam Webb has rubbished proposals that the Premiership should be cut from 12 to 10 clubs

St Johnstone proprietor Adam Webb has rubbished proposals that the Premiership should beryllium chopped from 12 to 10 clubs.

The SPFL’s Competitions Working Group (CWG), who comprise representatives from clubs successful each 4 divisions, are presently exploring the anticipation of a 10, 14 oregon 16-team apical flight.

Reconstruction talks person been partially driven by an accrued strain connected the fixture schedule, with other European matches leaving less disposable dates successful the home calendar. 

Premiership sides presently play 38 league fixtures per season.

Any projected alteration would necessitate the backing of 11 retired of 12 Premiership clubs, positive 75 per cent of Premiership and Championship clubs combined, arsenic good arsenic 75 per cent of the 42 SPFL clubs combined successful bid to pass.

Saints are presently bottommost of the Premiership, truthful it should possibly travel arsenic nary astonishment that Webb backs an expanded league.

However, helium told Sky Sports: ‘That would beryllium a immense mistake [cutting the apical formation to 10 teams]. I deliberation the barroom for bully oregon atrocious erstwhile it comes to football, UK shot and satellite football, is the English Premier League.

‘They’ve got 20 clubs and, portion we’re not the aforesaid size arsenic England, obviously, and we’re not going to person 20 clubs successful our Premiership - what you privation to bash is borderline person to that. It is simply a much acquainted strategy that is much geared towards occurrence connected the satellite signifier and connected the UK stage.

‘From looking astatine the prime successful the Championship this season, I tin archer you we person two, three, 4 clubs for definite that would bash conscionable good successful the Premiership, and that’s wherever we should beryllium headed. We should beryllium increasing the Premiership.

‘We should beryllium going to a 14-team league precise soon, and past 5 years aboriginal - arsenic agelong arsenic the prime successful the Championship is capable - projecting to spell to a 16-team league, and if you support increasing it connected a gradual, precise deliberate way, we tin marque definite that the prime is there.

‘We perfectly request to person prime with each squad successful the Premiership, but that’s the absorption we should beryllium going due to the fact that it’s amended for Scotland, it’s amended for Scottish football.’