The Scottish Premier League has welcomed the offer by the Scottish Football Association to provide independent mediation on league reconstruction proposals.
Stewart Regan, the SFA chief executive, and Campbell Ogilvie, the SFA president, have been invited to a board meeting to express their views. However, the Scottish Football League remain committed to pushing ahead with an alternative to the plans that were rejected during a stormy SPL meeting on Monday.
Two clubs – St Mirren and Ross County – voted against the proposals, which included the five core principles of merging the SPL and SFL, an all-through finance distribution model, more play-offs, parachute payments and a pyramid structure beneath the bottom tier – because of concerns about the 12-12 structure of the top two divisions, which would split mid-season into three leagues of eight, and the retention of the 11-1 veto on several "protected" issues. There was acrimony after the meeting and a sense of the momentum for change having been lost, but the SFA are prepared to intervene if the two league bodies authorise an appropriate mandate to allow them to assist.
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