Michael Gannon

we can only hope they don’t give up the ghost because they’ve been relegated to the second level.

Likewise, look at Dundee. The Dens Park outfit should be feeling ashamed they are in the bottom rung of the new-look structure.

It says it all that four weeks ago they stuck out an advert for five new full-time employees in a bid to meet the Project Brave criteria. Too little too late. We can argue all day about the bar being set too high for elite status, that it cost too much money and it’s too big a risk.

But they – and others – knew the rules a long time ago, so them’s the breaks. Scottish football has been in the grubber for too long, so it’s time to get serious. This is meant to be a brave new

dawn but some of our clubs have been dragged out of bed kicking and screaming.

And the whole process has just shown yet again when it comes to self-interest in the Scottish game, nothing has changed.

You could stick our 42 clubs in a room and they couldn’t agree on the colour of the curtains.

It’s impossible to get our clubs to come together for the greater good and the harsh reality is that until there is some sort of unity we can forget about cracking the youth system code.

The entire structure of the game is all over the shop and unless we revamp the whole thing then we’ll keep sticking band aids on the bad bits and holding the thing together with Blue Tack.

It’s a joke when we’ve got the Scottish Professional Football League