Rangers B team to be allowed to feature in Lowland League after major U-turn
Rangers will be allowed to field their B team in the Lowland League on one condition after a “sensational” U-turn from the competition’s chairman, according to the Daily Mail.
The newspaper reported on their website on 7 June that the league had originally dismissed any idea of Rangers, Celtic and Hearts entering B teams into the League. However, it is understood that a decisive vote on Monday evening (6 June) means they can now feature in the League.
The Mail also suggests that Lowland League agreed to the introduction of the SPL B teams on the condition that work is done to abolish the promotion playoff against the bottom-placed League Two team.
League chairman Thomas Brown held the decisive vote after an 8-8 split and voted yes with the promise of reforms to the structure of the Scottish football pyramid.
No place for B teams
There is simply no place for B teams within any professional league.
Their presence is pointless and benefits no one apart from the biggest and best clubs.
It simply allows for the most powerful clubs to bread their younger and out-of-favour players more effectively and simply widens the gap between the game’s elite and the rest.
Furthermore, no side should be able to compete in a league where they cannot get promoted or where there are questions over their promotion.
Under-23 sides have been introduced into the EFL Trophy in England in recent years and it has simply ruined the competition.
Attendances have dwindled and the competition doesn’t mean as much anymore.
Who really wants to go and watch their side play an under-23 team?
Games will feel like a preseason friendly and that is not what lower league football should feel like.
Fans of Lowland League clubs will be fuming with the decision to allow this decision to have occurred.
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