Peterhead manager Jim McInally has come up with a plan to complete this season and believes finishing the campaign is the only way to unify Scottish football.
An attempt to end the Championship, League One and League Two seasons descended into farce on Friday with Dundee not casting their vote and now holding the balance of power.
Arguments have raged and it appears there could be legal battles on the horizon.
Blue Toon boss McInally believes this season should be played to a finish and restarted in August when it is hoped the country will have beaten the coronavirus pandemic.
Scotland’s longest serving manager would like the remaining league fixtures and Scottish Cup to be played.
McInally’s idea would be to then start the 2020-21 campaign after a couple of weeks break and play three rounds of fixtures in each division before concluding with a Premiership-style split.
For one season he would make the Betfred Cup straight knockout and limit the Challenge Cup to League One and Two teams.
He would also include Highland League champions Brora Rangers and the Lowland League winners, which look like being Kelty Hearts, in the 2020-21 pyramid play-offs along with next season’s Highland and Lowland champions and League Two’s bottom side for this term and next in an expanded one-off play-off set-up.
McInally would like to see a percentage of prize money paid to clubs now based on current positions and the rest paid once the season had been concluded.
With many player contracts up at the end of May McInally believes it would just have to be accepted that teams could resume with different squads.
He said: “The only way we’re going to get any common sense in my opinion is to conclude the season.
“But realistically it can only be concluded within next season’s calendar so that’s my thinking.
“It’s looks like there’s going to be legal cases which aren’t what Scottish football needs.
“The only way to stop that is to conclude the season and takes all these people who are squabbling out of the equation.
“All these people are being driven by self-interest and I’m saying this and if the season is played to a finish my team could get relegated.
“It would be easy for me and for Peterhead as a club to say that we just want it called off now because we’d stay in League One.
“But it’s not about self-interest for me it’s about Scottish football’s survival.”
