New Scottish Professional Football League merger finally agreed, but expect arguments and fall-outs to continue The reverberations of yesterday's chaos will continue to be felt in the months to come, with the new organisation likely to restructure their board. SFL chief executive David Longmuir is believed to be content to leave with a pay-off but his SPL counterpart, Neil Doncaster, is also under threat. Doncaster earns £200,000 per year but several chairman in the elite division have questioned the competence of his handling of the various reconstruction debates and his failure to sell the proposed changes to the paying public. There is a groundswell of opinion that, since he is mainly only carrying out the wishes of the member clubs, there is no need to pay the going rate for the job and that the money would be utilised better by employing a marketing expert who could attract more investment. The delay in ratifying the agreement to dissolve the SFL and join forces with the SPL was a result of the failure of the latter to supply the former's clubs (and their accountants, Wylie and Bisset) with the detailed information they required to conduct their examination of the potential liabilities of the elite division with due diligence. Considering the SFL had requested the relevant documents last month, it seemed to be both disrespectful and unprofessional of the SPL that only yesterday (after the exasperated SFL board had concluded that it could not approve the takeover on the basis of the information to hand) that they were provided with it. I feel sorry for the fans because this just comes across as an absolute shambles and a mess. To be perfectly blunt, it is. It should never have got to this state," said Annan Athletic chairman Henry McClelland. It was certainly an exhausting day for the delegates, some of whom had set off at 5am in order to reach the national stadium on time and would not have returned home until the wee small hours of the morning.