Former Aberdeen chief executive Keith Wyness predicts Scottish football could be reduced to only two divisions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Civil War has raged among our clubs and decision makers in the wake of Rangers' claims, dossier and subsequent EGM that put SPFL in the spotlight.
But now the former Everton and Aston Villa supremo has urged everyone involved to put aside their differences to help save our game.
SPFL chief Neil Doncaster painted a bleak picture midweek insisting all teams will feel the pinch even when football returns without fans inside grounds.
And Wyness believes a significant change to our league format will become a necessity just a week after reconstruction talks were kiboshed.
Speaking to BBC, he said: "I do think there is going to have to be a complete recalibration, looking to one or two leagues maximum.
"I think that is going to be the financial reality.
"This has made everybody look at themselves starkly and realise that things may not go on or come back as normal.
"Clubs like the Old Firm, and the top major clubs have got to really think about trying to divide the spoils of the game properly and equally.
"So that overall we try and get a more balanced league, a more competitive league- that is what is going get people back in again.
"It is going to take some big men, some big women to do it and a real view of what is going to be best for the future, because now it really is make or break for the game.
"We have been repeating this problem with the same fault lines appearing in Scottish football every decade, but now we have got to really face up to it and realise that the whole thing could be lost completely. If it isn't going to happen now, it will never happen.
"If it just carries limping along then we are going to be content to repeat the same mistakes and gradually go with a long, lingering and painful death."
