Two League Two chairmen have dealt Hearts a huge blow in their reconstruction bid.
Elgin City 's Graham Tatters and Stenhousemuir 's Iain McMenemy have both slammed the proposals.
The pair stated their preference for a 14-14-14 setup in April but in interviews with the BBC's Scottish football podcast on Wednesday they derided Tynecastle chief Ann Budge 's timing.
McMenemy proposed that the coronavirus' impact on Scottish clubs' finances will give a clearer picture of who is able to play closer to the start of next season.
He said: "I think if you hang on, we might find that even over the next two weeks we will have a sense of who can actually start to play and it will be a restricted league, just to get through it.
"I just think Ann's got her timing all wrong. There are so many uncertainties, so many questions, that to restructure now just adds another set of issues and risks to an absolute plethora of unknowns already there."
Borough Briggs counterpart Tatters added: "It is very little change to what was proposed before. We would want to stick with the status quo.
"Some of us are hanging on threads at the moment, so it is hard enough without worrying about reconstruction."
The proposals would see Inverness and Dundee United added to the Premiership with Hearts retaining their place despite finishing bottom.
The Championship would then be supplemented with League One's top six, but with the temporary nature of the changes that would then see six relegations if the new setup was not made permanent.
McMenemy added: "It does seem to be revolving around Premiership clubs. I can't see a lot has changed since we found out they weren't keen on it two weeks ago.
"If you're St Mirren, Hamilton, St Johnstone, Ross County, you're being asked to save Hearts for this season in the Premiership. But you're pretty sure that in a couple of years time there's going to be at least a double relegation from the Premiership.
"If you're a Championship club, then if that league has to go from a 14 back to a 10. And you'd have 16 teams when the two come out of the Premiership. So you potentially have six clubs dropping out of the second tier. Why would the Championship clubs support that?"
