Hearts owner Ann Budge 's reconstruction proposals may hit a stumbling block when it comes to the League One/League Two voting bloc.
The plan involves promoting Championship runners-up Inverness alongside while also keeping currently relegated Hearts up in a 14-14-14 structure.
The remaining Championship sides will make up the 14-team second tier with positions one to six in League One joining them.
However, Cove Rangers led League Two by 13 points with nearest challengers Edinburgh City holding a game in hand.
But the reconstruction plans is rubber-stamped would still leave them in a revised bottom tier despite their historic title win a season after earning promotion from the Highland League.
But the major issue Hearts will face is convincing clubs the brave new world they are proposing is about more than just self-benefit.
And Ann Budge, during a myriad of long and winding statements in recent weeks, has stressed how unjust her own side's pending relegation is - a sentiment echoed by a vocal majority within Scottish football.
But that stance falls apart if their proposals are pushed through and leave Cove Rangers in the bottom tier despite romping to the League Two title. Is that just just and fair?
In League One, teams finishing in the bottom four places - Clyde, Peterhead, Forfar and Stranraer - would then find themselves in the bottom tier.
That's an effective relegation for those clubs - and if they vote no to the proposals along with Cove, one more no vote from the lower two leagues would sink the proposals with 75 per cent of both leagues combined needed to support them.
Stranraer are due to be relegated anyway on a points-per-game average but may feel aggrieved that the proposals designed to save Hearts and Partick Thistle will still effectively relegate the Blues.
Meanwhile, reports this morning suggest reconstruction resolution will be sunk by Championship clubs.
The opposition stems from the temporary nature of the plans, which are set to only last for two years.
That means the movement of six clubs into the new second-tier would have to be reversed for the 2022/23 season - resulting in six relegations.
Budge insists the Premiership need her side more than the Championship and today's reconstruction will put that theory to the test once and for all.
