It's a well known fact that 38.47% of statistics are made up on the spot.
I just made that up.
But opinion polls have always seemed like numbers rackets to me. Well, it all depends who you ask, doesn't it?
Supporters Direct, who may sound like an online company who fire straight to your home a wee bloke in a coloured scarf and a tammy, are in fact a group of fans concerned about the future of the game.
And they claim that an overwhelming percentage of fans would rather choke on their Bovril than embrace a new set-up of 10, 10.
Fair enough. But I suspect that they may end up with a collective petted lip.
I'll be honest. I ebb and flow with the tide on this whole affair.
Celtic and Rangers are in favour of a 10-10 format at the top
At times I embrace the philosophy of the fans, being one myself. I fair fancied a 16-team top division where everyone played each other just once at home and once away and one team was automatically relegated with a further two - and perhaps just for the hell of it, three - were involved in play-offs.
But the SPL muscle says that will never work. Or maybe what they mean is never happen.
It's down to money, which of course is generated most of all by television companies, and blokes like Rupert Murdoch will dictate what happens as surely as they had abbreviated moustaches just the width of their noses.
But then cash isn't an evil. It's the oxygen and blood of our professional game which builds better stadia, attracts better players, funds training grounds and develops young talent. Without it we're in a land of public parks and raffles to raise money for strips.
And, to be fair, blokes who run football clubs know a wee bit more about their desperate need for its life-giving qualities than your average turnstile clicking fan or lap-top thumping hack.
But here's the rub.
While the Old Firm are stoking the boilers of the 10-10 revolution with a little help in the shovelling from the likes of Ronnie MacDonald - despite the fact that his Hamilton Accies are the club currently most likely to be victims of such a reshaping - there are others who clearly reading from a different sat-nav.
St Mirren chairman Stewart Gilmour, who himself favours a 14-team top league, insists that nothing has been decided, despite SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster's insistence that all current top flight teams favour the 10-10 formula.
I am trying hard here not to use the word shambles.
David Sutherland, the majority shareholder at Inverness and as shrewd a businessman who has ploughed his hard earned millions into our game is at least honest about the timescale.
In his opinion, even with the fairest wind and tide available, there can be no new set-up before 2012-13 at the very earliest. And, to be honest, that is a forecast rubbed down liberally with optimism.
I fear procrastination and yet I suppose we should not be diving in as a salve to impatience.
We could be forced to live with our mistake for a long time. Or worse still, the professional game in this country would not have enough about it to winter many more storms.
For the time being let's do something, gentlemen. At least decree that the season will start when July does and that we can halt for a winter break.
Give us that as a token of your intent and a declaration that the wheels are in motion.
Statistically I reckon that would make 92.78% of us very happy. I am 73.47% sure of it.
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