ultimate league super league premier league championship division 1 everyone gets a promotion, which is the way they sell these things to people, and how most seem to just accept it. Obviously they'd have to work out an arrangement with the present 'premier league' to change the name structure.
that's the ticket, you're getting the hang of it. now offer your services to the football league for £300k. don't forget my 10%!
I was thinking it could be an OK idea until I read about the possibility of Premier League B teams, which is just wrong, wrong, wrong! 5 Divisions of 20 sounds reasonable on the face of it but only if they allow in some teams currently in the National League, (which may have restructuring knock-on effects in National Leagues North and South). Or they could just leave it as it is and rename the 5th Tier as League 3.
There's also the small matter of reducing the current divisions by 4 teams. That's not possible in 1 season so we may it staggered over a couple of years.
fewer teams in each division would be an ideal excuse for the allams to put season ticket prices up, of course.
People do seem to be overlooking that. I cant see them changing any of the promotion and relegation into and from the Premier League so they'd have to take 4 down out of the championship, which the knock-n effect adds 4 into league one , so you need to take 8 out of that league. It'll take some working.
Possibly such an arrangement could be quite beneficent to a premier league Hull City, look at the rubbish league our reserves play in.
presumably any B team would contain players that sometimes played in the A team, on Premier League wages but playing in the lower leagues - presumably these teams would get promoted and ultimately end up in the Premier League - ie Chelsea A v Chelsea B - teams could mix and match players depending on who they were playing for instance Manu A v Chelsea B as a Friday night game, Chelsea B may decide to play the A team because the A players may not be in action until Monday because of tv - on the other hand if you don't promote the B teams into the Prem to avoid all of this then maybe all the Bs finish top of the championship and promotion goes to the highest placed teams after the Bs - maybe you get promotion for finishing 8th which is the highest place for a non B - its all bollocks and would cause the same farcical situation that happens in Formula 1 where drivers race on team orders and two drivers don't compete with each other
Even if it was beneficial to us, they can piss off. It would destroy near enough every non-league club.
I'm not sure why so many are worried about B-teams, it's not even something expected to be included in these new proposals.
So if I work it out right the divsions would have to be Championship - 3 relelgated from Premier League plus the top 17 team from championship (3 teams promoted, 4 teams get relegated) League 1 - 4 teams relegated from Championship plus top 16 teams from League 1 (No promotion, 8 teams get relegated) League 2 - 8 Teams relegated from League 1 plus top 12 teams from League 2 (no promotion, 12 teams relegated) League 3 - 12 relegated teams from League 2 plus 8 teams from the National League its going to be a proper clusterfuck
It's impossible to do in one season, it has to be staggered over at least 2 if not 3 or 4. You have to keep the integrity of the leagues (promotion especially) otherwise it will be meaningless and attendances will fall.
A good chance it won't happen, unless clubs really want a Winter break a lot. International breaks are annoying enough to people in the top two tiers, a whole Winter break for everyone would take it to a new level.
Also, another gaping hole in the FL statement is how many teams are promoted/relegated each season in these divisions of 20 ? How many auto spots, how many teams in the play-offs etc.
I like this new proposal because it almost eliminates midweek matches, which we have far too many of. I hate midweek games. It also balances things up and will suite the lower league teams far better. Do you think though that clubs were already aware of this proposal and this is what prompted the new controversial membership scheme, Knowing that we could be playing less games in the Championship the new scheme guarantees the income?
