Proposed expansion from 92 clubs to 100 clubs in new five-tier English Football League system

Wouldn't this mean a drop in revenue for football league clubs?

 

So Pompey might have to get promoted four times rather then three. At this rate we might not play them again for 20 years.

 

Very sensible proposals from the football league.
24 team leagues are a war of attrition and less is certainly more and by decreasing the fixture congestion of the lower leagues it makes them more flexible to fit the two cup competitions around a more euro friendly premier league program.

Splitting the two lower tiers to north/south is a sensible idea and would save travel costs. However the negative(which I think the football league have) is that as soon as you regionalise it. Half the country doesn't care about your league.
I think their compromise on travel is that by reducing the fixtures and mid week games then you won't end up with situations like where both ourselves and Portsmouth in recent seasons have faced Hartlepool on a Tuesday night.

 

Will be interesting to see if any Scottish sides might try and make a bid to join the English system?

Eastleigh vs Portsmouth chance is increasing

 

Or ever again. Better make proper rivals of Bournemouth, or it could get a bit lonely down here.

 

*Up here* .... sounds much better than using the geographical reasoning

 

Yep, take your point.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36342609

BBC have contacted the clubs from the vauxhall conference...I mean National League on their views. Those that have responded have a wide range. Those bigger clubs who are nearer the top of the league and more likely to form part of the 100 feel it's a good idea.
Others think it's a disaster and would like to see it regionalised and have concerns about what happens to the clubs who don't make the 100.

Plenty waiting to hear more detail

 

Ever so slightly off topic (well, very tenuously linked,anyway) but it can't be too many seasons before there will be no-one left in teams that we play, that will have a 'You Skate B*****d' chant aimed at them.
If Pompey continue to slide along the basement of the football league, there will be very few teams who will want to buy any of their players, so apart from anyone who may once have considered signing youth team forms for our blue neighbours, the nearest the boo boys will be able to get to practising their acapella routines is in the early rounds of the League Cup, when Saints may actually play a team who thought that buying a Pompey player was good sense.

Unless we actually draw Pompey in a cup competition, but then the entire 90 odd minutes of the game will be played in a continuous cacophony of witty insults (or variations of the same)

 

Who gives a F**k about Pompey as they don't exist anymore where it really matters.

I am more worried about Brighton. Bournemouth and Reading (I might even include Plymouth) at least they are decent sides.

In truth I see Eastleigh as more of a threat to our South Coast domination than the Skates who have always been yesterday's men.

 

Godders, I agree with you about the irrelevance of Pompey, but there appears to be a need for football fans to collectively dislike someone/some team, just to provide a common bond, between fairly disparate individuals.
Additionally, there's no point in disliking teams that are geographically distant, as there is no common understanding of what links us with our rivals, as well as what makes us better than them. Then there's history (ask any Celtic or Rangers fan, and their rivalry is rooted in 17th Century Irish politics, which occasionally spills over into what is actually happening on the pitch)

In short, who does give a F**k about Pompey? It won't stop people singing the same songs, next season, though.

Just to bring this back on topic, thus avoiding the wrath of the mods, I think that a regional split between teams in the bottom two tiers of the football league (as with the current National League set up) would work, and would almost certainly engender further local rivalries, not necessarily a bad thing, provided it doesn't result in too much bloodshed

 

I'm not convinced this is a good idea. Ok I appreciate concerns around fixture schedules, but football is an entertainment business and don't clubs in the lower leagues need these extra games? Can't see it getting the support it will need.