http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15381652.stm First I had heard of it. Thoughts? Jenkinsen bought our whole first team, under these provisions we would have only got a couple of hundred k for him. League one and two sides are funded by finding a gem and selling them on. These proposals look very damaging to football as a whole. But I guess as long as the premier league is happy, eh
Let premier League go independent with no relegation like the foreign leaders want, football in England to fail on a whole, premier league to come back to the FA with their tale between their legs and then stupid suggestions like this won't happen any more sorted
How would the field be selected, just as it stood at the time ? A joke of a concept, how can anyone be born or developed so narrow sighted ?
Those proposals are an absolute disgrace and if they are actually put in place this Imo will signal the end for so many good old clubs. The 5m funding from the premier league... is that 5m per football league club or 5m divided between all the football league clubs? How many of the football league clubs have an academy setup these days? I sincerely hope we were one of the 22 clubs who voted for the premier league to go f**k them selves...!!
It's looking as though these proposals will go through. Weren't they first mooted about a year ago? I remember Steve Avory writing an article in which he was extremely concerned about the future of our Academy if and when they happened. There won't really be much point in the lower clubs having an Academy, they'll just be living off the richer clubs' scraps. And to them that hath it shall be given........................
another stupid idea and more clubs like mine will go to the wall just to feed the premier league fat cats
absolute lunacy, the lower league clubs should have taken a stand against the Premier League but rolled over again just like they did with the new parachute payment offer you can bet your bottom dollar the 22 clubs who voted against them the majority of them are ex-Premier League clubs barring 1 or 2 smaller teams sticking to there guns just like the rule of 7 subs being cut to 5 just so yet again the lower league teams can save themselves a few quid with 2 less subs to pay expenses for on those long distance away games this new rule really goes against everything the club stands for, we have an acadamy which the new owners may not be keen on forking out £1m a year on only to get a tube of smarties back for the next Jenkinson we produce. We have a long history of producing players good enough to grace all 4 leagues in the country if its going to be so cheap for the big clubs to pay out compensation whats to stop them nabbing 10 of our best youngsters for say £10,000 apiece £100k total and if only 1 of them makes it they still got themselves a bargain. The ones that don't make it they then release as there scraps before the next tier of clubs has a look at them. it's almost like the schoolyard bully stealing someone's lunch and then only handing it back if they don't like the look of it you can bet the next step will be for lower league clubs to agree to become feeder clubs for the big clubs for example Man Utd could secure the future of Rochdale and Bury and keep them in business in exchange being able to pick off any decent youngster they may produce, may sound far fetched but I wouldn't be surprised to see plans like this surface one day the quicker we get out of this league and hopefully back into the Premier League where we can vote against stupid rules being introduced and help keep some sanity in the game the better
If we were in the Premier League why would we want to vote against the rules? It's the old, old, story, just look at politicians to see what I mean. I've always said it, Sky bankrolled the PL and they have ruined football.
WSW because traditonally certainly under Peter Varney's watch he's always publicly spoken out as being against these kind of measures that have been introduced and so long as he always practiced what he preached it'd be another voice sticking up for the values of the game
I would like the club to declare its position on this (on the OS), if I'm right and they voted no (which makes sense as we just fought to keep Paul Hart in charge of the academy), I'd like to get their understanding on what this will mean for the future of youth development at the club. If by any chance they voted for it, I'd like to know why and what the general mood at the meeting was like from a club's perspective.
I wouldnt be surprised if this was mentioned on the first page of the Programme tomorrow South Coast Addick. In regards to the Feeder club idea Moutinho i think Bury already have the "welling link" with Manchester United its probably why FC United ground share with Bury
