The FA 'shaking up' football again

No Vikings either. We want Anglo-Saxon owners.

 

Devil is in the details on this one. It could work, but it will depend on how they set it up. Knowing the FA, they'll set it up in a ridiculous fashion that won't work.

 

Only blood decendents of the Iceni should be allowed to own clubs, IMO.

 

The loan system would work better if clubs were only allowed to loan out players to clubs in a lower league.

 

B teams is an awful idea

My 3 point plan:

Re-instate reserve team football with regional leagues
Scrap the U21 league
Unlimited loans under 23 years old, but no more than 2 from any one club and picked on a draft basis (so no unofficial B teams can be created)

 

You're not the only one to suggest this but as you're the easiest to quote I'll use you.

The reserves leagues went because the PL and Championship clubs no longer wanted them. The standard was crap, very few people went and little was gained by the players taking part either with respect to fitness or experience being gained. The massive rise in loans over the last decade meant reserves games became little more than children from the academy playing with the odd outcast senior pro. I don't see why bringing them back will help anything and even if they did come back clubs like Watford wouldn't participate anyway.

 

FA PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
Initial Pre-Interview Questionnaire For Prospective Football Managers (English League)

QUESTION 1
How did you travel to today's interview?
a) Driving an Audi. Reflecting the FA's core values of integrity, reliability, endurance and relying on superior foreign imports to build success.
b) Public transport. So I can gauge and interact with the club's support and hopefully spot some sort of middle-class enclave / suburb where I can live and isolate myself and my family from the proles who support this team.
c) A horse-drawn chariot with great big blades attached to the wheels.

QUESTION 2
What do you believe is appropriate headgear for match days
a) A trilby sourced from a "Gentlemens Outfitters" to give me an air of classic honesty and timeless trustworthiness. If I fail it gives headline writers in the tabloids to come up with such original ideas as "**** in a Hat".
b) A baseball cap covered in the club sponsors' logos - indicating that I have a full awareness of "The Game's" (TM) ability to both provide an entertainment product and prostitute itself to anyone, anywhere.
c) Something in metal with animal horns attached.

 

Agreed, and it makes a lot more sense sense to me than this new idea!

Personally I can't understand why they got rid of it in the first place?

Furthermore, to incorporate the idea of such a league being used to help develop English talent, the minimum 6 home grown player rule for the match-day squad could be simply reversed so that only a maximum of 6 foreign players could be used in the match-day squad, or even less?

 

See my last post!

 

Maybe what you say was so, but with some sort of modifications along the lines I have suggested, I still think they would be better than the new league idea to be positioned between league two and the conference!

 

Doubt this will work as intended. And by intended I mean in the same sinister way that the FA runs most of their projects.

Take Leicester for example.I bet they would pay more in wages than Man Utd B. And itd be worth it as they can get a £100m for doing so. Any prem team, from a financial point of view, would be onto a loser. The biggest reward is a bit of TV revenue and not having their kids wages paid by us.

 

Urgghh.

What a clueless, parasitic little man Greg **** is.

English football is going backwards with the likes of him in the FA fellating Richard Scudamore and ripping off ideas which Spain came up with over a decade ago.

 

From BBC Sport:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27327502

Basically, according to the FA, the Premier League needs more English players but it's not the Premier League's responsibility to cultivate them - that's down to the lower leagues. No doubt there will be plans drafted that see rules brought in for English players to have transfer fees capped so that they can only move to the Premier League for so much money. I ****ing hate this proposed system - the FA are like the Tories of football.

 

This benefits nobody but Premier League clubs. Greedy, selfish and utter stupid. The power was given to them during the whole EPPP debate, they pretty much held the Football League to ransom over that.

"Hey guys, we're going to nick all your players, pay you peanuts, stick them in our academies and then 3 or 4 years down the line we're going to change all the rules so that YOU have to play them because we have no room for them but want more English players in our top leagues"

 

**** idea which only benefits the big clubs. It'd further encourage the big clubs to hoover any talent and would mean the other clubs who rely on loans would be ****ed.

What would happen if a team did a wolves or a portsmouth? Like portsmouth, went from PL to league 2 in a matter of season, but they could still have a B team in league 1?

 

I've just signed this petition against it:

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/the-football-association-say-no-to-b-teams

 

Disgusting. **** the FA and **** the England team.

 

Hang on because it doesn't have to be a disaster for the other non league clubs that you all suppose. If for example the conference was the highest they could go there would be nothing to stop the highest placed non affiliated clubs being promoted it their place. It is worthy of discussion and should benefit this country's young talent, isn't that what it's all about? Clubs adversely affected by it's introduction could be easily compensated by most clubs coming in or the PL itself.

 

signed.

 

If it means Luton are sent back to the conference I am actually in favour of a B team replacing them in league 2

 

"The most controversial proposal would be establishing a new League Three in 2016-17, made up of 10 Premier League B teams and 10 Football Conference sides.

B teams could be promoted and relegated between Leagues One, Two and Three and the Conference, but could not play in the Championship and must always be at least one division below the full side."


Erm... So what happens when Man City inevitably finish top of League 1?

 

The highest the B teams could go would be League One, according to the proposals.

 

Oh I didn't realise, that's definitely a bit too close to us for comfort. Nontheless if there is adequate compensation to the affected clubs I see little problem if :-

a) it is restricted to the youngsters, so is not just a reserve team and
b) the kids should eligible for England/Wales before their 21st birthday.

It's unlikely that many of these PL B teams could actually compete at the top of league 1 anyway.

 

This is unquestionably the worst idea ever proposed in history and driven by thinly veiled self-interest.

BUT... can you imagine Luton Town being denied promotion to the Championship after a heartbreaking 1-0 defeat at home to Watford B?

 

I doubt they'd let it affect promotions at the top level.

 

If they do what the Spanish league do, then they are effective ignored when it comes to promotions, and the next team below them take their place.

 

What an exciting prospect. I can't wait to see Man City lift league one every year.

 

#boycotttheFACUP

 

I agree, but reserve team football can't work when you have a huge number of substitutes on the bench. To stop clubs stockpiling, I'd like to see a maximum number of players that a club can loan out, no more than 4 subs on the bench (e.g. a keeper, defender, midfielder and attacker), and no loans between clubs in the same competition. Supposing Courtois had had a 'mare against Chelsea - the conspiracy theorists would have had a field day (apart from the arch-conspiracy theorist, Jose, who would have been enjoyably silent).

None of this will happen, though, as football is all about the big clubs that everyone's seen on the telly, even in Bangkok.

 

I don't like the sound of these 'strategic loan partnerships'