Brighton only club to vote against home-grown rule

[wehatepalace]

What exactly has it got to do with Dick Tight ? What are his qualifications in football ?
Surely it should be down to the football professionals on the staff to say not some potless pillock whose only expertise is selling womens bras (and probably wearing them too).

Ernest, the REAL voice of the ARS

 

[Pavilionaire]

Dick Knight, clearly buoyed by the Falmer construction, is BANG on form once more.

Silly suggestion, right response. Well done, Dick!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I thought that the original concept of this ruling was to increase the number of indigenous players in the matchday squad season by season. Starting with 4 , 5 the following season and ending up with 6. Sepp Blatter came up with the idea and FIFA want to introduce it , so the Premier will have to conform eventually.

 

[London Calling]

othersports have quota's so why doesn't football?

 

[Man of Harveys]

i was just going to write something similar

 

[Giraffe]

This is a DK PR exercise.

Once the rule is in then it will be easier to raise the number. DK should have supported it but still pointed out it needs to go much further.

Bit daft to actually vote against it as it is still a step in the right direction.

 

[The Large One]

This is a DK PR exercise.

Once the rule is in then it will be easier to raise the number. DK should have supported it but still pointed out it needs to go much further.

Bit daft to actually vote against it as it is still a step in the right direction.

Why do you say it's a PR exercise when you disagree with what he did?

To my mind, he voted the way he felt. The fact he was on his own is a different matter.

I'd say the opposite to your point. Once the four-player quota is in, I think the clubs will rest on their laurels and not bother to vote for an increase. For the sake of this argument, if they wanted a six-player quota, why didn't they vote for that?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Why do you say it's a PR exercise when you disagree with what he did?

To my mind, he voted the way he felt. The fact he was on his own is a different matter.

I'd say the opposite to your point. Once the four-player quota is in, I think the clubs will rest on their laurels and not bother to vote for an increase. For the sake of this argument, if they wanted a six-player quota, why didn't they vote for that?

Totally agree. The relevant authorities would say they have done there bit. By voting against it, he is saying that this new rule is not good enough.

 

[Sheebo]

In the rest of the report it says one of our youngsters is being tapped up by 3 prem league clubs - anyone know who the player is and wich clubs r poaching?

 

[Sheebo]

Sorry - just seen other thread...! It is Friday!

 

[sir albion]

This is another case of mr knight can't do anything wrong
Fact is he should have voted yes as it is a tiny step forward

 

[Acker79]

At first glance, there would seem to be few negatives in the plan announced by Lord Mawhinney, chairman of the Football League, to introduce quotas of four home-grown players in every match-day 16, starting next season. Look closer, though, and wonder.

The rule would make no impression at all on clubs in the two lowest divisions, who already comply, and would affect only a handful of clubs in the Coca-Cola Championship, mainly those who have just arrived from the Barclays Premier League or have ambitions to join it.

So Reading have a lot of foreign players, as do Queens Park Rangers. The rest, not so much. The starting team put out by Wolverhampton Wanderers, the league leaders, against Sheffield United had seven Englishmen, two Irishmen and two Scotsmen; United had seven Englishmen, two Irishmen and one each from Scotland and Wales. Not a player from outside Great Britain and Ireland in either starting lineup.

The Football League is rightly proud that 14 of the 23 England players in Berlin to play Germany last month were products of Football League clubs. Even a sure-fire future England player, Jack Wilshere, spent his earliest years at Luton Town before moving into Arsenal’s academy system. So because no real problem exists, is this whole scheme not more grandstanding from a politician keen to attach his name to a populist cause and to score a point off the Premier League, which opposes the quota system?

In almost every area of Mawhinney’s jurisdiction his regulation will be meaningless. “We believe it is time for the Football League to make an unequivocal statement,” Mawhinney said. For “the Football League”, read “me”.

By Martin Samuel http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/martin_samuel/article5364942.ece

 

[Barrel of Fun]

This is another case of mr knight can't do anything wrong
Fact is he should have voted yes as it is a tiny step forward

Sir Albion passing off opinion as fact and having a dig at Dick Knight and those that happen to agree with him. You would do well to read the Martin Samuel article below. This man has spoken sense for a long long time.

 

[Djmiles]

This is another case of mr knight can't do anything wrong
Fact is he should have voted yes as it is a tiny step forward

Why vote yes for something you don't think is right? Perhaps DK is the only one who doesn't have his head up Mawhinney's arse.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Why vote yes for something you don't think is right? Perhaps DK is the only one who doesn't have his head up Mawhinney's arse.

Exactly.

What would have happened if everybody voted for it? By someone voting against the motion, it will and has created a discussion about the merits of the proposed rule.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

sir albion is an absolute f***ing spastic. Knight is spot on.

 

[Acker79]

Voted no because it doesnt go far enough...eh? surely not far enough is better than nothing at all??

People will either support 10 home grown players or they won't. They're not going to be opposed to it one season then the following year say "well... the rule currently says 4, might as well make it 10, eh?" especially when the rule for 4 only passed because it didn't change anything.

The rule itself isn't the problem.

People are voting for it for appearances only. No one is voting it in as a first step, no one wants the rule to say 10 home grown players.

There is also the general social/political idea that some people are simply opposed to unnecessary rules or regulation. We should have as much as is necessary then just leave it. This is not necessary.