Should the Football League break away from the Premiershite?

[Mr Popkins]

with the premiershite becoming more and more difficult to survive in for Promoted teams ,should the Football league break away?

I am thinking more and more that we should.

I like being a club which has not many plastic fans, not paying over inflated prices for players ,and our games not being on TV every other week.

whats our your thoughts?

discuss.

 

[Tooting Gull]

How can you break away from something you're not a member of?

 

[Mr Popkins]

i mean no promotion into or relegation from the premiershite.

 

[dunno]

I thought the Football League had broken away from The Premiership (or rather the other way around). They are two different leagues completely - run by two completely separate governing bodies.

However I know what you mean and although it's a good point - I don't agree. Despite the problems associated with clubs trying to survive in the Premiership and the even greater problems for the clubs that are relegated back again, you have to have something to aspire to.

Ultimately we want the Albion to compete with the best in the land (again) to be recognised as one of the top clubs. We also want a goal. The short term goal is promotion back to Div 1, the mid-term goal is Falmer, however the long term goal is compete with the best in the country and, eventually, in Europe - no matter crazy that seems at the moment as we prepare for trips to the likes of Oldham aand Chesterfield.

Unfortunately the only way to realise these dreams is to try to gain promotion to the Premiership.

The Premiership is changing anyway - you will always get the top clubs with money to burn - The Man U's and Chelseas. However the other clubs are finding it harder to survive - the Premiership by design is almost splitting into two.

 

[Simster]

i mean no promotion into or relegation from the premiershite.

How is that going to improve anything though? As it stands, you could always refuse to take your place in the top flight anyway. Alternatively, just refuse to cave in unreasonable wage demands. That's what Bolton & Charlton have done - and West Brom, and I reckon West Brom could now easily go back up.

 

[jimmy hill's chin]

The Premiership is changing anyway - you will always get the top clubs with money to burn - The Man U's and Chelseas. However the other clubs are finding it harder to survive - the Premiership by design is almost splitting into two.

he's got a point the so called big clubs are falling apart look at the trouble leeds had last season and west ham finally got relegated as well most be one of the only premiship clubs to fight a relegation battle every season and this time they lost

 

[Tooting Gull]

I've got a lot of sympathy for the sentiments which may lie behind this question (Premiership are a bunch of self-interested twats who have lost all sense of the greater good of the game), but what would the Nationwide be 'threatening' exactly? 'We're going to withdraw the right of our clubs to err get promoted, and the right of your clubs to get relegated. You keep all the money, in perpetuity.' How's that going to change anything?

 

[Brovion]

I can see a bit of wierd logic in this. It is always assumed that the Football League want to hang onto the coat-tails of the Premiership but that may not be the case.

If the Premiership became a sealed competiton with no relegation it would immediately become as interesting as old-style County Cricket. By October it would be obvious who would be challenging for the title (if it wasn't already obvious before a ball was kicked) and who would be the also-rans. That would mean that 90% of the rest of the season would be a series of meaningless friendlies with nothing on the results. To maintain the excitement the Premiership needs relegation as much as clubs like West Ham and Sunderland need an automatic route back.

So have the Football League got a secret weapon in the battle to get a bigger slice of the cake? Sadly I don't think so. If the FL threatened not to allow 'their' clubs to be promoted then the Premiership may well just invite the top ones to join anyway whilst booting out the clubs who finished bottom. The FL would probably take these clubs as it would enhance their own competition, to say nothing of replacing the clubs who resigned.

Food for thought though.

 

[dunno]

So have the Football League got a secret weapon in the battle to get a bigger slice of the cake? Sadly I don't think so. If the FL threatened not to allow 'their' clubs to be promoted then the Premiership may well just invite the top ones to join anyway whilst booting out the clubs who finished bottom. The FL would probably take these clubs as it would enhance their own competition, to say nothing of replacing the clubs who resigned.

Food for thought though. [/B][/QUOTE]

It would also give what the big clubs and The Premiership what they want - Premiership Div 1 & 2

 

[Storer68]

The Premiership don't want a Premiership Div 1 and 2.

They want a closed Premiership consistting of team that they deem big enough to be a part of it.