spintheblackcircle
incoming!!!
- Mar 1, 2002
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It will he a hard sell
Agreed. I doubt Championship teams will like the possibility of being in League One w/o being relegated. Eight teams from The National League would have to be promoted to League Three as well. The whole twenty team per league system seems kind of OCD.
It's ******** but does nothing but hurt lower league teams.
Why does it hurt the lower teams?
Losing more than a sixth of their season, first and foremost. 8 fewer games under the proposed model. It also means that in order to make those numbers each league would have to relegate a bunch of extra teams, which obviously means a huge hit in revenue for those teams.
I'd imagine you could also fix the lost revenue by slightly increasing the revenue share sent down by the PL, or keeping the overall amount sent to the Championship the same thus increasing the per team amount by 20%
Good luck getting the PL to agree to that.
Why does it hurt the lower teams?
Idea: Could they not just draft the current National League into the League system and make it League 3? What's stopping them from doing that as opposed to adding an entirely new step to the ladder?
and it could be viewed as a kick to the nards for teams relegated from National Division because they would not got to the new division but actual to the north or south division
also with 7 teams going down from the Champions division to League one that means 11 teams would go down from League one to League 2. Then 16 teams would go from League 2 to National Division. Only the top 4 teams from the National division would stay up and 20 teams would go down to the new division--with the bottom 2 going either North or South
7 teams from Championship to League One.
3 teams from League One to Championship.
12 teams from League One to League Two.
4 teams from League Two to League One.
12 teams from League Two to League Three.
8 teams from National League to League Three.