Letter in the NLP

Quoted from 2578

By setting a 2500 average minimum Crawley would then have has to give insentives to the local public to draw them in and raise the gate, reduced ticket prices etc, after all it's not like they couldn't afford to.

So does that mean, based on your logic, that the likes of Wigan, Swansea etc. shouldn't be in the Premier League because they don't get the same attendance figures as United, Arsenal, Newcastle etc.?! Preventing a team from going up because of their fan base is ridiculous. As LH said, would you object to us not getting promoted to the Premier League because of our inevitably poor attendance figures compared to other teams in that division?

Quoted from Theimperialcoroner

Next thing is you'll have the Premier League clubs not wanting smaller teams in their little cartel. Football must always be a meritocracy, otherwise it just becomes a contrived gameshow. NFL anyone? thought not.

As much as I'd love to see town in the premiership, it would be pretty embarrassing seeing 8000 in the premier league, they would rightly refuse entry in my opinion if we ever got promoted. We would tarnish a great product.

So to follow this argument to it's natural conclusion, only the team with the highest attendance can win the premier league and the highest in Europe can win the champions league? What a strange argument to be in favour of.

This letter (which I read), would represent the decline of football in this country.

Even if we would gain in the short-term.  Can you see us ever getting into the Championship on the same "crowd" criteria?

Looking at the standard of grounds is a different matter where there is a future risk to crowd safety.

Quoted from 2578

As much as I'd love to see town in the premiership, it would be pretty embarrassing seeing 8000 in the premier league, they would rightly refuse entry in my opinion if we ever got promoted. We would tarnish a great product.

Take issue with your comment great product the prem leaves me cold bunch of foreign celebrities who don't give a intercourse for the fans only the number of zeros on the payslip and the number of cars in the garage give me fl all the time

Obviously the teams with poor gates are doing something right - on and off the pitch, were as the teams with bigger gates are not good enough.

What is needed would be to increase the amount of automatic promotion places to 2 - 3 and one place decided via the playoffs.

Would be totally wrong to control who is in which divisions, it's abit like the Premiership becoming exclusive with no relegation places, even Alex Ferguson disagreed with the idea.

Remember when we was in the Championship, Trevor Francis the t*** moaning about going to likes of Grimsby when he was Birmingham manager, makes it all that better when you beat a bigger club.

Agree with if your not good enough then relegation is your fate but believe the way back should be easier 3up 3 down

Quoted from crusty ole pie

Take issue with your comment great product the prem leaves me cold bunch of foreign celebrities who don't give a intercourse for the fans only the number of zeros on the payslip and the number of cars in the garage give me fl all the time

i feel the same way but dont try and tell me you never watch MOTD?

Horrible idea.  Football would be so boring, depressing and predictable without the underdogs.

Quoted from Biccys

So to follow this argument to it's natural conclusion, only the team with the highest attendance can win the premier league and the highest in Europe can win the champions league? What a strange argument to be in favour of.

Bit of the mark there I  didn't imply that, My point is to be in the football league carries status and by allowing pub teams that only a few hundred people care about to replace traditional founder member clubs just seems wrong to me.