Letter in the NLP

Quoted from Paris Mariner

The problem isn't promotion and relegation. The problem is that the FA, clubs and players have got their heads buried in the and regarding wages. If clubs were run properly with in their means clubs wouldn't go to the wall and the sporting hierarchy would naturally sort itself out.

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Quoted from Paris Mariner

The problem isn't promotion and relegation. The problem is that the FA, clubs and players have got their heads buried in the and regarding wages. If clubs were run properly with in their means clubs wouldn't go to the wall and the sporting hierarchy would naturally sort itself out.

David Moyes has a few ideas regards this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17249760

I know he is talking about the EPL but the idea/principle could filter down the levels.

Quoted from 2578

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

Very rearly do I watch mod the program lost its appeal to me when they forgot there was something other then the prem I subscribe to sky more for the plastic scouse in my house but do admit to watching the Sunday tea time game but little else

Quoted from 2578

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.

You mean the likes of Wigan , Chelmsford and Yeovil replacing teams like Bradford PA , Gateshead and Barrow ?

Does the criteria of quality of stadium still apply? I hope it does could you imagine the grounds like alferton Braintree and tamworth attracting large away followings on a regular basis

While I think the suggestion this letter appears to be making, from the summary posted here, is a horrendous one, it does touch on a point about league restructuring which has been in obvious need of consideration for some years now. When we were down at Nene Park in November, a Kettering fan said to us that, whereas they were a big non-league club not that long ago, all they can now hope to do is survive in the Conference each season. I think the same is true for all the clubs in the Conference who have not either recently dropped out of the Football League or are not being bankrolled like Fleetwood and Crawley.

In the short-term, a third promotion place would help to tackle the issue. In the longer term, however, we need to look at restructuring the leagues. Unfortunately, however, I suspect that will only happen if or when Premier League 2 is ever formed and the trickle-down effect from that is felt.

Quoted from rancido

You mean the likes of Wigan , Chelmsford and Yeovil replacing teams like Bradford PA , Gateshead and Barrow ?

You would honestly call wigan and yeovil pub teams? really?? and as for chelmsford they play in the conference south where they belong  

Quoted from 2578

You would honestly call wigan and yeovil pub teams? really?? and as for chelmsford they play in the conference south where they belong  

Every team should be where they are on merit. Attendances shouldn't even come into the equation

if memory serves me right town were saved from dropping out of the fl when we finished bottom of the old 4th division and were re-elected due to the fact that the top non league teams ground was not good enough.
i think promotion and relegation should be based purely on merit otherwise where is the incentive? and once we get out of this god awful league hopefully it wont concern us.

Didn't Wigan get sub 2k crowds 15 years ago?