A solution to this B team Fiasco ?

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

[I want to see my grandchildren be able to watch Grimsby Town as a proud member of the Football League.

And if they asked you to take them to see town in a checkatrade game would you refuse to take them because of your own beliefs??....

Yes because I see my duty as a parent and a grandparent to educate. Once they reach maturity they will learn to read, weight up the information and then decided the EFL Trophy is a crazy idea!!!

Quoted from Cloudy

Yes because I see my duty as a parent and a grandparent to educate. Once they reach maturity they will learn to read, weight up the information and then decided the EFL Trophy is a crazy idea!!!

The exact reason I took my boy last night and a few others I spoke to at the game, but I believe by the time our kids and grandkids, respectively, have grown up don't you think the whole of the footballing landscape will have changed beyond all recognition of what we have now??...we can fight to maintain the history of the game but it moves on, sometimes we have to accept that the future of football is shifting, wether we like it or not..

There should be a cap on the number of young players that each academy can take, a cap on the number of seniors in a squad, and a requirement that each match day squad has an under 20 in it.

The bigger clubs simply horde talent these days to prevent other clubs from signing them and to see them on at a later date.

I agree that the days of a John Oster, Gary Croft etc are likely to get ever rarer in the current system.

Why don't Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool eff off and start a European league, then we can let 5 more teams into the league structure from below. They can please themselves what they do with their boatloads of cash in that instance.

Power and greed are human traits, so the rich won't be happy until they have everything. Remember when ITV Digital started throwing money around? Nearly bankrupted us that did.

Think on people.

When I wanted to take my lad to football when he was little, I took him to non-league games. Didn't stop him growing up as a Town fan. And he's big enough and ugly enough to tell me what he thinks now. So I don't hold with this argument that it's cheaper and the small crowds are less intimidating argument. If that's what you're concerned about get down to Clee, Louth or GY Boro.

Quoted from ginnywings

Why don't Man Utd, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool eff off and start a European league, then we can let 5 more teams into the league structure from below. They can please themselves what they do with their boatloads of cash in that instance.

I think that will happen before any B teams are allowed in the league.

The PL won't just let them intercourse off though, so who knows how long it would take. Also, hasn't the whole European Super League thing been mooted for about a quarter of a century now? The B teams are being trialled right now so I'd say there's a bigger chance of that being allowed to happen.

Quoted from Abdul19

The PL won't just let them intercourse off though, so who knows how long it would take. Also, hasn't the whole European Super League thing been mooted for about a quarter of a century now? The B teams are being trialled right now so I'd say there's a bigger chance of that being allowed to happen.

Spanish teams are about to play one fixture a season in the USA, and will compensate fans for travel and accommodation. It's all about TV money now and with the vast increases given to teams lately, I think it's inevitable that they will do whatever the TV companies want them to do. I think a European Super League is getting closer, because it's a big money spinner. A handful of teams are monopolising each nation, so they will go their own way eventually i feel.

Cut down on foreign players in these top teams then home grown youngsters would get the experience they need. There also used to be "reserve leagues"- where have they gone ?

As soon as the MSL develops into a league that can provide teams that can compete with the European teams there will be a world league . The potential for advertising with them involved would be huge and by then travel around the world will be a matter of hours .