British Super League

[kev]

I think penalising teams for fielding weakened teams is a bit wrong. It is the managers choice, often a manager is judged on how he performs in the league primarily and everything else is secondary. So if the manager decides to prioritise the league, it should be up to them. Also I don't think any of us want to see players picking up more injuries because the club will be fined if they don't play

If it was Everton in the Champions league and we needed to win 1 game to get in the last 16 of the champions league and 2 days before we were playing in the 3rd round of the FA Cup, I would imagine that the side that turned up to the FA Cup game would be a mixture of experienced fringe players and u23s at best.

We'll just have to agree to disagree on the highlighted part.
In my opinion it is disrespectful and just devalues a competition. If you don't intend on doing your vey best to win a competition then don't enter.
As I said, I would rather clubs be given the choice of paying to withdraw and adding to the prize pot.

 

[emir]

I think if the 6 Premier league teams had left, this could have been a thing. But now that's not happening, it doesn't make sense.

If 6 teams had left it would have been a sort of "damage control" phase for the Premier league. How do you replace 6 teams?

One way to do that could have been to add some of the Scottish teams and you could do that without the normal promotion and relegation.

I think if the league was down to 14 teams, you could add 2 Scottish teams and 4 championship teams.

You could even go further and add the top 6 from SPL into the EPL, I'm not sure outside of the top 2 in Scotland the others have a global draw.

As it stands, with the 6 staying, it makes no sense to add the Scottish teams. The Premier league is a strong league and the argument will be that the Scottish teams have not earnt a place in the Premier league

Yes the Premier League is the strongest league in the world currently but the power is a bit lopsided. There are a lot of dry fixtures in the league such as "WBA vs Brighton", which draw very little interest outside of these fanbases and these clubs aren't necessarily competitive either. Norwich have been promoted this year and you could bet your house, they'll be the first club to be relegated next season. I think the Premier League is still a great league but there needs to be some tweaking and it needs to evolve to a certain degree. Plus, once the teams have played around 60% of their games, a lot of games become glorified friendlies because certain teams can't get relegated, get top 4 or any of the European spots. Teams like Soton, Wolves, Villa, etc have nothing to play for currently.

This new Super League proposed would pretty much solve everything that is pulling down the entertainment value of the Premier League currently.

 

[Lee Smith]

Always thought totally merging the English and Scottish league pyramids together would be a good idea, but then I remember what idiots we have running our game, and that Plymouth Argyle v Elgin City on a Wednesday evening isn’t that favourable for the match going fans

 

[emir]

Rangers & Celtic are Championship level clubs. Would be pointless.

You obviously don't know your stuff. With the extra income of being in the Premier League and receiving the enormous TV money pay-out, coupled with their gigantic fanbase, they'd be knocking on the doors of the top 6 clubs, no doubt. Clubs like Celtic and Rangers have a much bigger fanbase than Spurs, already.

 

[OneTrueLegend]

We'll just have to agree to disagree on the highlighted part.
In my opinion it is disrespectful and just devalues a competition. If you don't intend on doing your vey best to win a competition then don't enter.
As I said, I would rather clubs be given the choice of paying to withdraw and adding to the prize pot.

I think managers would look at it a different way, they would always want to win every game, but they have to balance a mix of different things. We cant always field the same 11 players, we need to give the u23 players experience in real games and we need to keep the fringe players match fit and sharp. Plus all of the managers will have targets from the Board or Chief Executive and these will be around the league first and foremost because it has the biggest impact financially. We may not like it, because we want to see Everton win a competition.

 

[Alan Whittle]

Yes the Premier League is the strongest league in the world currently but the power is a bit lopsided. There are a lot of dry fixtures in the league such as "WBA vs Brighton", which draw very little interest outside of these fanbases and these clubs aren't necessarily competitive either. Norwich have been promoted this year and you could bet your house, they'll be the first club to be relegated next season. I think the Premier League is still a great league but there needs to be some tweaking and it needs to evolve to a certain degree. Plus, once the teams have played around 60% of their games, a lot of games become glorified friendlies because certain teams can't get relegated, get top 4 or any of the European spots. Teams like Soton, Wolves, Villa, etc have nothing to play for currently.

This new Super League proposed would pretty much solve everything that is pulling down the entertainment value of the Premier League currently.

 

[longers]

Why any Everton fan would want Rangers or Celtic in the same league I don't know, both huge clubs who would compete in top half of the league with access to the same revenue as other premier league clubs.

With the extra income of being in the Premier League and receiving the enormous TV money pay-out, coupled with their gigantic fanbase, they'd be knocking on the doors of the top 6 clubs, no doubt.

You're consistently wrong about just about everything but with this post it seems you've finally lucked out on being correct about something.

Dunno about Celtic and Rangers having more fans than Spurs though. Spurs have huge fanbase locally and way more fans abroad.

 

[wandyr79]

Yes the Premier League is the strongest league in the world currently but the power is a bit lopsided. There are a lot of dry fixtures in the league such as "WBA vs Brighton", which draw very little interest outside of these fanbases and these clubs aren't necessarily competitive either. Norwich have been promoted this year and you could bet your house, they'll be the first club to be relegated next season. I think the Premier League is still a great league but there needs to be some tweaking and it needs to evolve to a certain degree. Plus, once the teams have played around 60% of their games, a lot of games become glorified friendlies because certain teams can't get relegated, get top 4 or any of the European spots. Teams like Soton, Wolves, Villa, etc have nothing to play for currently.

This new Super League proposed would pretty much solve everything that is pulling down the entertainment value of the Premier League currently.

This is what you truly believe?

One of the most arrogant posts I have ever read. Who are you to say that these clubs don't deserve to be there.

I am absolutely positive that the Super League would not be the entertainment fest you think it is. Give me a relegation battle where both teams are playing for their lives over a game that has been played 10 times in 3/4 years with no jeopardy whatsoever. Yes, the middle of the league have not much to play for but think about it. At this stage in the Super League it is very likely that there will be 18 out of the 20 with nothing to play for. So your argument will still be the same but with a higher percentage of these so called glorified friendlies.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Sorry but i just don't want the nonsense that comes with both of those clubs and their fanbases in our league.

 

[royalblue66]

Sorry but i just don't want the nonsense that comes with both of those clubs and their fanbases in our league.

Quite right.

 

[magicjuan]

Is this the FC Farage fan page?

 

[centraltoffee]

Just when I'm getting over that stupid European league now there is rumours of a British super league. First I'm up in Edinburgh but don't watch scottish football but if celtic and rangers went down to England again it would be for money. Why doesn't the English f.a. try and sit down with all the club owners and work out a new system maybe even tell all the big club's to field all under 23s in that tournament that way youngster's are getting the experience before moving up to the first team

 

[malfosse]

Ridiculous idea, but I think Captain Hendo, King Kenny and the Merseyside reds will stop it from happening.

 

[Papa Shango]

The only way it could (or should) happen is if there is a total merger otherwise it would make Celtic and Rangers no better than the six snakes just chasing the money.

It can be done, Germany had to do it when the re-unified, Celtic and Rangers (I guess) could go in the top flight (not that they deserve to) Aberdeen and Hibs or whoever can go into the championship and all the rest slot in accordingly. The only issue would be there would be an awful lot of Scottish League sides filtering into non league football.

People will point to the Benelux league but that isn't the same system, that's a split between the Netherlands and Belgium with promotion from the two national leagues for those left behind. (Luxembourg should form a team and demand to be in the top flight, one club and chuck loads of money at it...)

I reckon this type of thing is going to crop up a lot in the future as clubs struggle to stay afloat due to the power of the greedy bastards at the top. Austria and Switzerland, A Scandi league, Poland and Ukraine etc.

 

[Papa Shango]

Why any Everton fan would want Rangers or Celtic in the same league I don't know, both huge clubs who would compete in top half of the league with access to the same revenue as other premier league clubs.



You're consistently wrong about just about everything but with this post it seems you've finally lucked out on being correct about something.

Dunno about Celtic and Rangers having more fans than Spurs though. Spurs have huge fanbase locally and way more fans abroad.

None of those three are THAT big abroad.

Rangers and Celtic have ex-pat supporters which is not quite the same thing. They obviously have a lot of local support (I say local, there is some major glory hunting going on in Scotland) but the fans abroad are mostly just people who would support them anyway.

I have never seen an overseas Spurs fan to be honest! I'm sure they exist but there isn't loads of them or anything.