Quote: Uncle Rico "Crickey Charlie, why not look at it as 6 teams get 'promoted'? Could perhaps work if the 20 teams all benefit from regular Sky payments and the difference is made up from additional performance related pay...prize money. get promoted to SL1 have a boost. Get relegated to SL2 your basic money is safe. What did they do in Cricket?
Not sure how play offs will work depends on number of rounds, could trhe winner of SL2 play the bottom of SL1 in a play off. hasnt Thelonius Monk previously advocated split leagues and a spiced up play off system?
There's all sorts of possibilities, at least he recognises that there are problems that need to be addressed? We need to keep the game interesting without being so radical it becomes a joke.
Anyway get back to your decorating ha ha'"
I am having a comfort break from my painting. Or, to be really honest, the wife has gone out shopping and left me unsupervised.
At the moment, I think each SL club gets 1.1M. If we have 20 clubs all in SL but split into two divisions, it would mean each club got 330k less. And the changes to the youth system were primarily implemented to save clubs like Cas 100k. So the loss of 330k would be a big blow for a lot of clubs. At the moment, I can not get my head around where this ££ will come from ? I mean all 20 clubs would need to field SL standard players in order to compete surely ?, so the wage bill for clubs like Leigh, Fax, Fev and Barrow will have to be paid from where ? Or have I misunderstood. Has the paint solvent addled my brain.