FryattFox
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When we were last in the Prem, place money amounted to about £350k per position. I'm sure it will be a greater amount now; this is what they would be fighting for.
For 2010/11 it was £0.5m.
When we were last in the Prem, place money amounted to about £350k per position. I'm sure it will be a greater amount now; this is what they would be fighting for.
Aha. I see...and agree.
I wonder who people would like to see locked away in that league if it shut? I'd like Swansea back, Norwich can stay and Leeds can get promoted.
It just seems a bit weird that if it happened a few years back we could have been 'locked' in League 1.
Part of me hopes this will happen. Then I can turn my back on the game and save a couple of grand a year
I think I would too. Or at least drop a few rungs down the footballing ladder and start supporting a non-league side. If this happens, it'll have to be one of the biggest dick moves in football history, purely motivated by greed and symbolising everything that is wrong with the game today. These foreign investors want the financial benefits of the PL for them, their companies and their sponsors without the drawback of having to invest heavily in players and coaches to stay in the league. ****s. The lot of them.
Surely our owners are looking for the same thing too.....?
Well, I'm not trying to tar all foreign owners with the same brush, some of them are in it for the right reasons.
Introduce the Euro league - say farewell to the wanker clubs and start again without them.
Failing that, sit back and wait as football continues its journey up its own arse.
It's gone so far I don't think football can get much further on that path, half of the problem is that the owners are running out of new ideas for ways to dick the fans over
I don't believe that for a second - especially when there's people who believe Top is doing it for the right reasons.
Interesting stuff.& whilst I'm fascinated by some of the opinions expressed here I thought I might weigh in with a moderate & considered response:
Any sport that,even for a second,moots the possibility of success (relative or otherwise) being decided by anything other than the ability to perform on the field of play has ceased to be a sport.
It is a chimp orgy.
A bunch of cowardly,greedy,soulless bastards grasping for cash & prestige without the merit of having earned it.Without regard to history,fair play & every sporting principle known to man.
The playing field is already ludicrously & deliberately skewed in favour of the big fish & now the medium fish want to be protected too.
Screw them & the horses they rode in on.
Anyone who even suggests this ludicrous idea with even a vague semblance of being serious about it should be hung,drawn,quartered,defecated upon & subsequently reanimated Frankenstein style & made to sit in a chair with their eyes stapled open to watch untold hours of American TV Evangelists at full volume whilst being simultaneously arse raped with a large unlubricated dildo coated with Ebola virus.
Either that or a stiff fine for bringing the game into disrepute.
I'm glad you told us your response was going to be moderate. I would never have realised otherwise.
Exactly. The current title contenders would remain as they are, there'd be nothing for the other 17 teams to play for other than cash.Scrapping relegation would make the Premier League much less interesting for the neutral fans and reduce it's earning potential, with no threat of relegation there would be no 'relegation 6 pointers' to liven up lower table clashes and thus half of the matches most weekends would have very little pull. If there was less excitement the big TV deals would dry up and the smaller teams would end up with less and less money, the big 4-6 (or however many you want to put in there) would use it to break the collective rights deal and take all the TV cash themselves as Barca and Real do in Spain. Just shows how thick the owners of our 'Top' clubs are. They hardly lose out now with 4 years of relegation payments if they yo-yo between PL and the Championship.
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Leicester | 46 | 97 |
2 | Ipswich | 46 | 96 |
3 | Leeds Utd | 46 | 90 |
4 | Southampton | 46 | 87 |
5 | West Brom | 46 | 75 |
6 | Norwich City | 46 | 73 |
7 | Hull City | 46 | 70 |
8 | Middlesbro | 46 | 69 |
9 | Coventry City | 46 | 64 |
10 | Preston | 46 | 63 |
11 | Bristol City | 46 | 62 |
12 | Cardiff City | 46 | 62 |
13 | Millwall | 46 | 59 |
14 | Swansea City | 46 | 57 |
15 | Watford | 46 | 56 |
16 | Sunderland | 46 | 56 |
17 | Stoke City | 46 | 56 |
18 | QPR | 46 | 56 |
19 | Blackburn | 46 | 53 |
20 | Sheffield W | 46 | 53 |
21 | Plymouth | 46 | 51 |
22 | Birmingham | 46 | 50 |
23 | Huddersfield | 46 | 45 |
24 | Rotherham Utd | 46 | 27 |