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Post by Windmill Hill Gas on Apr 20, 2020 7:32:36 GMT
Regional Leagues sound like a good idea, but we haven't played the likes of Swansea, Bristol City, Swindon & Yeovil for years. Can you imagine having to play them all behind closed doors and trying to stop fans congregating! Nightmare
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Post by lpgas on Apr 20, 2020 10:35:04 GMT
I think it'll be fun to have rather than north and south leagues to have a temporary system of quartered leagues. e.g. south west, north west, south east, north east. Just as a one off to limit excessive travel (and thus spread of disease once it quietens down) Depending how it gets drawn up it could get interesting - could be us and city fighting it out for the south west! We are light years behind them
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Post by gas2 on Apr 20, 2020 10:42:48 GMT
League one and league two should be regnalised it would mean bigger home crowds more sales in bars and food sales
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Post by amgas on Apr 20, 2020 12:49:51 GMT
But would devalue the competition overall and make it less attractive to sponsors and TV. Any small increase in away attendances would easily be outweighed by loss of status and other revenues from it no longer being national league. In all honesty a trip to the likes of Plymouth which we would end up with is further than some of the teams who would not be in our region.
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Post by rememberhalifax on Apr 20, 2020 15:11:26 GMT
Well i never ! i posted an idea for regional competition on 'what would we sacrifice thread'. thought it much to radical for EFL but it seems they have been reading this forum and are going to pinch the idea and do me out of what's rightfully mine! tried re posting it on here but aint gotta clue so gave up, clever one feel free to do so if you wish, it was a bit of a fantasy but no worse than a lot of other stuff on here!!
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Post by gasandelectricity on Apr 20, 2020 15:52:05 GMT
I think it'll be fun to have rather than north and south leagues to have a temporary system of quartered leagues. e.g. south west, north west, south east, north east. Just as a one off to limit excessive travel (and thus spread of disease once it quietens down) Depending how it gets drawn up it could get interesting - could be us and city fighting it out for the south west! We are light years behind them Shrewsbury are aeons behind Liverpool yet they held them to a draw in the cup. I’d fancy our chances with the right management. With Garner in charge we’d get schooled by L2 opposition.
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Post by warehamgas on Apr 20, 2020 16:32:39 GMT
I think it'll be fun to have rather than north and south leagues to have a temporary system of quartered leagues. e.g. south west, north west, south east, north east. Just as a one off to limit excessive travel (and thus spread of disease once it quietens down) Depending how it gets drawn up it could get interesting - could be us and city fighting it out for the south west! We are light years behind them We might be, but over 90 minutes after this hiatus you never know. Players just coming back after little action for two months or so. But a long way to go before football restarts. UTG!
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Post by nsblue on Apr 20, 2020 16:56:16 GMT
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Post by nailseamark on Apr 20, 2020 19:36:18 GMT
Regionalise this with the lower leagues as well then we can Weymouth, Torquay, Truro, Eastleigh, Hereford. It would be a lot more fun then facing generic northern team number 5 and at the end of the day who doesn’t miss playing Torquay?
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Post by axegas on Apr 21, 2020 17:13:36 GMT
Regionalise this with the lower leagues as well then we can Weymouth, Torquay, Truro, Eastleigh, Hereford. It would be a lot more fun then facing generic northern team number 5 and at the end of the day who doesn’t miss playing Torquay? Had many great away day trips to Torquay and Hereford, both clubs I wouldn't mind seeing back in the league.
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Post by Feeling The Blues on Apr 21, 2020 22:14:42 GMT
I think someone else already suggested that we should abandon next season, but should complete this season whenever it's allowed. Totally unfair to deprive clubs of the chance to win promotion and titles given we're so far into 2019-20. The remaining time could be made up of one-off regional cup competitions. I'm sure a mini cup of South West clubs would be very popular, given the circumstances. Perhaps non League clubs could compete too. Torquay, Exeter, Plymouth, Yeovil, Bath City, Us, Them, FGR, Cheltenham, Weymouth, Swindon, and perhaps Bournemouth. And even Southampton and Pompey since they don't belong in the South East. A few tasty ties there. Plus Cardiff, Swansea and Newport and maybe Hereford FC
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Post by geoffeastville on Apr 21, 2020 22:57:53 GMT
I think someone else already suggested that we should abandon next season, but should complete this season whenever it's allowed. Totally unfair to deprive clubs of the chance to win promotion and titles given we're so far into 2019-20. The remaining time could be made up of one-off regional cup competitions. I'm sure a mini cup of South West clubs would be very popular, given the circumstances. Perhaps non League clubs could compete too. Torquay, Exeter, Plymouth, Yeovil, Bath City, Us, Them, FGR, Cheltenham, Weymouth, Swindon, and perhaps Bournemouth. And even Southampton and Pompey since they don't belong in the South East. A few tasty ties there. Plus Cardiff, Swansea and Newport and maybe Hereford FC Yes - the only fair way to od it.
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 22, 2020 8:54:48 GMT
Regionalised Leagues don't work. You see how they don't work in the restructuring of Non-League every year, for years Gloucester City and Oxford City were Conference North teams, the Southern League stretched from Cornwall to Norfolk not including London, Guernsey play in the Isthmian League, teams from the Isle of Wight have to make midweek journeys to Wiltshire and the only real reason for regionalism is to cut down on travel costs. Teams at our level are happily paying players £5,000 so the cost of a coach is neither here nor there. The problem clubs will be Peterborough, MK Dons, Northampton, Walsall, Coventry, Burton, Ipswich and potentially even Shrewsbury. You could make an argument that none of those would want to be in the North as it'll be a lot more "travel".
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Post by axegas on Apr 22, 2020 9:46:21 GMT
Why is Shrewsbury in the north and Burton in the south? Ridiculous really that a lot of the “northern” midland clubs will be far easier to get to than Southend or Gillingham. I would genuinely rather the season was postponed or delayed until 44 games in front of crowds could be played than have this.
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Post by Iliveinbidefordgas on Apr 22, 2020 9:57:55 GMT
Not keen on this regionalised would cause to many arguments who south who north 1 way of this maybe? Complete this season no Pre season next year But next season league games only cancel all cups for 1 season?
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Post by chewbacca on Apr 22, 2020 10:01:20 GMT
Why is Shrewsbury in the north and Burton in the south? Ridiculous really that a lot of the “northern” midland clubs will be far easier to get to than Southend or Gillingham. I would genuinely rather the season was postponed or delayed until 44 games in front of crowds could be played than have this. Exactly, it wouldn't work. It doesn't work a lot of the time in non-league because most leagues have about 100+ years of history as well and are unwilling to budge on things.
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Post by gas2 on Apr 22, 2020 10:42:58 GMT
Oh bring on those local derbys can't wait
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Post by Topper Gas on Apr 22, 2020 10:51:18 GMT
Not keen on this regionalised would cause to many arguments who south who north 1 way of this maybe? Complete this season no Pre season next year But next season league games only cancel all cups for 1 season? The problem with that is so many players contracts are up on June 31 I can see most L1/L2 clubs now being happy to Furlough their players til June then wave the out of contract players goodbye. Take Nichols as an good example why would we want to pay him £2K/£3K a week after June with virtually no income from iFollow if we played any games?
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Post by Iliveinbidefordgas on Apr 22, 2020 11:47:42 GMT
Not keen on this regionalised would cause to many arguments who south who north 1 way of this maybe? Complete this season no Pre season next year But next season league games only cancel all cups for 1 season? The problem with that is so many players contracts are up on June 31 I can see most L1/L2 clubs now being happy to Furlough their players til June then wave the out of contract players goodbye. Take Nichols as an good example why would we want to pay him £2K/£3K a week after June with virtually no income from iFollow if we played any games? [br I see what you saying but what ever they do some ones going to get upset that’s for sure one of thing is guaranteed it’s going to b interesting 🧐
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Post by Gasshole on Apr 22, 2020 12:00:18 GMT
Happy to play some Northern Slum Town in the Final.
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