A load of nonsense. Ask the likes of FGR, Exeter and Northampton players whether they would swap their top 3 spot for ours and I can guarantee every single player would not swap places.
Every professional surely wants to be a winner and have promotion on their CV's
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Professional footballers have relatively short careers. If they're playing regularly in the first team at 20 and play until they're 35, that's only 15 years. Factor in that they won't be earning premium salaries at the start and end of their playing days in the lower leagues. There's probably only around a decade where they can earn towards the top of the scale in each division.
Even if they were afraid that a promotion meant that they wouldn't be good enough for the league above. The fact that they'd got that club promoted would make them attractive to other clubs in that division that hoped to emulate what they'd just achieved. I think every player in every club wants to earn as much as they can for as long as they can. The only way they can hope to do that is by being consistently successful.
There's obviously other factors determining who they play for. Like where they and their family originate from geographically, the age of their kids and how settled they are in an area and how much affection they have for a particular club. But by and large, I think a high percentage of players in the lower leagues will play for the club who'll pay him the most. They've got to maximise their earnings throughout their career when they've still got another 30 years of a working life after playing professional football.hornseabantam and Damo like this. -
Offcomedun Important PlayerQatar 2022 Entrant P.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant Supporter Euro2020 Winner Euro 2020 P.L. 20/21 3rd Place
You know that if your team squeaks into the playoffs and gets promoted you won't get a contract in the higher division next season. You may have to uproot your family to find another club in a different part of the country, where you may not be as happy or as well paid. Are you going to give your all for the promotion cause? Would there be a part of you that's quietly pleased when you lose a six pointer against a rival playoff contender? I'm not saying you'd deliberately not try or actively throw games, but I doubt you'd be fully motivated to give 100% all the time.king karl and Mason Handshake like this. -
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There might be a few who like to take the easy route but I know when I was a kid playing junior and schoolboy football you always wanted to be competitive. Even if it was a friendly, if you had anything about you, you wanted to win. The lads that make it pro would surely have that mentality and an ambition to try better themselves, not just be content to pick up a wage.
The ones who are looking for a free ride - the Dele Alli’s of this world, surely slip out of the game.Kevin1954 likes this. -
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Heres your promotion bonus and your P45... off you trot sonny , thanks and all thatStop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...Offcomedun likes this. -
Even if it means losing your job ?
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In any promotion winning team there will be players who know full well that they won't be retained in the higher division, or else will be bit part squad players who won't even be on the bench very often.
I've certainly seen it happen at non league. Defensive lynchpins of promoted teams who've had experience of being replaced by older players dropping down from L1 or L2 and when they've moved to other clubs have been happy to not go through the same experience again. -
Tim Dieng 14 goals and Exeter POTS. Utter shite for us. We are such a toxic club.
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