Will league 2 return next season? (Now with Poll)

Yeah get where you are coming from. Can you just pay a big signing on fee to get around it? Or big appearance fees? Or a big fee to agent that gets passed onto the player? A bonus if they play so many games they get a quarter of a million etc. Sure richer clubs would find a way.

 

What then happens to players who take clubs over it? Do they have to renegotiate terms?

For example salary cap for our league is set at 1.8 million to use your figure. City are a million over that according to t&a. What do we do to get ours down if we have players under contract already for another season etc?

 

It would mean we will have no room to make changes for next season if is implemented

 

Who doesn't want promotion?

 

How do you know clubs “waste it”?
Lincoln built a whole new training complex with the money they got from the fa cup run last season.
Rochdale Laid a new pitch with their windfall from the cup run.
Tranmere are laying a state of the art hybrid pitch currently with extra cash from the Man U fa cup tie.

The point to all this is this is extra money these clubs did not budget for and they have used to benefit the club in the longer term. It is not wasted. How do you know every club would waste it all? It’s garbage and you can’t escape the premier league bubble

 

The Premier League should give more and more, before money even goes to the PL clubs.

Sure, the terms should be beneficial, but it's very short sighted for any elite league, platform or competition to not want to share it's riches.

It does not make a single jot of sense - on any conceivable level, in my view - for the PL as a body or an organisation to want to pay the vast majority of available funds to its current crop of teams alone.

That not enough money trickles down to League Two, say, is madness. The domestic divisions are NOT rivals. They are partners.

 

Of course we want promotion. We just don't have the level of planning, leadership and organization to achieve it. We think wishing, cheap tickets and clapping really hard will get the job done.

 

Even with me forgetting Mcburnie, not exactly a feeder club are we?

 

That's not really being a feeder club though is it? The majority of our transfers are free agents signing and then being released at the end of a contract, there's hasn't really been a lot of selling so how does that make us a feeder club?

And explain your point about City always expecting hand outs from the league?

 

With the issues at Swindon and Cheltenham saying they cant afford testing we may yet be in the playoffs.
Just lightening your morning Fordy.

 

Can we afford it

 

Genuinely have no idea here, given the idea of games on I follow. If playoff games are on “tv“, will there be appearance money / tv fee? If so, that would go some way to off-setting testing and other costs. Any idea @wetherbywhaler ?

I’m with @Fordy117 in that City and Vale should have pushed harder. Top 9-10 were realistically the only teams that would finish in the Top 7, and, either Stevenage or Macclesfield we’re going down. Strong leadership and some sort of extended mini-playoff / relegation games could have been an idea. Definitely needs to be relegation - unfair on Barrow or Harrogate and no chance Bolton should get away with staying up. Rant over.

 

What do you know - our promotion strategy of ‘waiting until its our turn’, depending on blind hope and the misfortune of others might be about to pay off!

 

We haven’t really gone out to fight for the playoffs all season, why would be start now?