FA proposal for B teams

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I presume others have seen this. Basically, Greg Dyke, the chairman of the FA has unveiled a proposal to have B Team for the teams in the Premiership and Championship. From what I read, they would be based either between League Two and the Conference or merge with those to create regionalised leagues. They would not be allowed to be promoted past League One.

There is a lot to be asked of this but it just looks like a terrible idea to me all to apparently try and help develop players for England by trying to kill the rest of the countries football from the lower leagues and on.

Thankfully clubs seem to be looking to reject it. Thoughts regardless.

www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/06/greg-dyke-b-team-league

[jaffers]

I think the easiest way to describe it, if I understood what I'm reading. Is like the NBA's D-League. Which essentially is just used to develop younger players, and help injured players get match fit. I'm not against the idea as a whole, however I think having it as part as the current set up would be woeful. You can't just throw this into the tier system we already have. If it's to be done it should be it's own separate league (possibly two divisions). It will just kill so many lower league sides if it becomes part of what is already set up.

[Star of Spurs]

I mean I get that you'd prefer to have your club with the history of a hundred years or so behind it and a dedicated group of fans stick around and feel valued

but it's really important to us that we get grant hall to a level where we can get £500k from fulham for him. i'm sure you understand

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didn't read the article but if it was anything like the idea of "bigger" clubs essentially buying the smaller clubs (we apparently tried to buy swindon, man u did the same with crewe or something) then I'd say go for it. Just means only one set of players go there on loan, really. Won't make the team as redundant as it does in Italy and Spain. The set up in Germany makes sense though because aren't the B teams just in semi-pro regional leagues, think they're completely separate from the actual Bundesliga set up.

[Cashis]

It's the worst idea I've heard in my life.

[Childish]

I always like this idea in theory that someones youth team could play together in a sort of meaningful league, if they could just be added in and increase the teams in the league

But in practice it'd be another case of Chelsea and other teams (we don't actually do it thankfully. Not yet) stockpiling lots of youth and sending them down there. And itd take the place of an actual team with history. And whos going to cheer on Man City B on a saturday afternoon? I know id far rather just go to the Etihad. Maybe if you have a season ticket you can go see both but even then theyd never get a full stadium of fans. ?

[Cashis]

If they simply added them in and increased the league by a few more teams then there would be teams who finish tenth getting in the playoffs because the B teams can only get promoted to a certain level.

It's an idea with so many flaws they are almost uncountable.

[Maskya Yoshida]

I think this is a great idea, we could let our players play in a professional league instead of having to send them out to lower league clubs with shit facilities like Chesterfield and Southend.

It's not as if the clubs in the lower leagues will ever amount to anything so removing a few of them from the league will do no harm.

[FL]

Shite idea.

[Бенне]

Shocking this idea is even being given a moment's thought tbh.

[ChappyHova]

I can't even be arsed getting angry about it.

It's bullshit.

[Mycon]

The loan system gives English players enough chances anyway. It'd be better to have stricter quotas in the big leagues on homegrown players than to go down the lower league route. Chelsea and City B teams would never end up playing for them anyway so it'd all be a bit pointless.

Plus wouldn't league 2 to conference standard be a bit low for the top teams reserve teams?

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May 7, 2014 11:05:28 GMT Mycon said:

Plus wouldn't league 2 to conference standard be a bit low for the top teams reserve teams?

Suppose they can always go out on loan to another team in the prem/championship. Just helps give meaningful playing time to those that can't be farmed out for whatever reason.

[sween]

as much as i'd like reserve teams to play in a properly competitive league, there is no practical way of doing it without fucking over football league clubs. 

imagine getting promoted by default because the best team in the league is ineligable for it. or just having no idea where you stand in the league there's  a load of B teams floating around the promotion/play off/relegation zones. awful

[LiamJM10]

May 6, 2014 22:57:21 GMT jaffers said:

I think the easiest way to describe it, if I understood what I'm reading. Is like the NBA's D-League. Which essentially is just used to develop younger players, and help injured players get match fit. I'm not against the idea as a whole, however I think having it as part as the current set up would be woeful. You can't just throw this into the tier system we already have. If it's to be done it should be it's own separate league (possibly two divisions). It will just kill so many lower league sides if it becomes part of what is already set up.

It's unneeded given the u21 league is working well.