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Lets beat them to it then ;)Biggles wrote:On the Non League Show tonight somone from the F.A is supposed to talk about the future of step 5.
That doesn't sound very fair surely progression up any league into the highest rank eg premier should be achieved on the performance of the team on the pitch not on the finances of the club. It seems that football at the lower levels is even more skewed to the financial status of the club rather than the achievements of the team than it is in the professional game.Everyweeker wrote:I'm not quite sure I understand your reasoning. As others have said, it is the club that gets placed into a league, and the club comprises much more than on-field performance. It will down to ground facilities and arrangement, as well as financial sustainability and the leagues own requirements.coltrane wrote:But how can they decide at which level to put us if we don't yet have any players? Option one we assemble a team good enough for the premier division and then we get elected into division one or lower, players then leave because they feel that they can play at a higher level. Option two we get elected into the premier division but then can't get a team of players competent to play at that level and so fail to live up to the leagues expectations. It's a chicken and egg situation. :(
If we were placed in the Premier, this would be because we demonstrated a viability at that level in terms of sustainability and finance. If we happened to then choose rubbish players and came bottom, that is football isn't it? The Premier League didn't reject Derby a few years ago because they thought their left-midfielder was not up to scratch.
But this has nothing to do with progression as we haven't progressed from any league. It would be more farcical to have a newly formed club with a new shiny ground, plenty of money and big attendances (not us, just a hypothetical) playing in the Northants Combination, and even then, would it be unfair to place them in the Premier of that league?coltrane wrote:That doesn't sound very fair surely progression up any league into the highest rank eg premier should be achieved on the performance of the team on the pitch not on the finances of the club. It seems that football at the lower levels is even more skewed to the financial status of the club rather than the achievements of the team than it is in the professional game.Everyweeker wrote:I'm not quite sure I understand your reasoning. As others have said, it is the club that gets placed into a league, and the club comprises much more than on-field performance. It will down to ground facilities and arrangement, as well as financial sustainability and the leagues own requirements.coltrane wrote:But how can they decide at which level to put us if we don't yet have any players? Option one we assemble a team good enough for the premier division and then we get elected into division one or lower, players then leave because they feel that they can play at a higher level. Option two we get elected into the premier division but then can't get a team of players competent to play at that level and so fail to live up to the leagues expectations. It's a chicken and egg situation. :(
If we were placed in the Premier, this would be because we demonstrated a viability at that level in terms of sustainability and finance. If we happened to then choose rubbish players and came bottom, that is football isn't it? The Premier League didn't reject Derby a few years ago because they thought their left-midfielder was not up to scratch.
A fair point in spirit ;) , just where is 'the bottom of the leagues'?Trek wrote:I propose we make an application to join the Finedon & District Milkmaids league next season to keep some people happy.