Football Lge wants 5 Div's of 20 clubs

Unless your in the Prem there's no serious money on offer in football in the lower leagues and as football clubs are regularly sailing close to the wind (Portsmouth Bolton Blackburn Leicester once) can the finances on offer make much difference to having a fifth league??

I don't see the point of this idea at all. All it will do is enable the top teams to get richer and teams in the lower divisions to get poorer by virtue of spreading whatever income is available thinner. Clubs in the lower reaches of the football league are already struggling giving them less game income etc etc can only makes things worse, unless the premier league intends giving up some of their wealth. Fat chance of that!

When you know as much about everything as Greg Dyke does you don't need to consult anyone.

Even putting football aside what about the businesses around the stadium who use the midweek matches to boost business. Ok for us its The Harvester and another chain pub but other clubs have local pubs, cafes's, who need this.

I haven't yet found any positives as its never really been clear how we'll all be boosted.

Just adding to that Oom
In the good old days of football and games at Burnden in general, the 'community' would take their packet of fags and go for an afternoon pint in the King Bill then stroll over the road having had a good sesh to watch the Wanderers and it not break the bank, but by contrast to today's offerings, the smoking ban, the £4 pint, the £15 meal, the £3.50 programme, the lifeless and atmosphere'less stadium we now sit in, the poor quality football in less glamorous surroundings we frequent, ummmm!!! It's all a bit MEN Arena for me
Wish we could go back to the days of the power of supporters!! Just my opinion of course

I think that I it all makes good sense. I do like midweek games- the spectacle- especially when these were big games. Broadly I approve of the changes proposed. They make sense. I think they should regionalise divisions 4 and 5. I favour shorter seasons. I'm all for the stability of games at 3pm on Saturdays and I approve winter breaks.

I'm not sure that the season ticket will be that marketable at this level. Yes there will be a hard core of season ticket holders who will continue through thick and thin and see the season ticket as a badge of loyalty. There are no economies for me. Each game home and away implies travel of one sort or another and the more distant( which include in my case all the home games) require stopovers especially in midweek and midwinter. The ticket cost is small beer. I probably pay as much for six matches as the entire ticket. I'm really lucky that at this point in my life I can but anno domini is catching up.

I think future patterns will be much more of match day sales unless the club comes up with some sort of membership scheme. I suspect that only a minority of season ticket holders attend every game? This year perhaps for the last time I attended every home game but my wife managed around 7-10. Her affiliation is less than mine and I suspect many like her will not attend much even if renewing. And these plans won't change that. But they might just make clubs spend less and that has to be a good thing.

Yes I agree and the issue for England at the end of a hard season is clear. The PL is a self serving monster and I applaud actions designed to stabilise the rest of the football league' steams who are buffeted about interminably in the wake of its monstrously selfish self aggrandisement. Roll on a Chinese super league and the defection of the mercenaries.

One point I'd latch on to is increased importance of reserve team football. If that could be achieved it would be a great help. At present the crazy loan system is the only outlet for aspiring lowere league players. When I was at school there was a strong Central League. I used to go to matches when I could and watch future Bolton players. Roy Greaves was a case of a player who came through via reserve team games U21 is no substitute even if overage players turn out. They are not properly tested and there is no worthwhile competition for places internally. Will a fifth division help this or cup games v Arsenal 2s for example. I don't know but it's well worth consideration. Again though regionalisation would be important.

I could, I think imagine and perhaps even hope for a future in which the stadium is home to a first team, reserve team and maybe a Ladies'team perhaps playing on the same day as one of the others with fans turning out and developing loyalties to one two or three of the teams. Fanciful ? In my lifetime? Don't know but something has to change.