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And clubs like ours would I hope use the money wisely unlike so many others.....Portsmouth Oxford Bury Plymouth Exeter etc etc !!!

[quote="ferrarilover"]You're not wrong, Dutch. Nothing I say here will be sufficiently new or insightful as to be worth my time writing it nor your time reading it. Suffice to say it is a despicable situation and [color=#FF0000]one which, as Camb correctly asserts, needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.[/color]

Matt.[/quote]

But won't because the chairmen of the various PL clubs are the ones who get to vote on this stuff, and [b]of course[/b] they're going to do everything they can to protect themselves in the event they get relegated. Quite honestly I don't see why each one of the 72 non Prem clubs should get an equal amount of money from PL tv. Just split all of that cash that the PL deem as "solidarity payment" 70 ways. That way it'd be a valuable lifeline to teams who are running close to the breadline, which levels the playing field and gives back the dream of ascending the leagues. The Championship teams wouldn't suffer too much because they're already getting higher revenues thanks to better crowds, etc.

You're not wrong, Dutch. Nothing I say here will be sufficiently new or insightful as to be worth my time writing it nor your time reading it. Suffice to say it is a despicable situation and one which, as Camb correctly asserts, needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.

Matt.

Well this is where the FA need to step in and actually do their jobs. The Premier League is gaining far too much power and it's about time the FA stepped in and called the Premier League's bluff. The PL for years has threatened to break away, and what would we lose from it? Some money, yes, important to a club like ours, but not utterly vital. With no teams able to join the Premier League, it would stagnate and force them into creating lower leagues to build up the tier system. Any leagues under the control of the PL would need to be successful leagues as it wouldn't work for the top flight football.

The problem, I believe, is that you have two separate authorities running the football tier system. If it were under the command of one single authority, it would not be in their interest to allow lower leagues to not deliver top players and clubs to move up the rankings. I think you'd see a much fairer system, than the one we currently have.

The following facts and figures paint a disturbing future for clubs such as ours. Where is the logic and fairness in this ?

it almost makes me think to give up on football as literally the goal posts are being moved so far away from the clubs that are the basis of football as to think what is the bloody point of carrying on ??

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Gulls-hit-sides-pound-5bn-Premier-League-TV-deal/story-18673566-detail/story.html#axzz2QONMHJ46

The likes of Tom Lawrence in years gone by may have joined us but nowadays they take the easy life and easy money of the "Premier" (sic) League

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