New Owners - Redwood Watch

[Brogue]

Not sure if posted anywhere else as yet but below is Rob’s latest Q&A:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5npTmb4ths

[Sutekh]

So, following on from Rob’s chat with Darragh MacAnthony it seems the L1 owners have got together and written to Rick Parry about how to “improve” the Football League fair play system. Plans suggested are to set every club in a division with the same playing budget and if clubs break it they then will have to pay a “luxury” tax into a pot which is then distributed equally amongst the other clubs in that division the following season. Seems to me a decent idea (and something to change to from the stupid financial rules we have currently) and it appears to have the buy in of many of the L1 owners so presume it will be fully fleshed out and put up for approval at the next AGM.

[Royal Ginger]

So, following on from Rob’s chat with Darragh MacAnthony it seems the L1 owners have got together and written to Rick Parry about how to “improve” the Football League fair play system. Plans suggested are to set every club in a division with the same playing budget and if clubs break it they then will have to pay a “luxury” tax into a pot which is then distributed equally amongst the other clubs in that division the following season. Seems to me a decent idea (and something to change to from the stupid financial rules we have currently) and it appears to have the buy in of many of the L1 owners so presume it will be fully fleshed out and put up for approval at the next AGM.

There is no perfect system, however, this exists in American sport particularly in Baseball and just sees the ‘poorer’ billionaires who don’t want to spend much pocketing millions of dollars of the richer teams money. It’d probably work in football briefly but in the long term it has shown to be a disincentive and bad for player wages.

[Snowflake Royal]

The players are paid too much anyway.

I can't see it getting off the ground. Even in L1 without your Birmingham and Wrexham's there's a hell of a difference between say Bolton and Wimbledon.

I don’t hate it.