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Please give your views on the proposed play-off changes (2 minute survey)

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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 16,135
    Done. 
  • Done

    in the comments I suggested that instead of teams finishing 7th and 8th being added, how about 16 and 17 in the premier league being added.

    watching teams like spurs and West Ham fighting for their premiership lives would be an entertaining watch. 

    Preston v spurs at Wembley for a place in the premier league. Small 90+4. Imagine the scenes across the football world 
  • CAFC Luke
    CAFC Luke Posts: 230
    Done. 

    I'm not sure the statement about there being more midweek games would be true however if the same model as the National League is used. 

    I feel it's being done for a TV audience, ensuring the very game you're watching can be marketed as a "all or nothing" scenario. Whilst I understand "society" it seems wants instant gratification, to know the outcome of something they are watching that very afternoon/night, I don't understand why this has to perpetuate through to scenarios which hold such a significant weight.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,649
    Done and can see this being voted through next month by the majority of the 72 clubs as a greater opportunity of reaching the Premier League by finishing 7th or 8th will be available to them.

    The Championship clubs especially will be keen on this to be implemented next season 
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,265
    Done. Daft idea. The playoffs already skew what is a league competition and this idea just makes that worse. Leave well alone.
  • elbiglad
    elbiglad Posts: 150
    edited February 24
    Done. The current system rewards a quarter of the league with either promotion or the chance at it; if you can't be one of the six top teams over the course of a season you don't deserve that chance.
  • Orpingtony
    Orpingtony Posts: 318
    Done. Pointless tinkering
  • Valley Ant
    Valley Ant Posts: 504
    Done.
    Hate the idea. Just another money grabbing exercise.
  • I must the only CAFC fan in favour....

    Must be my advancing years and starting to wonder if I'll ever see us play in the top flight again.
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,697
    Don't mind it. If you're happy for 6th place to get promoted to the Prem then 8th isn't really that much different, 6th or 8th they are 99% getting relegated next season. If people hate the idea that much better to go back to just the top 3 being promoted that's the fairest way.

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  • red10
    red10 Posts: 857
    It might help to keep owners chasing the prospect of promotion given the financial rewards for just 1 season in the prem. 
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 4,035
    Done. I'm against the expansion, but it's likely to pass.
  • An idea for money grabbing parasites, as first proposed in Revelations by Whore of Babylon & Partners plc :

     

    “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition.”

     Seems simple enough. No brainer! Football seems no longer a sport.

     


  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,085
    I know I am in a minority , but I am in favour of this change.
    Even as a neutral I love the playoffs.They produce some great matches.

    It will keep the season open for longer for more clubs and if the 8th placed club can win an away tie and then both the semi final and final , I would say they deserve to go up.

    Less meaningless fixtures ,more exciting matches.
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,223
    As long as we are in the division we’d be foolish as a club not to vote for it. 

    Supporters views irrelevant to the finances of this. 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,248

    An idea for money grabbing parasites, as first proposed in Revelations by Whore of Babylon & Partners plc :

     

    “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition.”

     Seems simple enough. No brainer! Football seems no longer a sport.

     


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  • Milan
    Milan Posts: 94
    Done

    in the comments I suggested that instead of teams finishing 7th and 8th being added, how about 16 and 17 in the premier league being added.

    watching teams like spurs and West Ham fighting for their premiership lives would be an entertaining watch. 

    Preston v spurs at Wembley for a place in the premier league. Small 90+4. Imagine the scenes across the football world 
    This is how the Bundesliga works, and it's the ultimate test of which team is worthy.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,406
    As long as we are in the division we’d be foolish as a club not to vote for it. 

    Supporters views irrelevant to the finances of this. 
    Well of course. We are just stage props for global TV, right? Except that human stage props usually get paid.
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 5,223
    As long as we are in the division we’d be foolish as a club not to vote for it. 

    Supporters views irrelevant to the finances of this. 
    Well of course. We are just stage props for global TV, right? Except that human stage props usually get paid.
    It is sad but true. 

    Football is now an expensive hobby. Drifting ever further away from its roots. 

    If we insist on pushing ticket prices up every year and charging for anything and everything we can  on our modest attendances then turning down the additional potential revenue associated with this proposal seems unlikely. 
  • MartinCAFC
    MartinCAFC Posts: 3,317
    Feel like the vote for it to go through should sit with all the fans in football. I'm sure it'll go through but why should something be allowed to be pushed through seemingly the majority of fans don't want?

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  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,406
    Feel like the vote for it to go through should sit with all the fans in football. I'm sure it'll go through but why should something be allowed to be pushed through seemingly the majority of fans don't want?
    Because the people who run English football think that the global TV audience are the fans that matter. That "we" are not "the majority".  And we, collectively, have allowed this to happen.