O/T National League into the EFL?

[Roger D]

Trace Crouch has apparently stated she believes the National League (Tier One) and EFL should work on the possible absorbing of Tier One into the EFL.

She's also recommended urgent reform of the National League Board and it's voting structures.

Looks like the Tier One league officials who cheerfully threw Tier Two under a financial bus may yet find themselves cast as the turkeys who voted for Christmas.

Edited to say it's an interim report. Ollie Bayliss is busy tweeting further details

 

[PartisanDulwich]

 

[Roger D]

Here's the interim report

Fan Led Review of Football Governance: interim findings and recommendations

This letter outlines the interim findings and recommendations of the Fan Led Review of Football Governance, led by Tracey Crouch MP

www.gov.uk

 

[Pink Panther]

The biggest problem for our league right now as I see it is its newly appointed chairman, Jack Pearce. He was previously vice chairman to Brian Barwick and it was essentially Pearce's decision to abandon the original plan to divide the lottery grant funding according to average gate receipts in favour of giving every club at each level the same amount, with 60% of the money going to the one third of clubs in the top division. Someone who is well placed to know recently described Pearce to me as "the most objectionable man in football" and "totally corrupt". He is the worst possible successor to Barwick, he'll be running the league like his personal fiefdom if he isn't stopped, and we need to push for anything that can help Tracey Crouch and her colleagues take him down before he causes any more damage. He's the type of old school blazer who believes in fixing things behind closed doors and persuading enough people to support him with a mixture of promises and threats. He sits on more FA committees than you can shake a stick at (at national, regional and county level) and having had to drop his place on the Isthmian League management committee (which he held as chairman of Bognor Regis Town) due to his new role at the National League, he's managed to get Bognor's secretary appointed in his place. Any club attempting to pursue a legitimate grievance can't get anywhere without encountering Jack Pearce at every turn. It sounds like he's the main reason we were unable to get anywhere with our appeal against the sanctions imposed by the National League for non-fulfilment of fixtures. He is not a fit and proper person to be involved in football administration beyond his own club and needs to go.

 

[editor]

Blimey, that was a long survey, but done!

 

[KPMG]

Well that was well publicised wasn’t it. I wonder how many non league supporters will have seen it. Mine’s done anyway

 

[Moroccan Sunset]

Trace Crouch has apparently stated she believes the National League (Tier One) and EFL should work on the possible absorbing of Tier One into the EFL.

She's also recommended urgent reform of the National League Board and it's voting structures.

Looks like the Tier One league officials who cheerfully threw Tier Two under a financial bus may yet find themselves cast as the turkeys who voted for Christmas.

Edited to say it's an interim report. Ollie Bayliss is busy tweeting further details

This interesting. I hope it would lead to the much needed regionalisation of Tier 4 and 5 into a North Division and a South Division. Makes no sense for smaller clubs to be travelling the length and breadth of the country and must be an enormous strain on limited financial resources.