[Devongone]

As you say under almost any reorganisation proposal Preston would currently be looking at relegation. The only way I can see such a prospect being palatable to clubs who might face demotion from the Championship would be if the football they were demoted to had an exciting new aspect together with the prospect of a successful season and a promotion fight ....... That was the aim behind my own four Conference proposal below the Championship, with a few more former Championship teams coming down and the creation of a few genuine Premier B sides ......... but certainly Chesterfield fans were wholly against it. If I re-jigged that proposal without its most unpopular element, the B teams and replaced them from the National League, then as you say, the prospect looks less than exciting from a Preston perspective. I'll list how your Conference, the Mersey Conference, might look and it doesn't even convince me -

Carlisle
Barrow
Fleetwood
Morecambe
Bolton
Oldham
Rochdale
Accrington
PRESTON
Tranmere
Blackburn
Chester
Wigan
Crewe
Wrexham
Blackpool

Now apart from the prospect of intense rivalry battling Blackburn for promotion with just one team to go up I doubt it thrills you. From the perspective of the teams suddenly finding themselves in competition with Preston and Blackburn it might look slightly better. But without B teams I can't see how any change benefits football and none of the clubs wanted B teams. I suspect Barnet's Chairman is trying to kill the proposals by looking interested.