[4evaabaggie]

Just read that an idea has been put forward that would/could affect future promotion prospects.

The idea suggested is to increase the end of season playoffs to six teams.
How would it work I hear you say.
Well, the team finishing fifth would play an eliminator tie against the team finishing eighth, sixth would play seventh. The two winners would enter the normal playoffs for a chance at promotion via Wembley.

To me, it’s a stupid suggestion. You could be third all season miss out on automatic by a point or even on goal difference, a team twenty or more points below you have a little run and scrape into eighth, a whole third of the way down the league, have a bit of luck and make it to Wembley and then the premier league. Teams finishing first, second and third struggle in the premier league upon promotion what chance someone scraping eighth place.

I’m not a big fan of the playoffs although we have benefited from them in the past. Really the best three teams, top 3, have earned the right over 46 games and should go up. But I guess the playoffs generate more money …. Why not do away with the league and go straight to a 24 team playoff style tournament. Not necessary the best team winning but the team with the best draw and easiest route. Let’s just draw straws.

Stop messing with the people’s game. They’ve tampered with the premier league making it easier for the rich clubs to succeed but want to make the EFL easier for smaller clubs to win a lottery. Heaven forbid.

[Lord Snooty]

Stupid idea, it is.

I thought they had it right in the beginning by including one of the bottom sides from the division above and having a two legged final.

Obviously we'll never go back to that system because every competition has to have a Wembley final nowadays.

But they have that system in Scotland and it works well. If you can't beat a team that's struggled all season that they've finished just above the relegation zone, then you don't deserve to be promoted.