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I would wager it won’t make one iota of difference to the quality of player we would see getting into the first team here - which is the entire point of being Cat 1. So keep it, remove it, makes no odds.

So we wouldn’t be seeing the likes of Adam Wharton and Phillips without relegation at U21 level? (Despite not having it at U18s?)

‘The disaster that was almost brilliant’

What’s that got to do with my question?

The games aren’t *competitive*, doesn’t mean that individual young lads aren’t committed.

You five years old?

Yet pundits aways come out with the usual cliches that’s its the exact opposite, I.e 6th place and then storming to promotion- Kevin Phillips was at it last night…

It is what it is, it will never be ‘competitive’, it’s glorified training matches. A first teamer getting back to fitness will always go through the motions, the cream of the crop like Phillips and Wharton will still make the first team - you want competition, win one of the cups.

We take substantially more away now then we did in the later PL days.

If you say so, it doesn’t look particularly competitive anyway from what I see in games.

To be fair the ‘EFL’ is the clubs and the admin of the EFL purely put into action the decisions made by its member clubs. Sky are not to blame, they’ve got airtime to fill and customers to keep, they made an offer, the clubs weren’t forced to take it - it’s the clubs who have no regard for fans, and this particular club is seeing the result of that this summer…

Not arrogance, parachute money.

It’s a development league, so why should there be relegation? Just make two divisions of 14 and let the winners of each have a ‘grand final’ or whatever. As long as clubs get some gems for the first team each year that’s all that matters.

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*Most don’t away from here…

I thought that when a poster gave the recruitment chief an ‘A’ for the season…

Stay around mid table and then a late charge in the final few weeks means plenty of Saturday 3pm games too 👌

You actually need to ask? Nothing silly about the Hull game scheduling to you then?

Did TW even pay enough to cover Swag’s wages this season never mind that of players?

The Issas are of Indian descent.

With all other local teams elsewhere, Swag will be mulling over the return of Category A+ for PNE...

So you would go down the road of scrapping STs entirely (even though no other club is having issues selling them) over just reducing prices? An approach that has worked out big time for Bolton and PNE? (Hopefully you won’t bite my head off this time)

Any other companies in walking distance from Ewood then that will chuck us a few bob?

Just the way it is as there’s far more southern teams at level 6 than northern ones, which makes sense when you look at populations.

Dave, of course there are other reasons, my father in law has just knocked his season ticket on the head after 60+ years due to the Sky deluge, he just couldn’t be arsed with the trip over from Lytham at his age when there’s a good chance at least every other game will be on TV. You have other reasons too, as will others, but price is by far and away the reason that sales have collapsed here, and *only* here since Covid, our prices have gone up by hundreds of quid since 2018/19, whilst other local clubs have done the exact opposite, it is the main reason we have now slipped even far behind PNE, never mind being currently at HALF the figure of bloody Bolton.