To "B" or not to "B"

[supertom]

We're fielding a B team as it is.
We'd have to enter our C team in the B league and it's just going to get confusing.

[Somniloquism]

The B league is drawing all the news, but does anyone know what strategic loan partnerships are?

[silhillvilla]

Is this just so Sky Sports 4 get some material to show ? Either way I don't like the sound of it.
Imagine simultaneous relegation battles in both leagues !

[go on the dog]

Why don't they just cut the subs back to 3, that way players have to move to play, clubs wont need squads of 30 odd players. Bloke I work with used to play for WBA and he says lads today are called youngsters and are making debuts at 21 he had played nearly 200 games by then!!!

[Rudy65]

Dyke and his colleagues don't know their arse from their elbow.

Crap idea which will flounder very quickly. All done for the benefit of the rich clubs. It will shaft the lower league clubs and not benefit the national team at all

Give it 6 months and the idea will be parked

[Havencheese]

If you disagree, a small step...

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/the-football-association-say-no-to-b-teams#share

[Simon Ward]

Dyke and his colleagues don't know their arse from their elbow.

Crap idea which will flounder very quickly. All done for the benefit of the rich clubs. It will shaft the lower league clubs and not benefit the national team at all

Give it 6 months and the idea will be parked

Let's hope so!

[Chris Jameson]

I bet all the other countries wish they could call on the expertise of Greg Dyke and Danny Mills.

[CJ]

This idea really is a load of unthought-through bollocks, but the best related story I've seen is in the Daily Heil with Accrington Stanley fielding a B team and applying to join the Premier League

[Dante Lavelli]

I was listening to M City v Villa on 5 live and in their new format (to me anyway) they're based in a studio and geberally chat and only comment on the match if anything exciting happens.  They had Danny Mills on who is part of the panel who helped pull this together.  He was very explicit in saying:

1.  This report has been rushed out as the the B league idea had been leaked
2.  They have to do what the big clubs want as they're the most powerful.  Only Gobby Savage picked him up on this and said their focus should have started at grass roots level, bottom up, rather than top down.

[cdbearsfan]

I, for one, will be amazed if allowing Hull B to play Dagenham and Redbridge in front of a crowd of twelve doesn't lead to England winning the next ten World Cups.

[Chris Jameson]

I've found myself liking Robbie Savage more than Mills over the last few months, that takes some doing.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I bet all the other countries wish they could call on the expertise of Greg Dyke and Danny Mills.

Why do I keep thinking of Brass Bands?

[Brend'Watkins]

The last time we heard one of these great new ideas which was going to benefit the national team we had the formation of the Premier League. 

It's simple really, just make a rule for league games that says that at least 5 players in each team has to be English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish.  Everyone's in the same boat then.  In the European competitions no rule applies.

[UK Redsox]

There's a simple answer to the problem of young English players not getting enough competitive matches............ expand the Premier League season to 39 games