[Football] Todd Boehly wants to ring the changes...

[Lawros Lip]

Is he just suggesting an England v Scotland game?

 

[Mo Gosfield]

This Todd needs flushing. It’s starting to cause a stink.

If Potter thinks that the Todd is a good person, he really is a very poor judge of character, or perhaps the £60m contract has clouded his view.

Potter is a political animal and just says what he thinks people want to hear.
Unless, of course, its a few frustrated fans booing another below par performance and then the gloves are off. The real Potter comes out then.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

All-Star game... wouldnt watch it but wouldnt be the end of the world... but I have a feeling he has more suggestions and most of them will likely be hideous.

However, if there's money to make from it, 20 out of 20 PL clubs are going to listen.

My bet would be the money would go to the clubs that provide the players so they can buy more of the best players and continue the cycle.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

It’s comments like these that make me think it’ll all end in tears for Potter sooner rather than later, and I’m someone that wishes him well and would like to see him succeed (although of course I’m gutted he’s gone)


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Very generous of you about a man who has just shafted our owner and our club.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Is he just suggesting an England v Scotland game?

Now that would be a much better idea. So no, he won’t be suggesting it.

 

[Mellotron]

It would be seen as something akin to soccer aid or the Olympic football if it happened I reckon. Most players would find excuses to get out of doing it, or you’d end up with mostly under 23s or something.

Also, the suggestion therefore is having Everton, Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City, Leeds etc fans in one end, then Chelsea, West Ham, Arsenal, Spurs, Brighton, Palace fans all together in the other? Can’t see ANY problems with that.

More importantly though, we should try to think roughly what the teams would be, assuming a max of 2/3 from each club?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

North-South All-Star game? Not fussed or interested myself, but I can see why he suggested it.

As for the relegation idea, the gulf is such between the PL and Championship, that I would expect the PL club to win every time. Yes, obviously promoted clubs can survive and compete in the top league, but that's after a summer and transfer window to prepare for it.

 

[Javeaseagull]

Maybe he will change his mind when he finds out about the Charity Shield? No, maybe not.

 

[Seasider78]

It would be seen as something akin to soccer aid or the Olympic football if it happened I reckon. Most players would find excuses to get out of doing it, or you’d end up with mostly under 23s or something.

Also, the suggestion therefore is having Everton, Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City, Leeds etc fans in one end, then Chelsea, West Ham, Arsenal, Spurs, Brighton, Palace fans all together in the other? Can’t see ANY problems with that.

More importantly though, we should try to think roughly what the teams would be, assuming a max of 2/3 from each club?

Max 2 from each in a 4-4-3 formation ?

 

[Super Perry Digweed]

-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;10388310]It’s comments like these that make me think it’ll all end in tears for Potter sooner rather than later, and I’m someone that wishes him well and would like to see him succeed (although of course I’m gutted he’s gone)


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That thought occurred to me too. TB2 (Todd Boehly) seems either completely out of touch with football, or just doesn't care and wants to Americanise football for his own gains. Probably a bit of both. To me he represents everything bad about the game.

Compare his approach to what seems to be that of RR and RMcH at Wrexham, who seem to be embracing the entire football culture...poles apart.

I imagine GP will have to explain so many things about how football works to TB2. Things that he would have been able to take for granted with TB1 here.

At a superficial level GP might think TB2 and he have aligned philosophies. Not sure that will be the case when they dig a bit deeper as time goes by.

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[Boroseagull]

For those of us old enough to remember.....Third Div. South vs Third Div. North.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

****

 

[Washie]

I think the playoffs for relegation could work similar to the Belgian way of determining the league winner. Have bottom go down automatically, then the next 4 playing each other for their survival, top 2 stay up, bottom 2 go down.

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[Farehamseagull]

This happens every time American’s buy an English club. They have grand ideas to radically change things to make football more like American sports. After a while they realise it’s not going to work and lose interest in the idea.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

What actually is the point of an all stars game? Who would you cheer along (or booo)? I don't understand.

 

[Gwylan]

This happens every time American’s buy an English club. They have grand ideas to radically change things to make football more like American sports. After a while they realise it’s not going to work and lose interest in the idea.

Saw a wise comment on Twitter along the lines of "If Americans are so good at marketing sports, how come their team games are only played in the US and the big, global sports have little following there?" It's a valid point. Football and cricket dwarf all other teams sports, gridiron and baseball are nowhere.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Waits for De Bruyne rupture an ACL in a meaningless game….

On a different point, do any of the older NSCers remember a TV programme called All in the Game, which pitched teams of apprentices/reserves against each other, with different skill events….

I suppose like crossbar challenge these days and alike.

That’s possibly more likely to work using U21s

 

[Hamilton]

Oh God. He thinks he’s King in waiting of the FA.

Some of the other PL leaders must be delighted that they have a new stooge.

Someone has told Bogey that Chelsea doesn’t belong to him? - he just owns it that’s all.


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[Hamilton]

What actually is the point of an all stars game? Who would you cheer along (or booo)? I don't understand.

I’d cheer for the West.


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[Gwylan]

I’d cheer for the West.

It's a good point: if Norwich and Brizzle are two of the teams promoted this year (perfectly possible) then they would presumably count as northern teams.

And if Watford joined them then they too, bizarrely, would be a northern team (assuming an equal split between north and south)

It's a totally bonkers idea