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Title: What Things Would You Change
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L.T.F.C - February 13, 2008 04:52 PM (GMT)
Of course theres the obvisous ones like standing, ticket prices, and no games aboard but is there any others which might only be small things but you think would make the game better.

Mine would be:

Checks on new owners by FA etc we have had the luck of a whole load of bad owners who have nearly led luton to the brink. Some actully had a bad past so why couldnt he be prevented from buying a football club e.g just some simple checks into his past.

4 up and 4 down from every league. Top 3 up auto, the next 4 play offs

Scrap the 10 point rule for going into admin its only the fans who suffer the people who cause it get away scot free.

Stewards at games have to be registered like door men at night clubs

Police involement when there is trouble not got pileing in on the back of some wrong "intelligence".

3pm saturday 7.45pm tuesdays. On cup weekends 5.30pm aswell

End to seeding teams. Its unfair.

Scrap those bloody changing adverts at the side. (we even had them at luton a few times)

Mk dons get kicked out the league and replaced by AFC wimbledon

No music after goals

No music to be played for 5 minutes before kick off bar club songs e.g liverpool never walk alone, west ham bubbles and millwall let em come

Bloody hell quite a list. Anyone got any other things they would change if they could.

BHB - February 13, 2008 05:28 PM (GMT)
Champions League scrapped and reverting to The European Cup - straight knockout, un-seeded and only the previous season's champions and current holders allowed to enter.

UEFA Cup reverting to straight knockout with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed teams entering that, along with the league cup winners. Un-seeded.

The leagues merging and formed back under the one name and authority. No Premier League and Football League. Just a Football League. Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4.

2 live games every weekend from the top flight. 5.30pm Saturday, 4pm Sunday. The others all played at 3pm on a Saturday.

Ditch the rule of new grounds having to be built with a 5m gap or whatever it is between the stands and the side of the pitch. We want grounds to be intimidating and have the fans as close to the pitch as possible.

The FSF to relaly take off, and every single football fan in the country becomes a member. £10 a year. And it's run as a Union system. One vote per member. We vote on strikes / boycotts of games and leaves grounds empty until ticket prices are reduced etc.

That's about it. For now..

Stoned_Prof - February 13, 2008 05:51 PM (GMT)
- Allow standing.
- Reasonable Ticket Prices.
- Clubs must be Trust-owned, and as such non-profit.
- Merge Premier League back into Football League.
- Two European competitions: One for national league champions only, one for national cup winners only. Both straight knockout.
- KO 3pm Saturday, 7:45 Tues (or Wed if a club is tenant in a groundshare). Only exceptions due to floodlight failure, two groundsharing clubs both drawn at home in cup competition or other unavoidable problems with ground.
- Teams not allowed to move permanently from their home area. All grounds to be club or council-owned. Clubs/councils cannot sell the ground unless the club have somewhere else to go.
- No music after goals.
- An end to the ban on alcohol in view of pitch.

There's probably more, but that's all I can think of right now.

Lazio 1900 - February 14, 2008 01:14 PM (GMT)
The Champions League ( I prefer the old Champions' Cup )
The new season numbers.... ( I prefer the old 1-11 shirts )
and I would like that all matches will be played on saturday at 15:00 o'clock !

nw7 yid - February 14, 2008 01:25 PM (GMT)
- No early kick-offs

- Safe standing areas

- Downsizing of Champions League to remove bias towards clubs from large nations

- Competitive ticket prices (cf West European leagues)

- No music after goals

- No sponsorship on shirts

- Reduced reliance on seedings

- Increased collective supporter action

jonboilfc - February 14, 2008 02:07 PM (GMT)
re-introduce terracing
lower ticket prices
no early kick offs
have some sort of scheme to bring more locals to matches
no music after goals

BWA_Ultra - February 14, 2008 04:53 PM (GMT)
Most of the above

+ Making agent fee payments illegal
+ relax of health and safety rules to allow more common sense

LongtonLeeds - February 14, 2008 06:59 PM (GMT)
Terracing obviously
No mid-day kick offs
No police bans on pubs closing (donny and northampton) or banning of selling beer inside grounds
No changing of shirts every single year
Ban calling scum 'yanited'
Ban horns/face paint/wigs at games
No music after goals
Cheaper tickets at all levels

nick the jack - February 14, 2008 08:14 PM (GMT)
Agree with most said.

- no Monday night games on TV, just 2 on Sat and 2 on Sunday

- PL abolished, Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4

- limit clubs to only being allowed to move 2 games a season. Swansea move games because of the rugby, the police, etc.

- encourage new stadiums to be in the traditional style, big flood lights and^ roofs on stands

AND NO TO CONSIDERING GAME 39 - VALUE TRADITION

nufc - February 14, 2008 08:49 PM (GMT)
Go back to the 80s, without the racism.

yorkiebarkid - February 14, 2008 08:57 PM (GMT)
By the people for the people from the top down

simple

Longhurst JR - February 15, 2008 02:14 AM (GMT)
Aside from obvious.

- Police having no say in match times. (Could easily be avoided with BHB's suggestion of 2 TV games a weekend).

- Only the captain can speak to the referee and you get booked for mouthing off.

- Common sense on boxing day, local games.

BWA_Ultra - February 15, 2008 01:35 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (nufc @ Feb 14 2008, 08:49 PM)
Go back to the 80s, without the racism.

Including the cages?

Reppz - February 15, 2008 01:56 PM (GMT)
Yeah shove us back in cages. Crowds always look more intimidating in them!

BWA_Ultra - February 15, 2008 01:57 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (Reppz @ Feb 15 2008, 01:56 PM)
Yeah shove us back in cages. Crowds always look more intimidating in them!

Perimeter fencing?

L.T.F.C - February 15, 2008 02:07 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (Reppz @ Feb 15 2008, 01:56 PM)
Yeah shove us back in cages. Crowds always look more intimidating in them!

I agree with everything said bar this.


watermelon man - February 15, 2008 11:02 PM (GMT)
Penalty shootouts. They are unfair because the team who's fans are behind the goal they are being taken in tend to win!

Each team should get to choose which end they want to take their penalties from and thats it. No stupid coin toss. It means the referee will have to go from one end of the pitch to the other but I don't really care about that. I care about it being fair.

Aldso change all the other stuff about standing areas, ticket prices etc...

rwab - February 16, 2008 10:05 AM (GMT)
Pretty much all of the above.

Id also limit the number of foreigners in every team. The only thing stopping it happening at the moment is EU employment law - if Blatter can get round this then hopefully it will become reality.


yorkiebarkid - February 16, 2008 11:16 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (rwab @ Feb 16 2008, 10:05 AM)
Pretty much all of the above.

Id also limit the number of foreigners in every team. The only thing stopping it happening at the moment is EU employment law - if Blatter can get round this then hopefully it will become reality.

Why do you say that, to give English lads a chance?

Perhaps if the training and development of our kids in this country was

a) funded porperly instead of the pathetic token jestures handed out these days and more importantly

b Scouts who stop going for the lad who's already a big lump at the age of 7 who can just about control a ball and forgets the little lads with skill and a mind for the game.

These are simple things

nw7 yid - February 16, 2008 02:43 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (watermelon man @ Feb 15 2008, 11:02 PM)
Penalty shootouts. They are unfair because the team who's fans are behind the goal they are being taken in tend to win!

It would be quite interesting to see some stats regarding this...

watermelon man - February 18, 2008 02:28 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (nw7 yid @ Feb 16 2008, 02:43 PM)
QUOTE (watermelon man @ Feb 15 2008, 11:02 PM)
Penalty shootouts.  They are unfair because the team who's fans are behind the goal they are being taken in tend to win!

It would be quite interesting to see some stats regarding this...

Well from my experience I've seen 3 penalty shootouts live in my life and the winning teams all had their fans behind that goal. We could do a list of ones we've seen and see how it works out.

Ones I've seen live...

Barnet v Swindon (fa cup replay) - Barnet win. Barnet fans behind goal.

Shrewsbury v Barnet (Conference playoffs semi) - Shrews win. Shrews fans behind goal.

Watford v Newcastle (carling cup) - Newcastle win. Newcastle fans behind goal.

Ones I've seen on tv...

Carlisle v Aldershot (Conference playoffs semi) - Carlisle win. Carlisle fans behind goal.

The only one I can remember that is different...

Oxford v Exeter (Conference playoffs semi) - Exeter win. Oxford fans behind the goal.

Anyone else got any more, I can only remember conference playoff matches mainly.

BHB - February 19, 2008 09:50 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (Reppz @ Feb 15 2008, 01:56 PM)
Yeah shove us back in cages. Crowds always look more intimidating in them!

Shocking statement.

Were you around in 1989? Hillsborough?

Fences and cages are the last thing I'd want to see in any football ground.

Blackcountry Villa - February 19, 2008 07:53 PM (GMT)
I'd change this annoying commentator on ITV, everytime he commentates on Liverpool all he does is comment every bloody time they sing a song.

Tonight it took him about 10 seconds, 'Inter will be facing the loudest noise in English football tonight' :rolleyes: The boos at the end?. He'd mentioned their fans 3 times in 3 minutes and 40 seconds.

Let the wankfest continue...

Blackcountry Villa - February 19, 2008 08:31 PM (GMT)
Only mentioned the Liverpool fans 5/6 times during the first half, quite low by his usual standards. Although i'm sure i heard him appeal for the sending off and then burst into a chorus of 'Cheerio'...




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