Playoff spots increased

[crazywelsh]

Originally Posted by KT12 Exile

Big news. Knowing our luck, we'll finish 4th or 5th and lose to a team finishing 7th!

Someone keep hold of this comment! Just wait for it to happen

[dixienormous]

Mould a team together and finish top, and there's no issue.

[davewilli]

Some positives apart from the negative that still only 2 teams go up:
Keep season alive for longer for more teams.
Team finishing 2nd & 3rd have a big advantage over the team's coming 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th.
Once teams have secured & guaranteed a play off spot, will probably have to keep playing to get as high as possible, to try and get a bye to the semi and home advantage.

[draigwrecsam]

I'm for abolishing the playoffs (which won't happen for economic reasons) and going to 2, preferably 3, automatic promotion spots.

[LA REDS]

If they want to include an extra team , why not let 2nd go straight to Wembley ( resting players and allowing fans to make arrangements) then let the other 4 play off . Therefore making 2nd place much more advantageous .


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[Foxy]

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

On the surface this is good for us because we are no longer a top flight conference team, we are at best a "flirt with the play offs" . So this offers a real chance of getting into the play offs and increasing interest at the end of the season. However, an above average team getting promoted ? Who wants that when the likelihood is a season of struggle thereafter. So for us this isn't a long term positive.

[Cornish Taff]

It might make sense if the eventual winner had a play-off with the winner of a Div. 2.play-off involving their bottom two.

[SteveWAFC]

I don't quite understand the logic of this change. They've always stopped more than 2 going up because the football league have been worried about a really low par, poorly supported club going up, yet increasing the play offs a few places, one of these kind of clubs could easily sneak into the top 7 and could even battle their way to a final win if they catch the opposition on a bad day.
It could be good for us or it could be bad for us, like most things, hindsight will play a strong role in determining that.


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[draigwrecsam]

Originally Posted by Foxy

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

On the surface this is good for us because we are no longer a top flight conference team... However, an above average team getting promoted ? Who wants that when the likelihood is a season of struggle thereafter. So for us this isn't a long term positive.

Sounds like you don't want us to get promoted! (Well it would tend to destroy your "the model doesn't work" argument )

Personally, I'd prefer the struggle to stay in L2 to the struggle of getting there.