[Spireite Stone]

Here are my suggestions:

1. Change the Play-Off format to a group. Top 2 teams play each other again in a Wembley final.

2. Winners of the JPT become the 5th team in the play-off group of their league.

I'm not sure what we could do if the winners qualify for the play-offs as well (Like Barnsley did this year).


Other Suggestions:

- Include the winners of the FA Trophy in the JPT (FC Halifax this year).

- If the winners don't get promoted to The Championship, they get a 1st round bye the following season (Rather than random teams getting bye's as they do currently)

This post has been edited by Spireite Stone: 26 July 2016 - 12:28 PM

[semi130497]

Benno Spire, on 24 July 2016 - 10:54 AM, said:

Given this competition appears to becoming farcical at the moment these are my suggestions on how it could be improved.

The winners qualify for the Europa league (my only hope of seeing Chesterfield play in Europe)
Invite Scottish( below prem) Welsh and Irish teams to take part. Have early regional group games which will make for some better pre season games then a few regional knockout rounds then final 16 from all regions drawn out of a hat, take turns with final at Wembley, Cardiff, Hampden
No offsides
Any thoughts or ideas from anyone, apart from scrapping it

make chris turner come out of retirement and play in the nets so we can all throw turnips at him from behind the goal

[semi130497]

Benno Spire, on 24 July 2016 - 10:54 AM, said:

Given this competition appears to becoming farcical at the moment these are my suggestions on how it could be improved.

The winners qualify for the Europa league (my only hope of seeing Chesterfield play in Europe)
Invite Scottish( below prem) Welsh and Irish teams to take part. Have early regional group games which will make for some better pre season games then a few regional knockout rounds then final 16 from all regions drawn out of a hat, take turns with final at Wembley, Cardiff, Hampden
No offsides
Any thoughts or ideas from anyone, apart from scrapping it

The problem with this competition is no-one cares unless they actually get to within 1 match of Wembley. So increasing the reward for the winner or runner up doesn't do anything to make the earlier rounds that no-one cares about more interesting.

The only think I can think of is to have the 2 teams closest to each other geographically play each other in the 1st round (so we'd always play Mansfield). At least then all the matches would be local derbies with a slightly better crowd. Also the teams could take it in turns to play at home every other year.

Then do a similar thing in the 2nd round, try to create more local derbies.

basically its crap though, scrap it!

This post has been edited by semi130497: 26 July 2016 - 12:58 PM

[JonB]

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