Rotherham United could be going back to the 1950’s for the start of the new season with
CoventryLive saying that plans by the EFL are to regionalise football.
It has been said since the coronavirus shut down football in the UK in March that many of the smaller clubs could ‘go to the wall’ having know revenue with the EFL coming up with this idea for next season so that teams won’t have a lot of travelling, won’t have to go from one end of the country to the other therefore won’t have the expense of staying in hotels.
This idea means that the Championship and League One and Two clubs will play less games – probably just twenty-two before having play-offs for promotion and possibly relegation – and have more time for Cup games.
If this should come to fruition the the Millers, who would still be in League One (so I’m presuming this would mean this current season would be wiped out?) would play Accrington Stanley, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Doncaster Rovers, Fleetwood Town, Lincoln City, Rochdale, Shrewsbury Town, Sunderland and Tranmere Rovers.
The last time the Millers were in a ‘North’ Division was in the 1950/1 season when they finished top of the league with seventy-one points and were promoted to the Second Division which wasn’t regionalised. The last time there was a North and South division was in 1957/8 and the following season they became the Third and Fourth Divisions.
Would regionalising football help clubs? Yes, I can understand the expense of travelling will be cut down but wouldn’t having less home games see less footfall for clubs?
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I think everthing seems to be in the pot at present everybody as ideas bit the idea of regional football does not appeal to me at all. we need to get dates for a restart first. I reckon there will be more ideas ccome from the powers that be once things look like stating again sorry about any spelling mistakes . keep well CIL
I can’t really see that regionalising football will help any club with finance, CinL.
Regional Leagues makes sense.
But given the uncertainty for the next few months, the number of games scheduled needs to be cut drasticly.
Divide all Divisions into four. Six teams each. 10 games. 2 months or so.
Depending on when football is allowed back, we may get 2 or 3 rounds like that.
Flexibility for 2020-21 would allow 2019-20 to be completed.
Promotion & Relegation applies. So 4 teams up and down.
Could be fun – if enough clubs survive.
I think your last sentence is all important Re-con – ‘if enough clubs survive’. I really can’t see any football being played in the next three months and I think I’m being optimistic with that. Yes, they could start in June behind closed doors but there are a lot of clubs that need people in the grounds to pay their way. Of course I want this season to be completed whether it will be or just written off I think is still very much in the air.