New four-point plan to boost England football

Destroying lower league football, it'll kill a lot of clubs, ruining the best football pyramid in the world, the death of football tradition and grassroots football. It's not going to help us win the World Cup in the future, it's a pathetic idea.

Correct me if I'm wrong but if that is initiated, it means the B teams will start off in the 2nd lowest league in England, consisting of those 10 B teams and the rest with the top teams in the Conference Premier, right? So at the start, I'm assuming it'll only be the teams left over in the Conference Premier that won't benefit. Is that the problem people are having?

I'm also not familiar with the level of competition in League 1 and League 2, so does anyone know if those B teams would compete and promote within those leagues?

I'd rather them, and i think it'd help them more if they were to create a "European B League" which consisted of all the major leagues B teams and have 3 tiers with promotion and relegation. Playing against the next generation of stars of other countries week in week out.

Surely for Nuneaton etc. the idea of playing against Man Utd-B would be the biggest game of the year, playing against the likes of Pogba and Januzaj? Certainly different from playing Hyde or Solihull Moors.

That said would Man Utd be too happy about exposing their players into a horrible league, with less protection?

I'm sure fans of Rochdale, Wycombe or Plymouth will revel in the opportunity to play in front of 30 paid spectators at Carrington.

There's such an arrogance to this notion that football-deprived fans of the likes of Barnet and Torquay would eagerly circle the date on their calendars where they get to face off against the Aston Villa reserves, as if the Premier League is somehow doing them a favour by gracing their league with some sort of presence. This whole proposal is rotten to the core, and the fact that the FA - guardians of the national game, supposedly - are going to try and convince the Premier League clubs to bribe the lower league teams is disgusting. They know that they need the money and are effectively exploiting them.

If they want to make a difference to the national side this is such a bad way to do it.

Most of the "top" Germans atm didn't even play for B teams, went straight from U19's to "A" team. And Germany are even thinking about scrapping their B teams. Leverkusen and Frankfurt already have

Isn't this what the Next Gen thing already is?

This arrangement as well where "a new strategic loan partnership system that would allow clubs to loan up to eight players to a single Football League side and retain more control over them" is also bizarre, as it means Premier League teams can have B and essentially a C team.

About 6 or 7 players went from Spurs to Swindon this season, half of them on loan. The others i'd imagine have some sort of buy back clause. There is the proof that these "new strategic loan partnerships" aren't new at all. The FA showing once again that they know sweet FA.

Telegraph Sam has summed it up perfectly. I think its extremely disrespectful to assume that somehow us conference clubs are being done a "favour". Id pick Nuneaton away every day of the week over Stoke B. The majority of Premier League fans will never and have never experienced the highs and lows of being a lower league club.

If we think that somehow Mansfield v Liverpool B is going to make England win the world cup then we have truly lost the plot.

Making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Fuckin premier league. Sign the petition if you haven't already, 26000 signatures so far. Link on the first page.

Literally no one thinks that or is saying that.

So after a few seasons agains Mansfield, that player is gonna be good enough for Liverpools first team, how? It makes no sense, the player would still be untested at Premier League level and much older.