WelshBlueDeregulation would be terrible for a league-based sport. FFP isn’t great but a free-for-all would be far worse.
We had a free for all for nearly 150 years and it worked alright enough.
Sishi RunakNot really. There was gate sharing from 1888 to the 1980s. And a maximum wage from 1900 to 1961. And restrictions on drawings until 1983. Perhaps not coincidentally those were the most competitive years in league history.WelshBlueDeregulation would be terrible for a league-based sport. FFP isn’t great but a free-for-all would be far worse.
We had a free for all for nearly 150 years and it worked alright enough.
A free for all sounds great when you’ve got money but when things go tits up there is absolutely no safety net.
Without the FFP embargo I dread to think how much worse trouble the ineptitude of people like Dong could have got the club into - and there would be no recourse to blame anyone but our own greed for it.
I agree the current rules aren’t good enough but there has to be a better way
bluearmyfactionSishi RunakNot really. There was gate sharing from 1888 to the 1980s. And a maximum wage from 1900 to 1961. And restrictions on drawings until 1983. Perhaps not coincidentally those were the most competitive years in league history.WelshBlueDeregulation would be terrible for a league-based sport. FFP isn’t great but a free-for-all would be far worse.
We had a free for all for nearly 150 years and it worked alright enough.
In fact, the history of the game is the opposite of a ‘free for all’ 😁
newbluebluearmyfactionSishi RunakNot really. There was gate sharing from 1888 to the 1980s. And a maximum wage from 1900 to 1961. And restrictions on drawings until 1983. Perhaps not coincidentally those were the most competitive years in league history.WelshBlueDeregulation would be terrible for a league-based sport. FFP isn’t great but a free-for-all would be far worse.
We had a free for all for nearly 150 years and it worked alright enough.
In fact, the history of the game is the opposite of a ‘free for all’ 😁
Clubs regularly paid players way above the maximum wage (via other means), and shared gates are irrelevant. Clubs still paid what they wanted for players, and benefactors/business people could invest whatever they liked.
Fact. The sport was better when it was a “free for all”.
El MayorA free for all sounds great when you’ve got money but when things go tits up there is absolutely no safety net.
Without the FFP embargo I dread to think how much worse trouble the ineptitude of people like Dong could have got the club into - and there would be no recourse to blame anyone but our own greed for it.
I agree the current rules aren’t good enough but there has to be a better way
FFP didn’t do a thing to protect us from Dong and BSHL. We had no safety net from how badly they ran us into the ground.
Deregulate the lot.