On the surface it sounds great, the ‘oppurtunity’ to qualify for the european games but the reality is Cardiff/Swansea would always gain those spots. Same as TNS in the Cymru premier. The cymru premier is considered the 3rd least competitive league in the entire world as FYI, closely behind Croatia and Tajikistan. Merthyr Town Fc in the 7th division averages around 1,000 more fans per home game than TNS, the winners of what.. the last 10/11 out of 13 seasons.
As a merthyr supporter, I am 99.9% certain we will vote down the proposal to join the cymru premier. As for the cymru european qualifiers.. it does bring money to the league, I cant deny but it is quite and simple a dead league. Unless you support TNS, Pen-y-bont or Connah Quay. The FaW trying to spear head welsh teams into europe for the sake of it(money involved) but the reality on the ground is, no one wants it apart from teams that can genuinely compete e.g caridff, swansea, wrexham.
There is always a chance. Aberystwyth have made it to the cup final despite being abysmal relegation fodder.
Adding more English teams to the JD Premier will further kill off the smaller teams that can’t compete.
I can see the FAW’s point of view in that they aren’t allowed to enter the ‘best’ teams from Wales into European club competitions, which then affects the rankings/coefficient, but I can’t see it happening – not least because other EFL teams won’t want to hand an additional source of revenue (ie European football) to Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham (which is significant in purely financial terms but also in FFP terms, as higher revenue means the wages they are allowed to pay would be higher than the limit that would otherwise apply).
Why don’t the Welsh Divisions apply to compete in the FA Cup instead?! Put the 2nd tier (North and South) and lower tier in one of the pre-qualifying rounds, then place the Premier teams into the 1st round. The EFL and FAW can strike up a deal where this can benefit both nations football. I can imagine a lot of the Welsh Prem fans wouldn’t mind an away day trip to face Morecambe or Walsall for a 1st round cup tie.
I think it’s a shame, I remember Welsh teams qualifying for Europe through the Welsh cup in the past and it’s a shame that politics has got in the way of it happening again.
I’d happily see them withdraw from the English cups as the prestige of those tournaments is much diminished in my opinion. To play in the Welsh cup and be in Europe. You could even give the Welsh champions league spot to the Welsh cup winner lol
Would never happen of course, if they did that they’d be forced out of the league by the professionally offended and the status quo was always going to remain.
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I thought this was already decided on?
On the surface it sounds great, the ‘oppurtunity’ to qualify for the european games but the reality is Cardiff/Swansea would always gain those spots. Same as TNS in the Cymru premier. The cymru premier is considered the 3rd least competitive league in the entire world as FYI, closely behind Croatia and Tajikistan. Merthyr Town Fc in the 7th division averages around 1,000 more fans per home game than TNS, the winners of what.. the last 10/11 out of 13 seasons.
As a merthyr supporter, I am 99.9% certain we will vote down the proposal to join the cymru premier. As for the cymru european qualifiers.. it does bring money to the league, I cant deny but it is quite and simple a dead league. Unless you support TNS, Pen-y-bont or Connah Quay. The FaW trying to spear head welsh teams into europe for the sake of it(money involved) but the reality on the ground is, no one wants it apart from teams that can genuinely compete e.g caridff, swansea, wrexham.
There is always a chance. Aberystwyth have made it to the cup final despite being abysmal relegation fodder.
Adding more English teams to the JD Premier will further kill off the smaller teams that can’t compete.
I can see the FAW’s point of view in that they aren’t allowed to enter the ‘best’ teams from Wales into European club competitions, which then affects the rankings/coefficient, but I can’t see it happening – not least because other EFL teams won’t want to hand an additional source of revenue (ie European football) to Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham (which is significant in purely financial terms but also in FFP terms, as higher revenue means the wages they are allowed to pay would be higher than the limit that would otherwise apply).
Why don’t the Welsh Divisions apply to compete in the FA Cup instead?! Put the 2nd tier (North and South) and lower tier in one of the pre-qualifying rounds, then place the Premier teams into the 1st round. The EFL and FAW can strike up a deal where this can benefit both nations football. I can imagine a lot of the Welsh Prem fans wouldn’t mind an away day trip to face Morecambe or Walsall for a 1st round cup tie.
I think it’s a shame, I remember Welsh teams qualifying for Europe through the Welsh cup in the past and it’s a shame that politics has got in the way of it happening again.
I’d happily see them withdraw from the English cups as the prestige of those tournaments is much diminished in my opinion. To play in the Welsh cup and be in Europe. You could even give the Welsh champions league spot to the Welsh cup winner lol
Would never happen of course, if they did that they’d be forced out of the league by the professionally offended and the status quo was always going to remain.
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