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<blockquote data-quote="valley commando" data-source="post: 767273" data-attributes="member: 72217"><p>The problem in my opinion is money, to much money in Soccer and that has ruined the game, it's lead to a steady increase in big money moves from abroad and has done nothing more than line the pockets of players and clubs, the other side of the coin is that the average fan is finding the cost of supporting a team unaffordable, soccer used to be the working mans game in England, grounds used to be populated with working men in flat caps who had an escape from the working week at 3pm every Saturday. Now the game is out of reach financially for a lot of ordinary people with the cost of taking the wife and a couple of kids akin to flying the family to Spain and back.</p><p>The winners are the club owners, the players, TV companies and advertisers, the looser the fans without who there would be no product. </p><p>There has been a steady decline in England soccers on field success since the 70's closely associated with vastly increased player income and an increased influx of foreign players, can anyone seriously expect silverware again, I doubt it, whoever coaches England has an impossible task with an ever decreasing pool to pick from.</p><p></p><p>In rugby this problem seems to exist only in France and England where clubs seem to have more money to throw at player imports. This World Cup has seen poor returns from both nations and although France reached the 1/4s this was probably the worst performing French side in my memory and one which has a direct correlation with the low numbers of French qualified players plying their trade in the top 14, this is also mirrored in England. My feeling is that the respective unions need to man up and take ownership of the game as a whole, because at the moment the collective clubs seem to have far greater power than their respective unions and it has become a case of the tail wagging the dog.</p><p>Directives on match day squads need to be put in place with a maximum number of imports (6 in my opinion) in each 23, it would also level the playing field for individual clubs giving some of the lesser lights a fairer chance on the domestic scene, with Soccer we already know at the start of any given season that one of 3 or 4 teams is going to win the premiership and that around half a dozen are in a relegation dog fight with the others settling for mid table mediocrity and a possible cup run, as I've said before it smacks of groundhog day, where is the fun in that ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="valley commando, post: 767273, member: 72217"] The problem in my opinion is money, to much money in Soccer and that has ruined the game, it's lead to a steady increase in big money moves from abroad and has done nothing more than line the pockets of players and clubs, the other side of the coin is that the average fan is finding the cost of supporting a team unaffordable, soccer used to be the working mans game in England, grounds used to be populated with working men in flat caps who had an escape from the working week at 3pm every Saturday. Now the game is out of reach financially for a lot of ordinary people with the cost of taking the wife and a couple of kids akin to flying the family to Spain and back. The winners are the club owners, the players, TV companies and advertisers, the looser the fans without who there would be no product. There has been a steady decline in England soccers on field success since the 70's closely associated with vastly increased player income and an increased influx of foreign players, can anyone seriously expect silverware again, I doubt it, whoever coaches England has an impossible task with an ever decreasing pool to pick from. In rugby this problem seems to exist only in France and England where clubs seem to have more money to throw at player imports. This World Cup has seen poor returns from both nations and although France reached the 1/4s this was probably the worst performing French side in my memory and one which has a direct correlation with the low numbers of French qualified players plying their trade in the top 14, this is also mirrored in England. My feeling is that the respective unions need to man up and take ownership of the game as a whole, because at the moment the collective clubs seem to have far greater power than their respective unions and it has become a case of the tail wagging the dog. Directives on match day squads need to be put in place with a maximum number of imports (6 in my opinion) in each 23, it would also level the playing field for individual clubs giving some of the lesser lights a fairer chance on the domestic scene, with Soccer we already know at the start of any given season that one of 3 or 4 teams is going to win the premiership and that around half a dozen are in a relegation dog fight with the others settling for mid table mediocrity and a possible cup run, as I've said before it smacks of groundhog day, where is the fun in that ? [/QUOTE]
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