Disadvantages for #Teams Like Rotherham

[GlennMiller]

As the game develops, the changes inevitably appear to favour the bigger/richer clubs. Here's a few examples;

Five subs - great if you have a deep squad and can bring on a glittering array of subs. Not so good if you're on the bones of your 'arris and struggle to fill the bench.

Parachute payments - geared to ensure that failed 'big' clubs retain their better players and remain competitive for promotion to the league from which they've been relegated.

30 second injury rule - quality technical players can hang on to possession for at least 30 seconds. If #TlR are down to 10 men for any period of time, we're under the cosh.

TV driven congested fixtures - play Boro on Tuesday night followed by Sunderland on Friday night - not a problem if you have a large squad and can rotate players. Different story if you have to field the same starting XI for each game if you're going to have a chance of being competitive.

The football landscape is becoming so biased towards bigger clubs that it makes you wonder if there's any chance RUFC or #TlR will ever have a chance of achieving success in the Championship.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

As the game develops, the changes inevitably appear to favour the bigger/richer clubs. Here's a few examples;

Five subs - great if you have a deep squad and can bring on a glittering array of subs. Not so good if you're on the bones of your 'arris and struggle to fill the bench.

Parachute payments - geared to ensure that failed 'big' clubs retain their better players and remain competitive for promotion to the league from which they've been relegated.

30 second injury rule - quality technical players can hang on to possession for at least 30 seconds. If #TlR are down to 10 men for any period of time, we're under the cosh.

TV driven congested fixtures - play Boro on Tuesday night followed by Sunderland on Friday night - not a problem if you have a large squad and can rotate players. Different story if you have to field the same starting XI for each game if you're going to have a chance of being competitive.

The football landscape is becoming so biased towards bigger clubs that it makes you wonder if there's any chance RUFC or #TlR will ever have a chance of achieving success in the Championship.

The strings need snipping on the parachute. That's the major factor we can never match.

[BramleyMiller58]

The strings need snipping on the parachute. That's the major factor we can never match.

Said for ages that parachute payments should not go direct to the club but to an administrator who releases the money only for EXISTING commitments and not for transfers/new contracts

[flourbasher]

It will be worse in the cship from now on because more games will be televised
Friday night , Saturday lunchtime, Sat evening, all hours on a Sunday will be the norm.
Games thick and fast affecting away travel for fans plus reduced resting for players

More money from tv though

[Scum-Triumphant]

Parachute payments do nothing other than reward failure.
It makes absolutely no sense that a team relegated to the championship is finically rewarded X15 than the team promoted to it.

It is supposedly designed to be able to pay existing contracts but the better players are sold on relegation every time.
When Villa went down the first thing they did was spend 12 million on Ross McCormack.

Norwich and West Brom built themselves a cracking business model by Yo yo-ing for a few years.

[Townerslovechild]

The extra subs rules and the other bits don't really make that much difference, the ral killer is parachute payments,this is a disgusting rule.
So a club fails by being relegated, so let's give them a load of money for being sh*t.
Then in most championship seasons you have 5 or 6 teams with extra money they shouldn't have, and the likes of Rotherham have to try and compete with them

[flourbasher]

Then in most championship seasons you have 5 or 6 teams with extra money they shouldn't have, and the likes of Rotherham have to try and compete with them

Yes so for approximately 25% of the fixtures we have to play opponents that we have virtually no chance of beating due to their resources.
It’s bad enough because most clubs have more income from ticket sales, merchandise and sponsorship than we do but when the tv money is added onto that as well then it’ makes it totally uncompetitive

[caytonmiller]

Thing is why would the TV company's and premier league/championship want clubs that can't generate income for their product.
I agree with towner. Imo The other rules don't make much difference
Parachute payment are the main problem though if the cash wasn't paid out to the relegated clubs it would only get distributed between the premier League clubs

[Brin]

Thing is why would the TV company's and premier league/championship want clubs that can't generate income for their product.
I agree with towner. Imo The other rules don't make much difference
Parachute payment are the main problem though if the cash wasn't paid out to the relegated clubs it would only get distributed between the premier League clubs

.....but then it would start to stop some clubs splashing out with big money signings in fear of if they dropped, they'd still have a player's contract to honour. Maybe this is the way forward? Get the game back on an even keel, remove the parachute payments altogether but with fair notice to clubs are look like going up and to those who flirt near the bottom of the Prem year in year out.

[GlennMiller]

Imo The other rules don't make much difference

Disagree. When our first team is knacked after 75 minutes and we look to the bench for reinforcements, we have limited resources to choose from. The clubs at the top end of the Championship have benches full of players who would walk into our first team and they are able to bring on 5 top quality replacements. This must be a tangible advantage to the bigger/richer clubs and is just another way football has changed to the disadvantage of clubs such as RUFC imo.