Quote Originally Posted by vespabri View Post
I like the bundesliga idea..
Union Berlin beat Stuttgart last season to get promoted and Stuttgart in turn were relegated.
When the playoffs were first introduced we had a similar system as I recall..why did we scrap that way?
I believe it was thought to be better to give an incentive to one extra team to have the chance to gain promotion from the lower league than it was to give hope of survival to one more team in the higher division. Like when we lost out to Swansea, we'd already had a crap season and that loss just added insult to injury.