Personally, I don't like this proposal as I feel it is being used by these bigger clubs and fat cats to "test the water" as a precursor in regard to trying to potentially place academy teams within the Football League Pyramid.
Its bad enough that the academy status has four levels where the fat cats can cream off the best of the talent pool for a pittance. To then have them push these players back onto the rest of the Football League in whatever format, whether it be by this "proposal" or "experiment" or any future proposal or idea stinks.
They (big clubs ) swallow up all the obscene amounts of T.V. money and we as lower league clubs have to fight over the scraps that fall from the top table. All this while paying foreigners ridiculous wages.
A better idea would be to limit the number of foreign players allowed to play in their teams, thus forcing them to play homegrown talent as they do in the Bundesliga where the German F.A. adopt a similar ruling.
I won't attend any game in the Paint Pot Cup next season out of principle. If ever the day comes when Academy sides are allowed to compete in the Football League, then I'm afraid that is the day when my love of the game will probably be fatally damaged.
