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Post by Rich on May 1, 2009 18:31:29 GMT 1
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on May 1, 2009 18:58:57 GMT 1
8 team league...wonder how many will make the play offs  Also with a dwindling league it will get very repetitive...how long before the Capitals and Vipers start to feel the pinch and drop down...followed by Hull. I will be amazed if all 8 finish the season. It's 2002-03 all over again...only this time without the supposed Import heavy teams that were claimed to be the problem. |
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Post by captainjack on May 1, 2009 19:23:59 GMT 1
This is only my second season following the Blaze so I don't recall events of years gone by. But as I used to think the league was too small with 10 teams, it feels like its falling apart with eight!
The problem is that its going to get really repetitive. We've seen with ten teams how playing everyone six times gets a bit of a bore. I went to six games last season and three of them were against Phoenix. My cousin (who came along with me, coincidentally to the Phoenix games) couldn't make head or tail of why we kept playing the same team. Everyone tends to imagine its the same as football with 1 home and 1 away fixture each season. If only it was!!!
I don't know what the answer is but something has to be done. To be honest the only way in my mind to get a satisfactory number of teams in the division is a merger with the EPL to make a league of 19. I know that the problem essentially is that of finance and that some teams (like us) have loads more mon£y to spend on the squad. Maybe some rules could be introduced to level up the playing field a bit, i.e. a wage cap or something.
Anyone else got any ideas???
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Post by thfnick on May 3, 2009 9:45:50 GMT 1
This is only my second season following the Blaze .............................................. Maybe some rules could be introduced to level up the playing field a bit, i.e. a wage cap or something. Anyone else got any ideas??? It doesn't take long to realise what a complete and utter sham British ice hockey is does it? There is supposed to be a wage cap but I have no doubts that those in a position to ignore it do just that - I've little doubt Blaze play lip service to any such cap. The good ship EIHL is heading for choppy waters. With Captain Connevery and his fellow incompetents in charge I have little doubt that it will end up sinking. |
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Post by Claret & Blue Army on May 3, 2009 16:48:18 GMT 1
Not long before the Elite League joins the Superleague and the many that fell before it.
That said the organisers will be running out of superlatives to call the new league.
The Super-Dooper League perhaps?
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Post by captainjack on May 4, 2009 19:45:30 GMT 1
The only other thing I can think of is to merge the fixtures with the EPL but seperate the sides into two divisions, if that makes sense. I.e. the same as the MLS in America, with an East Conference and a West Conference but everyone in each league playing each other.
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Post by thfnick on May 5, 2009 7:18:54 GMT 1
The only other thing I can think of is to merge the fixtures with the EPL but seperate the sides into two divisions, if that makes sense. I.e. the same as the MLS in America, with an East Conference and a West Conference but everyone in each league playing each other. I suspect that Messers Connvery, Cowley and Black have alienated so many people that the EPL clubs have no interest in speaking to the EIHL. The formation of the EIHL left a bad taste in many mouths but I would have thought making the senior league a bastion of professionalism, opening meaningful dialog with all other leagues in an effort to take this port forward would have seen some of those burnt bridges rebuilt. Unfortunately what we have had is a league that doesn't have a rule book, joke cup competitions, meaningless playoffs, shafts it's own members (see Scoot Neil's comments) and generally makes things up as it goes a long. I don't think they have got everything wrong, on the contrary I think they have done some things rather well - the development of Biritish players for example but I can't see it last more than an other year or two unless their is a dramatic change in direction/approach from those in charge. |
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