(09 May 2014, 6:39 am)AdamY wrote Personally, I could care less whether Newcastle United B home games are well-attended when playing in Northern Alliance. The club gets 52,000 every week at St James Park and, even if they are placed on different tier of the pyramid, the same problem with attendance might surface as fan choose the 'big' club over the little club in League 3. However, West Allotment Celtic (and the league in general) would receive a short-term financial boost (something that might secure the status of the club for a season or two) and, personally, I would love to see more money going into clubs at a grassroots level through the participation of bigger clubs.
I am also supportive of a buddy-system where bigger clubs partner up with two or three smaller clubs and disperse their reserve and youth teams accordingly.
While I support the idea of Premier Reserves in an expanded football league, I also like the idea of a 'buddy-system' Premier League teams not just linking up but buying into non-League clubs, I don't know, a setup like the Minor Leagues in Baseball in America, but have it so clubs can only buy into a certain level, so a Premier League/Championship team cannot invest in a team higher than Step 3 nd not more than 1 club at the same level, so for example, Newcastle can invest an interest in say, Blyth Spartans at Step 3, Spennymoor at Step 4, North Shields at Step 5, West Allotment at Step 6, big teams can then disperse there squad players and youth players throughout the National League System to give them competitive games at different levels