Possible new rules to improve the Checkatrade Trophy

.... which are better than involving Sunderland and Reading's reserve reserves.

1) Scoring should be in the style of Gaelic Football - 3 points for a goal, and one for booting it over the bar.

2) Penalty shoot outs should involve everyone employed by the club including the tea lady. If that fails to separate the sides then the supporters get a turn. This will surely boost attendances, as if you've only got three fans at the game you'll probably lose.

3) Every team has to field at least one player as heavy as Mick Quinn or heavier, and one former player over 40. Too many athletes these days. If you can combine this in one player or the said player is at least 1.5 times the weight of Mick Quinn in his prime (ie Neil Shipperley) your team gets a goal head start.

I reckon any of these ideas if adopted will brighten up a flagging competition. Any other ideas? I reckon once we've compiled a few we should whittle them down to the ten best and ping them to the F. A.

 

The players on any u23 team that lose to a team of lower league ne'er do wells should immediately become the property of said league team.

 

Playing for keeps is a great idea. It should also be adopted in football league games.

We'd have managed to get rid of Tom Kennedy and Jacob Mellis much quicker.

 

Goalkeepers should be replaced by robots from Robot Wars. However centre forwards will be allowed to use weapons against goalkeepers also. This encourages attacking formations.

Each goal scored should result in your own goal being extended by 1 metre in both width and height. This will make for high scoring games and general excitement. Gillingham's 7-5 win over the Reading boys team the other night will become a 'low scoring game'.

If there's a draw at the end of the match, the final result will be decided by a top gear style game of car conkers.

The winners of the Checkatrade trophy will be awarded with a place in the Asian Champions League. This is to boost the popularity of teams other than Man Utd and Real Madrid in Asia.

For each u23s team eliminated in the first round, there place for the following season will be given to another football team in the world completely at random. This could be a great source of revenue for regional teams in countries such as Ethiopia or Syria. The Checkatrade Trophy could single handedly solve poverty issues.

All matches will be shown live on Dave.

 

All teams should have 5 goalkeepers.

 

Maybe they could do circular laps round the net and whoever is in front when a shot comes in gets to try and save it.

 

Make Hemsy manager.

 

To help third world poverty and increase awareness of English football, play all rounds of the competition in places like Nigeria or Pakistan and the final in Eritrea.
Would be a lovely gesture..

 

Every match would then be 10,hours long with the manager disappearing soon after kick off then reappearing sporadically to confuse players of both sides and further extend the match.....non starter for me that one mate