I don't know about Brad - but I would! Why should my team be belittled in that way - there's 46 league games and at least 2 cup games (3 this year) to watch without throwing my money at an experiment aimed at chucking decent club's out of the league - and forget playing them what if a 100 year old club gets knocked out of the league by that U21 team and goes out of existence - we are all supposed to end up supporting the EPL. Balls to that.

The EFL are bigging up the attendance figures for the first round of fixtures, intentionally choosing to omit how many of those were heavily discounted or free tickets. All of them?

The competition is a sticking plaster at best for what it seeks to address. They only got it through this time by carrot dangling club chairmen with more money (compensation?) & having to reduce the unfair limitations on how much they can use their own squad players / youth.

It is the fastest most cost effective solution right now to get 23yr olds playing more competitive football. I think we all agree it's not the right way to do it. We know the problem is bigger than that and we also know due to EU law the FA are powerless to do anything about it. I just hope against hope for the future of kids coming through in this country when they don't have the shackles of EU law that they can press the Govt to make the changes needed that affect football (and possibly other sports), other than a one size fits all law. Of course if they can do that, it gives the FA a much stronger position to stand up to the PL, who will either need to throw more cash & resources at it or leave the EFL the hell alone. I can see a breakaway happening, I really can but who cares as long as our kids get a better probability than 0.00001% of breaking into the professional game.

The world of football cannot carry on sustaining these crazy tens of millions (I'm not even mentioning Neymar), transfer fees, neither the massive wages of players and the costs of cancerous agents. The future of the game belongs to developing your own, the right pathways, good facilities and qualified coaches not Dad wanting to be Alex Ferguson. The clubs who get this right will survive those that employ the likes of Steve Evans will burn to dust it literally is just a matter of time.

As for this competition it is simple - feel that strongly about it as Brad says - don't go. There's nothing wrong with Zip's angle either. It's like public transport - it will only ever truly work if everyone uses it - if its half and half it just creates more problems it seeks to resolve.

John Humphries might pass it on master mind but Jeremy Paxman might give a starter for 10 on University challenge