Arch44 wrote:heater31 wrote:Trader wrote:Minimum Chips wrote:I wonder how many clubs will be playing their final game this weekend? Not meaning the ones not in the top four but for next season and beyond?
None. Even if the invite only comp gets up, the remaining clubs will be welcomed into ATCA and continue on playing there. No loss of history, just a change of competition.
Will cause headaches for the ATCA though.....will they will just want waltz into A1.
Good headaches though.
Agree its good headaches.
If it does happen, you'd think SACA will invite 8 clubs to the new comp, meaning 5 clubs go to ATCA, not just 1 or 2.
With 5 coming in, that's easy and you don't get just one or two teams getting relegated, its clearly a wholesale change and individual atca clubs won't feel hard-done-by.
I'd think you'd see something like the following play out:
A1 becomes this years top 6 sides, plus the A2 premiers, plus the 5 SACA clubs that move over.
A2 becomes this years bottom 6 from A1, plus 2-6 from A2, plus the A3 premiers.
A3 is this years 7-10 from A2, plus 2-6 from A3, B1 premiers and the 2 highest ranked SACA B grades of the 5 transfer clubs
reintroduce A4, which is 11&12 from A2, 7-11 from A3 (noting they didn't have a 12th side in A3 this year), the bottom 3 SACA B grades coming over, and say 2nd and 3rd from B1 to come up (normally only 2nd would).
That leaves you 3 teams short in B1 (three being promoted and none coming down).
B1-C2 this year only had 49 teams (12,10,10,9 and 8 respectively).
The 5 SACA clubs coming over might have say 8 teams between them for C and D grades (ie: assume the weakest two elect not to fill a D-grade).
That means the 46 ATCA teams plus 8 SACA teams gives you 54 teams total to fill as follows:
B1 - 12
B2 - 12
B3 - 10
C1 - 10
C2 - 10
Only spanner to that would be if Adel Uni are one of the 5 clubs coming over, as they already have 4 teams in those lower ATCA grades and therefore couldn't fit 2 more, only 1 unless they had two teams in the same grade.
But to get back to the original point, yes, you could accept 5 SACA clubs relatively easily and it would be a huge boost to the ATCA comp.