WPL in europe

[Zenith]

The only thing that will change the quality is having enormous investment for each club - better facilities, stadium upgrades etc. If every club had say at least a £1m transfer budget each season (higher end League Two budget) you would hope the quality of the league would improve greatly.

Likewise if this was the case, you would think the best coaches graduating through the FAW would then have first pick at jobs in Wales rather than going elsewhere as a first bit of managerial experience. At the moment this isn't the case for the bigger names who are coming down for the courses. Not saying they're better than some lad from Porthmadog but working under a bigger name would be (I should think) more of an incentive for players around conference/league two level.

Now and again you will get a very good player come through but they are always going to be poached, that is just fact.

[PhyllisStant]

The only thing that will change the quality is having enormous investment for each club - better facilities, stadium upgrades etc. If every club had say at least a £1m transfer budget each season (higher end League Two budget) you would hope the quality of the league would improve greatly.

Likewise if this was the case, you would think the best coaches graduating through the FAW would then have first pick at jobs in Wales rather than going elsewhere as a first bit of managerial experience. At the moment this isn't the case for the bigger names who are coming down for the courses. Not saying they're better than some lad from Porthmadog but working under a bigger name would be (I should think) more of an incentive for players around conference/league two level.

Now and again you will get a very good player come through but they are always going to be poached, that is just fact.

I think Cardiff, Swansea and Newport should be allowed to use the WPL as a reserve league, in the same way big Spanish teams field second XI in a competitive league.

I understand there may be legalities but I'm sure there could be a workable solution....

Tan acquires Barry Town for £4.30. We send a shed load our youth and dev squad on loan there every season. Allow Barry to use our training, medical and coaching facilities.

Effectively turning Barry into Cardiff Reserves, but giving more meaningful competitive matches to our youth and reserve team and potentially European experience.

Due to Barry being in a different country to Cardiff (sic) I don't think any conflict of ownership laws would be broken.

There's no reason Swansea couldn't do something similar with a team like Carmarthen Town, and Newport with TNS.