J R on 5Live

[Wiltshire Exile]

Just heard that John Ryan will be interviewed on 5Live this evening, probably in the next hour or so. I'm guessing that Mark Clemmet will be doing the questioning.

[SkellowRover]

Has he been on yet?

[kenrockrover]

40 mins ago

[SkellowRover]

What did he have to say?

[kenrockrover]

spoke about the parachute payments and the new possible over payments for future relegation clubs from prem .Spoke about having a wonderful manager we had but did not make a advertising board out of the great quiet man  !!!!

[vaya]

Most of the questions were about the proposed change to the ex-Premiership parachute payments - effectively bumping up the first two years massively and adding a futher third year of money.

JR was understandably against this, and focused on the emerging concept of a two-tier Championship witha ll the ex-Premiership teams formig and top two/three/four, and everyonme else below them as a result of this.

He focused on the good management at Rovers, Swansea and Blackpool as at the minute mitigating against this, and Forest being in third due to large amounts of cash being thrown at them.

He also managed to get in how good a fit both SOD and Billy where at Rovers, and that Billy couldn't buy a goal and the Blades, and perhaps any at other team......

[not on facebook]

if only the comercial department at drfc were as good as blowing the trumpet
for rovers as jr did in that interview

[River Don]

It looks like the Premier league are wanting to try and pull up the draw bridge and make it more certain that the relegated sides gain promotion straight back. Very bad for football if you ask me and JR is dead right to stand up against it.

It's a shame the other guests seemed more keen to talk about the increase the football league would receive without really giving any thought to what the huge increase in parachute payments would mean for the Championship. The parachute already puts the rest of the league at a massive disadvantage, this proposal will only make the situation worse. It's sickening.

... Then a few years down the line they will propose a break away Premiership 1 & 2 again because \"The Championship isn't competitive enough anymore and the same teams are always promoted anyway\". It's obvious.

[Wokingviking]

The commercial rationale for the Premier League \"pure\" investor has always been that relegation will cease soon.