Kasper Schmeichel joins us again on the Fozcast earning his 2nd cap on the pod! The current Celtic and Denmark GK talks about his time in Belgium with Anderlecht and tells us about the crazy league system which you guys just need to hear…
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29 Comments
Best format ever!
Insane? It´s intense competitive and exciting from august to may. Every smaller league should do this.
At the end where Kasper is speaking about bravery, it had me think back to when I was a goalkeeper for my university team in Canada. Myself and the other keeper always said to each other everyday at training and before/during games “Be comfortable being uncomfortable.” That mindset change allowed us to play very high up the field, being very exposed, to support and basically act as a CB
As a KV Kortrijk fan, I like not having play-offs
People need to understand that money is the most important motivation in these kind of decisions. By halving the points they hope to make the league more suspenseful, which will boost everything around it, ticket sale, tv ratings, merchandising and so on.
Half of the country doesn't like the format at all. You can work your ass off all season and get a 24 point lead, which in any country would be a massive gap to get to the title…. and all of a sudden, woopsie daisy it gets to 12. So the teams that done worse get a free pass to get in form for the last games.
Bruges fan, it's an abhorrent system. Even though we won it last year because of it.
Funny thing is that Kasper lost the league due to this points reduction 😂
Beerschot fan here, it makes the league really nice but it is unfair. In the top play offs points get halved, in the relegation play offs not…
He's now playing in Scotland who do the same split thing. There's been cases of a team finishing 7th on more points than the team in 5th.
Keeping tension till the end of the season isn't the only argument in favor of the Belgian league format. The big clubs surely saw the extra ticket income as a strong motivation as well. But what gets mostly overlooked, is the effect on Belgian clubs' performance in Europe. The last 3 seasons they consistenly scored a lot of points for the UEFA coefficient, only the big 5 do better. More games against tough opposition generates more experienced squads, often an issue in smaller leagues dominated by a handful of teams. And being consistent all season isn't enough, you need to stand up in those big playoff games to qualify for Europe. Hard to prove the causal effect, but I don't think it's a coincidence.
remember, Club Brugge is the biggest Belgian club
All smaller divisions should be like this, change my mind
I'm always a little bewildered when I see people complain about the points deduction when it's literally called "play-offs". Virtually every other play-off system removes the points tally entirely. Just makes me wonder how little other sports the average European football fan watches.
Not gonna lie though, the current Belgian system requires a lot of nitty gritty rulebook work and looks confusing on paper, but it pans out fine the first time you follow along.
Good talk, always nice to hear different POVs, especially the goalkeeper's.
Our play off system is ridicolous. Union always would have been the champ. They wanna make it exciting by cutting down the points, but that's just unfair. Just go back to the old system, after 38 games the team with the highest amount of points is the champion. Nice and simple.
Interesting mix of American and world style of deciding a champion.
Scotland has the same split system, which is designed to make the run in more competitive, but often one team runs away in the normal phase and has it in the bag before the split. On the times it has gone to the wire, it’s mega exciting (or excruciatingly painful).
It’s a good format, but halving the points is mad. Penalises a team that done well and gives a second chance to a probably bigger club with players more likely to handle the pressure. Imagine England halving the points the year Lester won’t and suddenly Man City are back in the title run in.
Scotlands split means you don’t have a vastly easier run in than your rival because you could have the bottom four in the last four games and they have top five.
Means the relegation teams play each other and that is often a lot closer than the top of the table due to the top two having more money as is what footballs about these days.
Belgian playoffs is a STUPID thing
The standard format doesn't suit all leagues/countries. Surely it's better that different countries have their own way of doing things?
Got to give the 1000th like, as a belgian…. i ll take it as a good sign for the new year. Happy with the little things 😂
As a Belgian, this why I stopped watching football. It's not a real league
Halving the league is bad its like Scotland it just suits the top teams. If you are a bottom half club who manages to get clear then have to play the best teams again its not fair.
WAS* the biggest club of Belgium.
Belgian here. Our league system is quite controversial but I really like it. It makes for an exciting competition until the end of the season as it avoids a team winning the league weeks in advance + the top teams play each other more often.
bigest club in Belgium is club brugge
Future manager I’m
Sure.
It definitely improved the level in Belgium. In the last 3y they perfomed better than the French league. (5th best)
Just like our taxes….
I hope we can do the same in the danish superliga. Just not the part with halfing the points. Right know we split the 12 team league into top and low 6.
I think we ahould go 3 division with 4 teams each. Maybe exstend it to 14 teams and go 4 in the top and 5 5 in the lower. Right now. The winner of the bottom division (# 6) gets to play against the #3 to go into europe.. wich is just insane.