Am I missing something?
How can pro/rel work if each region has a “protected” slot - especially for the regions who only have one NL club (franchise)?
like the Weenix They don't get relegated - the team that will be relegated is the next closest - so you could actually get a scenario where Weenix finish bottom, Soiuthern United 2nd bottom so the 3rd bottom team over 3 years would be relegated!
And if that was Canterbury (a franchise) they would just disappear because they won’t play in the msinland premier league.
In which case those franchise entities would not likely ever get back. In CHCH case the only club likely to have the $ to take on NL costs would be Chch(Russia) united. Completely destroy concept of a cantab rep team in the NL.
Also, no quota for youth players = a league for recycled journeymen players.