Youth overhaul will damage Football League

This just give the rich clubs licence to asset strip where they like at no cost.
That's footballs governing body for you.

This could be a good thing for teams with a better academy than most, i.e. premiership and some championship teams. Whilst I'm against it in principle, it could actually work out well for Forest. Equally could mean we lose some of our best players - will just have to wait and see!

Terrible for football, not so much for Derby but for league one and two clubs
Not very often we produce someone good enough for the PL but I'd imagine Derby would be taking advantage and signing promising young tallent from lower leagues

I think Dario Gradi has been very critical and academies at lower league clubs also act as links to the community.

It has been said that these changes will help the England team? How?

A winter break, improved coaching with emphasis on technique, more players going overseas and experiencing other leagues will help the England team. This initiative just helps the likes of Chelsea to spend a couple of million on a number of 15 year olds and if one of them turns out to be good and the others all fall by the wayside, well that's all fine and dandy for Chelsea.

Nigel says in the DET that Mason is contracted until he is 20.How does this work with the new rules?.

I didn't think they could contract under 18 players for longer than the current year ? Also this means we could only get 3000 up to £40k pounds rather £100ks. Wrong decision for the lower leagues for sure. Only time will tell if it's going to impact championship clubs as well!

I don't give a to$$ about the England team. I do agree with Tom Cobley though, it's a licence to asset strip, plain and simple, the haves once again royally shafting the have-nots. What a cynical game this has become.

i read in the football league paper, that, if the league clubs didn't sign up, the prem would withold future funding. blackmail basically.

Dave, that was basically the blackmailing tactic they held out to. All this will do is make the rich clubs come and get all the promosing youngsters at lower levels for a fraction of the price than before. Another nail in the coffin for football.
Am i the only one that is fastly losing faith with the way the game is going?

Blackmail is second nature to the money men running the game nowadays. It's a pretty good fallback position for when their usual tactic of blatant theft doesn't work.