Fife for the EPL?

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Fife want to play at a higher level (thats not the EIHL)

So, Fife Flyers in the EPL? Yes please!

Now, I know this would be something that the Southern EPL teams would probably be agianst, simply because of the travelling, but hear me out. I propose a new 'British Premier Ice Hockey League' (BPIHL).

To keep costs down, I would split this into 2 conferences, thusly:

North:
Manchester Phoenix
Sheffield Scimitars
Fife Flyers
Dundee Stars
Solway Sharks
Whitley Warriors/Newcastle Vipers (Whichever was interested and able to ice a team)
Hull Stingrays
Edinburgh Capitals

South:
Basingstoke Bison
Bracknell Bees
Guildford Flames
Slough Jets
Romford Raiders
Milton Keynes Lightening
Swindon Wildcats
Peterborough Phantoms

The schedule would run as thus:

2x home, 2x Away against teams in own conference (28 games), 1x home, 1x away against the other conference teams (16 games) for a total of 44 league matches (10 fewer than currently), plus 3x home, 3x away cup games, based on groups of 4 drawn at random from within own conference (6 games). Winners of each cup group progress to a 2 legged semifinal against winners of the other group in each conference (ie North Group 1 winners play north group 2 winners), and the winners of this move on to a 2 legged final.

Playoffs are top 4 from each conference, playing 2 legged conference semis. Winners of the conference semis go to finals weekend where they play 1 game for conference title, then conference winners play in Grand Final to determine play off champions.

I think that looks, and sounds pretty damn good, but undoubtedly it will piss some folks off (Too many/few games, too many teams, etc).

Thoughts people?