I'm against integration, maybe it's the baseball fan in me, but I like the two separate leagues with the Manager Cup effectively giving us an end of season our very own World Series. (Although I also quite like the idea of a Champions League style finale with all league and cup winners/runners-up playing each other in some format or another - but that would undoubtedly involve lots of programming and extend post/pre-season)

For me the separate leagues are one of The Manager's unique aspects that make it stand out. It also has no financial reward for league placings (CP only) with Morale the only real financial divider. This helps keep the teams in all divisions on a level pegging.

Regarding the current Poll - the wording tends to give us a mixed set of responses - both for and against Integration (or is it a Toryesque Centralisation?) also give an opinion about managerless clubs. 4 out of 8 votes are more to do with getting rid of managerless clubs. Only Adam knows how many are rudderless. And it always seems to be the managers at the bottom of the leagues that leave. Would an integrated league not make the 5th division the more likely to polarise those managers into one division?

David made some good comments regarding the Poll. At the moment an Evolution Div 2 team can play top tier football after just one season. Origin after two. An integrated league could mean four seasons if you're lucky. And as he said it's not even been debated before there's no reason to consider it seriously is there?

Stewart has raised some good points for us to contemplate and asked for the reasons the Remainers are wanting to stay. I hope I've answered some of those questions, but I also have to ask him to respond as well as he has answered a question with a question (my wife does this all the time) why does he not enjoy the current format? Does he not feel pushed enough in the Evo League? (The Treble is yet to be done and Sparta Partick will be gunning for the league title more this season)

And because I'm not that great at planning journals I'm finishing with two random things I couldn't squeeze in elsewhere: The Catalans moved wholesale from the Evo to the Origin league it's not a closed shop. And suggestions of reducing division size to 10 teams would also mean having to change the promotion/relegation format as 'mid' leagues could potetially see all teams leave in one season - 5 up and 5 down.