Unfortunately, these sort of changes are what we have to expect if the FA, Premier League and Football League aren't willing to combat the power divide in English football.
The long and short of it is that grass roots football needs better facilities and better coaching, both in terms of ability and numbers. To improve these two areas, of which England is lacking as a nation, you need to spend money.
Yet despite this, we spent an obscene sum on St. George's Park. What good is this facility if the majority of young players never visit it?
I remember speaking to an ex player at the time of St George's Park opening. His son was a Premier League coach at the time and had recently been sent on a training course in Europe. The Europeans were howling at SGP he said. They couldn't understand why we had a nation of poor facilities and under funded volunteers, when we could spend that sort of money on one facility.
Imagine if the FA had spent all of that money on facilities for each of the 72 Football League clubs. What if they had extended that to all of the Conference clubs too? That facility cost just over £100m I believe. What would just £1m do to improve the facilities at Home Park?
These rules are nonsense. If we want the English national side to improve we need to spend cash on grass roots football and that's before limiting the number of young players big clubs can sign it never play.