I like the idea of the National League being involved, I'd be interested to see how non-league clubs would fair, there's also plenty of former league clubs down there who could give L1/L2 teams a good game.
Personally I'm not against a group stage as such, it adds far more intrigue than a single win/lose game.
The only thing that caused this to be an utter failure for me was to be treated like 2nd class clubs in our own competition. Being forced to play someone else's 2nd team whilst having so many selection rules imposed on us that we couldn't restore some pride and play our own against them.
It's why Postey's suggestion is not a joke, Harvey should resign for this. He just doesn't get Football League clubs, we are already forced to live in the Premier League's "glamorous" shadow. FL fans up and down the country ridiculed for choosing their local team over a plastic team, as head of our governing body he should be doing more to close the gap. To put us in a competition with B-Teams is to say that's all we're worth, 2nd string to a Premier club. It failed because Mr Harvey doesn't get the FL's struggle.
