News has been coming out of Edinburgh and Newcastle this week that both teams are maybe not doing so well financially with Edinburgh pleading for their fans to turn out and show support while Newcastle have revealed this could well be their last year in the EIHL. The current economic climate of which I don’t claim to be an expert on but which I know isn’t going well, has kept fans at home and forced teams to perhaps tighten their belts. Unfortunately for some teams the belt doesn’t get any tighter and they are still losing cash and the upshot of it all is a worrying thought for the EIHL as a whole.

Last year we had ten teams but dropped to eight this season with Manchester and Basingstoke dropping down a level and I’m not sure the league could realistically survive in anything less than an eight team league. Potentially losing Edinburgh and Newcastle would take us to a six team league and while there is no hard evidence I imagine Hull and Cardiff are hardly rolling in cash either. The option for them to head to the EPL along with the likes of Edinburgh and Newcastle might be temping and could leave us with just four EIHL able teams. A no go.

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