EHM The Blue Line

Inspired by Lidas' threads

We have a bit of a conundrum with the British leagues for the upcoming Lidas Update.
The in-game situation is this:
EIHL has 10 teams - this is the top league
EPL has 12 teams - this is the 2nd league.

Now in real life, 2 teams have dropped out of the EIHL down to the EPL, whilst 4 teams have dropped down from the EPL to the (unplayable) ENL. So we now have:
EIHL has 8 teams
EPL has 10 teams.

The solution for the EPL seems quite obvious, we include the 2 teams that dropped down to the ENL most recently.

However since the teams from the EIHL that dropped down are playing in the EPL we can't do the same with this league. We had a couple of ideas:
1) Include a real-life team that has been rumoured be joining the EIHL - there a few from Scotland & Ireland that would introduce a few rivalries for the teams already in the league. These teams are already in the game but have mainly greyed-out players or poor quality players. We would leave their rosters unchanged before the season so they struggled in the league, so the current 8 teams would (hopefully) finish in the top 8.

2) Include a new franchise in the league. This would be a team that doesn't currently exist in the game or real-life. There have always been rumours of a Leeds of Liverpool team joining the league for example. These teams would be left with no starting roster again for the reasons given above.

3) Include an old team that no longer exists. There have been many teams that have come and gone in the past, for example Manchester Storm once held the record for the highest attendance at an Ice Hockey match in the UK(over 17,000) whilst there are some other teams that had been around for ages but had unfortunately disappeared - Durham for example. Again these teams would start without a roster.

Choosing an option in this poll requires no prior knowledge of the British leagues, we're just looking for a general consensus on what people would do if it was their home league that had this problem.


If anyone else has any other options then please post them in this thread

Was wondering how this was going to be broached in the update. Just my two cents but the rumours i've heard are that the EIHL are going to part fund a team to play out of Braehead in Glasgow, so wouldn't mind seeing a glasgow team added and secondly the London Racers technicially still have a franchise within the EIHL but simply do not have an arena to play out of, so i'd like to see the Racers re-added to the EIHL but with a new arena, as its pretty certain the hockey in London experiment is going to happen again in the near future, its a must. I think these would be interesting and partly realistic entries, would add some rivalries and provide two franchises in two big uk cities. As blank teams as you say theyd likely finish in the bottom two, but from an EHM players point of view starting with one of these new franchises with a blank slate would be an interesting challenge.

As you say, I think the London Racers would be a very good choice