Excellent stuff man and thanks for the shout out. It's great to see you creating a little spin off site and marketing Hive and SportTalkSocial there as well. This will most certainly drive more traffic and users over here, so big thanks for that man, keep up the great work.

Regarding player power, it is not clear cut. On the one hand, the players get paid grossly over inflated amounts of money and can act like spoilt children at times, which would make me not feel at all sorry for them. On the other hand the clubs are cut throat and will cut them lose if they are no longer an RGU (Revenue Generating Unit) for their club. The players are just numbers or lumps of meat these days to make money for the share holders - it is a sad thing to say, but money rules the world of football these days at the highest level.