This interview is being serialised in The Journal over the coming weeks. In this sixth extract John Pool, Chairman of the Toolstation Western League and Phil Hiscox, the South West Peninsula League Secretary, consider how the administration of the new League structure will work.

JP: We're a long way away from actually deciding exactly how to put this together. I mean, it will become one league with one administrative body. You'd like to think that the clubs will recognise that they come first, last and everything else really, and I think everybody's aware now that there are going to be rules and regulations to sit around all this. We're tasked with making sure that standards are kept.

Sponsorship will certainly play a key role in it, and that's very much a work in progress at the moment with regards to looking at sponsorship deals available to us and being able to support the clubs in whatever way we can. And that goes back to what Phil said, not just in aspiration to be promoted, but in aspiration to improve facilities and everything else.

I think one of the things that, again, has perhaps gone by us a little bit is the fact that a lot of these clubs, in particular down in Cornwall, and it's probably true across Devon and Somerset as well, that they're very much part of the communities. And a lot of focus, you know, quite rightly so, is in and around their particular football clubs. It's something that we feel strongly that with financial support, and I think the FA have got a part play in all of this with their funding schemes as well that we can get in beyond a lot of these clubs.

So, what would the clubs notice? It's, hopefully, not major change in terms of the way that leagues are administrated, but certainly, the whole package, we hope, will offer up more than what perhaps is available to the clubs now. Bearing in mind we're talking eighty plus, nearly ninety clubs potentially.

PH: I think from my point of view, the important thing is it will be very difficult to merge two leagues that have their own way of doing things and their own administration at the moment. There's bound to be a conflict of characters and how things are run.

Going into it, I think the two important things for me is the end goal should be to keep the best bits of both. So, if one league does something in a way that works better than the other league, that's the way to go. If there's actually a better way than either league does at the moment, that's the way to go. The other thing, and I'll praise John on this, is myself and John gave a commitment to each other that we would be here to see the project through. But neither of us, our own egos, will get in the way to the point that, if necessary for the good of the project, it's about what's delivered, rather than about what roles John or myself might have in it, or might not have in it.

The full interview can be heard on Episode 42 of the Toolstation Western League Podcast, which can be found online at http://toolstationleague.com/podcasts/.

Next week, John Pool and Phil Hiscox consider both the benefits and the challenges the proposed merger will bring.