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Post by one2many on Jun 9, 2020 15:31:58 GMT
I would like to say "couldn't care less" but no fan wants to see their team relegated. The pain is softened somewhat because we knew it was coming, it was deserved and there are other things far more important to think about at the moment. I remember our last year in division four with fond memories so not all doom and gloom.
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Post by whitesince63 on Jun 9, 2020 15:42:22 GMT
Not doom and gloom at all o2m, in fact I think we’ve now hit rock bottom so it should be only upwards from here. No surprise really but I do think the main beneficiaries here are Wycombe who were falling quickly before the lockdown and probably wouldn’t have made the play offs. Still, there were always going to be winners and losers I suppose but personally I still believe the only fair way to resolve things was to void the season because artificial results can never be the right way to do it with so many games still to play. Anyway, we are where we deserve to be so no complaints about that but it will be interesting to see what happens regarding the squad and managers contracts over the next few weeks. I don’t suppose there’s any real rush as there’s no prospect of a restart until September at the earliest so I think we’ll probably have more waiting to do before anything concrete happens.
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Post by OohMac on Jun 9, 2020 18:50:54 GMT
Wish we could say weve hit rock bottom Whites. Our squad is paper thin. Non league and kids. We have lots to do and no money to do it.
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Post by kenglowhite on Jun 9, 2020 19:30:21 GMT
Don't we still have those three points suspended and a fine to pay ?
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Post by whitesince63 on Jun 10, 2020 13:11:17 GMT
I think it’s 5 points Kenglo, but as they’re suspended I’m not sure what implements them or they have a run out date. I suspect though that the penalty is only imposed if we transgress again although the financial penalty is probably payable at some point. Hopefully so but I’m more concerned about the player embargo remaining. Given the circumstances it would make sense for the EFL to reconsider and remove them because I think there could be a completely new set of rules and regulations imposed next year, including salary caps and squad compositions. It would seem pointless setting new standards and then continuing old ones for us but the this is the EFL we’re talking about where common sense is rather thin on the ground.
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Post by kenglowhite on Jun 10, 2020 21:29:59 GMT
Correct 63....five points suspended for 18 months from last November, so presumably that could just come into play at the end of the coming season if applied - a bit odd. Wonder how the continuing embargo will apply in the soon to be opened transfer free-for-all as we are likely to have less than a full first team ?
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Post by whitesince63 on Jun 10, 2020 21:45:37 GMT
It’s a mess Kenglo and as there are so many outstanding issues at the moment I wouldn’t bet on the EFL getting things in order before football kicks off again. I suppose all the immediate attention will understandably be given to the Championship until games are played and the season completed. That doesn’t leave much time before we’re due to kick off a new season and obviously clubs will need to know whether there is to be a salary cap or limits on squad sizes as has been discussed. Until there is some clarification on these and other matters it’s hard to see how clubs can realistically plan or recruit new players, particularly relevant in our case. Maybe they’ll surprise us and actually announce new regulations swiftly, I certainly hope so in order that we can start to prepare for our promotion push next season, whenever that is.
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Post by OohMac on Jun 11, 2020 7:20:56 GMT
Maybe now would be the right time to factor in Qatar 2022 so restructure the seasons. Starting later for this in mind.
Now championship is out of sync with other leagues do we jump the gun and start earlier. (Advantage being that Sky/BT/Amazon may back L1 and L2 if theres no prem or championship) or do we wait?) Or do we play the EFL trophy(to semi finals) league cup(to 2nd round)and FA cup qualifiers(to 3rd round) so when the league starts theres less games or only league games.
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