This situation is becoming intolerable.
Why do the EFL think this is any sort of way to do business. The season is over the transfer window is open and we have no idea whether to tell prospective signings if they are coming to push for promotion or face a relegation battle.
This purgatory is a punishment in itself and if its found that we face no sanction then we are being disadvantaged now in the transfer window.
All any of the press are able to dig up is that the noises, surrounding our inquiry, don't sound good.
Well WTF does that mean?
EFL sort your SHIITE out.
There's another total farce at Wednesday who have been deducted 12 points. Charlton are furious because had it been applied a fortnight earlier then the Owls would have been relegated and not them.
The situation in this league is not sustainable, we all know that but while the EFL hamstring championship clubs and the Premier League bankroll relegated clubs with longer and bigger parachute payments then any club wanting promotion without the help of PL money has to cheat and hope they get promoted to dodge the sanctions.
Is it time to drop to only two professional leagues? PL1 and 2? Both funded by SKY money with no parachute payments but also no relegation beyond PL2.
The threat of relegation from PL1 must remain as the jeopardy sells.
Then the massive question who makes the cut and who is left in non-league oblivion for eternity.
God knows how to fix this but something has to give.
Still no news on sanctions.
posted on 15/8/20
A classic something....
posted on 16/8/20
This purgatory is a punishment in itself and if its found that we face no sanction then we are being disadvantaged now in the transfer window.
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Are you seriously trying to suggest that even if you were nailed on promotion favourites, players would still want to come and join your club?
Don't blame the lack of interest of players wanting to join Derby City on whether your club re going to be deducted points next season or not
posted on 17/8/20
Yawn
posted on 17/8/20
Even self confessed Forest fan Kris Commons left Forest for Derby so what does that say about Forest? From Ian Storey-Moore to the present day players prefer Rams to red dogs.
I am certain if we were nailed on promotion favourites it would encourage players to sign but as we aren't it's an irrelevant statement. Of course Forest will be promoted by November as they are every season.
posted on 17/8/20
This is the finding of the independent panel concerning the Owls.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53803735
Apparently the EFL weren't happy that it took so long as they wanted the deduction to apply this season so that they would be relegated.
The panel have countered saying that the EFL gave them to much to look at in considering a second charge.
Also, interestingly, they said the EFL made no request to speed things up in the Derby case.
To me this seems clear because a 12 point deduction for Derby applied this season would have been absorbed without us going down.
Clearly the EFL want teams to feel the pain So a deduction applied next season is what they are after for us and they wanted Wednesday to go down this year.
The Panel haven't danced to their tune on Sheff W. Lets hope they don't give us a deduction. That really will rain on their parade.
posted on 17/8/20
Spart-Derby
The old soak went the other way though, didn't he?
Perhaps he was that pi$$ed he went the wrong way down the A50
posted on 17/8/20
He must have been because the road needed is the A52.
posted on 17/8/20
comment by Eddie 'the last waltz’ Gray (U7370)
posted 29 minutes ago
Spart-Derby
The old soak went the other way though, didn't he?
Perhaps he was that pi$$ed he went the wrong way down the A50
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To Stoke?
posted on 17/8/20
When there is an appeals process it would be impossible to send Wednesday down this season. All they have to do is appeal. They can't make them play games in a lower division, what would happen if they won the appeal half way through the next season. Wednesday are appealing anyway (not appealing to me though).
posted on 18/8/20
Is it taking so long because you've also got a second thing the EFL are looking at: player amortisation?
I'm sure it won't put David Marshall and Lee Gregory off though, so not all bad