I won't link to the beano article but if by some miracle the season is completed there is the option of extending players contracts for a month or However long needed to see the last 10 games out. Not all have to be retained. Would just look to keep the players we want to keep going forward and get rid of those that are not which would be bunney, hobbs, Buckley, o'Grady, mellis. Would imagine the loan players would have already gone back. Leave a side like Matthew's, Emmanuel, zouma, Delaney brockbank, l.murphy, lowe, darcy, politic, d.murphy, dodoo. The kids could make up the numbers. Oxford was a designated Saturday night stay over and home after the match. Shame as never been to oxford. Had plans for lincoln but the rain and postponement put paid to that. Been one weird season with the kids getting thrashed and then the new hope with hill and his new signings. The crippling injuries and the poor run after losing 7-1 at accrington put paid to that. I certainly have no desire to see those 10 games played out. Fresh start, new season league one or two when it is safe to have crowds.

Missed Crawford. Stick him in ahead of l. Murphy.

Keep getting these games popping up on my notifications. Bolton v Rotherham first day of the season in 1985. 90 years of burnden park. Very little was filmed in the mid 80s so rare footage https://youtu.be/1V7JwNNciuc

Don't forget Benny football wasn't invented until Sky came along waving a purse of gold coins. You'd have liked Oxford away in days of olde when their ground was cobbled together with sheets of rusting corrugated steel.

Don't worry benny, the season will not be finished. We will start again in August.

I don't want to see us having to restart our Admin punishment again, minus 12 points and still have to do a full 2 season embargo.

The end of reserve team football has arrived gone are the days of dozen or so blokes on the Manny Rd North terrace or at Lostock or Euxton watching Central league on a freezing winters night. The echoes around burnden of old men shouting "man on" and "Oi ref are you blind" were all part of the charm of central league that and a nice midweek session in the King Bill afterwards to warm up
Lets hope its not too long before we can move up and be back to a reserve category level again.

In true EFL fashion because they don't know what to do they'll decide later what to do about final placings and awards.
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/18423753.bolton-re-structure-means-end-road-reserve-team-football/

So what will happen to our conveyer belt of young players coming through? I realise it is a cost-cutting exercise and it probably wouldn't have been done if it wasn't necessary. However, how are all the crocked players going to get some game time before they are ready to enter the fray of first-team football? It will probably mean another two or three weeks trying to get them up to speed before they are fit enough to play.

It's not a great situation with the numbers we get in the sickbay.

Isaac, I don't see any alternative than to go back to the reinstatement of punishment points and embargo as metered out by the EFL. Can you imagine the problems that would cause with certain clubs that felt that the punishment didn't fit the crime? Also, the EFL were not happy with the independent findings.

If they want to carry over a points deduction wouldn't it be sensible to do it as a percentage or number of games sort of thing and work out a new minus.
We might end up starting with plus 3 points from Doncaster the way the EFL work.

By my sums doing the above if we carried over our points deduction based on games played / length of season and time served we'd start on -2*

* I've not taken into account any leniency or parole for good behaviour while serving our time and punishment to date.

Knowing the EFL they would probably add on minus three points for every game that we have failed to play since the COVID 19 pandemic started. They work in mysterious ways.

I see the Beano have an article that says the club is set to sever ties with all the loan players. It then goes on to say that no decision has been reached. Masterful clear reporting? I think not.

Gordon Taylor saying each half may have ot be shorter than 45 mins
How about just 45 mins per game and throw in the golden goal first to score wins 3 points and ends the game if after 45mins there's no score you get nil points each.

We have been punished once, you can’t be punished twice for the same offence, ask any criminal.
We were deducted 12 points we took our punishment on the chin, THATS THE END OF THAT.

The 5 loan players returning won't be missed. Stood in the way of some of the younger players who needed to develop. None were of the same standard as the first half of the season bridcutt and verlinden. Still think chicksen was treated very bad. Suppose none of it matters now.

Golden, It remains to be seen whether or not the points and the embargo will be scrapped or reinstated. I would put money on them being reimposed when the new season starts. That is of course if the present season is declared null and void. We will see in the fullness of time.

Benny, if KH is still with us, will he want to fill the team with old journeymen at the expense of youth?
Personally, I think that we may have to go with the younger players as money will be extremely tight and it would be a way of keeping costs down to the bare minimum.

At the same time, we would be bringing them on as a unit. We all remember what Man Unt. did with Beckham, Scholes and the rest of that young group of players. Of course, they were a very talented group of players. I don't think that we could emulate their success, but we will have to deal with what we have and hope for the best.

I'm not convinced that Keith Hill is the kind of manager who'll fill the team full of journeymen if he didn't need to.

There'll be some of course for balance but no matter where we are in the future I think with the state of the market in terms of the amount of frees available we'll have a decent pick.

We're supposed to be playing Money Ball soon perhaps during the break they'll have managed to work out how to plug Scandinavian players into the system we could do with doing some shopping across the North Sea we've not done badly in the past with players from over there. We can't be short on contacts either can we.

Whoever gets the job then its simply a case of signing 17 free agents or 12 and 5 loans to add to the 6 pros we will have left. Maybe less if any scholars get pro deals(darcy the only one looks worth it to me). Looks like tobias Phoenix is running the show now not hill. Would be surprised if hill was kept on as his contract is up.

How's the decision over KH and Flickers going is the BEN are trying to bore us into forgetting we won't have a manager until there's official word no matter when football restarts.
What does the computer say now it'll show KH as being unbeaten for so long.

According to the Beano, we are most likely to be relegated within a week.

Most clubs don't think it will be safe to finish the season and reports seem to indicate that the league positions will remain as they are. Under that scenario, we would be relegated.

That opens the question of whether or not any team will take the EFL to court. Mathematically we could still escape relegation if the season could be finished. It's not likely but who could say that it isn't possible?

In any event, it would only take one team to take action and win the case for all teams that are now in a relegation position to be off the hook. In law, a presidence would have been set and all other teams relegated, would be set aside.

What are your thoughts?

BT going to be out on its own you can see it coming with Virgin Media and O2 agreeing terms to merge.
It'll blow the EFL brain leaving us with less money

Either get the season finished or just void it. The only reason we're talking about finishing the season is because the premier and the efl don't want to lose/pay back money to sky.

Here's one from 2004 v leeds who cried at the Reebok as the song goes. Happier times. Jay Jay, djorkaeff, Campo, nolan star. Won't see the like again. https://youtu.be/E-GYDMuvD9Q

Is now the right time to discuss a winter break footballers will likely need one this winter since they will not have had a proper holiday since last summer.
We also need to know where to avoid if we are allowed out on aeroplanes I don't want to be bumping into footballers when I'm out on the piste.

Split seasons may be the way forward to get on track and work round the euros and world cup.