EFL to end season this week - City likely to be promoted (4 Viewers)

wingy

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It still remains a ridiculous statement though. This was his full quote:
"The plan with Ivan Toney was for us to win promotion to the Championship, offer him a much better contract, watch him score 20 goals in the Championship and then he could be worth £20-£25 million,” MacAnthony said. “But that could be taken away from us without kicking another football.

“We don’t have to sell him if we don’t go up, but Ivan wants Championship football and it would hard to deny him the chance. It could be Ivan has played his last game for us."


Fair enough he might've lost him in the summer window due to not playing in a higher division but his initial comment is frankly ridiculous.

That's literally like DB saying: Well it's disappointing we weren't crowned as champions and promoted to the Championship as we had a plan with Matty Godden and that was to score 45 goals in the Championship, go up to the Premier League, watch him score another 20-25 goals, sell him for £100M, buy the Ricoh and send Wasps back to London. But now because of the EFL we can't and the dream has been ripped away from us.

It's hypothetical bollocks.
The truth
They're shit at the back!!
 

Tommo1993

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On a quick side note, today on the road in Stoke I drove past quite a big looking packaging company called PSB Group.

Let’s get that stupid twitter page shut down for copyright.
 

Lord_Nampil

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We carry on playing the remaining 9-10 games, in that time 5 clubs in league 1 go bust, Peterborough have played all 5 twice and got 30 points from those a games, Wycombe have 5, who would loose out the most......
 

MatthewWallis

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Hopefully we play the season and Peterborough miss out, though he’d probably try and sue Bury then because if they haven’t been kicked out the league they could’ve played 2 more games
 

tisza

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We carry on playing the remaining 9-10 games, in that time 5 clubs in league 1 go bust, Peterborough have played all 5 twice and got 30 points from those a games, Wycombe have 5, who would loose out the most......
DM said any club not wanting to resume could forfeit the fixtures - so much for sporting integrity as obviously some sides would still ending playing less games than others if season carries on. Seeing as Posh have a load of games against sides not keen on continuing I'm sure he thinks this option is very fair :)
 

mrtrench

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Can Peterborough go down? Can the EFL dock them points for standing on the cracks of the pavement or something? Those are the only circumstances under which I'd be in favour of playing out this season.
 

HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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Sure I read somewhere Bristol want to play out the season so the manager can get used to league one and see more of his players

that’s a wabkstain move if I ever saw one.

best buckle up - we’re going to have to win the title on the pitch
 

Lord_Nampil

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Sure I read somewhere Bristol want to play out the season so the manager can get used to league one and see more of his players

that’s a wabkstain move if I ever saw one.

best buckle up - we’re going to have to win the title on the pitch

I have no problem with this, we probably need a minimum of 4 wins to go up any way but if teams start folding the league could collapse so my view is it’s the right thing to do to end it now.....
 

cc84cov

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Sure I read somewhere Bristol want to play out the season so the manager can get used to league one and see more of his players

that’s a wabkstain move if I ever saw one.

best buckle up - we’re going to have to win the title on the pitch
We won’t it can’t Ns won’t happen weather they like it or not clubs can’t afford it
 

SkyBlueCRJ

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Sure I read somewhere Bristol want to play out the season so the manager can get used to league one and see more of his players

that’s a wabkstain move if I ever saw one.

best buckle up - we’re going to have to win the title on the pitch

The vote will be closer than people initially thought but I don't think the season will go ahead. Too late in the day and far too many 'swing voters'. Realistically the majority of those in L1 cannot afford to resume their fixtures and it's only a matter of time before the sour six crumble once they realise half of them still have a fighting chance of going up under the most preferred outcome of PPG and play-offs.
 

cov4theprem

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Assuming common sense prevails and there is a decision to end the season this week - just how long then do we then have to wait to be crowned champions and confirm promotion? There are more approvals required before this is rubber stamped and all these delays are robbing us of celebration time.
 

SkyBlueCRJ

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He knows the EFL are weak as piss tbh he’s doing what we would want our owners to do won’t change anything tho calm down lads we will be up as champions they all know it too

Would we want our owners to do what he's doing though? Promotion would be great but publicly threatening to sue other L1 clubs if they don't play whilst they're already on their knees? I'd be pretty embarrassed and ashamed if I were a Posh fan right now to be honest - as a fan you'd have to draw a line somewhere.
 

Halftime Orange

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So another week to wait by the looks of it. I'm guessing a minority of clubs are dragging their heels hoping that covid will fuck off and everything will go back to normal in the next 3 or 4 weeks...not a chance.
 

Grendel

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Would we want our owners to do what he's doing though? Promotion would be great but publicly threatening to sue other L1 clubs if they don't play whilst they're already on their knees? I'd be pretty embarrassed and ashamed if I were a Posh fan right now to be honest - as a fan you'd have to draw a line somewhere.

If we were bottom I would expect the owner to come up with any bollocks about people are dying, its offensive, cancel the season. You only have to look at the catastrophic coronavirus thread to see how the likes of ROS and Tony get off on the death count for likes
 

Tommo1993

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So another week to wait by the looks of it. I'm guessing a minority of clubs are dragging their heels hoping that covid will fuck off and everything will go back to normal in the next 3 or 4 weeks...not a chance.

They can’t complain when the pinch gets even tougher then! Playing with fire, how fun.
 

RegTheDonk

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EFL are letting the clubs decide. He will sue whoever goes against him. So make it a secret ballot. Wasn't me guv u can't sue me.
 

Warwickhunt

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Happy_Martian

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I've said it in another thread. What's to stop other clubs suing the EFL or Peterboro/Dmac for humanitarian reasons citing that by being made to play on, they are being forced to put their staff, players and potentially any fans who do turn up at risk of contracting a known fatal illness, even with all the known preventative methods ? While I was interested in hearing DMac at the start, as this has progressed, his verbal diarrhea has gotten to epic proportions.
 

robbiethemole

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Surely after the end of June, out of contract and loan players can just say "up yours" and go on holibobs? Is the twat going to sue them too.
Sunderland seem to think their saviour, Bailey Wright, is going to come back for the "playoffs" and steer them into the second auto place, hahahha
most of them want to scrap the season and all start again next season, feckin knuckle-draggers
 

pfceggchaser

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Time to wade in a bit here. I’m not here to be OTT, but also offer some balance.

As soon as null and void went off the table, there was only one conclusion - to promote you and Rotherham. The two best sides I’ve personally seen this season. We beat Rotherham at ours in our best performance of the season, whereas we were a bit flat against yourselves. We’ll never know what would have gone on, but based on the key games you won just before lockdown, I think you would have won the league.

What annoyed me was what happened next and how this has been portrayed.

It turns out WPPG was an Oxford United designed scheme to go up in 3rd without the playoffs. I’m glad the EFL got a stat man in to look at both and they’ve now rejected that version. Not least from self interest, but just because all it did was distort the table and went for a projection method.

The club I have the most sympathy with is Ipswich. It’s going to cost them far more to curtail the season than to play it out. That applies to us too and Sunderland. It’s not true for the majority of the league though, which I accept.

MacAnthony’s conduct has annoyed me recently. Originally we were singing from the same hymn-sheet but he’s since started suggesting creative playoffs etc etc and now Barry Fry is banging on about WPPG again.

Hearing rumours that Oxford might have broken rank after a bit of a hissy fit in joining us the other day because of the WPPG thing.

It’ll be sorted soon. For us, I’m keen to either win our financial argument, or if we can’t, then just adopt the framework as per L2 now. Get on with it.

I hope to see you again next season!
 

Liquid Gold

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Time to wade in a bit here. I’m not here to be OTT, but also offer some balance.

As soon as null and void went off the table, there was only one conclusion - to promote you and Rotherham. The two best sides I’ve personally seen this season. We beat Rotherham at ours in our best performance of the season, whereas we were a bit flat against yourselves. We’ll never know what would have gone on, but based on the key games you won just before lockdown, I think you would have won the league.

What annoyed me was what happened next and how this has been portrayed.

It turns out WPPG was an Oxford United designed scheme to go up in 3rd without the playoffs. I’m glad the EFL got a stat man in to look at both and they’ve now rejected that version. Not least from self interest, but just because all it did was distort the table and went for a projection method.

The club I have the most sympathy with is Ipswich. It’s going to cost them far more to curtail the season than to play it out. That applies to us too and Sunderland. It’s not true for the majority of the league though, which I accept.

MacAnthony’s conduct has annoyed me recently. Originally we were singing from the same hymn-sheet but he’s since started suggesting creative playoffs etc etc and now Barry Fry is banging on about WPPG again.

Hearing rumours that Oxford might have broken rank after a bit of a hissy fit in joining us the other day because of the WPPG thing.

It’ll be sorted soon. For us, I’m keen to either win our financial argument, or if we can’t, then just adopt the framework as per L2 now. Get on with it.

I hope to see you again next season!
I hope that's hoping you get promoted and not us relegated.
 

cc84cov

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Would we want our owners to do what he's doing though? Promotion would be great but publicly threatening to sue other L1 clubs if they don't play whilst they're already on their knees? I'd be pretty embarrassed and ashamed if I were a Posh fan right now to be honest - as a fan you'd have to draw a line somewhere.
Yes 100% if I was in their position I would want our chairmen fighting our case which is what he’s doing it won’t get him anywhere but he’s tryiny we will be promoted as champions they don’t have a way out of that fact
 

steve cooper

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It is becoming clear (to me anyway) that the EFL has 2 options (assuming they don't go for null & void).
Finish the season when it is safe to do so
End now with standard promotion / playoffs / relegation based on PPG
Anything else just isn't going to work.
Teams should be given those 2 choices to vote for.
 

cc84cov

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It is becoming clear (to me anyway) that the EFL has 2 options (assuming they don't go for null & void).
Finish the season when it is safe to do so
End now with standard promotion / playoffs / relegation based on PPG
Anything else just isn't going to work.
Teams should be given those 2 choices to vote for.
Problem is their flappers who are worried sick by threats from DM etc this will probably drag on weeks
 

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