National League at risk

I'm not seeing any clubs saying they'll accept the outcome of the vote.

If the majority vote to continue the season, I just think those that didn't will do what Dover have done, thus making it impossible for the season to complete.

I mean, what can the NL do about that? They can't deduct points from them, because there will be no relegation, and they can't fine them because they haven't got any money. You can't saddle a club with debt for wanting to avoid taking on a debt. Morally, that'd make the NL bankrupt.

If this were a poker hand, and I was the NL, I think I'd fold.

You've got to consider the worst case scenario for each situation:

Force clubs to take on loans to complete the season? You're putting the existence of clubs in doubt and fatally damaging the integrity of your own competition.

Stop clubs who voted to finish the season? You'll deny a small group of them a reasonable chance of promotion and maybe weaken your hand with any future bargaining with the EFL.

Either way, the NL don't come out of this well. It's damage limitation either way - but (crucially) one route doesn't critically damage many of their member clubs.

Quoted from ska face

I still don’t see where people are getting the idea that Step 1 continuing is nailed on. Like we said (p)ages ago, there’s been plenty of talk from clubs, but how many actually have the means to continue without any guarantee that they’ll get another penny from anywhere this season?

I can’t see Blozza letting fans in until August from the way he’s been going on. The Sport England board don’t meet next until early March, by which point the votes will have been cast. The Dover Chairman said they needed about £400k just to get to the end of the season, and they’ll have one of the smaller budgets in the division.

I’m not saying it won’t happen, I just can’t see anything that points to clubs losing touch with reality en masse in the hope of squeezing into one of two promotion slots.

Yes. I think a lot of people are assuming clubs that have said they “want” to continue will actually vote that way. Wanting to do something and being able to actually do it are two completely different things.

we all know that 2 are promoted for NL and they need to have a good season to do it good players and a lot of Money that means 2 are successful the rest have failed  TBH  too bigger risk to be saddled with debt for a long time teams are gonna fold and the league will disintegrate

I think at the beginning of the year the NL got their steamroller out, only to find their wasn't any fuel in it.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Yes. I think a lot of people are assuming clubs that have said they “want” to continue will actually vote that way. Wanting to do something and being able to actually do it are two completely different things.

Look. The NL is going to continue. Simple as that

Quoted from Hagrid

Look. The NL is going to continue. Simple as that

It may very well do. The point I and others are making is in what form. 5/6 teams refuse that then makes a mockery out of the ‘competition’

Look . Hagrid’s pi.ssed off and believes we’re doomed ok .

Quoted from Hagrid

Look. The NL is going to continue. Simple as that

Why the messing about with the vote, should have just asked you I guess 🤨

I can see legal action being taken against the NL.   Clubs putting in money collectively.  (Well what they have).

I don't think the NL are doing the wrong thing by putting it to a vote. The mess is that it started when clubs clearly didn't know what was in place. The same as the EFL, but we got luckier.

The problem with the vote is that only a unanimous decision to continue is really viable. If some clubs can't afford to play on and take loans, which also breaks the NL's own rules, then a vote is meaningless.

How they deal with Dover will be interesting too. If they're lone wolves, then expulsion might happen. But if 4 or 5 clubs do the same, then the integrity of the league would be destroyed by expelling them all. I expect the vote will be to continue, but I don't think that means that it will continue at all.