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February 24, 2021, 2:23pm
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I think to an extent the NL has a big problem caused by covid. Some teams have been able to play consecutive matches and get a run going. Others have won a game and then hit by covid, then their next opponents have covid. This results in stop start on the pitch and destroys any momentum and rhythm.

Some teams have benefited by postponements by having injured players return to the team, who would have been laid off foe a few matches. I cannot see any justifiable argument for deducting points from teams for next season because they have run out money.

The whole covid thing with the NL is an utter and total mess. It has been mismanaged and clubs that were solvent have been put in precarious positions by an inept board.  The only solution to me is to make it null and void. I do feel for the Torquay's etc. but you have to look at the full picture and not the 'elite' few.


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You'd think those seven clubs would be doing some back channeling on whether to stop playing as the options to me seem to be:

  • Spend circa half a million pounds for no reason;
  • Take some kind of points deduction/much smaller than half a million fine for next season.

If you've got a third of the division starting off on minus points I would have thought that would be much more favorable to chucking half a million down the drain
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You'd think those seven clubs would be doing some back channeling on whether to stop playing as the options to me seem to be:

  • Spend circa half a million pounds for no reason;
  • Take some kind of points deduction/much smaller than half a million fine for next season.

If you've got a third of the division starting off on minus points I would have thought that would be much more favorable to chucking half a million down the drain


Can't really see why they should get any points deduction for doing what the league rules tell to do, stay solvent!


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Can't really see why they should get any points deduction for doing what the league rules tell to do, stay solvent!


Rules are stay solvent AND fulfill your fixtures.


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Rules are stay solvent AND fulfill your fixtures.


But you one to do the other


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But you one to do the other


No. The rules are you have to do both. Not easy obviously. But the rules are not mutually exclusive.

The big question is will the NL enforce both. I doubt they will. Micawberism rules ok in football.


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Sounds a bit of a ridiculous situation. And why weren’t actions put in place at the start of the season, by both the NL and the EFL with regards to what would happen if you know, anything crazy like a second wave hit the country. This cannot be left at the doors of the clubs and the league’s executives not make the decision.

If it was at the best interest of the clubs involved, a decision should’ve been made when the second lockdown went into full affect


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February 25, 2021, 3:37pm
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Yeovil have are/have run out of money :-

https://nonleaguedaily.com/yeovil-will-not-be-able-to-complete-this-season-without-loan/

Looks like they will take a loan but it's not 100%. They could stop playing after 1st March.


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Maybe all the clubs who voted to continue could give them a grant


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Given that 22bn was spent on a system that didn’t work and multi multi million pound deals were given to mates of ministers, surely someone on the NL executive committee has a government minister friend that could just slip them enough cash to hand out to the clubs that need it...no strings attached?

In all seriousness it just seems a mess. You can’t criticise clubs for voting to play on but you can also sympathise with clubs in a mess, the whole thing has swiftly turned in to farce and doesn’t seem to in anyway able to improve...


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