Loan Arrangements Terminated

A regional league is a non starter. It’s pointless. City have 23 away games, half of those would be in a Northern section, the bus hire stays essentially the same for Walsall away as say Forest Green away. Maybe you’re saving on hotels at the three SW clubs and your Crawley and Colchester journeys So over a season you’re saving maybe five overnight stays. £100k ish over a season.

I imagine Doyle, Akpan, Riley, Devine, Anderson, Taylor, Henley, Patrick have taken well over half a million out of the club this season.

PL clubs spend well over £200m a season on largely unnecessary agents fees. They give £140m to the EFL the majority of which goes to the Championship.

Fleetwood are dependent on their owner putting millions in each year, Forest Green are, Salford are. Their owners gambling high wages on promotion means every other club is expected to, the agents say my man has been offered double that at Salford, pay up. If their owners’ other business fails, the football club does too.

That’s where lower league football’s problem is. High wages, irresponsible owners, the top division hoarding the cash and high spending on agents.

League One and Two’s travel costs are nothing compared to the wage bill. Saving half a dozen nights in a provincial Marriott is hardly going to save lower league football.

It might make fans happier and save them money not traveling to Plymouth on a Tuesday night, but there are better options for clubs.

 

Is there a point in building a side now for next season though? We don’t know when/if games will be scheduled yet. Besides, with ST sales suspended, I’d suggest our coffers are empty also

 

I see the club have released Taylor today.
Is it the end of this week when our retain and release lists come out?

 

it is whenever they release it. To be honest I don’t expect any big announcement

 

Yes, I guess it all depends on the announcement from the EFL regarding this season.
Officially nothing said even though they had another meeting today involving Division One and Two clubs.
I believe the last meeting is this Friday.
I certainly hope they release a statement of intent, the whole situation is becoming a complete debacle and the sooner it's put to bed the better.

 

https://www.efl.com/news/2020/may/efl-statement-coronavirus-update
Nothing more really, apart from can't return to training until at least 25/5 (not that it's going to matter)

 

Thanks for the link I wouldn't have logged on to their site again today because quite frankly they are going round and round looking for a solution but failing miserably to conclude anything.
Instead as per usual they are leaving it to the media to come up with air brained conclusions which we all know won't work.
Times running out we know it and the EFL know it.
Call time on the season then sort out your mess EFL.

 

Find it strange for them to give that date of they are not at least thinking of restarting

 

More for the Championship clubs m'thinks

 

Kicks the can down the road a bit to buy more time to agree how the season ends IMO. I don’t believe the majority of Leagues One and Two want to continue, can afford to continue the season. Need to find a way that everyone agrees on for promotion and relegation.

 

That's the issue, you'll never get utopia.

 

No, it's been moved until 23rd of June.

 

The EFL have to find a way to resolve the promotion/relegation issues in relation to Leagues 1 and 2 which everyone knows will not be restarting. The other issue they have is how to restart the Championship especially as now Norwich have thrown a cannon ball into play with saying "OK if the PL play all the games and we are in the bottom three then we will expect to be relegated unless the teams that are to be promoted have not completed their season fully and played all their matches. If they have not then why should we be relegated and them promoted?"

 

Has to be PPG for me for div 1 & 2

As for the Championship they shoukd try to come back but just keep an eye on the PL. if the PL can't come back then neither does the Championship.

However, the EFL needs not to be bullied by Norwich and Brighton. If the Championship can't end the PPG to decide.

 

Season over, get them all out bar ROD and Wood.