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Ordinary John Smith’s I’m afraid, but the fact you could stand outside watching the game with it was wonderful
And what’s relevant to football and Wigan athletic to what’s happened in New Zealand and Africa??I really can’t believe you’re asking that
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Do keep up at the back there! – “**Please note, there will be no ‘score bonus’ points available for any matches from now unil the end of the season”
For the next couple of seasons who knows there may be a bigger budget available if the owners invest in their new toy. Nob End with very little investment have pushed on since their promotion back to the Championship and likewise Sheffield Utd are competing really well.
We were first promoted back to the Championship but messed up badly with possibly a bigger budget than those clubs with the last of our parachute payments but bounced back again but in a state of limbo really with an elongated takeover.The new owners must have worked out some sort of plan having taken that long to complete their business. We are probably bang on course for them as they would need to see some sort of stability in our league level before pushing on.
Its been a pretty uninspiring season for most fans whatever glasses are worn but as long as we stay up this season we can just hope for better next.Who are you, and what have you done with donnys page? ;)
Bet they’d still rip the away fans off.The administrators’ job is to maximise income, so that’s a given
Agree with all of that Horc except where you say they could play behind closed doors; even with matchday costs they would still get a profit through the gates even without allowing for season tickets. Away fans will provide some money in, and with limited expenditure they will turn a profit on each game
So what do you do to the sides yet to play them?If you expunge the records of the games already played then it becomes a 44-game season, so nothing needs to be done about future games.
Alternatively you award all future games as a 3-0 (for example) winand if the worst comes to the worst only 2 will go down anyway. 3 will come up from League One as normal, and an extra team will get promoted into League Two, so with Ipswich pretty well gone we still need to be doing better than Rotherham and Millwall.
We would be behind the 8 ball though if points are lost.
Millwall 36
Reading 36
Wigan 35
Rotherham 35[/quote]Only two to go down I reckon.
With one place going to Ipswich the other one place will then as you say be between Millwall, Reading, us and Rotherham. There’s still time to go and we only have to be better than 1 of them – the spread of points means it’s not impossible if we can just get our act togeter as we did on Saturday.
People seem to think that the other three are going to suddenly become world beaters in the run-in when they haven’t all season.This explains the various options and the company being liquidated is not, in my opinion, at this stage a likely outcome.
https://www.realbusinessrescue.co.uk/winding-up-petitions/what-is-winding-up-order
In the absence of the debt being paid, or challenged, then I suspect the company will go into administration to give the time to sort out the mess.
The administrator will want the team to continue as gate money will provide income to reduce the debt, although they may have to field Development or youth squad players if first teamers don’t want to play. However it may actually be in the players’ interests to carry on playing to the end of the season to put themselves in the shop window for when they are sold to service the debt.
Obviously administration will involve a hefty points deduction either this season, or next if they continue which will make staying in League One difficult.
From our point of view obviously immediate liquidation will be a bad outcome. But … firstly I think the EFL may step in with some temporary measures to avoid messing up the Championship so late in the season, and if the worst comes to the worst only 2 will go down anyway. 3 will come up from League One as normal, and an extra team will get promoted into League Two, so with Ipswich pretty well gone we still need to be doing better than Rotherham and Millwall.According to Sunday paper our new owners are not very happy to discover that the previous owners allowed Cook to have a contract pay off clause in his contract meaning he’d get 2 years pay if axed. What’s new there ?.I thought that was the norm. If true it’s as I suspected the only reason he’s still here is the cost of getting shut.It was in the S*n – not in a newspaper.
What the story is really: “Man has 4 years contract and will get 2-year pay-off if he gets sacked with 2 years left on contract”.
That’s exactly how contracts work, and I am quite sure that IEC have some knowledgee of contract law.
Typical S*n nonsense.
