I was reading earlier that Blackburn could be the next club to be investigated for breaching the FFP. I make that Blackburn,Sheff. Wed.Reading,Derby Birmingham being scrutinised by the FL. Until this behaviour is sorted fiercely with massive fines and points deductions clubs like are's are going to find it hard to ever compete, unless we learn how to cheat like them.The FL made the rules its now time to act on them. Any point deductions would be most welcome this season not in the summer when the above clubs can regroup and start there cheating all over again.
It wouldn't solve our problems though. I'd rather us pick up the required points over the next 17 matches to stay up by ourselves. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened had we been relegated in 2012? Would we have been better off rid of Keith Hill and Flitcroft earlier?
Nothing will happen to them, probably a slap on wrists and told they are very naughty boys, meanwhile if we did it with us being seen as a smaller club the efl or day would do us big time
See the RFU for how to really address this problem - probably later than they should have with Saracens but at least the action will ensure other clubs take the salary cap seriously - A few relegations would soon stop clubs cheating in this way
No. With appeals and tribunals etc it will drag on like it did for QPR and most likely hit them in the pocket.
Pretty sure any punishment for these clubs will be in the summer. They’d start on minus points then which wouldn’t benefit us at all but might give Rotherham a chance next season after we’ve swapped places with them yet again!
Agree totally. However, Derby County and Sheff Wednesday are too fashionable for League 1. It's the same with the European Championships. It's only been extended so that the risk is lost of losing a big nation like the Netherlands or Italy is gone. It also increases the chances of all the home nations qualifying so it's a fillip for Uefa. It's all money. The game's corrupt.
This is why the Board need to commit to making the team just "good enough" to keep our heads above water. All these cheaters will be getting hammered with points deductions next season when we are in League One.
I watched a documentary with Professor Brian Cox about quantum mechanics and parallel universes. Who knows Barnsley might be top of the dinosaur Premier League in an alternate reality where the dinosaurs weren't wiped out and learnt how to play football.
Second offence though wasn’t it? Thought they had been slapped but failed to improve. It needs firm action to send a message. If a club is seen to ‘accidently’ fail I could live with a talking too but if a club is seen to blatantly flaunt the rules then should have the book thrown at them. Says something when a club can get into more trouble for an illegal approach than deliberately cooking the books.
It's financial doping. Look at how Saracens have been dealt with for cheating versus how the Football League effectively encourages it.
With Wednesday i beleieve their problem is exacerbated by their dishonesty and being devious. They deliberatley set out to decieve by using an artificially inflated value of their stadium to wipe out all the balance sheet debts, made worse by pre dating it 12 months to staive off punishment from exceeding their loss making limit. Im no accountant but im sure this is also unlawful and any accounts that are to be published need to be audited by an independant company and whoevers done this, havent done it correctly. This on top of making up ficticious companies to gain additional revenue from advertising all adds up to a whole heap of trouble. Add the fact that Rick Parry is now the chairman of the EFL and is a trained accountant, this could put weds in a bit of bother, should they implement the rules correctly.
Far more likely that we've signed our dinosaurs from Austria and have a T-Rex in charge who insists on us playing it out from the back. Up front we have a couple of those little yappy things (see Jurassic Park 2) trying to win headers against opposition Brontosaurus centrebacks.
