Its Coming.

That might sound like a good idea but it makes next season completely pointless for so many and will make signing players so hard for certain clubs whilst handing a huge advantage to others.

 

Not really as you would have an entire season to work with as opposed to a third. Teams will change regardless due to contracts finishing in June.

 

Absolutely no self interest. On our performance over the season we absolutely deserve to go down but also the teams who have quite clearly been cheating their way to mid table obscurity need to be suitably punished. It's obviously speculation and to be honest there are things outside of football that are more important right now. But things move on and planning ahead needs to be made not so much for fairness but the survival of football clubs. Today is the first time that I have seen talk of regionalising the EFL and I wouldn't be surprised that in time some left field decision is made to try and save so many football clubs.

 

I am full of self-interest.

Preserve our Championship place, keep Leeds down, no title for the horrible Scousers.

Cancel the season. Null and void. Never 'appened. Start again.

Oh, and bin the European competitions so the Cheds have to stay at home.

Thank you, COVID. You have played a blinder.

 

And of course said referee was Mike Riley - now referees and var supremo!

 

I'd love to see this season end. Whilst relegation is not wonderful, and I'd obviously rather see us in a higher league. Watching us smash teams more often than not in League 1 was great fun and promotions are always fun. I'd rather have us fighting to go up than struggling to stay up.

I think the economic impact for clubs having to arrange games behind closed doors (which I think is a rubbish idea, anyway, and not the point of football) and then possibly having to shut down again if there's another outbreak would be enormous. It makes no sense to risk this, in my opinion. Also, you also cannot plan for contracts and transfers and admin etc. etc. on the basis of "well let's wait and see".

For the financial security of clubs, the season will end very soon, I reckon. Whether they quash or whether they go with "as it stands" or points per game — remains to be seen.

I do not agree with finishing the season "as it stands" for the simple reason that the season is not over. I would resent being relegated despite not having been relegated. For Charlton that would be an even bigger kick in the teeth: 2 points off it, and Hull looked like they were fecked.

9 games is 27 points. We'd probably go down, but you don't know and I'd like to have found out. No one thought we'd beat Fulham 3 nowt, for example. That's the point of football, innit? Not some EFL dweeb with a spreadsheet talking about expected goals or some other tosh.

Knock it on the head. Start again when it is safe to do so.

I suppose you could accuse me of "just wanting Barnsley to stay up" but that is genuinely not the case. If you said, the season could restart tomorrow (or next week, or even next month) or it will come back January next year but the season will start from scratch, I'd pick the former without a doubt. I just cannot see it happening and no other "fair" scenario appears to be forthcoming.

 

On the cost issue won't it cost clubs far more to have to issue refunds for season ticket holders? For Barnsley that's hundreds of thousands of pounds. Plus refund the TV money they've had up front and sponsorship money theyve had up front etc?

 

It will cost money if we dont get a full.season next season too

 

Good point. Both will cost, for your sure. Would it be possible to carry over season tickets, maybe?

TV money is up in the air, innit. It would be in broadcaster's best interests to keep as many clubs alive as possible, surely. But yeah they could pull the plug, I suppose.

 

As with everything in this world

 

People need to come to terms with the fact Null & Void needs to be announced very soon, football will not start again anytime soon and potentially not for the start of the new/ next season ! Yes the Liverpool’s and Leeds of the leagues (shame) will be upset but they can’t award titles, promotions and relegation whilst the season is incomplete.
What they did in Scotland was bonkers and cannot be allowed here.

 

Agree

 

Don’t get this Barnsley don’t deserve to stay up.
When has football ever been fair.
When the EFL get their act together and implement fairness. Come down hard on ALL the rule breakers. create a financial fair split between clubs. Eg ******** to parachute payments.
I’ve never forgiven em for promoting Arsenal. When we finished above em. ( if I’d have been around there’d have been riots in the streets ) I truly have no qualms about a lifeline.
Plus scrap the bleeding season it’s the only FAIR way. Given all the complications creeping up.

 

It could be that a few financially vulnerable Championship clubs go bust, and far from relegation, we find ourselves as a mid table side after more division one teams are promoted to make the numbers up.

 

I can to a point understand the claim for Liverpool, but totally don’t get Leeds & WBA. They are only 7 points clear and both have fixtures against teams with something to play for. Both have Fulham to play as an example who are the third placed team, WBA Brentford (4th), both also have teams chasing play off places, neither are anywhere near guaranteed promotion.

 

Simon Jordan (ex Crystal Palace owner) did a piece where he believed the TV money was a bit of a red herring and that clubs would be able to demonstrate SKY etc have had value for money. He also proposed null & void league and compensate the teams below with Parachute payments not needed to be paid based on position in league now.
In other words Leeds would get more money than us to help strengthen for next season.