Fratbrat
10:48 AM on 18/04/2013
To be fair DCW and others, the FL have done just that to every other club with a points deduction -- taken it off either the same season or the next depending on what will cause the maximum damage. So clubs such as Luton , Bournemouth, Leeds, Chester (maybe?), and indeed our friends down the road, all had points deductions carried over to the next season because they'd already been relegated.
Our only hope is that those other deductions were for going *into* administration. We are the only club ever to break promises made to creditors as we came out administration, the previous one before the current administration, which is what this extra -10 is for. So there is no clear precedent, and the FL will make it up as they go along.
Under Mawhinney's chairmanship we'd have had no chance. The current lot seem a bit softer though. But they don't like legal threats, so the trust would be wise to go carefully on that.
NineDeuce
10:58 AM on 18/04/2013
Is about as inevitable as it is stupid. Club goes into administration, Football League kicks a team who are already down. Club comes out of administration, they still kick them.
It was a three way dispute that delayed the takeover, nothing to do with overspending or corruption, something completely out of the club's control. The Football League should just get real, then just abolish this ridiculous rule once and for all (which they wont of course)...
:lol: 'nothing to do with overspending or corruption'
Melikey