Corona league one

[Super_horns]

EFL to agree wage deferrals?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....-footballs-biggest-pay-deferral-deal-far.html

 

[Luke Imp]

Still got to be agreed on a player by player, club by club basis but at least it'll help a bit short term should it all tie in.

 

[RLC]

We have just laid a new Desso hybrid pitch, on the same design as the surfaces at United, City and Wembley apparently, largely paid for by our new foreign investment. So that is one problem we won't have to deal with when this is all over.

 

[Indian Dan]

Be great in L2, that. Pity we’ll miss playing on it!

 

[RLC]

Be great in L2, that. Pity we’ll miss playing on it!

Unless the league is voided of course. Oh, and assuming you still have a club to support (we will).

 

[Indian Dan]

Immune are you?

 

[RLC]

Immune are you?

No, recently received foreign investment which gives us sufficient cash to survive at least twelve months without income. Given the money you have spunked on wages trying to win promotion, you might not be so secure......

 

[Indian Dan]

Nothing like wishing the worst, eh?

Whoever is investing must be wishing they hadn’t bothered. No return coming back on that. Maybe you should have spunked some to stay in L1.

 

[RLC]

Nothing like wishing the worst, eh?

Whoever is investing must be wishing they hadn’t bothered. No return coming back on that. Maybe you should have spunked some to stay in L1.

You don't know we are not staying there yet. Or that you are going anywhere. I don't wish the worst to any lower division clubs, only dullards that mock the efforts of others.

 

[Indian Dan]

Of course

 

[Reginald Fodstain]

Be for the best if we did go down if Swindon go up, we'd be able to actually contest those six points a season with somebody else...

Saves having to go to the place, too. XTC had the right idea - they left!

 

[Camborne Gills]

XTC, Billie Piper, Melinda Messenger, that lass from This Country er..........your boys took a hell of a beating

 

[Reginald Fodstain]

XTC, Billie Piper, Melinda Messenger, that lass from This Country er..........your boys took a hell of a beating

As did... erm, the Dentists.

 

[Super_horns]

Play offs for League One and Two?

Surely just be as easy to finish the season ?

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....ontingency-plans-if-season-cannot-be-finished

 

[GFC4EVA]

That's a ridiculous idea, either play to a finish or end it on points per game ratio

 

[RLC]

The second suggestion in that article, with the top two sides in each division promoted and no relegation, seems more plausible to me. Particularly as it means we would stay up.

 

[WhiteRussian]

Does anyone thing we will have spectator sports back before a vaccine is found? I can't see it myself. I have a horrible feeling this will spell the end for a lot of clubs. I posted the following in the league 2 corona thread......

Behind closed doors football seems to me pretty much a total waste of time and will lose the clubs thousands each time they play a match. Even if all the matches were streamed in the bottom 2 divisions who would pay for it and how much. I might be tempted if it was a few quid but I certainly wouldn't pay match day prices to watch a match on TV with no atmosphere. There certainly wouldn't be enough takers spending the sort of money needed to keep the club going.

Another thing that is a problem for us and I expect many other clubs, is that we are reliant on other monetary streams to finance the club. We have concerts, conferences, and the hotel at the stadium and all that is gone as well.

Unless the furlough scheme carries on for football clubs while they can't have paying supporters through the turnstiles even basic maintenance at the stadiums will suffer.

It's a right load of crap whatever way you try and look at it.

 

[Super_horns]

Seems to be just a Premier league idea the behind closed doors thing?

Maybe because Sky and BT are putting pressure on.

Nothing will happen till Government say so and will the players want to put themselves at risk for the sake of a TV deal?

 

[Indian Dan]

For £200k a week they should be happy to play in Wuhan - fucking ponces!

 

[Super_horns]

For £200k a week they should be happy to play in Wuhan - fucking ponces!

Don't give them ideas!

Social distancing will be interesting - no spitting and goal celebrations!??

And well they couldn't pretend to be touched...

 

[Muzzle]

I have to say, if I believe some of the rhetoric going around, any footballer getting any tests for the virus before any key workers and before general public can start to get them, there will be hell to pay

 

[Indian Dan]

Don't give them ideas!

Social distancing will be interesting - no spitting and goal celebrations!??

And well they couldn't pretend to be touched...

What would Suarez do? Chomp, chomp.

 

[THE LAST WALTZ]

Does anyone thing we will have spectator sports back before a vaccine is found? I can't see it myself. I have a horrible feeling this will spell the end for a lot of clubs. I posted the following in the league 2 corona thread......

Behind closed doors football seems to me pretty much a total waste of time and will lose the clubs thousands each time they play a match. Even if all the matches were streamed in the bottom 2 divisions who would pay for it and how much. I might be tempted if it was a few quid but I certainly wouldn't pay match day prices to watch a match on TV with no atmosphere. There certainly wouldn't be enough takers spending the sort of money needed to keep the club going.

Another thing that is a problem for us and I expect many other clubs, is that we are reliant on other monetary streams to finance the club. We have concerts, conferences, and the hotel at the stadium and all that is gone as well.

Unless the furlough scheme carries on for football clubs while they can't have paying supporters through the turnstiles even basic maintenance at the stadiums will suffer.

It's a right load of crap whatever way you try and look at it.

you wouldn’t pay match prices to watch a game with no atmosphere?
That genuinely made me laugh out loud.
Thanks for cheering me up mate.

 

[Luke Imp]

Has anyone heard much on the stance from their clubs?

Ours has always been to finish the season, preferably, albeit unlikely, with fans, and apparently there is little appetite from EFL clubs for games to be played beyond 31st July (out of contract players are due another months wages if they don't pick a club up in July so contractually beyond that point it becomes difficult and incurs further costs).

We haven't got that many under contract for next season either, probably 7 or 8 as it stands. We also managed to raise transfer funds and lower the wage bill in January whilst getting past our first season ticket renewal window at the end of February so I'm hoping that'll be enough to see us through this rough patch.

Coming out the other side is going to significantly hit a lot of sides and you have to wonder how some are going to cope. I don't know the ins and outs of other clubs but I'm looking at Accrington, AFCW, Burton and Southend for example and wondering how they're going to cope. Budgets are going to be way down across the board for the next two or three years.

 

[RLC]

Has anyone heard much on the stance from their clubs?

Ours has always been to finish the season, preferably, albeit unlikely, with fans, and apparently there is little appetite from EFL clubs for games to be played beyond 31st July (out of contract players are due another months wages if they don't pick a club up in July so contractually beyond that point it becomes difficult and incurs further costs).

We haven't got that many under contract for next season either, probably 7 or 8 as it stands. We also managed to raise transfer funds and lower the wage bill in January whilst getting past our first season ticket renewal window at the end of February so I'm hoping that'll be enough to see us through this rough patch.

Coming out the other side is going to significantly hit a lot of sides and you have to wonder how some are going to cope. I don't know the ins and outs of other clubs but I'm looking at Accrington, AFCW, Burton and Southend for example and wondering how they're going to cope. Budgets are going to be way down across the board for the next two or three years.

I know that we are vehemently opposed to games being played behind closed doors, because of the losses that would be incurred. We would rather offload players and mothball the club until it is possible to play in front of crowds. We can apparently survive without income until at least December, but if a vaccine dies not arrive for another eighteen months or two years I doubt there will be any lower league clubs left standing, unless there is outside intervention. On the positive side, a massive reduction of player wages when the crisis is over will benefit clubs like us Accy and Rochdale that operate on low budgets.

 

[Indian Dan]

The promotion and relegation spots need finalising in readiness for whenever the next season starts.

No good just voiding the current season as it rewards those failing clubs and those who have messed it up. The hope is that this is a giant wake up call for the game as a whole. It’s got to get back to when it was possible for piss ass clubs to have a crack at the top without the need for greed preventing them.

 

[GEORGE]

The promotion and relegation spots need finalising in readiness for whenever the next season starts.

No good just voiding the current season as it rewards those failing clubs and those who have messed it up. The hope is that this is a giant wake up call for the game as a whole. It’s got to get back to when it was possible for piss ass clubs to have a crack at the top without the need for greed preventing them.

Originally I would have agreed with you. Now with it looking more and more unlikely we will see any football played for the unforeseeable I reckon the only way is to void the season and keep every club where it lies now without any promotion or relegation.Only move i would make is to promote Barrow enabling the Football league to retain the 92.

 

[DearneValleyRover]

From what I can gather playing behind closed doors will spell the end for a lot of clubs so it’s very much a last option

 

[Indian Dan]

Which is why it’s so ridiculous that the EFL just haven’t got on with it and made a decision. If it’s all about Championship to PL promotion slots, surely a decision can be made for L1 and L2.

 

[Super_horns]

From what I can gather playing behind closed doors will spell the end for a lot of clubs so it’s very much a last option

So will they wait till x time to finish the season or just cancel it and hope not too many clubs make a fuss?