Coronavirus

[Master D]

They might have to use their Corona card now as this is when they are all agreeing to play and they are doing what they can to get it cancelled.

Maybe there's something in the agreement that once you agree to restart then the matches must be played regardless of your "injury" list. You'd have to play youngsters or whatever if worst came to the worst. Or call your 20 odd players back who've been out on loan in the EFL. They would cope I'm sure.

 

[MrGloverLover]

"The Bury situation was our trump card"

Classy.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

"The Bury situation was our trump card"

Classy.

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You do understand the phrase? The Bury situation was always going to work in our favour.

 

[Soup Ladle]

You do understand the phrase? The Bury situation was always going to work in our favour.

Not on the outrage bus here but it's not the best choice of words. It reads a bit like this:

'I'll raise you a football club that's gone bust'.

Get in, we win the hand now.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Evatt doesn’t think the season should be ‘scrubbed out’ after 39 games, but that’s exactly what looks like happening to the other 23 teams in the league.

 

[Fyldefan]

Evatt is a moron. Read anything the guy has ever said, he's a grade A clown

 

[chipmunx]

Evatt is a moron. Read anything the guy has ever said, he's a grade A clown

He turned down Fylde - so he's got plenty of class....

 

[chipmunx]

Evatt doesn’t think the season should be ‘scrubbed out’ after 39 games, but that’s exactly what looks like happening to the other 23 teams in the league.

The league can't afford to do that - they need to get a final table for when the inevitable happens and 1 or more PL/EFL clubs go bust before next season - they need to be able to say look after Barrow comes Harrogate. then Notts... etc

 

[AdamStag]

The only way barrow won’t come up is if the conference now decide to do some random playoffs involving the top 4/6 - a crackpot idea I wouldn’t put past the conference board.

IMO league 2 chairman were wrong to vote against relegation for Stevenage - they were absolutely rubbish - they’d lost 9 of the last 10 or so games.

If on the basis the EFL want to increase back to 72 - which obviously it will - it makes sense that barrow would come up.

I think the PPG rationale in league 2 is better than just scrubbing the season off like they’ve done in the conference, but then again that’s been compromised by removing relegation.

 

[chipmunx]

The only way barrow won’t come up is if the conference now decide to do some random playoffs involving the top 4/6 - a crackpot idea I wouldn’t put past the conference board.

IMO league 2 chairman were wrong to vote against relegation for Stevenage - they were absolutely rubbish - they’d lost 9 of the last 10 or so games.

If on the basis the EFL want to increase back to 72 - which obviously it will - it makes sense that barrow would come up.

I think the PPG rationale in league 2 is better than just scrubbing the season off like they’ve done in the conference, but then again that’s been compromised by removing relegation.

The play off format has to be agreed by the end of the June before the season starts.

 

[BarraMatt]

Evatt doesn’t think the season should be ‘scrubbed out’ after 39 games, but that’s exactly what looks like happening to the other 23 teams in the league.

Well it shouldn't. League 2 have strangely voted not to have relegation thus sending one of the worst teams in the history of that league down. As such there should have been an opportunity for yourselves and the rest at the top to get a shot at promotion. That way should we go up it wouldn't be just because Bury went bust and more so on merit if two teams are promoted from this league as normal. I don't see any reason why months of hard work for a lot of people across any level of the pyramid should just be scrubbed from the record.

Regardless of what you think of PPG, if it's going to be applied above if the season can't be finished, it should filter down. I maintain that I would've liked to see the season finished over 46 games but if that can't be done some merited way of finishing the season is the next best option.

 

[AdamStag]

Well it shouldn't. League 2 have strangely voted not to have relegation thus sending one of the worst teams in the history of that league down. As such there should have been an opportunity for yourselves and the rest at the top to get a shot at promotion. That way should we go up it wouldn't be just because Bury went bust and more so on merit if two teams are promoted from this league as normal. I don't see any reason why months of hard work for a lot of people across any level of the pyramid should just be scrubbed from the record.

Regardless of what you think of PPG, if it's going to be applied above if the season can't be finished, it should filter down. I maintain that I would've liked to see the season finished over 46 games but if that can't be done some merited way of finishing the season is the next best option.

Understandably the bigwigs in the EFL never saw something like this happening so there were no rules for it - much like there isn’t anywhere in Europe.

Word has it that PPG will be ratified if a season can’t be finished but they need to determine how many games it takes for that to come into effect.

As a separate organisation is the conference decided to follow suit that’s their choice. I do find it a shame Stevenage weren’t sent down though

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Evatt doesn’t think the season should be ‘scrubbed out’ after 39 games, but that’s exactly what looks like happening to the other 23 teams in the league.

Right, hence him saying that null and void is stupid. Not sure on your point.

 

[#Beebot]

I really don't think that a reprieve for Stevenage is a done deal. It's simply what the clubs would like to happen.

The league make the call and they will be concerned about their agreement with the NL - the clubs won't be.

 

[Railway Blue]

Don't see what he offers at all. By all accounts he's bone idle and doesn't reply to emails/calls etc, which explains the general lack of action around the commercial side. Now they're asking the fans to bail them out.

The board get the blame for our financial meltdown in 2018 (and they were complicit), but they were entranced by him. Also the guy in charge of the accounts forgot to tell us we'd used up most of our £100k safety net. It was all down to Maguire in my opinion and I was told by one of the directors that he was on £55k pa.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Right, hence him saying that null and void is stupid. Not sure on your point.

My point is that it would be nice if he acknowledged that other teams efforts this season should be rewarded as well as his own. I think we all know why he’s so keen that n and v shouldn’t be on the table.

Barrow have a good case to go up, but if it turns out that a full quota of clubs get promoted in the EFL but not the NL, than that’s a bit of a disgrace. I hope the NL push for an extra promotion place next season to make up for it, and I hope Barrow vote for that, if they’re lucky enough to go up.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Just worth noting, remember what the League Two clubs have done is an indicative vote. There's still a chance the proposal could be rejected and Stevenage go down on Monday.

I may be wrong, but I expect the proposal to be rejected. Championship clubs would surely be having kittens? Imagine if Leeds finish top now and the Premier League say "Sorry lads, you wouldn't relegate the worst team in the EFL, so we'll have Norwich and two others up in the PL for another season."

I expect the Championship clubs to bully the L2 clubs on Monday and say they won't ratify it unless Stevenage are relegated so precedents which could possibly damage the PL/EFL promotion and relegation situation aren't set.

 

[AdamStag]

Just worth noting, remember what the League Two clubs have done is an indicative vote. There's still a chance the proposal could be rejected and Stevenage go down on Monday.

I may be wrong, but I expect the proposal to be rejected. Championship clubs would surely be having kittens? Imagine if Leeds finish top now and the Premier League say "Sorry lads, you wouldn't relegate the worst team in the EFL, so we'll have Norwich and two others up in the PL for another season."

I expect the Championship clubs to bully the L2 clubs on Monday and say they won't ratify it unless Stevenage are relegated so precedents which could possibly damage the PL/EFL promotion and relegation situation aren't set.

Good, the league 2 clubs shouldnt need bullying in the first place, they should have made the right decision. I’d be disappointed if mansfield voted to keep it “in the family” as we were in the conference 6 years ago (though we won it so would be in the same boat as barrow)

Stevenage should go down (and not because it’s them) I don’t agree that Crewe Swindon and Plymouth should go up but Stevenage don’t - you can’t have one but not the other.

A lot of our fans don’t agree with it that’s for sure.

 

[Railway Blue]

He was even worse here. How he keeps getting jobs in football I beyond me.

I had a go at him after a Woking match when I found a Woking supporter sat in my seat and after asking him nicely to move I had to tell him to fuck off in the end when he wouldn't move. He went and complained to Maguire. Maguire had a word with me, but I thought I'll be here long after you've gone mate and so I am.

 

[Stocky]

I think Barrow will and deserve to go up but I'd give them a let off for looking like grave stomping, needy fuckers. They've had their promotion season completely ruined. No celebrations, parties etc. Just people saying their manager is spineless weasel. Unprecedented times.

 

[HG Yellow&Black]

Feck me the voice of maga is back for some more dipshit theories.

Maybe some folk in barrow have got more on their minds like having the highest infection rate.

Is it possible to isolate you and that Boris boot boy apologist of a clown? You can go breed a superclass of idiocy.

 

[Monkey Tennis]

My point is that it would be nice if he acknowledged that other teams efforts this season should be rewarded as well as his own. I think we all know why he’s so keen that n and v shouldn’t be on the table.

Barrow have a good case to go up, but if it turns out that a full quota of clubs get promoted in the EFL but not the NL, than that’s a bit of a disgrace. I hope the NL push for an extra promotion place next season to make up for it, and I hope Barrow vote for that, if they’re lucky enough to go up.

I think we're all on the same page, including Evatt - he keeps saying how teams that have had good seasons should be rewarded rather than those that have been poor. Unless you want him to turn down promotion if no other NL club gets promoted too, I'm not sure what you want him to say.

 

[EnglishRed]

Send Barrow up, they'll be down here again in two seasons anyway.

 

[jacobncfc]

Evatt has come across as an absolute bellend all the way through this old virus lark, for what it’s worth.

 

[Railway Blue]

Evatt is a moron. Read anything the guy has ever said, he's a grade A clown

Love it. Offended Fylde fan.

 

[BarraMatt]

Send Barrow up, they'll be down here again in two seasons anyway.

I'll take it, I never believed I'd get chance to see us in the FL.

 

[Fyldefan]

Evatt has come across as an absolute bellend all the way through this old virus lark, for what it’s worth.

Yeah he has. The guys a tool

 

[jacobncfc]

I think we're all on the same page, including Evatt - he keeps saying how teams that have had good seasons should be rewarded rather than those that have been poor. Unless you want him to turn down promotion if no other NL club gets promoted too, I'm not sure what you want him to say.

My main complaint is that he talks as though you’re in the same position as Liverpool and were merely on a flag-waving victory lap around the National League when the season was stopped.

I fully understand why he thinks Barrow should be promoted, but a little humility could be in order.

 

[TrinidadsNumberOne]

Easy to get carried away though, I don't think even he thought Barrow would have the season they had this year...

 

[jacobncfc]

Easy to get carried away though, I don't think even he thought Barrow would have the season they had this year...

Indeed, and I get that. It just feels a bit trying-too-hard to me, I think he knows that it was just starting to get a little bit tricky and closing up, and he (understandably) wants people to look at most of the season so far rather than that.