NottsRam77

...and someone needs to tell Gibson that it's not our fault he thought employing tony pulis was a good idea.

We were fined £100k by an independent panel that was appointed by the EFL on the value of amortisation on the players. Which in their eyes meant, they did not agree on the valuation figures. On the very first panel we were cleared on all accounts, so the EFL appealed and had this latest panel (picked by them, and I read somewhere that this panel did not have a finance/lawyer involved). They could not touch us on the sale value of Pride Park. I think that once the season is completed, there cannot be any adjustment of teams points. So I see this has a witch hunt about it and appeasement to make Wycombe and other teams feel good.
The disgrace comes in, on the fact we are looking at the clubs accounting for 2017/18 and 19 seasons. All the accounts for each season were submitted at the end of each season to the EFL which they accepted. The EFL waited until 2020 to lay a charge after constant nagging pressure from a chairman of another Championship team. The EFL have moved the goalposts several times with their rules and regulations and still they get it wrong. Good accounting and shifting of assets is done in lots of companies and not just football clubs.
I feel the panel were under pressure to please the EFL, hence the £100k fine and asking for the accounts to be resubmitted. Giving us a date of the 18th August means the EFL would have a hard job to give us a points deduction on last season when a new season would be already underway. We would also then have rights to appeal, which would then take months of process. By then the season would be into Christmas time or beyond. Yes the EFL are a disgrace, they accepted our accounts every end of season, they wait another year with FFP accounts charge (including the sale of Pride Park). We win the case, then they appeal, set up a new panel and they won't let go.  We were fined on a valuation accounting of amortisation on players not a rule, but a disagreement of our accounting valuation.  YES THEY ARE A DISGRACE

Wycombe can **** off the dirty opportunistic rats, they’re a nothing club and can disappear back into nothingness. If our “fiddling” of the accounts affected anyone it was the relegated teams from the 3 seasons in question not last season, hit your heads on the way back down! 

Here ducking here… great post mate 

Well we can’t blame keogh anymore … so why not 
Joking joking, Iv stated previously my thoughts on Mel 
feel sad for him and us as to how his best endeavours have turned out 
 

Even this makes me feel grumpy this morning - so why didnt he come here then? Did he try?

Here ducking here… great post mate 

This has to be the post of the day....I mean do you really think the EFL are anything but a total disgrace...we are not blameless I've said as much but the fact its only a 100k fine says a lot and then to put out two sets of fixtures is nothing short of laughable!!
I love football but the game is going to the dogs and the EFL do not help one bit...we have all ben through so much over the last 18 months or so and every football club has suffered so do dig into figures regarding amortisation is a joke when clubs are struggling ...there is absolutely no point anyone with any big money behind them getting involved with EFL clubs 
The EFL is supposed to be fair and look after clubs with FFP rules etc but yet dig and dig and appeal and bring clubs down rather than helping in any way and it is a disgrace....many clubs bend the rules but seem to be left alone but this is looking like a witch hunt to me with morons like Gibson sticking his oar in
Why look over the accounts from 4 years ago?? why ?? wasn't they checked at the time then ? 
The damage that this uncertainty is doing could be felt for years and yet ALL clubs worldwide have had a disastrous period of uncertainty and yet the EFL want to keep going until they get what they want...we are not blameless no but the EFL are a bunch of ******* and thats a fact

The big question Is which panel 
the one that like us and think the EFl are dicks 
the one that think we’re cheating a holes and should be relegated without trace 
or a brand new panel made up of Gibson, Stan collymore and Richard keogh?
 

Phew … and Thankyou 

That tweet is playing havoc with my OCD 

It isn’t scary. They put the exact same thing every season. Screenshot of last years…
 
 
 
 

daddie daddie.....we don't want to go to mexico...we want to see the Humber bridge!

Hull or Mexico? Could be a tough choice if they both go ahead ?

And that’s good because …… ? Lol
we can just about muster a 6 a side game between our squad members 7 if Ibe is up for it and Rooney fancies a run out 

….and I don’t think I’ve ever been less excited about them!
Fixture release day was always the watershed between seasons in my eyes; time to look forward to the circus rolling into town once again. 
But this year feels like the clowns are already here.
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nothing will happen and we will be left scraping the bottom of the barrel again on transfer deadline day. 

Give or take 48 hours?

You forgot to add in our renowned scouting network!

Was it from Barry the Ram ???

on the plus side.....u wont have to walk far for a greggs

Agree 
the worrying thing too is that any player worth their salt will have been snapped up way before we’ve sorted ourselves out 

So we are waiting for the result of the DC panel (or whatever it’s called) and simultaneously waiting for a potential takeover announcement.
Both seem imminent, but in honesty, both seem to have been kicked down the road so many times you just wonder when and if we will ever see the end of them. 
 
Meanwhile DCFC seem in complete limbo …. armed with a selection of academy graduates and a handful of championship or near championship level players, a team which many think are barely capable of staying in the league and a squad that just is simply way to thin.
Our manager has barely kept us up and was very clear a month ago that he needed action immediately to prepare for next season … after which nothing has happened. How much patience does he have?
Our best youth players are not signing contracts and even mediocre players in our squad are being snapped up by rivals.
So as fans, do we continue to sit and wait and play the patience game … or do we panic?

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