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    Peterborough Suspended Points Deduction

    in Football Forum

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    8 minutes ago, i-Ram said:

    Non story really - Posh failed to declare chief executive officer David Paton as a relevant person. Can’t see any advantage that gives them on the football pitch, or why a 3point suspension is actually appropriate anyway. How likely is it in the next 9 months that Darragh MacAnthony will forget again to register his next CEO as a relevant person?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65255779

     

    Isn't the main thing that we saw the rules being applied rigorously to us last season, as suich you would expect all breaches to be punished immediately. 

    Seems to me that we are the only club where the punishment is immediate, I mean we were within the rules until they were changed retroactively. 

    Was also amused to see that QPR are still paying off their FFP fine now.

    Maybe I'm wrong, but seems that we had everything at once, even had to own the stadium, not apply for Covid loan etc, whereas other clubs breaking a rule get a suspended and a paltry fine.

    Points Deduction, Who's Next And When Will It Stop?

    in Football Forum

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    The Reading explanation seems fair enough to me. Obviously it grates that we weren't given the same opportunity, am assuming our Administration complicated matters.

     

    https://newsletter.readingfc.co.uk/i/LAcXa0t5gMNEIaxKGGuQMRVNos9Rf2HE5ClU9Q1n09Q

     

    Last season, the club entered into discussions with the EFL on our punishment for breaching Profit & Sustainability rules. The club came to an agreement on a six-point deduction in 2021-22, with six points suspended until 2022-23 if an agreed plan to fill the financial gap was not followed. Those terms were admittedly ambitious, requiring significant player sales income – but had the club not agreed that plan, our points punishment last season would have been more severe and – to be clear - would ultimately have led to relegation from the Championship. Despite our very best efforts throughout the course of this last year, and for a complex variety of reasons, player sales income wasn’t achievable to the level needed to meet the plan and, despite all the progress we made in reducing our wage bill, because of that we failed to meet the agreed terms. We came up with an alternative and viable solution, which would have satisfied the financial shortfall requested – but the new independent Club Financial Review Unit were expecting player sales in accordance with our agreed business plan and they informed us in March that, as that original plan hadn’t been adhered to in the methods we had set out, we were in breach. And we have no option but to accept that. 

    Derby Reserves

    in Derby County Forum

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    Used to play for Derbyshire Police as a 16/17 year old after I'd left Chesterfield, such a top group of blokes.  Teams who I used to think were very good back then were Santos and was it the Crown Allenton? 

    Redders (Dave Redfearn) was an absolute beast, I also played with him at Mickleover Sports and a few games where he fought like s****, literally, for us. 

    I miss him.

    Coventry City

    in Football Forum

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    But wasn't the big thing about our takeover that we had to own the ground?

     

    I know I am biased, but it still seems that bar Luton and Lees we have been treated far more harshly.

     

    Not to mention that apart from Blackpool, all Champ clubs can go to hell as far as I am concerned.

     

     

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