2 tweets about EFL & NL

[Oldstripy]

The EFL Board will meet today to discuss changes to their regulations.

Clubs have submitted various alterations to first ‘draft framework’ which dictates what happens if a season is unfinished.

The EFL hopes to call a meeting on Monday to potentially approve the framework.


The National League believe it’s not ‘practical’ or ‘sustainable’ to start next season behind closed doors!

The League has told clubs that the start date of 8th August 2020 will ‘inevitably’ need to be ‘reviewed’ & ‘updated’.

Clubs have been asked to respond if they disagree.

https://twitter.com/Ollie_Bayliss?re...Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[SwalePie]

Plus this one yesterday...



"he National League says the EFL ‘remain supportive of maintaining promotion & relegation’ this season.

The League says the decisions on deciding the season will be ‘referred to clubs in due course’.

No decision have yet been made on whether the playoffs will take place."

[OP67]

Starting the new season behind closed door would be a kick in the face of those in the play off places now if this season doesn't have at least play offs and promotion.

[Notts78]

The EFL is meeting today and will be sending out to the clubs an outline of what they want to happen. The clubs will have 5 days to cast a vote one whether they agree with the proposals and a decision will be made Monday 8th June.

[Notts78]

I find it fascinating that clubs couldn’t function behind closed doors. From an out going perspective they won’t be paying match day staff other than players etc...
Many of the clubs in the NL average around 1000-1500. So the income can’t be massively significant even if they all had a couple of pints, bought a program and had a half time pie. Which many won’t.
One way to generate income would be to televise home games as a club where fans can watch the match for a fee, and away fans can subscribe with funds going to the home club or could be split.
In addition to this the NL could help by only having one fixture a week Instead of 10 games in the opening 4/5 weeks like last year. This way teams still get a home game every 2 weeks on average meaning when restrictions are lifted (October has been mentioned) teams would still have plenty of games to gain the revenue needed to run the club.

[Glad2BeAPie]

Why don't they grow some balls and make a decision, whatever gets sorted out some clubs won't aggree on

[OP67]

This is shocking, even with furlough Wycombe Wanders are losing £350.000 a month. That is just crazy for a L1 club!! I see they've told their staff to start looking for alternative work.

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport...e-vote-2871682

[bouncingoffthewalls]

This is shocking, even with furlough Wycombe Wanders are losing £350.000 a month. That is just crazy for a L1 club!! I see they've told their staff to start looking for alternative work.

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport...e-vote-2871682

The average attenance for the season so far at Wycombe is around 5.5k, so if they are using the furlough scheme to cover most wages they must have been making a decent loss before this sh*t storm hit.

[MAD_MAGPIE]

The average attenance for the season so far at Wycombe is around 5.5k, so if they are using the furlough scheme to cover most wages they must have been making a decent loss before this sh*t storm hit.

It's a sign of where the game ended up and what clubs needed to do to compete. I hope that clubs and their owners will learn a big lesson from this and the football authorities also learn that football has got to wake up and get in the real financial world. Certainly in League One and League Two.

For along time football has it's lived in it's own bubble immune from what else goes off in the world. Too many times in the past we've heard that football is not like other business. Well one thing that this virus has done has leveled them up with the rest of the businesses in the world.

Football clubs simply cannot spend more than they earn in the future and therefore they now need to be run on the old principle of not spending more than you have coming in. The biggest outlay by far is player wages and that is where the power needs to now go back to the clubs.

[Big Bob]

It's time the efl got the season ending sorted. Dragging there feet a bit