League two clubs vote to end season

I think someone Stevenage/Macclesfield will face the drop from league 2 as relegation is happening in all the other leagues.

2 will go up from the NL with Barrow being certain to be one of them.

We just have to hope plays off games are played in the NL otherwise Harrogate will go up.

I can see why some clubs dont want to play as they have furloughed staff if they return they have to pay wages/testing kits they cant afford without fans in the stadium.

I think IF the new season starts in say September would they allow fans in at lower league grounds as without fans these clubs will go bust....looking at the London underground there looks to be more people on the tube than there is at a Dagenham game !

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Originally Posted by BanjoPie

I am not posting much these days but I say this; F*ck the next campaign, lets just finish this one first whenever we can - then have a two month break then start a shortened next campaign, simples.

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Yes, many of us on here have been saying that for weeks.

I can only think they were so fixated on their 20/21 season ticket sales, wage bills, milk bills (Southend) they forgot they we're participants in a competition for which players, coaches, fans had given 8 months of their lives for...

To me, not finishing the season was unthinkable

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Originally Posted by legs77

I think someone Stevenage/Macclesfield will face the drop from league 2 as relegation is happening in all the other leagues.

2 will go up from the NL with Barrow being certain to be one of them.

We just have to hope plays off games are played in the NL otherwise Harrogate will go up.

I can see why some clubs dont want to play as they have furloughed staff if they return they have to pay wages/testing kits they cant afford without fans in the stadium.

I think IF the new season starts in say September would they allow fans in at lower league grounds as without fans these clubs will go bust....looking at the London underground there looks to be more people on the tube than there is at a Dagenham game !

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If two go up from the NL, it would outrageous to promote Harrogate automatically. Every team knows that 2nd in the NL is a playoff position. It's the same as being 3rd. You can't turn a playoff position into an automatic just like that. Surely we'd have a legal case if that happened.

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Originally Posted by BigFatPie

All a result of exceptional circumstances and not having any rules or procedures in to deal with those exceptional circumstances.

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In which case we should not be allowing clubs to make up a new rule purely designed to suit their own interests in the short term, justifying it with "unprecedented times", you can use that phrase to justify anything. Let's promote the clubs with the highest average attendance because these are unprecedented times, there's no argument to be had because people are dying. How dare anybody question this rule when our brave NHS are on the front line, just shut up and accept the decision.

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Yes, many of us on here have been saying that for weeks.

I can only think they were so fixated on their 20/21 season ticket sales, wage bills, milk bills (Southend) they forgot they we're participants in a competition for which players, coaches, fans had given 8 months of their lives for...

To me, not finishing the season was unthinkable

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TBF I think next season is a bigger issue than this one. Does anyone realistically think fans are going to be allowed into grounds this year? and if that's the case then the only way clubs can survive under the Premiership is going to be a government bailout.

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TBF I think next season is a bigger issue than this one. Does anyone realistically think fans are going to be allowed into grounds this year? and if that's the case then the only way clubs can survive under the Premiership is going to be a government bailout.

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I'm optimistic about fans in grounds this year in the lower leagues as i've said a few times now bands have announced big indoor gigs for the NHS in October.

My view is if you can have 10k at Nottm Arena why cant you have 5-7k at Meadow Lane especially when the "experts" have stated its harder to catch outdoors.

Obviously if a second wave arrives in a bad way then things change.

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In which case we should not be allowing clubs to make up a new rule purely designed to suit their own interests in the short term, justifying it with "unprecedented times", you can use that phrase to justify anything. Let's promote the clubs with the highest average attendance because these are unprecedented times, there's no argument to be had because people are dying. How dare anybody question this rule when our brave NHS are on the front line, just shut up and accept the decision.

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I’m not trying to justify anything. I don’t think anyone is, for the present, allowing clubs to make up new rules, which was why the League 2 vote was advisory, and the FA still have to ratify it. I don’t know how it would be implemented anyway, given that League 1 would probably vote to scrap relegation as well.

It will be deeply annoying if the EFL and PL keep relegation all the way down the leagues, but scrap it from League 2.

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Originally Posted by BigFatPie

I’m not trying to justify anything. I don’t think anyone is, for the present, allowing clubs to make up new rules, which was why the League 2 vote was advisory, and the FA still have to ratify it. I don’t know how it would be implemented anyway, given that League 1 would probably vote to scrap relegation as well.

It will be deeply annoying if the EFL and PL keep relegation all the way down the leagues, but scrap it from League 2.

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I'm not having a pop at you, I'm really hacked off with the behavior of other clubs. If we don't get to play for what we've earned the right over 37 games and our owners have the will and means to do it, then I hope we go down the legal route and take them to the cleaners.

According to reports, a radical plan has been put forward by many club chairmen and officials to merge League Two and the National League.

Preliminary discussions have taken place on restructuring the divisions on a regional basis – turning them into League Two North and League Two South.


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The plans, would boost the worrying finances by giving the attendances a much needed boost, bringing more local derbies in each club’s fixtures, which would also save travelling costs.

Another possibility is that League One and League Two could merge and be split into north and south divisions, which would leave the National League structure unchanged. That idea has already been suggested but it has been made more problematic by the bitter splits that have opened up in League One over how to finish the season.

The new idea would mean no relegation from League Two this season and no promotion from the National League. At a time when there is still uncertainty about when the lower leagues will be able to return and which clubs will survive, the plan provides a framework for a new era of sustainability.

There are already suggestions the divisions below the Premier League will be subject to a salary cap next season as English football reacts to the coronavirus crisis, to effect a reset of club’s finances and end the destructive cycle of debt that was afflicting so many clubs.

The new regionalised plans would accelerate that process of recovery.

Talks on the Championship and League One continue on Monday and throughout next week to determine how to end their seasons.

League Two voted to end the season on a points per game basis, with a play-off tournament for promotion but without relegating the bottom club Stevenage.

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When Tommy Lawton joined us for a record fee of £20000 we were in Third Division South.

So could we go back to how it was with the Divisions to save clubs money?