Reading Club Accounts Ending June 2020 Published

[MarkSimmons]

Mark, hitting Reading with the guideline imposed set of -12 points will have no effect and it wouldn't relegate them, as this would leave them on 54 points. They should take the hit this season if they've any sense. Thing is they will have got off with little or nothing to show for their bad irresponsible way of running a club in the league.

There's no justice for those clubs, ours being the perfect role model, who keep within the financial rules of the game. If there was any justice, Reading would be relegated to league 1 for the start of next season, now that would send a clear message once and for all.

Brin I complety agree. My point was that whatever the efl do it will be halved on appeal making them toothless. They tend to get a lot of stick whereas in my opinion the arbitration process, which never fails if you lawyers are expensive enough , is the bigger villain. The efl should be allowed to govern their competitions and sadly they are not. I take your point about the maximum starting penalty being too low, but it makes little difference if a third party appeal body always undermines everything they do.

[frogmiller]

Brin I complety agree. My point was that whatever the efl do it will be halved on appeal making them toothless. They tend to get a lot of stick whereas in my opinion the arbitration process, which never fails if you lawyers are expensive enough , is the bigger villain. The efl should be allowed to govern their competitions and sadly they are not. I take your point about the maximum starting penalty being too low, but it makes little difference if a third party appeal body always undermines everything they do.

Could the problem be that the EFL board is made up of club owners and directors with others which are ex Premiership board members?

Maybe tone way forward is to have a franchaise system owned/given to the clubs supporters.

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

Could the problem be that the EFL board is made up of club owners and directors with others which are ex Premiership board members?

Maybe tone way forward is to have a franchaise system owned/given to the clubs supporters.

Looking at a franchaise system Frogmiller, proof in the pudding using fans in running a football club,
ok not same has being on a governing body, but look at one league club.
Wycombe Wanderers are one club, the ground owned by the fans in a trust, the club its self now,
75% owned by a American, with the other 25% by the fans in a trust.
The fans have trustees on the board, & look what they have achieved over the last few seasons,
promotion to the championship, with a good manager in Gareth Ainsworth, be it a short spell in
the higher league, but the system has worked.