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« on: February 19, 2021, 01:18:19 PM »
KES suggestion is one of previously banged the drum on. However I would guess that there would all kinds of legal reasons why that cannot happen. Mainly due to there being no provision for it in the League’s constitution.
If SC can find the money to limp through to the end of the season then maybe that is the only way forward to maintain a NL place ( if that is what he truly wants).
Should be a massive cost cutting exercise. Cut the 21 man squad down to 16. Get rid of the high earners or those who won’t be back next season. Ask the players to take a pay cut, for everybody’s benefit. Maybe those tha won’t should be the ones shown the door.
No overnight stays, travel there and back in the day. Travel by cars rather than team coach. That lot should save the Chairman in excess of a 100k for the remainder of the season.
Said it before, sell some equity in the Club to help us get through to the season end. Surely it’s better for SC to own 50% of something than 100% of nothing.
Yes Mall agree there may be constitutional issues.....an extraordinary motion required for an exceptional event !
So finally life provides a chance for the Trust and SC to come together. Can we find 24 Forum users to play for the Linnets for the rest of the season for free !
They could even try a ‘pay-to-play’ scheme if relegation is waved off as expected. Be gimmicky, but could get some cash in.
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« on: February 19, 2021, 12:25:25 PM »
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« on: February 19, 2021, 11:35:54 AM »
Gloucester taking legal advice around no promotion/relegation between step 1 and 2.
This could take a while!
Yep, it will drag on.
Seems a complete waste of time as far as I can see.
If the season had been stopped and PPG was used to determine league position, then maybe a bit of an argument.
As 2 is null and void, how can you still have promotion and relegation?
Nonsense.
There’ll be plenty of clubs in the N/S that’ll argue that the league need to fill the 24th spot at the very least, and conveniently that it should be them.
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« on: February 18, 2021, 08:40:14 PM »
I guess we will soon know what other Ckubs ( if any others) won’t continue, come Saturday ( or before).
As a Club does it really matter what League we are in come August, as long as we have a club
Exactly, would rather have the club demoted back down to tier 4 than have no club at all.
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« on: February 18, 2021, 08:44:35 AM »
If Lynn are given the option to end their season, without punishment and they elect to go down this path. Will they then be able to furlough all staff or will they have to make everyone redundant ?
Have to feel for SC. It seems every which he turns he is being hamstrung.
Anyone on the payroll before the 30th October can be furloughed, anyone since will not be eligible.
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« on: February 17, 2021, 11:07:09 PM »
He's actually advocating that those that wish to stop do so with no sanctions and rejoin next season and the remainder carry on and play this season to a finish.
The Dorking chairman’s approach would only be possible in the N/S though, as those playing in would surely want to be promoted if they won his proposed rump league. And that would need relegation from NL, which would certainly seem like a sanction for not playing out the season. Though, if N/S is null and voided and they don’t have a rump league, then that approved could then work at NL, but only if there’s a guarantee that N/S won’t promote. And then there’s the whole issue of even if N/S is null and voided, will there be an argument that one club should fill the 24th spot in the NL next season.
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« on: February 14, 2021, 03:06:24 PM »
I’d largely agree with you predictions for the start of the season, but based on some of the attendances when there was a poor show on during the end of the Setchell years, I’d reckon we’d be down to about 6-700 a week at this point of the season.
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« on: February 05, 2021, 09:21:50 PM »
These ‘end of the day’ doses left over after no-shows are being administered in quite a haphazard way, but I guess it’s a guess of putting it in any arm is better than it going in a bin.
I’m aware of two colleagues that have attended doctors appointments in the early evening for other reasons, and been offered the vaccine as they were there. It seems lingering around somewhere with spare syringes could be good for your health (not a sentence that would’ve made sense last year.)
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« on: February 02, 2021, 06:37:47 PM »
Ollie Bayliss
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AFC Fylde will vote to continue playing the 2020/21 season.
"Having received public funds to cover the loss of gate revenue in the first part of the season, we are of the opinion that we have a moral obligation to our fans and community to continue."
Or “Our owners already spent millions chasing league football with our new ground, so what’s a few more.”
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« on: February 01, 2021, 09:49:55 PM »
https://www.chesterfc.com/2021/02/01/nl-statement-resolutions-for-outcome-of-2020-21-season/
I see that clubs have 28 days to vote....... hopefully everyone votes within a couple of days otherwise it will be chaotic.
Interesting that resolution one needs 75% of the combined step 1 and 2, so 50 or 51 of the 67 clubs (depending on their rounding rules). If the N/S are as unified on ending their tier as has been suggested, would only need 7 or 8 of the NL to side with it to pass. Some of the bigger clubs with deeper pockets in the NL who’ve stated they want to carry on, might hold off on voting until the end of the window.
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« on: January 28, 2021, 10:26:43 AM »
Funds not to be used for Transfers or Players wages.
Hmm why apply that rule now? 
Because they saw what happened at step 1 and 2 when they didn’t have that rule?
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« on: January 23, 2021, 09:22:02 AM »
You can see where this is heading.
Any money made available will only be for step one Clubs.
Nice maneuver.
#allonefootballfamily
I get confused over the whole business at the moment as to why we are still playing
I don't think you are the only one! 
It might be that the N/S’s feedback has been overwhelmingly for stopping, whereas the top tiers feedback might be more mixed. Notts county have previously said they’ve got the backing to go to the end come what may, might be the case that some of the other full-time clubs with genuine league aspirations have got deep enough pockets. Could be the cause of quite a schism in our league
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« on: January 21, 2021, 11:55:08 AM »
If the league takes on the loan, is it future members of the national league that are liable to repay the league in years that they’re in the national league, or do the clubs currently in the league become liable to the debt to the league?
I’d assumed it’s the former, but wondered if it might end up being the latter. Either way creates unfairness going forward though; either clubs paying a debt they didn’t accrue, or having a mixture of clubs in the league that owe the debt and don’t, creating competitive balance issues.
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« on: January 18, 2021, 10:47:40 PM »
Might be a controversial opinion, but J don’t think NL clubs should get grants this time around. In the first, quite generous tranche of grants, it prompted a signing spree across the league. To speculate with a grant (which is what signing new players is) when it was unclear that any more would be forthcoming was naive at best.
Given what the first batch went out, one cannot blame the government, of whichever I’m not much of a fan off, for wanting security for the taxpayers funds this time around. And on broader point, given the miserly FSM boxes being sent out and the current furore over £20, I don’t think football should be near the top of the list for more funds.
SC certainly still needs some help with his PR, he seems not to appreciate the cognitive dissonance of his two pronouncements today.
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« on: January 14, 2021, 06:20:03 PM »
I wonder how he’ll spin this one?
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