So , seems we have deservedly stayed up

What’s everyone drinking tonight to celebrate?

and who do we need on our roster for the next campaign so we don’t get demoted ?

 

If you're referring to the EFL decision....isn't that for teams below the championship?

 

Why do you say that? If France is anything to go by then we are doomed.

 

We could celebrate that we are still playing in the same league next season as those who cheated and broke FFP. If this is true of course.

 

thought the only two differentials were EFL and Premiership?

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.le.../leeds-news-promotion-efl-season-18178287.amp

 

Can’t see how they can have one rule for one league and another for others, they all operate in the EFL so surely have to be treated the same.
If they take a different approach for Championship they will leave themselves wide open for lawsuits IMO.

 

I honestly believe that the final decision as to what to do going forward, will rest heavily
on how many Clubs enter administration or simply have to call it a day. Should that happen,
all three leagues below the Premiership would have to be re- formulated.

 

The FA owe us one after promoting Arsenal.

 

The Ligue 1 final standings have been decided using a performance index - the number of points per game weighed by head-to-head record. They considered three options - the other two being a mid-point table based on each club’s first game against one another and the standings from game 27. We would have gone down by one point using both of these, but I haven't seen a table using the performance index method.

 

Sounds crazy reading that article. I've been thinking for a while now does it makes sense to cancel this season when we have on idea if the next one can start. Leagues across Europe have already made this decision though.
If hypothetically football doesn't return until the next clanade year, it may make more sense to finish this season off then and cancel the "next season"as it were.

 

Like everything else in this mess, there's no right answer. The problem with continuing the current season past June though is player contracts.

Why would a team with 'nothing to play for' sign new players for 9 games that mean nothing, meaning that the teams still to play those teams have a massive advantage.

 

Because if clubs are short of players then players are short of clubs. They need to put themselves in the shop window

 

I'm not really sure what the best or fairest method is but there has been a global.pandemic. I think it would be best to end this season now and prepare for next season. Pre-season training usually restarts in June anyway,football is cancelled or postponed during wartime. It's impossible to end social distancing in the next 2 months anyway.
I don't know if that means that promotion and relegation is as the league tables are now,or we write the season off and start again as new in September. Whatever the decision, some won't be happy. I agree with Peter Risdale that there needs to be a restructuring of football finances,such as an end to parachute payments and salaries as a % of income,regional leagues.
For all its money,football is technically insolvent.

 

Peter Ridsdale will want football finances restructuring in a way that puts more of it in his pocket if I’m any judge.

 

o/t - on 8 March put a tenner on Barnsley NOT to be relegated - crap odds 7/2 - wonder if I'll be collecting my winnings soon??

 

This is the point. I think the Premier League will be finished in the summer. Not too many games & a lot of money resting on it.

EFL may as well call it a day now. So many clubs will be in trouble & the player market will fall through the floor for all but the top players.
I think it will look totally different in 12 months. Some sort of tournament may happen in early 2021 to settle what teams end up in whatever restructured system we end up with. I think we'll lose a lot of small clubs & a few big ones too. The money that has propped up the big boys spending won't be there & the banks will call in their lending. It will be sad for the fans of such clubs & the backroom staff. I won't shed a tear for the players, managers, etc. Too many of us ordinary folk won't have the money to go to matches anyway after the restart & eventually football might look more like the game I fell in love with in the 1970's.

 

The season needs to end now. It’s almost like keeping an ill or injured animal hanging on when the kindest solution is to end it.

then work out the fairest way to reconcile league positions, decide if promotion or relegation is happening and then plan for the next season, whenever that maybe.

all this conjecture in the news is just bluster and best guesses.

The problem with not playing the remaining 9 games of course is the sporting integrity (there’s been no moral integrity for years). There is always going to be a club that’s upset but for me I’m not a fan of null and void, I’d have a PPG to decide the table and then promote and relegate on that. If you want less legal challenges just promote and reduce league sizes by 1 extra club each of the next 3 years