You’re not wrong but to be fair and completely objective, they’ll deserve to stay up if they can ride a 21 point deduction. It does help them though that the other basement clubs are assisting their cause. But it doesn’t detract from the fact the club should have been sent packing if the EFL had some cohones.
Any club that overhauls a 21 point deduction deserves to stay up - except for Derby that is. No sympathy at all they should have never have been afforded the opportunity. If there was any real justice, they should fighting to get out of League One at the moment. But then again, I'm not a vindictive person.......
Turning brinkmanship into a fine art. If no proposals tomorrow will the EFL have the balls to kick them out immediately? I suspect not with our game due tomorrow night. We would have financial claims for hospitality packages, general food and drink, programmes etc. Oh and a choice of grannies for Rooney.
Other sources reporting that the EFL won't have the balls to kick them out and that a further 15 point deduction applied next season regardless of what division they're in. I hope Bury can afford some lawyers if this true.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60694665 Looks like the only actual bid on the table has been taken back off the table. I wouldn't be at all surprised if bidders are now waiting for relegation to be confirmed just so the value drops further. Wonder why Rooney the magnificent hasn't rallied around a few of his wealthy ex-colleagues to put a consortium together to buy the club themselves??? He's apparently done such an incredible job there so surely they'd be nailed on for promotion under him if he could sign players etc???
Seems to me the EFL are happy to let it drag out until the end of the season, and if they do escape relegation then cue a claim by whoever comes 3rd bottom.
If they finish outside the bottom 3 despite that 21 point deduction, I doubt the 3rd bottom would have a leg to stand on legally. Don't get me wrong, I hope that basket case of a club play in League One next season which is where they should have been this year. I hate saying it, but the point is if they can out-perform other sides on the pitch who have effectively been given a 21 point start, then those clubs have only themselves to blame. That last game of ours this season could save one of them from the drop - I really hope so.
So, looks like the slightly "iffy" guy that withdrew his bid previously may now become the preferred bidder for the cast of Frozen. Reading between the lines in some of the fans comments, you could begin to doubt whether he actually does have the cash to make it work. What's more concerning though is the potential for the EFL to again do the cheating feckers a favour by possibly applying the looming further 15 point deduction now it looks highly likely they won't stay up, THIS season rather than hold it back to next. In my book it should be an either/or punishment. IF they get relegated it applies next year but if they survive it applies this. May be harsh but to my mind it's precisely what the EFL appear to be doing but in the opposite way so as not to cause Direby any more damage or pain.
In a fair world they’d start next season -20 points in League 1. But we don’t live in a fair world. If we did we’d have been spared Dalman, Bacuna & Madine
