Well what we, or certainly I would want (for Rovers) is not a little pile of pacifying cash from The FA but reinstatement back into The Proper Football League Div 2 which if naughties have happend at WW and The FA turned blind eye then surely that must be the rightful outcome plus a suitable compensation package for damages and legal expenses. IE lost season ticket sale (be interested to compare current actual sales with the average over the past say 5 seasons), rejection by some of the potentially better players that Rovers have gone for who would not sign as we are a non league Club (might have been different if still in Div 2). Thats for starters. I am just wondering if this is the way the FA run their activities no wonder the National Team are so successful, I don't think. Are we potentially looking at The Rovers Board actually doing something worthwhile in raising this appeal ? Based on past performance I think not but 46 years of following Rovers I have learn't to live in hope rather than expectation.
its got to be too late for reinstatement. compensation is the best we could get for lost of money due to relegation and season ticket sales like you say. as for the rejection of players, i wouldnt want them anyway. if they only want to play for us due to being in league 2 and for no other reason then i wouldnt want them at our club anyway. we want fighters who fights for the club, the blue and white quartered shirt they wear, for the fans and themselves. rejecting us purely because we are non league and not league 2 shows they dont have what it takes!
Sundeland did the same thing but had a fine and no points deduction last season so a precedent had been set by The FA,there can't be one rule for them because they're in The Premier League and another for Wycombe because we're in League 2.
Not that i think anything will happen but... Sunderland fielded a player without international clearance. Not really the same thing. Also ask Swindon if its the same rule for all. At one point they were going to be relegated 2 divisions, after review not promoted. Chelsea got a fine for the same thing. Also did anyone else notice the agent paul smith has had his punisment reduced to 7 weeks and a lesser fine. Stull make no difference to us mind.
To have his fine cut and his ban lifted surely shows the claims by the Rovers board are out of all proportion,Higgs is trying to blame others for what happened last season.Now don't get me wrong i wanted Northampton to lose their last game and Rovers to beat Mansfield so we'd both stay up,as i've said on other posts most of my mates in Wells,Street and Glastonbury are Gasheads. Anyway best of luck for next season i hope you come straight back up.
Like 99% of gasheads i dont think anything will come from this. I do believe if there is something to answer for and thats a if, you will get points deducted next season and will end up in court for monies lost. All i am saying is Sunderland was not the same thing and the FA change things all the time. God knows what will happen.
Mowgli To have his fine cut and his ban lifted surely shows the claims by the Rovers board are out of all proportion. How do you come to that conclusion? Higgs is trying to blame others for what happened last season None of us know what the detail of the complaint is Mowgli. Do you know something we don't?
Well I cant believe how long this complex (must be as the FA and other bodies cant make a decision it would appear) are taking to announce the outcome. It is beyond a joke and my view is changing perhaps given the time they are looking for wriggle room as they may just have made a monumental c*ck up and maybe NH does have case ? Any views or observations from those in the know ?
Woodward is resigning as chairman on 1st of August,i look forward to the conspiracy posts. Just how many of you think Higgs had a point and how many think he was just trying to pass the blame on relegation onto anyone but himself?
Just bumping this as its certainly gone quiet and 1st August is not far off so does Woodward know something we don't re FA ?
No mention of this topic at NH's recent Q&A; though he would say that no questions were asked about it.
There is an unacceptable lack of communication from the Rover's Board and the FA. We as supporters are the guys who put our hands in our pockets to keep their football clubs afloat and are being treated disrespectfully. We do not expect to be given details of the case if it is in progress , but I can see no reason why an announcement has not been made to indicate that the investigation is still on going or whatever! It's almost as though they believe it is not our business!! One thing is for sure. The FA have made doubly sure that should Wycombe have gained an unfair advantage it will be of little benefit to anyone who was disadvantaged by their actions last season.
Taken from the wycombe forum, posted last week "Football agent Phil Smith, who received a six month ban for breaches of third party owership in the transfer of Matt Phillips from Wycombe to Blackpool, has had the suspension he described as 'completely out of propoortion' reduced on appeal to seven weeks with a £15,000 fine. It allows Smith to participate immediately in transfer activity. He said 'I was given a very fair hearing on a convoluted case' " Read into that what you want. Was he using rovers to promote his own cause? Or is this good news?
I suspect he was using your club and as his ban has been overturned there nothing in the claims against us as we knew all along,sorry!
Yep you are probably correct but even so it shows that the FA is as badly run as Rovers. No excuse for the FA and such to have dragged this one out as they have or for NH and his merry band of yes men to keep us mushrooms (sorry Gasheads) in the dark with no mention. On 3rd thoughts maybe the FA realised that they had really F5cked up with the artful Mr Smith and subsiquently Rovers appeal hence their decision to in effect overturn their original findings and as such hope that Rovers via NH will not pursue this case any further and simply accept that Rovers have not been disadvantaged (well other than by some of the blokes posing as players wearing blue and white quarters over past few seasons).
Totally agree with you on the suits at The FA a complete waste of time and FA stands for what they do. We have heard nothing from them or our board so were not sure what was going on and left our celebrations of our great escape a bit flat to say the least with all the uncertainty. By the way i loved your comment in brackets! Keep the faith and good luck next season.
Good luck next season? Really? Your thoughts don't really tally with what you wrote about us on the C*ty board. Hypocrite.
Well guess what the FA have still failed to arrive at a decision with Rovers appeal and continue the Mantra "it'll take as long as it takes". What a load of b£llocks, clearly those suits at the FA haven't got any otherwise they would have made known their outcome in respect of this one. Sweep it under the table, folk will forget about it, not so so come on NH chivvy these little tin soldiers that run our game along, they surely are accountable in arriving at a decision within a reasonable time frame. Quick word to England National team with these F7ck wits running the game no wonder you continue to perform so poorly when it comes to big tournaments and games, like your bosses you have no balls. 2nd quick word to the FA dont bother about applying for Euro's or World Cups to be held in England in future as you don't bloody well deserve it (unlike the Fans), piss up in brewery spring to mind in terms of organisation. Bunch of W3ankers the lot of em.
