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Southern Adam said:
Frankly also wouldn't surprise me if we didn't follow the protocols both from a COVID perspective and then informing the EFL perspective. We appointed a new club secretary in the summer from Eastleigh, and last week they tried to play a cup-tied player without noticing.

The whole thing is just another example of how shambolic the administration and decision making has been at our club for years.
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It also reads as the EFL passing the buck. They should have postponed the game as it was a public health risk. They didn't have any problems stopping everything the Blackpool weekend, same way they decided on the fiasco of who went into the play offs. Easy to see why they are interested in creeps like Rodwell, my opinion of course.
 
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Southern Adam said:
Bristol Rovers provided evidence in plenty of time to explain why the game should be postponed.

Ours was on the day, so I think there’s an element of bad luck with the timing. But the two events are different.

The EFL are useless but they’re hardly just going to punish Sunderland for the sake of it - especially when they all love Jim Rodwell.
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Your fact checking needs looking at as Bristol Rovers announced yesterday, the same day as us.
 
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Southern Adam said:
Why would we do something? LJ himself is saying the game put the safety of his players at risk.

I completely agree the EFL shouldn't have put us in that position. But I'm a bit disappointed that we as a club have decided we should put our players at risk and prioritise that below the risk of being fined or points deducted.

If we didn't think the players were at risk then fair enough, and I think its great if LJ and KS thought nobody was at risk and we could still attack to win the game. But if we did think players health was at risk, we should have just postponed it and dealt with the consequences and hoped common sense would prevail.
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and that shouldn't be the clubs call. If we didn't play, we don't know whether we will be hit with a points deduction, a forfeit a fine or even all of them. That's the whole point, how the **** after 8 months have they no idea what sanctions could be
 
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Mackem 10.1 said:
How do you know the club have done anything wrong? Should be clear rules from efl, you have a positive test which potentially could affect many more, call the game off.
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The rule is there. If you have a positive test you can call off the match. The EFL will then investigate the circumstances to check you’ve acted correctly. If they find the positive test has come about as a result of breaching the guidelines, the club can be sanctioned.... either forfeiting the match, points deduction, a fine, or all three!
We opted to play the match.... draw your own conclusions!
 
sad-eyed prophet said:
The rule is there. If you have a positive test you can call off the match. The EFL will then investigate the circumstances to check you’ve acted correctly. If they find the positive test has come about as a result of breaching the guidelines, the club can be sanctioned.... either forfeiting the match, points deduction, a fine, or all three!
We opted to play the match.... draw your own conclusions!
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The EFL should be calling the match off immediately until they can fully investigate the cause. How the hell did Sanderson, Dobson, Embleton and Grigg all start last night and not find themselves having to isolate when they were sat on a bench with Maguire on Saturday, the day before he tested positive, and sharing a changing room and a ****ing bus journey to Lincoln and back?
The EFL should be taking control of these situations with proper rules behind them, not passing the ****ing buck to clubs who will be afraid of the unknown consequences that seemingly have never been explained or ratified to them.
 
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Roppa said:
I think the answer is in the fact that we put a team out with every position covered, how can we say we couldn’t fulfil the fixture, we’d have been deducted points or the game awarded to Wimbledon.
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We had players who hadn't trained and weren't fit after injury playing. They wouldn't have been on the bench and would've been resting and recuperating from their injuries not being risked further injuring themselves. We also had players who had played the night before for the under 23's who won't have recovered from that. No way can anyone claim that was a fully fit team/squad playing.
 
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Mackem74 said:
Exactly as I said. It was our decision.
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We know its our decision, but it shoudnt be, the efl should be saying call it off andbthere will be no sanctions, as its a health risk to our players and the wimbledon players and staff. The efl are basically saying they will investigate and to see if the club had enough players to fullfill the fixture whichnin theory they did
 
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