The round doesn't make a difference to me, it's still the same thing. The club Luton played the following round could have made the same argument that they might have reached final if they were given a bye.
Saints expelled from Play Offs by EFL
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Ideally yeah, if we've admitted to it during the season then in an ideal world you'd have a points deduction which would change the make up of play offs.
Practically though that's never going to happen due to timeframes and was off the table as soon as you kicked off against Hull before we were charged.
I feel for you lot and definitely think the timing is unfair but I don't think Boro going through itself is unusual or unfair.
The appeal tonight is, de-facto, the actual semi-final second leg. We're 6-0 down with Baz in goal. Give them hell lads
I would agree, but the EFL charged us on the Friday and then let the two semi-final legs be played in full. If they had postponed the matches and then came to this decision, I think they would have a far stronger case.
Yeah that's where it gets murky I agree.
I think the second leg definitely should have been postponed. Might have been a bit late for first.
As we all said at the time they were obviously desperately hoping they'd beat us.
I'm going to add that this is what I think the club will argue, because you know, money....
Has it been mentioned whether we spied in the FA Cup, in which case should Fulham or Arsenal be reinstated? And what would happen if we had won the cup? I have said before that if we didn't go on that cup run, we may have made the automatics, and wouldn't be having this conversation.
This is probably our best bet of getting reinstated. If Hull have a strong case here, and they need the final to be played because of Sky/sponsors money then we get reinstated
Brought on by themselves, I feel roughly the same about the antics of the EFL as our own stupidity, and I’m not sure it’s reached it peak yet!!!!!!
Sorry Hull fans but maybe we should just have 3rd placed play 3rd bottom in the Prem instead.
So Millwall v West Ham at Wembley. No chance of the game being brought into disrepute then.
So Millwall v West Ham at Wembley. No chance of the game being brought into disrepute then.
Only gonna get more complicated from next season now it’s 6 teams involved.. EFL really don’t make it easy for themselves do they!
Only if Middlesbrough lose on Saturday
We're only banned from the playoffs in alternating seasons for the next 10 years.
Imagine this happening next season and a team finishing ****ing 9th is threatening legal action because they think they deserve a shot at promotion
garysfc
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Just a thought if our appeal is successful can Middlesboro appeal ?