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[Foley]

I know i predicted a relegation battle but we seemed to have somewhat pulled ourselves together and the playoff places look possible if we add depth. It appears we are going to decide not to

To be fair you said that we were in a relegation scrap and players wouldn't want to come here to get a relegation on their CV.
I think that you could just as wrong re deciding not to try and get the play offs. We are in a great run of form and have CB and Winnall getting fit (like 2 new players).
We need a back up CB and a winger and we will have a decent squad.

 

[bazzer9461]

To be fair you said that we were in a relegation scrap and players wouldn't want to come here to get a relegation on their CV.
I think that you could just as wrong re deciding not to try and get the play offs. We are in a great run of form and have CB and Winnall getting fit (like 2 new players).
We need a back up CB and a winger and we will have a decent squad.

So what other 2 positions is it that would be the mysterious 4 incomings?

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Isn't the problem that if the Championship vote for larger, but similar restrictions then they put themselves at the same disadvantage to the Prem as we are now to the Championship?

And if so, surely it was always obvious that many of them (those with aspirations of going up, and that's most of them) were never going to vote for wage caps and restricted squad sizes?

Don't get me wrong. I think the *idea* of forcing clubs to live within their means and of preventing maverick chairmen and owners loading clubs with unsupportable debt is sensible. But it's been done badly and in a piecemeal fashion which means clubs in the lower leagues are now at *even more* of a disadvantage than they were before - it might not affect the less ambitious clubs, but anyone who wants to move up the pyramid will find it much much harder in ears to come unless this is sorted out somehow.

 

[bazzer9461]

Some of what is happening with the differences in the EFL could be a start toward a PL2 and the EFL losing the championship to the EPL and shutting its doors to the EFL regarding promotion from the EFL to the EPL. It
Could mean the demise of football as we know it has been for decades.
Rick Parry and his cronies don’t give one iota for the EFL certainly they’re not strong enough.

 

[38yearsofpain]

I see on OUFC website the January sale is still on. Who are we selling?

 

[38yearsofpain]

Some of what is happening with the differences in the EFL could be a start toward a PL2 and the EFL losing the championship to the EPL and shutting its doors to the EFL regarding promotion from the EFL to the EPL. It
Could mean the demise of football as we know it has been for decades.
Rick Parry and his cronies don’t give one iota for the EFL certainly they’re not strong enough.

I expect that support for League 1 and League 2 and below will only continue if Premiership reserve (under 23 maybe) can form part of the pyramid. Not for it but it's obvious conclusion.

 

[mooro]

Can be changed with a vote but getting 2/3s (I may have this number wrong) to change it is unlikely as I can't see Accrington/Rochdale/Northampton etc voting to open it up again.

Some may not go with scrapping the budget cap, but I would hope that at the very least the squad reduction to 20 players from next season can be removed - this really doesn't help anyone does it?

 

[Marked Ox]

Some may not go with scrapping the budget cap, but I would hope that at the very least the squad reduction to 20 players from next season can be removed - this really doesn't help anyone does it?

Agreed. It is a stupid rule.

 

[bazzer9461]

I expect that support for League 1 and League 2 and below will only continue if Premiership reserve (under 23 maybe) can form part of the pyramid. Not for it but it's obvious conclusion.

I hope not but understand what your saying.

 

[RyanioBirdio]

These's an interesting dynamic that's now coming up.

Take Atkinson for example. He is a 2023 contract so Ox are in a decent position (unless he starts to try and force a move) - if any club want him they will have to pay a considerable fee as there pool of supply has diminished.

If Atkinson is in his final year (like Branngan/Dickie before) I suspect we will be unable to extend their contracts if we can only move to x amount in wages...previously the Championship would have to double/triple wages to compete - now they could sign based on a few hundred quid.

Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding! Said this before it was even voted on by L1/L2 and got plenty of slaps for it. Incredible act of financial and competitive self-harm by the clubs. It’s absolutely unbelievable that so few boards saw what they were actually voting for and that so many fans failed to grasp what it ultimately meant. To then vote to put it in place without all three EFL divisions signing up in unison... I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s a legitimate scandal in terms of the negligence involved.

We are always told by the EFL that ultimately the clubs vote on things and therefore they make their own rules. Vote to overturn it, then. Get it scrapped before it really starts to bite when contracts can no longer be counted as ‘the average’ and the number of players over 21 drops even further.

 

[bazzer9461]

Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding! Said this before it was even voted on by L1/L2 and got plenty of slaps for it. Incredible act of financial and competitive self-harm by the clubs. It’s absolutely unbelievable that so few boards saw what they were actually voting for and that so many fans failed to grasp what it ultimately meant. To then vote to put it in place without all three EFL divisions signing up in unison... I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s a legitimate scandal in terms of the negligence involved.

We are always told by the EFL that ultimately the clubs vote on things and therefore they make their own rules. Vote to overturn it, then. Get it scrapped before it really starts to bite when contracts can no longer be counted as ‘the average’ and the number of players over 21 drops even further.

Problem is and I totally agree, deaf ears and lining pockets springs to mind

 

[werthersoriginal]

Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding! Said this before it was even voted on by L1/L2 and got plenty of slaps for it. Incredible act of financial and competitive self-harm by the clubs. It’s absolutely unbelievable that so few boards saw what they were actually voting for and that so many fans failed to grasp what it ultimately meant. To then vote to put it in place without all three EFL divisions signing up in unison... I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s a legitimate scandal in terms of the negligence involved.

We are always told by the EFL that ultimately the clubs vote on things and therefore they make their own rules. Vote to overturn it, then. Get it scrapped before it really starts to bite when contracts can no longer be counted as ‘the average’ and the number of players over 21 drops even further.

Bit like Brexit really, the poor being conned by the premiership/ Etonian elite into voting against their own interests.

Oh, did I just type that out loud?!

 

[Oxford84]

Bit like Brexit really, the poor being conned by the premiership/ Etonian elite into voting against their own interests.

Oh, did I just type that out loud?!

think you will find its the elite that wanted us to stay in the eu.

 

[38yearsofpain]

think you will find its the elite that wanted us to stay in the eu.

I think the biggest differential was age. Older you were the more likely to want out.
Business owners generally wanted to stay. Most businesses that exported saw the advantage of remaining. CBI and CofC was massivily in favour of staying.
We move on.

 

[bazzer9461]

And there was I thinking this was the Transfer window 20/21 page c’mon mods have a word.
We still haven’t signed anyone, bloody Hell

 

[LeftSideBoy]

think you will find its the elite that wanted us to stay in the eu.

Or did they?

 

[bazzer9461]

Or did they?

We will never know

 

[Foley]

So what other 2 positions is it that would be the mysterious 4 incomings?

Do we need 4 new signings? Seriously?
Don't we only have room for 3 maximum only?

 

[Foley]

Some may not go with scrapping the budget cap, but I would hope that at the very least the squad reduction to 20 players from next season can be removed - this really doesn't help anyone does it?

It will also put a lot of players out of work potentially.

 

[ljs]

Given how well we are playing, I'd be pretty annoyed if we brought four players in.

Three over 21 squad places available, and being disappointed if we strengthened the squad, even if backups to current first 11 is quite something.