League 1 - Bolton, Bury & Coventry

Looks to me like Bury will go into admin and be deducted points - they will be lucky to have a team on the first day as everyone has been told free to leave and are jumping ship. Bolton same thing re points deduction looking likely. So we could have 2 teams starting on a big minus. The lower leagues are a car crash and all about lack of money. Need the FA to pop £1m to every L1 and L2 club now - crazy that the FA is so rich when the clubs are going bust. This needs to happen if grass roots is to survive. Very sad. How soon before half the teams start with deductions and the safety zone is then 35 points - oh and slight swerveball - why don't Sunderland just announce they are interested in every player who ever kicked a ball and save us from the endless dross/copy newsies articles every day. On the OUFC page of newsnow, the news aggregator, generally 50% of the articles are about bloody Sunderland!
 
FalmouthOx said:
Looks to me like Bury will go into admin and be deducted points - they will be lucky to have a team on the first day as everyone has been told free to leave and are jumping ship. Bolton same thing re points deduction looking likely. So we could have 2 teams starting on a big minus. The lower leagues are a car crash and all about lack of money. Need the FA to pop £1m to every L1 and L2 club now - crazy that the FA is so rich when the clubs are going bust. This needs to happen if grass roots is to survive. Very sad. How soon before half the teams start with deductions and the safety zone is then 35 points - oh and slight swerveball - why don't Sunderland just announce they are interested in every player who ever kicked a ball and save us from the endless dross/copy newsies articles every day. On the OUFC page of newsnow, the news aggregator, generally 50% of the articles are about bloody Sunderland!
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Why should the FA help clubs with donations that have taken too many risks finacially and/or been financially mismanaged? if Bury tried to operate within their means then they wouldnt be in this situation. lower league clubs need to be more inventive at increasing income and cutting costs on transfer fees, agents and player wages.
 
AscotYellow said:
Why should the FA help clubs with donations that have taken too many risks finacially and/or been financially mismanaged? if Bury tried to operate within their means then they wouldnt be in this situation. lower league clubs need to be more inventive at increasing income and cutting costs on transfer fees, agents and player wages.
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Lower league clubs are asset stripped/raped by those above. They cannot generally produce enough revenues from often poor communities to ever pay more than £2-3k per week in wages to players and that guarantees we all stay exactly where those above want us - with our girls (always for sale at the right price) touted in the cheap shop window which is L1/L2. Every community deserves to have a football club.

Why should they help with "donations"??? Huh are you serious? It is the Football Association - what they should be about is promoting soccer at grass roots and making sure the gap isn't too wide for young players to then step up. Instead they sit on millions which are distributed amongst themselves. It would not hurt the Championship clubs and Premiership clubs one jot, if for example they lost £2m each in share of TV revenue so that every L1/L2 club got say £1.5m more each and Conference teams got £500k each. How hard is it for the FA to step in and demand more for lower league clubs to keep the game alive? The fish stinks from the head

P.S I think agents are the scourge of most managers - not much you can do to cut their fees without them taking the player elsewhere - cut player wages and the quality gap gets wider and resigns us to life down under. Sure, clubs need to be wise and not take too many risks - maybe the FA should hold owners personally liable for the clubs debts when they leave, and not simply allow them to be restructured in consideration for a £1 sale price, which then kills the club once the assets have been stripped
 
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FalmouthOx said:
Lower league clubs are asset stripped/raped by those above. They cannot generally produce enough revenues from often poor communities to ever pay more than £2-3k per week in wages to players and that guarantees we all stay exactly where those above want us - with our girls (always for sale at the right price) touted in the cheap shop window which is L1/L2. Every community deserves to have a football club.

Why should they help with "donations"??? Huh are you serious? It is the Football Association - what they should be about is promoting soccer at grass roots and making sure the gap isn't too wide for young players to then step up. Instead they sit on millions which are distributed amongst themselves. It would not hurt the Championship clubs and Premiership clubs one jot, if for example they lost £2m each in share of TV revenue so that every L1/L2 club got say £1.5m more each and Conference teams got £500k each. How hard is it for the FA to step in and demand more for lower league clubs to keep the game alive? The fish stinks from the head

P.S I think agents are the scourge of most managers - not much you can do to cut their fees without them taking the player elsewhere - cut player wages and the quality gap gets wider and resigns us to life down under. Sure, clubs need to be wise and not take too many risks - maybe the FA should hold owners personally liable for the clubs debts when they leave, and not simply allow them to be restructured in consideration for a £1 sale price, which then kills the club once the assets have been stripped
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good post that ^ @FalmouthOx ... it would be brilliant if the FA did implement at least some of those suggestions.... in the real world, sadly, its far too heavily slanted in favour of the PL & Championship clubs :cautious:
 
thegrumpyporter said:
talksport.com

Bolton could cease to exist as a club over 'financial mess', fears PFA chief Taylor

Gordon Taylor has told talkSPORT the PFA is providing loans to help out Bolton’s unpaid players, and has slammed for English Football League for failing one of their historic founding clubs. The Pr…
talksport.com talksport.com
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Wow.
They are in a real mess.
Surely the FL have to give them a date by which a decision has to be made.
Presumably if they fold, there will just be 23 teams in the Division as it will be too late to move teams around.
 
So if one of these go out of business, I assume there will only be 3 teams relegated from L1.
 
Foley said:
Presumably if they fold, there will just be 23 teams in the Division as it will be too late to move teams around.
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Definitely - they would need to have moved teams around before the fixture list came out.

A Chester scenario is looking more and more likely unless they can find a buyer for either club soon.

You'd definitely be relishing the chance to play either of them in August, given how few senior players they have on their books - but you would also know in the back of your mind that the game might not count for anything by season's end (for the record, we're not scheduled to play Bolton until 17th Sept, or Bury until 22nd Oct).

Fingers crossed for both sets of fans.
 
In some respects, Bolton going bust could provide a watershed moment in the EFL. When Bolton got promoted, even in financial trouble, they overspent, helping to land them back in trouble. At some point, the EFL need to grow a set and not tip toe around the issues at some clubs
 
Gary Baldi said:
In some respects, Bolton going bust could provide a watershed moment in the EFL. When Bolton got promoted, even in financial trouble, they overspent, helping to land them back in trouble. At some point, the EFL need to grow a set and not tip toe around the issues at some clubs
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I agree.
There needs to be a sensible salary cap for clubs.
I'm.sure that the Championship clubs will not agree though.
 
I definitely need Bolton to stay in business at least until we play them, I've got a non-refundable booking at the Premier Inn next to the ground. That's £34 on the line here.
 
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