So like the Conference AGM when a team must be out of administration? Would you count Bolton in the same way?
So Bolton wouldn't have been accepted as relegated into L1 and Bury not as promoted into L1 at end of 2018/19.
So to keep 24 teams in L1, this would have saved Plymouth and Walsall (21st and 22nd), and to keep 24 teams in L2, nobody gets relegated to the Conference?
Or perhaps would you not 'promote' Bury, but promote for instance the losing play-off finalist from L2?
My approach would be when a club is in admin or not paying player wages/tax bills etc, if they aren't caught up by the League AGM then they are out of the Football League, no exceptions. So Bolton, Bury and any other club would have both been automatically relegated down, just like the National League do (as they shouldn't have to accept them either), so they'd end up in the Southern Lg/Northern Premier Lg/Midlands Lg (whatever the name is)/Isthman Lg level. They manage this type of approach in Europe and as said with the National League so perfectly feasible to do.
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