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League deduct 10 Points - Will apply in L1 Next Season


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There is zero percent chance of winning an appeal.

 

What the League have done is right and fair.

 

Even after administration, the "Investors" section on the OS said that SLH was a company whose principal business was the running of a football club. The useless ****wits who thought that they could escape the 10 point deduction on a technicality didn't even think to remove the self-incriminating evidence from their own website.

 

Uselss f***ers.

 

If I were a shareholder in SLH I would seriously contemplate suing old Cherry Face.

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It's the correct decision and inevitable ... but an absolute disaster for SFC all the same.

 

The decision to postpone administration until after the end-March deadline must have been the product of extreme stupidity and/or arrogance.

 

As things stand, I think that the 10 point deduction at the start of next season is the least of our problems.

 

I will not argue the point that this decision is fair, but it is not correct. They had ample opportunity to change the regulations since Derby and decided to do nothing about it. The Football League were sounded out prior to the March deadline and confirmed there would be no 10 point deduction? Now I can readily understand it is not in the spirit of the regulations, but they chose not to close that loop hole. What they did do was to punish Luton to the hilt for something that was none of their fault. the spirit of the regulations meaning absolute zilch there. Double standards here and I cannot see any reason why we cannot back date administration to pre March, thus avoiding the 10 point penalty next season. The Football league basically bypassed that option when they confirmed the Football club would not be deducted points.

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Lets see them deduct 10 points from West Ham also then whose holding company entered administration the other day!!!!

 

Sky Sports News asking for Saints fans to email their reaction. This would be a good question to email them to get it on national TV

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http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/News/ChampionshipNewsDetail/0,,10794~1636735,00.html

 

I've just read the rationale on the league website and it makes no sense from a legal perspective. SLH (the only bit where an administrator has been appointed) is in no way an asset or an undertaking of SFC, SFC is an asset/undertaking of SLH.

 

The FL have made a perverse decision on the facts. The administrators should and almost certainly will challenge this, as it will materially affect the value of SLH's main asset and, as such, the return to creditors.

 

This is by no means over.

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For those who thought Administration would be a good thing - Bloody great is'nt it ?? :mad:

 

Thanks to all the various idiots we have had the misfortune to have been saddled with over the past few years - The whole bloody lot of them have contributed to this and NO exceptions !!

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If only we still had the finance company and radio station :rolleyes: I never thought I would actually think that but if that was still around then the holding company would have other forms of revenue and the football club would be more of a seperate entity. I doubt anyone actually thought about that when the hair brained idea was hatched but all the same....

 

I suppose this will now mean we will lose a few of the interested parties and the ones that stick around will want to get us at even more of a cut down price? In some ways we are actually more likly to get bought now!!!

 

If we apeal and lose does that mean we will get a further point penalty or did Leeds and Luton lose extra for something else?

 

Wonder what league we will finally stop in? :(

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Well it has been coming. Frankly I'm not suprised, it would've caused no end of grief for the FA had the intended loophole worked.

 

Now the players need to work their arseholes off to win the next two games. I doubt it'll happen, but we need to limit the troubles to this season in order to start with a clean(ish) slate.

 

Yes, we're down no metter what. But we need that points deduction to happen this season, not next. If we DO get it next season? Well, I will be hoping for a fresh new team come the start of next season so we can rapidly climb up the table.

 

Rock Bottom? We've just hit it.

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I will not argue the point that this decision is fair, but it is not correct. They had ample opportunity to change the regulations since Derby and decided to do nothing about it. The Football League were sounded out prior to the March deadline and confirmed there would be no 10 point deduction? Now I can readily understand it is not in the spirit of the regulations, but they chose not to close that loop hole. What they did do was to punish Luton to the hilt for something that was none of their fault. the spirit of the regulations meaning absolute zilch there. Double standards here and I cannot see any reason why we cannot back date administration to pre March, thus avoiding the 10 point penalty next season. The Football league basically bypassed that option when they confirmed the Football club would not be deducted points.

 

When you know you are dealing with an outfit like the FL you take the decision away from them. Why did we seek assurance that if we go into admin the following week that we would not be punished 10 points?? This communication with the FL sounds like utter s**t spouted from the Lowe camp.

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Lets see them deduct 10 points from West Ham also then whose holding company entered administration the other day!!!!

 

Football League rules do not apply to Premier League sides, not sure The Premier League has rules about point deductions for administration

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For those who thought Administration would be a good thing - Bloody great is'nt it ?? :mad:

 

 

No one thought it would be a good thing per se. Some thought it might be better in the long run than the alternative.

 

Not the same thing.

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This is by no means over.

 

Its over, the FL can exclude Saints from next season unless they sign something that they accept the decision.

 

Thats exactly what they did to Leeds and Leeds had to take it or cease to exist, just as Saints would if they appealed or sued.

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Thanks Rupert, you could at least have spared us the -10 for next season. Shows you his true colours.

 

Yeah, i reckon he waited a week out of spite. It's my ball and if i can't play with it i'm taking it home.

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Yeah, i reckon he waited a week out of spite. It's my ball and if i can't play with it i'm taking it home.

 

Out of spite ? doubt it, I suspect that the plan was not to get relegated

TBH,thus just -10 this season putting us into Lge 1 as planned with

time to pay the debts or get them knocked down. F*cking cracking wheeze

Rupert, if you wanted it to work we shouldn't have lost to Charlton, that was where the sh*t hit the fan.

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Yeah, i reckon he waited a week out of spite. It's my ball and if i can't play with it i'm taking it home.

 

I think he's just a poor CEO to be honest. Barclays have shot themselves in the foot a bit though, does this mean they may get a worse deal than if they'd shut Rupert and Wilde down the week before the cut-off?

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I will not argue the point that this decision is fair, but it is not correct. They had ample opportunity to change the regulations since Derby and decided to do nothing about it. The Football League were sounded out prior to the March deadline and confirmed there would be no 10 point deduction? Now I can readily understand it is not in the spirit of the regulations, but they chose not to close that loop hole. What they did do was to punish Luton to the hilt for something that was none of their fault. the spirit of the regulations meaning absolute zilch there. Double standards here and I cannot see any reason why we cannot back date administration to pre March, thus avoiding the 10 point penalty next season. The Football league basically bypassed that option when they confirmed the Football club would not be deducted points.

 

 

Don't get me wrong, the Football League are meddling in something that they patently have no feel for - law. And they are generally a bunch of worthless, pompous incompetents.

 

In real law, there are broad equitable principles that are invoked to try and make sure that no-one suffers real injustice on account of the strict application of technical legal rules. Principles like "noone will profit from their own wrongdoing" for example would prevent someone from claiming an insurance payout on the life of someone they murdered (assuming that the policy was silent on the issue).

 

So, the Football League have probably got it right by penalising SFC because Rupes was trying to take the ****** based on a technicality !

 

Was prepared for this from day 1 of admin but still curiously stunned and shocked ..

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