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Post by wwrebel on Apr 16, 2020 14:50:30 GMT
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Post by gobboagain on Apr 16, 2020 15:02:55 GMT
I genuinely feel for you guys not to see out the season. But I can’t help thinking,the extra cost of paying lawyers etc now would be better used and spent next season surely?
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 16, 2020 15:20:05 GMT
It is hard for me to read that without the tune 'let it go' from Frozen popping into my head.
It sucks any which way you look at it but for me efforts are better served by using any sense of injustice to fuel next seasons fire in our bellies. The time, and no small amount of cash, spent pursuing a legal challenge we'll inevitably lose would mean preparation time and squad finances get diverted from season 20/21.
Even in the unlikely event we did win a legal challenge, with no courts running presently there'd be a long delay before it got heard. Then there'd be the inevitable counter legal challenge from any clubs relegated by OUR legal challenge. Lose that and we're back where we started meanwhile season 20/21 could be days from starting. Having spent all our money on legal expenses and drained all our focus on the challenge we'd then have no time or money to mount a meaningful challenge for EITHER league we ended up in.
No. We are far better using the justifiable angst as a motivational tool for a barnstorming IPD campaign next time round than sitting on the beach in some sort of embarrassing King Canute exercise trying to stop the tide coming in.
Sometimes the most dignified thing to do when you're knocked down is not to waste effort grumbling about the injustice of it all but to stand up, dust yourself down and put up your gloves to start fighting again. Save the energy and focus for 'smashing the gumshields' out of our IPD opponents next season.
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 16, 2020 15:26:16 GMT
I genuinely feel for you guys not to see out the season. But I can’t help thinking,the extra cost of paying lawyers etc now would be better used and spent next season surely? I was busy posting the above Gobbo, needless to say on this one I totally agree with you. What's more with the added conspiracy theory of Jack Pearce's heavy involvement in railroading 'null and void' through, the El Classicoastal matches next season will go up yet another gear. On the bright side he got the extended summer break he needed to work on his new pitch and stand without losing any match revenue. Well played Jack
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Post by Kenty in Weardale on Apr 16, 2020 15:47:52 GMT
Agree with you Keithsson and thanks for your good wishes gobbo.
In one of my fantasy moments (not at all alcohol induced in any way, shape or form) I dreamt of crowdfunding a sponsorship deal for the league for next year and calling it the "Rebels were champions in 2020 League"
Given the rewards and grief from the Bloodsuckers involement last season, I reckon we could secure the deal for £12.50 at most
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Post by wwrebel on Apr 16, 2020 18:27:06 GMT
Some more information.
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Post by gobboagain on Apr 22, 2020 21:45:11 GMT
You boys still wasting your money and trying to take this to court and paying lawyers silly money?
After the news about the National leagues surely it’s time to have a think and save your energy and money for next season.
Or you using the gofundme money?
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 22, 2020 22:38:17 GMT
Gobbo is referring to this - BBC Sport linkIt isn't the self same 'null and void' we had imposed on us but it is the end of their seasons with no more games being played. Promotion and relegation however are 'yet to be decided'. Playing devils advocate I suppose the fact the National League have not (yet?) mirrored null and void means those minded towards legal action might feel the door is still ever so slightly ajar. It isn't, it's shut, locked, nailed up and bricked up... but that still won't stop some people. PS - How is Jack's 'surprise' elongated summer building project coming along Gobbo?
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Post by jules on Apr 25, 2020 7:45:47 GMT
There is a suggestion that there may not even be a next season below National League level due to social distancing requirements going forward. In any case, if there is another wave of this pandemic then the same scenario could happen again. Sorry to be a killjoy, but the days of local derbies in front of 1,000+ fans appear to be a thing of the past for now. I can't see how many teams at our level will survive this to be honest, and when it does come back, the landscape will have changed completely.
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Post by Roger on Apr 27, 2020 10:34:17 GMT
If there is another wave of this pandemic then the same scenario could happen again. . Given that possibility it is surely imperative that there is an agreed way to finish the season before it starts (assuming it does). And by agreed I mean not imposed by the FA but voted on by the clubs. Now is the time for the FA to stop faffing around worrying only about the professional game and take a lead. They happily take our affiliation fees. What do they give back? As an aside I strongly believe that football's governing body needs a root and branch overhaul - it is simply top heavy and currently unfit for purpose. As an organisation it compares very unfavourably with the RFU and MCC and even with the SFL and FAW. Football lays claim to being our national game played and watched by millions every Saturday but it's still largely run by a bunch of elderly amateurs (which before any Bognor fan jumps on it is not a dig at JP but the system).
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Post by Keithsson on Apr 27, 2020 12:42:09 GMT
But by the same token, whether they jump on it or not, Jack Pearce does nonetheless exemplify the 'out of touch buffoonery' you refer to.
Cast your mind back to the massively anachronistic public lambasting of his players after we spanked them in the game at Woodside Road.
And having watched his non stop back seat driving antics from Rocks main stand last season the man appeared unhinged.
...and all that is irrespective of his alleged hand on the tiller of the null and voiding of this season.
It is over though and having clutched at straws that have now slipped through our fingers I really see no mileage in entertaining the thought of it being reversed.
Rightly or wrongly, let's be honest it was wrongly, 2019/20 HAS ended. The FA will see no need do anything to 'end it properly', they feel they have.
A baseline absolute imperative however for next season is that the aforementioned affiliation fees for whenever the next season commences are waived in their entirety. They took clubs money then null and voided the whole season so by default they owe the clubs a free season.
The bumbling old crazies won't think of that I suspect so that is one area where clubs might want to think about a collective and united 'up yours' when payment is due. What would they do?, expell every non league club?
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Post by wwrebel on Apr 28, 2020 17:58:03 GMT
A possible solution that looks at easing club finances.
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Post by Keithsson on May 14, 2020 15:23:32 GMT
Barry Hunter in the Herald conceding defeat in overturning the decision and looking ahead with positivity to when football can resume... Herald - Link
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Post by Kenty in Weardale on Jun 24, 2020 21:19:24 GMT
South Shields FC have been hit with a £200K legal bill for their failed attempt to challenge the null and void decision; I am so glad we didn't join them in their final efforts
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