Ludicrous Pompey decision...

Blue Beard · **Joined:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:12 pm **Posts:** 694

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... ation.html

Fooking disgusting.

I don't want to see ANY club wound up for the sake of their fans, but if that was Pools, we would more than likely begging the league to hear our cause.

I honestly fail to comprehend how such an enormous gulf in debt can allow the club to operate.

Shows the hypocrisy of these "stringent" new legislation.

The Lightning Tree · **Joined:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:30 pm **Posts:** 5804

And only last week they received a three and a half million parachute payment !!

yloop · **Posted:** Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:11 pm

They shouldn't be allowed to accrue points until they come out of administration.

Blue Beard · **Joined:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:12 pm **Posts:** 694

How the hell is there not a transfer embargo or at least extraordinary regulations to curb squad size. If they registered youth players as senior players then tough, that's your lot.

I think, personally, that this sends wholly the wrong message to clubs in England. There is little difference between Pompey and Rangers, and look at those parallels now...

The league can't deal with these issues on such an uncertain basis. Solid, consistent and unyielding regulations with the same punishments. Otherwise, is it really a deterrent?

parmo · **Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:00 pm

if they withdraw the points penalty on appeal, as reported there, then the league will have to face the potential for all kinds of legal action from every club who was given deductions in the past.

Surely they wouldn't dare do this

Blue Beard · **Joined:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:12 pm **Posts:** 694

parmo wrote:

if they withdraw the points penalty on appeal, as reported there, then the league will have to face the potential for all kinds of legal action from every club who was given deductions in the past.

Surely they wouldn't dare do this

Southern club mentality methinks...?

Darlo would have a case, surely?

I'm not losing sleep over it, but how come they are sent Christ knows how many divisions down the pyramid whilst Pompey are basically given a little slap around the head.

Their relative debt (pro rata) are very similar...so...????

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:12 pm

All it means is that they won't lose the ten points until their Administration is finished and ownership transfers to the new people. At the moment they don't have an owner so there's no-one to penalise.

Yes they can appeal once they take over but it's unlikely, for all the reasons everyone has said, that any appeal will be successful.

They won't want to stay in Administration because as someone already said, 6 months of it has cost 1.85 million.

Blue Beard · **Joined:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:12 pm **Posts:** 694

Spender wrote:

All it means is that they won't lose the ten points until their Administration is finished and ownership transfers to the new people. At the moment they don't have an owner so there's no-one to penalise.

Yes they can appeal once they take over but it's unlikely, for all the reasons everyone has said, that any appeal will be successful.

They won't want to stay in Administration because as someone already said, 6 months of it has cost 1.85 million.

But they bumbled on without any proof that this could be resolved...and other clubs have been far more strictly dealt with by the powers that be in that regard...

These regulations can't be interchangeable.

Spender · **Posted:** Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:57 pm

Agreed.

But there's only two ways it can go, resolution or Liquidation. In the first case they'll ,lose the points despite any appeal, in the second they just vanish and do a darlo.

Ludicrous Pompey decision...

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