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I had a turkish kebab and four bits of fried chicken last night

I see the Football league have already deducted 10 points, very efficient although some may say indecent haste.

As I understand it, no deduction has taken place. Yet.

shit has your lass got you on a diet

Always next season


If you're still around

I do believe Darlo FC are having a few problems.
Have you heard owt?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 909576.stm

Read the bottom

Yes. it says WILL BE. Not have been.

But it will happen so what you getting at?

The Football league site shows the league two table with darlow on 41 points.

It hasn't happened yet! It needs to be ratified at a FL meeting in the future. What don't you understand?

Why the fook have they deducted it on the FOOTBALL LEAGUE site then? Ratified or not they aren't going to put them back on because you want too argue!

No. it doesn't.

What don't you understand the rules have been in for about a year now

What you think they going to do just let them off because its darlow

You go into admin

You get deducted 10 points

Darlow today comfirmed they went into admin

Next they lose 10 pionts EASY

That will come once the League confirm it.

It's all protocol to ensure everything's above board.

Do you want burying in your duffle coat pok ?

It's only like a stay of execution, Sussex.

Nobody is denying that, of course they will lose points. They just haven't had them taken off yet. The question is, with darlo being in administration only a few years, do they lose 17 points like Rotherham and Bournemouth, or do they get away with it as when they were last in administration there wasn't such points penalties.

If the rules are so, and indeed a past admin before a specific date means a larger points dedcution, then if the Football League want to be seen as to have integrity, they must throw the book at Darlo for this time etc.

But if the don't do that, and deduct only 10 points, it would be another catastrophic failure of the football authorities to punish clubs that don't look after their accounts (i.e. Chesterfield ).

A 10 pt deduction would severely damage their chances of promotion, though they could try to mount another charge, promotion and automatic prmotion would beat the least severly unlikely.

If they choose to punish the Club for what happened in the past, it would 100% definitely kill any remaining sniff Darlinton had of a chance of promotion this year !

Though last night shows that they are a club that do like to slit their own throat where a promotion campaign is concerned.

what would have happened if darlo had got promoted either automatic or via the playoffs then went into admin would they start next season in league 1 with a points deduction

Yeah, it would have happened probably just like Leeds after they got relegated to L1.

For Clarity and recognising my mistake for which I wish to apologise, the football.co.uk FL2 table shows darlow minus 10 points on 41.

Still funny if not quite as funny as the football league doing it

Rules are rules I'm afraid.

but leeds were already getting relegated were'nt they and not promoted

Indeed. In my unbiased, professional, academic opinion...they should throw the book at them !

It doesn't matter.

it does matter,i need to know,if they had managed to stumble on to the end of the season and got promoted what would happen?would they still get the prize money or would it be witheld,it could have gone to pay some of their debts,and would it have been fair on those who have kept their finances in check

No, what I meant was, it doesn't matter whether you get promoted or relegated, the League should still (hopefully) punish you according.

what i mean is once the final whistle has gone on the last day of the season and a club has been promoted then goes into admin do they still get promoted with a points deduction

I don't think there's ever been a case of that because, generally those clubs that tend to get points deductions tend to finish towards the bottom of the table.

we had it done to us by cheaterfield,what they did was went into admin after the final whistle when they had seen how things had turned out,so we got relegated and they stayed up,if they had done it before the final whistle we would have stayed up and they would have went down,so once the whistle had gone the new season had started(i think that's right)

Rotheham, not Chesterfield. Chesterfield were docked 9 points for financial irregularities which still allowed them automatic promotion and we finished fourth.


Football League has now announced a 10 point sanction for darlo.

cheers i knew it did'nt seem right,but do you know the answer to the promotion question?

Because of the Rotherham and more recently Leeds situation, the rule is now something like, go into administration before a particular date (in March, I think) and the 10 points come off the current season. Go into administration after the cut off date and the points get taken off the following season.

sorry for being a pain,but say we are running away with the league and are ten points ahead with a far superior goal difference to the second placed team and get ten points deducted can we still go up as champions and still get the prize money even though we are in admin are we still able to get promoted or are there rules to stop us?

The ten point penalty is the full punishment. But I do believe clubs have a certain length of time to get out of admin or else risk being thrown out of the league altogether.

BBC have said the League have deducted 10 pts, but they haven't revised the table.

I suppose it'll make the moment all the more sweeter when we see the revised table.

The fourth Thursday in March is the cut off date for the deduction to apply this season. I've read that somewhere today. I suppose they have done it now, in the hope of still managing promotion through the play-offs, and so that they didn't have to start next season on -10.

It allows their fans a little longer to enjoy what might have been.

how silly will this thread look if we get relegated??

It won't
The fella is a first rate prick and he deserves all he gets

We won't get relegated. That is all.

Thats my boy..