Cymbols Posted July 21, 2020 Report Share Posted July 21, 2020 Given that the land would be on the Warwick District Council side rather than Coventry City Council, part of me thinks that it is just a fuck you from the club to the council and Wasps given the way the Ricoh Arena dispute is playing out. 4th time they’ve said they’ve got land and stadium plans, and even though this one sounds more substantial than the others (with the university releasing a statement), I’ll believe it when I see it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baddar Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 QPR sold a player to West Brom last summer (Darnell Furlong), and it's been mentioned that QPR will get a 125k bonus if West Brom are promoted to the PL. They meet in the final game of the season tonight. Conspiracy theorists/fans of Fulham and Brentford might have something to say if QPR don't seem to take this one too seriously. Brentford in particular can have no complaints after that display at Stoke. Another interesting one is Cardiff and Swansea battling it out for the final playoff spot. A point for Cardiff (Hull, home) will be enough, but if they lose and Swansea win (Reading, away), they'll switch places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnar hendershow Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 I count 2 relegation spots for any of 6 clubs plus 1 automatic promotion spot for any of 3 clubs. It'll be an exciting day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted July 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 3 from 5 going down once you factor in the Wigan deduction, it's going to be a dramatic old evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorka Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 We're not going to overtake Cardiff, not when they're against Hull of all teams. Also there's something to be said about the quality of the Championship if we can still make the play-offs on the final day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baddar Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Stranger things have happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted July 22, 2020 Admin Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 41 minutes ago, Adam said: 3 from 5 going down once you factor in the Wigan deduction, it's going to be a dramatic old evening. What's happening with the possible Sheffield Wednesday points deduction also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lusophone Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 9 minutes ago, Lineker said: What's happening with the possible Sheffield Wednesday points deduction also? No one's quite sure. Derby also has a possible points deduction incoming for a similar offence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnar hendershow Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Would be wild if a Sheff Wed points deduction saves Wigan after their points deduction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanky316 Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 They might do the same as League Two and do deductions that just about save them to avoid making a difficult decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFF Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 I could see them starting Wednesday and Derby on negative points next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnar hendershow Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 8 minutes ago, DFF said: I could see them starting Wednesday and Derby on negative points next season. This makes sense especially when you factor in they can just use the pandemic as an excuse for not "reaching a conclusion sooner" and such. Avoids any difficult decision making over this current season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 I'm looking forward to this. I hope Forest can avoid defeat and secure a playoff spot. As for the automatic promotion and relegation spots, I don't think I have any strong preferences. Luton avoiding relegation would probably be the best story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted July 22, 2020 Admin Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Good news for Wigan: Wigan Athletic’s administrators have announced that they have agreed a sale of the club in principle with a preferred bidder that they hope will secure its future. The administrators, Gerald Krasner and Paul Stanley of insolvency practitioners Begbies Traynor, said the preferred bidders could not be named due to a confidentiality agreement, but that the offer was the highest of five they have received. Krasner said the bid, for the club, DW Stadium and two training grounds, would pay all players and other “football creditors” in full, and a further £1.5m, representing a quarter of the £6m the club owes to “non-football creditors.” That £6m total owed to unsecured, non-football creditors is separate from a £24m-£25m loan thought to be owed to the club’s Hong Kong-based owner Au Yeung, which Krasner said he is hoping not to repay at all. Investigations into the circumstances of the club’s sudden collapse into administration are continuing, he said, and Au Yeung has agreed to be interviewed about it this month, via Zoom from Hong Kong. Au Yeung put Wigan into administration on 1 July, just a week after taking overall control of the club, which he first bought jointly on 4 June for £17.5m with Stanley Choi, the chairman of the previous owners, International Entertainment Corporation. IEC, a Cayman Islands company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange that runs a hotel casino in Manila, owned Wigan for 19 months, having bought the club from the previous owner, Dave Whelan, for £15.9m in November 2018. When the sale to Choi and Au Yeung was completed, IEC announced that £24m they had invested in the club to cover players’ wages and losses, which had been converted into a loan, had been repaid in full. It was assumed that Au Yeung had repaid it by replacing that loan with a £24m loan of his own, which the club would still owe. Krasner said that “on the face of it,” the club owes £24m-£25m “up the line” of company ownership, but that the administrators are still looking into who precisely it is owed to. Explaining the exclusion of that loan from the £6m total he said was owed to unsecured creditors, Krasner said: “We are working on a plan not to have to pay it.” Wigan’s appeal against the 12 point deduction, which is imposed automatically if clubs fall into insolvency, is due to be heard on 31 July. The club is expected to argue it should be waived due to the exceptional, “force majeure” circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown. Krasner said the hope of staying in the Championship is crucial to the club’s finances, given the £6m extra that clubs receive in TV money and “solidarity” payments from the Premier League, compared to clubs in League One. If Wigan stay up by beating Fulham on Wednesday, Krasner said they will drop the appeal. He described as unjust the EFL’s rules on the appeal, which require a club to pay both its and the EFL’s costs, projected to be £500,000 in total in Wigan’s case, even if it is successful and the 12-point penalty is overturned: “To football supporters everywhere, one day your football club could face this,” Krasner said. “The rules of natural justice tell me that this isn’t right. I don’t blame the Football League; these rules were approved by the football chairmen of clubs in all the divisions and it’s about time the whole situation was looked at to make it a fairer process.” The rationale for the rule is understood to be that even if a points penalty is overturned, the club is still in insolvency, failing to pay its debts in full, so the EFL - in effect the league’s other clubs - is not willing to incur the legal costs of an appeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnar hendershow Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Blackburn with 3 goals so far against Luton. Two of them unfortunately going into the wrong net though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted July 22, 2020 Admin Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 QPR are 1-0 up at WBA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lusophone Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Top two as it stands: Leeds, Brentford Play-offs as it stands: West Brom, Fulham, Cardiff, Nott'm Forest Relegated as it stands: Charlton, Barnsley, Hull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted July 22, 2020 Admin Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 Barnsley score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baddar Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 If Brentford score before HT, it'd really pile the pressure on West Brom. Edit: OK so neither of them want to come up, cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobfoc Posted July 22, 2020 Report Share Posted July 22, 2020 All the automatic promotion chasers are mucking this up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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