(07-05-2024, 11:19 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: The no points back leak is from David Ornstein who is almost never wrong so that is official for me.
The “Them” you are talking about is the Premier League of whom we are one of 20 members. We are the “them” ourselves. Its up to the other members of the league to decide if they want to change things. For what its worth Forest tend to vote with the majority on most issues.
Yeah I think when people refer to the PL they mean Richard Masters? Who just does what the clubs vote for, including usually us as you say. Obviously not being in the league at the time we didn't have a say in these rules being put in place but I've seen no evidence to suggest that we've done anything to try and persuade other clubs that they need tweaking to correct for the promotion related flaws.
In fact, we were quite happy to support them when we thought it would hurt Everton and potentially help us last season. As much as I think the bonuses/covid stuff is unfair, two panels have agreed this is what the rules say so we have to live with it, I think based on that fact we probably still got off lightly. Annoying that we're going to have to sell another player before June to comply but hopefully we get the results we need next weekend, we meet the rules in June then we're finally on the same playing field as everyone else.
Post June, we know that Leicester are likely to start with a points deduction, Ipswich have a League one team and then there's just the playoff team so once again without points deductions for us, survival looks very attainable. Be nice if we could push on similar to the likes of Palace and make next year more comfortable (if we're still here)
And if we go down, then f**k the PL, it's shit anyway!
