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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2014 12:06:10 GMT
Pure sense as usual from PP. Oliver seems insistent that a tribunal will follow any hypothetical playoff win. The whole situation is a farce - and to be fair it's one we've tried to avoid and it's not down to us that the decision has taken so long
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Post by Sennockian69 on Apr 3, 2014 12:39:32 GMT
Isn't this all hypothetical - We haven't qualified for the playoffs yet by our league position. If my aunty had ...... & all that.
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Post by daveu on Apr 3, 2014 12:43:10 GMT
Wealdstone will go up as champions so I can't what they're complaining about. As for the rest, if they don't finish in the top 5 they also have nothing to complain about. Sent from my HTC Desire C using Tapatalk but if we win the play offs and are not allowed to go up, are we saying that the losing finalists will be promoted? If they are not, we WILL be preventing another club from promotion, and as anon-league fan that doesn't sit right with me! Have to disagree. If they aren't good enough to win the playoff final then they shouldn't go up. If we were champions and couldn't go up a conference team would be reprieved. I don't see why it should be any different if we win the play-offs.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2014 12:43:18 GMT
Isn't this all hypothetical - We haven't qualified for the playoffs yet by our league position. Yes. Hence my use of the word 'hypothetical'
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Post by ontheup on Apr 3, 2014 12:52:41 GMT
Personally I think being in and around the play offs is exactly what we needed to get the FA involved (it's their rules that state we wouldn't have been allowed in the play offs)
Oliver and Co deserve huge amounts of credit for the way they have played their cards on this and I actually don't think they could have played it any better.
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Post by headstone on Apr 3, 2014 17:45:16 GMT
Of course the real villains of the piece are those Conference clubs with their ridiculous Luddite attitude in refusing to play on the 3G pitches that can be used for Champions League and full international fixtures. Surely the FA has to pull rank here and bang some heads together? When was the last time we saw the FA take any serious action to improve football? They are in thrall to the Premier League which has far too much power anyway, and can ignore everything except preserving its own position and making loadsa money for its member teams. When I take over the country, all Saturday football will kick off at 3.00 pm with no live televised matches. I'll also be withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights. And ( pace Jimmy Hill) I might introduce a salary cap on footballers, or at least a levy on earnings to improve grass roots/non-league facilities. And ban Ryanair. And bring in a minimum meat content requirement for burgers. And tear up the health and safety legislation, by getting hurt is how people learn what not to do. (PS Manifesto subject to change without notice).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2014 17:57:38 GMT
8-)That last bit in brackets makes you no better than back-stabber Clegg!
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Post by Tony G on Apr 3, 2014 20:38:54 GMT
The best I can suggest would be:
Only the Conference can make a formal ruling on the eligibilty of a prospective Member.
That ruling can only be made once a formal application is received, from the prospective Member.
No formal application can be made until the applicant has met the eligibilty criteria for promotion, by winning automatic promotion or the play-offs.
It therefore follows that, at the time of the play-offs, no formal application can have been made or considered.
Therefore, the eligibilty of a prospective Member cannot be determined, nor the outcome of any appplication known.
This would make perfect sense. If you applied this process to say Lowestoft, who would have to win promotion by the play-offs, and have been just failing for a few years, but if they did so this year with their sub standard pitch and ground then they would be allowed the customary three years (or whatever that is) to bring it up to Conference standard, whilst playing in the Conference.
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Post by lucky1969 on Apr 3, 2014 20:53:06 GMT
Enfield have also done us a favour, coming from behind to beat Bognor Regis Town 2-1 at home tonight
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Post by Sennockian69 on Apr 3, 2014 21:14:52 GMT
Enfield have also done us a favour, coming from behind to beat Bognor Regis Town 2-1 at home tonight Mainly they have done themselves a good turn at ET got nil points at home tonight.
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