Scrapping the play-offs and the promotion spot they come with would have been a reasonable outcome, even if I am biased
Just a bit, again though, we had probably as good a chance of getting top 3 as you had remaining up, but TBH I am losing the will to live here, your propaganda here is too ingrained
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It's not a red herring though, as my point is they should have removed the play-offs and the spot that came with it.
The fourth spot predates the Play Offs. The Play Offs are just the way it’s currently decided. It doesn’t exist because of them. But like you say “circles”.
When I first started watching it had two more places than the other divisions. I think it was due to the number of teams in each division. When the regional lower leagues ended Divisions 1 & 2 had 22 teams and Divisions 3 & 4 had 24. I think they considered that two relegation places out of 22 teams was the right number. So there was only 2 up 2 down between the top three divisions. With the extra two teams in the bottom two divisions they could have 4 up 4 down between the two. It only changed to 3 up 3 down between the the top three divisions in the mid 70’s. You could argue that there could be four relegated from the second tier now it has 24 teams, but I think there would be a lot of resistance.
My expectations for the season were low. The "day out in Salford" probably won us promotion with a last kick winner only a few games before lockdown. I'm still not a great fan of Ryan Lowe, but he must be the only man to achieve back to back promotions through fraudulent accounting one year and a virus the next.
Clear as mud, but pretty much what you expect from that shambles, thank **** we aren't aywhere near there anymore. He said hoping he's not tempting fate.The National League seem to have excelled themselves with their proposal. Deciding the table on PPG. That means Barrow go up. All good so far. They've decided now they will have Play Offs. If teams vote for it it means 6 teams coming out of hiding and for at least 2 and potential 4 teams it'll mean only one game. The two regional National League divisions are not considered "elite sport" so can't legally play anymore matches. So at the bottom of the National League there's only one relegation place. It would normally be four but was only three this year because an extra team is being lost at the top to replace Bury. That means only the Champions of the two divisions are going up with no second spot as there's no Play Offs permitted. It's too late now for the ELF lower league Play Offs to be affected as they're being squeezed in before the end of June, which means it'll be before the eased lockdown causes a second wave. If by a quirk of fate the Play Offs couldn't happen and the EFL follow the National League regional policy of no Play Offs meaning no promotion spot maybe Tranmere would be saved after all.
I think that's right...............
100% this. People have been whining about it since the NRL came back over here. It's just ****ing background noise ffs, who wants to hear the muppets yelling "on on on on" every time a player gets near?
What part of professional sport on broadcast TV isn't "the Spectacle"?
the bit where the players occasionally try to score goals because it's fun