They need to be dealt with, you have an obligation to fulfil a fixture. You cant please yourself and you need to discourage other teams from doing it.
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Macclesfield game off (update: 7 point deduction)
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I agree. They've already had 6 points deducted with another 4 suspended. I'm sure those 4 will be triggered plus a further sanction.IJN":21ttdver said:
Lundan Cabbie":2bccprtn said:
Nonsense. However way they try to dress it up, they couldn’t afford to host the match.
Cabbie you live in a peculiar world. Argyle have been on the wrong end of this.
Apart from a 12 hour round journey and cost to the club (30 people in a hotel etc is an expense all league 2 clubs would rather avoid if its unnecessary). They now have to do it in February - a midweek game where they have less time to prepare etc.
Now if it's the weather fair enough, but it's not, it's down to gross incompetence of another club. Fair play has not been done as the home side are not inconvenienced in the same way.
Therefore the EFL have failed in their duty of care to treat all clubs equally.
Apart from a 12 hour round journey and cost to the club (30 people in a hotel etc is an expense all league 2 clubs would rather avoid if its unnecessary). They now have to do it in February - a midweek game where they have less time to prepare etc.
Now if it's the weather fair enough, but it's not, it's down to gross incompetence of another club. Fair play has not been done as the home side are not inconvenienced in the same way.
Therefore the EFL have failed in their duty of care to treat all clubs equally.
IJN":sxchgl5s said:
Surely the Chairman (ha!! :funny: ) cannot get away with officially announcing that, as far as they were concerned, the match was going ahead?!? This, after it had been called off by the EFL?
He can't just get away with that ... can he!? :think:
It looks like the verdict is today for Macclesfield postponing our game back in December. A seven point deduction is being mentioned.
That would put Macclesfield just 3 points above Stevenage who have a game in hand and could overtake them.
Such a big point deduction from the EFL points towards the season ending with average points per game used and no relegation.
So a meaningless punishment for Macclesfield.
That would put Macclesfield just 3 points above Stevenage who have a game in hand and could overtake them.
Such a big point deduction from the EFL points towards the season ending with average points per game used and no relegation.
So a meaningless punishment for Macclesfield.
Confirmed - a seven point deduction for postponing a game and for failure to pay players.
EFL statement
EFL statement
The EFL certainly don’t rush into making a decision on this sort of issue do they?
Interesting to read in their judgement that Macclesfield were instructed to pay Argyle £7,481.23 compensation for their wasted expenses, by 20th April. It wasn’t paid by the due date but was paid on the morning of 21st April, which just happened to be the date of the hearing, by which time the Macclesfield staff’s March wages had also been paid. Suggests that their owner can afford to pay the bills but chooses not to until he absolutely has to do so.
Interesting to read in their judgement that Macclesfield were instructed to pay Argyle £7,481.23 compensation for their wasted expenses, by 20th April. It wasn’t paid by the due date but was paid on the morning of 21st April, which just happened to be the date of the hearing, by which time the Macclesfield staff’s March wages had also been paid. Suggests that their owner can afford to pay the bills but chooses not to until he absolutely has to do so.
