Tranmere's proposal promotes us. However, Peterboro's amendment to Tranmere's proposal puts us in the playoffs.
It doesn't actually matter, the League One season is finished and we will be promoted on 9th June (should have been 8th June but the ELF didn't manage to get the voting information out on time). Our promotion is entirely fair. We are the only club to have been in a promotion spot throughout 2020 and just before the football stopped, the bookies had Coventry and the Millers as odds-on favourites for automatic promotion with Oxford at 2-1 and Peterborough bringing up the rear at 6-1.
I will hate Posh 'til I die... after their antics over this....
Totally agree we need to move on from all of this posturing we should be grateful to have a chairman as good as Tony Stewart leading the club. When this is is over show your appreciation by renewing your season ticket. I know some will say they are struggling been there unemployment illness still gone. Stuff this virus life goes on.
Have seen a report on the mail online some of the gang of 4 who will in the playoffs if this ppg proposal is passed had players in for tests and are to resume training on Monday it makes no sense for them to play the season out. The plot thickens might be some good news on Tuesday.
The four League One clubs who will occupy the play-off places on a points-per-game basis are now pressing ahead with plans for two-legged semi-finals.
Oxford United are set to play Portsmouth and Wycombe Wanderers will face Fleetwood Town when, as is expected, Tuesday’s vote determines that the League One season will be curtailed and only the play-offs will be played.
We can reveal that some of those clubs called their players in for Covid-19 testing on Thursday and will return to training on Monday.
Sources close to one of those clubs say they have been briefed on the understanding that the vote will see the season resolved by a points-per-game system with promotion and relegation.
That will mean Wycombe jump from eighth to third and dislodge Peterborough United from the final play-off position. Coventry City and Rotherham United will go up automatically.
And I guess this will cheer everyone up - its on Portsmouth's web site:
Peterborough have given up hopes of promotion
Posh director of football Barry Fry has been canvassing clubs in the hope they’ll vote for Tranmere’s proposal of a points-per-game method with a margin for error.
He knows it’s now futile trying further.
Fry told the Peterborough Telegraph: 'There’s no incentive for the teams set to contest a four-team rather than an eight-team play-off and the teams at the bottom are not interested either.
'Tranmere’s proposal includes a 25-team League One next season which means solidarity money would be reduced as it would split 25 ways instead of 24 and clubs reckon they can’t afford that. Clubs are also claiming they would have to pay £90K to help fund the rest of the season and they don’t want to do that.
'It’s a big shame, but at least we had a go. Indeed the passion and commitment our chairman has shown throughout this time has been second to none. I feel for him, his co-owners, the manager and players, and the fans. This whole process has been allowed to drag on too long. I’m not sure all the clubs have studied the detail in the proposal. They will all still act in their own interests.'
I get the impression some of the "magic six" regret putting their names to one of his many twitter statements/rants.
They've got, or getting exactly what they deserve for the way they have carried off throughout this. Young kids would have behaved better than Macanthony and Fry have.
Hopefully Peterborough will be able to plan for next season in League One now, sell Ivan Toney and use the money to knock down that woodworm riddled dump of a pre-WW2 stand that they robbed me of £26 for a place to stand in (not enough leg room to sit) and maybe build something that belongs at least in the back half of the last century. The ground isn't fit to host Championship football and apparently the team isn't good enough either based on performance over 35 games. Move on.
If we do get the promotion nod it might be a good idea not to be too triumphant leave it after all it is an austerity promotion. The only thing I will be happy with is not having to play the season out be grateful for that.
I agree. It would be a muted celebration. All the same it was a good effort to be the second best side in the league over 34/35 games, and I wont feel any sympathy at all for Peterborough.
You can understand Peterborough''s frustration being in the top 6 chance of automatic promotion then find out you can't even make the playoffs. If we were in the same position we would be moaning like hell. If the outcome on Tuesday is in our favour great if you are a posh fan you will be singing the words from the jilted John song it's not fair.
Still don't think it's fair. Wycombe have played 2 more home games than away & their home form is far superior to their away. Weighted ppg fairer. Same at the bottom Bolton & Southend can't have no argument to going down but it's not a normal season. What difference would it make just relegating 2 from league 1 & 3 promoted from league 2?
Four league 1 teams have been tested 135 players and staff no positives. I wonder which teams that could be and how they could vote on Tuesday you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work that one out.
I hope everyone tests negative for Covid19. That way we can hopefully get sport back on track after being derailed by this horrible virus. No point trying to field a handful of teams in League 1 because some clubs had to stand down due to the virus. It would be a total disaster and next season, whenever that will start, would be a non-starter. As for the vote, yes, I would like us to be promoted to the Championship. If Coventry are given the nod to be promoted then I'm sure we will be joining them in the Championship. Further delay will push some clubs further into debt. I'm sure those clubs know that and then vote appropriately, considerately and reasonably.
Another rant from Chairman MacAnthony in this morning's Peterboro Telegraph:
“I have no idea why Rotherham want to accept a fake promotion when they appear to be confident enough of their own strength to take part in an eight-team play-off which would lead to two promotions
Another rant from Chairman MacAnthony in this morning's Peterboro Telegraph:
“I have no idea why Rotherham want to accept a fake promotion when they appear to be confident enough of their own strength to take part in an eight-team play-off which would lead to two promotions
As the Chairman of the seventh best team in the division (by the only fair measure available) he is scrambling around to try and find a way to keep their hopes of promotion alive, with no regard at all for the financial health of other clubs in the division or for that matter the very real health of a lot of real people. Desperate stuff.
Another rant from Chairman MacAnthony in this morning's Peterboro Telegraph:
“I have no idea why Rotherham want to accept a fake promotion when they appear to be confident enough of their own strength to take part in an eight-team play-off which would lead to two promotions
As the Chairman of the seventh best team in the division (by the only fair measure available) he is scrambling around to try and find a way to keep their hopes of promotion alive, with no regard at all for the financial health of other clubs in the division or for that matter the very real health of a lot of real people. Desperate stuff.
What a total nob he is... and why pick on us? (again) his views that 7 teams below us should drag us into an 8 team playoff stint would mean a team 8 points below us would take part - when we are only 6 points behind Coventry. We could finish top with two wins and a better goal difference, so why just pick on us as the target and not include Coventry??
Hopefully his rant will harden the views of other clubs rather than help him, although recent non football events with ***mings, Boris etc, don't exactly give you the feeling that people will always do the right thing...
I almost want Peterborough to stay down more than I want us to go up, but not quite..
As i have stated elsewhere, the EFL & Sky are saying 15 games of playoffs to look forward to.
So tomorrow we should be up, the promotion rubber stamped and then we can just sit back and for once be able to look forward to another season in the championship, without the need for playoffs.
FFP in the championship next season is going to be interesting, as this may help us in our bid to stay in the division.
I read what supporters of Sunderland Oxford etc say. Their basic position is that we should all wait until this virus has gone away and then pick up where we left off. They say that as if the resumed competition would remotely resemble what the first three quarters of it looked like, but that just isnt the case. Some of the clubs involved might by then struggle to field any sort of side at all even if they wanted to. Some may struggle to exist at all. The contractual position of the players, the transfer window, the need to keep the division in sync with other leagues domestically and internationally, the need for certainty so that ailing clubs can budget to plan and survive - everything points to the need to conclude this season this summer. If the remaining games could safely and meaningfully be played out over the next four weeks or so, great. If they cant, find the fairest way to call it a day. However many times I think about that, points per game looks like the fairest option to at least give some value and meaning to the 3/4 of the season that we did manage to get through before the lockdown struck. I honestly think that I would feel the same way whatever position in the league we happened to be in. It is the least bad way to wrap up an imperfect situation.
