Will get through to this point next year without having been through admin or folded?
Will Charlton be one of those?
Forget about this season, next season already looks like being an absolute minefield of issues.
I really struggle to see how a cohesive to get through the next 18 months is going to be implemented without completely ripping through the game as we currently know it.
am I being over dramatic?
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Scenario 1 - Season restarts in July and 19/20 is played to a finish and then season 20/21 follows: Most clubs will survive, helped by government and league backing.
Scenario 2 - 19/20 is scrapped and 20/21 follows starting late: Removal of TV money impacts greatly, and some clubs go under. Others work with smaller salary budget and transfer fund in order to survive.
Scenario 3 - No games until after Xmas: complete re-arrangement of teams within leagues, with some choosing to drop down divisions and play within their new budget. Others go bust. Players kick up a fuss. Budget caps in lower leagues. Football recovers, and players are paid more sensibly and we all live happily even after.
Put this in the other thread, not sure how feasible it would be
To deal with the crowd issue, games may be available on line at a slightly lower cost. This will also reduce match day costs for stewards/police etc but this will only offset loss of match day revenue.
conference to become regional?
league 2 to be part time?
salary caps for players?
more evenly distributed tv money?
possible mergers or ground sharing lower down the football pyramid. Bolton, Bury and Rochdale all close together geographically?
premier teams controlling lower league teams, using them as feeder clubs?
review of points deduction for entering into administration for covid reasons?
one thing is certain, the next time Dillon Phillips picks up the ball from the back of the net following a free header from a set piece, the football world will be a very different place
We've already played Leeds twice.
Who knows in the premier league, if the "big clubs" don't think they need pesky Burnley and Norwich clogging up thier fixtures probably half of them as well.
As to the effect on clubs whilst I don’t know what it will be it can’t be anything but absolutely fundamental. There will be swathes of clubs in the lower leagues and non leagues going bust. Hopefully they will reform but I can’t see that as a priority for the country.
My years of boycott broke my need for football every time I could go and think this will happen to many fans. The ties are unbinding.
The FA run the Premier League, they'll only ever agree to give sprinkles to the EFL.
I think a wage cap in the EFL might work.
I hope all clubs get through this, and that the game sees this as a wake up call to sort out the greed and mismanagement. I fear that this will cause a culling of many smaller local teams (including Charlton) and that the big boys will carry on regardless.
charlton to Watford is 40 miles through London or 60 miles on the m25.
charlton to c*****l p****e is 9.5 miles
im not trying to argue or gain brownie points, just making a working day during a pandemic go a bit quicker.
Lets say the season starts in july.
Lets say everyones had a test by tgen and half the country has had coronavirus.
If your one of the people who havent had it, will you be going anywhere where theres crowds.
Me personally as this has gone on over the weeks im getting worse as i would assume a lot of people are.
Football, pubs restaurants when they open back up alot of people will be rushing back.
There will also be a lot who wont.
Can we have an argument instead? Will at least give us something both to do.
As for the 91....clubs like Macclesfield who are seemingly on the brink anyway surely cannot survive. I’m sure there are other clubs out there who will find themselves in a similar outcome.
I don’t think we’ll see a world where 10-15k+ can just go to a football game once this is all said and done. Maybe one day in years to come, but I think at the very least there will be heavy restrictions on how many people can attend (and who) for the first year or so.
can see up to a third of league clubs disappearing at this rate, the longer this goes on.