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Anyone else heard his interview today where he speaks about our “game”. Says he believes Bolton shouldn’t be punished as the people responsible for calling the game off are no longer involved at the club. He says it will be very very harsh if they get punished but thinks that they will.
Quote from: Retdon1 on October 25, 2019, 09:45:46 amAnyone else heard his interview today where he speaks about our “game”. Says he believes Bolton shouldn’t be punished as the people responsible for calling the game off are no longer involved at the club. He says it will be very very harsh if they get punished but thinks that they will. It should make no difference - and to me was an open and shut case. Bolton (the Club) opted to try to save further demoralising defeats by calling off a scheduled game without consentThey should have immediately been told to play or forfeit three points (whoever their opponents were i.e. I am trying to be objective). They were notAfter the (non) event they should have immediately been punished by whatever sanction the EFL decided and 3 points awarded to usBecasue neither of those happened I am sure that Hill will be wrong - and whilst they may get further Points deducted* the Game will ultimately be replayed at some stageHow ironic if they were docked 3 Points and ordered to replay the fixture !
Shouldn't be punished because they aren't involved at the club? Is he completely off his tits? On that logic then if we decide we don't want to play a game we can just employ somebody at the club to call off a match and then sack them straight after.
Quote from: Donnywolf on October 25, 2019, 10:23:15 amQuote from: Retdon1 on October 25, 2019, 09:45:46 amAnyone else heard his interview today where he speaks about our “game”. Says he believes Bolton shouldn’t be punished as the people responsible for calling the game off are no longer involved at the club. He says it will be very very harsh if they get punished but thinks that they will. It should make no difference - and to me was an open and shut case. Bolton (the Club) opted to try to save further demoralising defeats by calling off a scheduled game without consentThey should have immediately been told to play or forfeit three points (whoever their opponents were i.e. I am trying to be objective). They were notAfter the (non) event they should have immediately been punished by whatever sanction the EFL decided and 3 points awarded to usBecasue neither of those happened I am sure that Hill will be wrong - and whilst they may get further Points deducted* the Game will ultimately be replayed at some stageHow ironic if they were docked 3 Points and ordered to replay the fixture !Thing is - even if we have to play the game again - I can't see BWFC avoiding a further points deduction. At the moment they are 19 points adrift from safety and have only 31/32 games to correct that. If they are deducted another 3/6/9 points, they are 99% relegated - let's face it they have only won 1 game in 12 to date. It seems to me that the EFL should award the game/points to Rovers now - give BWFC the points deduction that is coming to them and move on. The fact that they have dithered has made the issue worse.
His argument has no basis in logic. Acting like the current Bolton is a different club when of course it isn't, if it were they wouldn't still be in League One at the moment.I maintain that the most likely outcome of this whole thing is that the game is replayed and Bolton are deducted 6 points (for this and the Brentford game being cancelled). I'm fine with that if the rearranged fixture takes place before January but the longer they drag this on the more unlikely that seems, which isn't fair on us having to play them twice after they've had a transfer window to fix their squad.
I don't get why they keep insisting the game was postponed. It wasn't they unilaterally canceled it. This has gone on for far too long, it should have been dealt with at the time. Just give us the points and at least 3 goals, deduct them a further 3 points and move on. Simples.
It makes me wonder if they're waiting till towards the end of the season to make their decision, with the hope we'll be in a mid-table position and therefore meaning any points deduction/allowance will be more trivial in the scheme of things.
If we were going to be awarded the points then we would of already imo. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk