League 2 News

[Banksy]

The problem with English football is that it is always all about the Premiership to the exclusion of everything else. Money , money , money apart from the swamp end and then you can just go and lose yourself as far as the EFL goes. In fact , I wager Divisions one and two are just an embarrassment they’d like to be rid of so we can all spend our Saturdays with Linaker , Shearer and Co excitedly discussing the prospects of Manchester City and Chelsea and whether they’ll buy that fifty million pound player.All the while thinking up ways to shaft any remaining small teams by pinching players for tuppence who’ve been carefully nurtured in that team’s academy.Or making them take part in some Mickey Mouse completion just so the big boys can exercise their junior players.

 

[iscalad]

I think the only way to guarantee this is

I was having a coffee with Hants in the High St and he told me Angus wasn't Scottish at all but was from Scunthorpe. You just can't trust the bloke.

High Street in Downtown Jarkata?

 

[grecian-near-hell]

There's hardly a football supporter anywhere who wouldn't be pleased at a promotion.

THE EFL have to be tougher on takeovers with particular emphasis on what's happening with the club's assets and should act much more quickly with points penalties e.g. 3 points deducted when there is a court winding up order.

Yep like you say it would be difficult to find a supporter who doesn't celebrate promotion, but questions needed to be asked during the season both by the supporters and club as to how it was being funded and whether it was sustainable. We know that our crowds aren't sufficient to maintain a promotion chasing squad, and we don't really have any big names unlike Bury last season

POints deduction maybe a way forward but they need to hit the owners financially and get them to submit a Bond or indemnity at the start of each season so that they can complete the season unlike the farce we are faced with at the moment at Bury.

 

[Fareham Grecian]

Yep like you say it would be difficult to find a supporter who doesn't celebrate promotion, but questions needed to be asked during the season both by the supporters and club as to how it was being funded and whether it was sustainable. We know that our crowds aren't sufficient to maintain a promotion chasing squad, and we don't really have any big names unlike Bury last season

POints deduction maybe a way forward but they need to hit the owners financially and get them to submit a Bond or indemnity at the start of each season so that they can complete the season unlike the farce we are faced with at the moment at Bury.

All they would need to do is impose a real fit & proper person test for people taking over clubs. Stop the shysters, the asset strippers, the ego merchants. Very simple. But sadly the FL board is largely made up of those sorts of people

 

[grecian-near-hell]

Carrying out tests will be effective in most instances but won't stop the shysters as you say the EFL seems to made up of them.They need to get some form of financial commitment from the owners and providing a bond or indemnity could cover this aspect

 

[DB9]

I think one reason why these clubs are in trouble is that those who buy them, Lower league clubs is there is no money to be made from them, Outside the Premiership 72 clubs are left feeding off scraps, Pre seasons of old you'd have real big clubs play away at smaller clubs but they're so busy swanning off around the world tapping into new markets and helping them and their sponsers brand, Man U or Man C going to say Bury or Bolton just don't happen much if ever, The money they made from one pre season game against a big team helped loads. The EFL need to hang their heads in shame, Their fit and proper tests fail time and time again, The PFA are oddly quiet, If a player for a big team get a problem they're all over the papers but smaller teams, Very little obvious concern.

We fans outside the Premiership are going to have to get use to this, Teams in real trouble, They don't help themselves by trying to pay stupid money to get promotion, When you get teams like Salford willing to pay a player £4k per week you know the worlds gone mad, Salford FFS!! I don't know what the answer is, 72 clubs won't be Trust run, We are definetly in the minority because fans wouldn't accept they way we run our club because they want instant success, They would never agree to not having someone in charge who might have money behind them to buy and pay players, Raising money like we do. I think we are very different from fans in general, 16 years on from our last woes, Even though we'd love success and climb the leagues we all know deep down it'll probably never happen and accept it

 

[The Proper Chap]

Quality signing for Scunny, scored goals in league 1 last season.

Scunthorpe sign forward Miller joins on loan

Scunthorpe United agree a season-long loan deal for Barnsley forward George Miller.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Banksy]

Quality signing for Scunny, scored goals in league 1 last season.

Scunthorpe sign forward Miller joins on loan

Scunthorpe United agree a season-long loan deal for Barnsley forward George Miller.

www.bbc.co.uk

Yes , looks an excellent loan signing for them , I suppose with these sort of loan players it’s all down to location viz Bradford City , Scunthorpe and Barnsley and teams like us would have no chance.

 

[tavyred]

If there’s any sporting justice then Bury FC. will be ejected from the EFL today and clubs like ours will have an extra automatic promotion spot to fight for this season.
In so far that most businesses compete with each other to be successful, in football it is especially true. Bury gained an advantage over other League 2 teams last year by stacking up debts to gain promotion.
Huge sympathy for the supporters of Bury, but sympathy should have no part in the decision today.

 

[DB9]

If there’s any sporting justice then Bury FC. will be ejected from the EFL today and clubs like ours will have an extra automatic promotion spot to fight for this season.
In so far that most businesses compete with each other to be successful, in football it is especially true. Bury gained an advantage over other League 2 teams last year by stacking up debts to gain promotion.
Huge sympathy for the supporters of Bury, but sympathy should have no part in the decision today.

Possible 48 hour extension as there is reported a few interested parties in buying the club, Dale has said anyone buying will have to take on the debt meaning he wants his money back, estimated to be in the millions. It's like a slow lingering death and the more it carries on the worse the EFL look