EFL season over

[roversdude]

On DROS now too

[Guernsey Exile]

There is going to be a meltdown in Peterborough

[Prez]

Darragh MacAnthony is at it again. Next season will now be called "operation vengeance" Feels very hard done by, bless him. I wonder if Posh were in the top 2 if he would be complaining?

[DonnyOsmond]

They are slightly hard done by though. His team have played a higher standard of opponent so far in the second half of the season than a couple of the teams in the play offs.

[Chris Black come back]

They are not good enough. We are not good enough. Difference is that we know this and he refuses to accept this.

[steve@dcfd]

Unweighted points per game is not fair but the decision as  been made if games are not played. So it’s down to voting now I believe at least 15 clubs will vote to curtail the season.

[bedale rover]

Just out of interest

Is it a open ballot ie is your vote seen by other clubs?
Or is your vote confidential to your representative?

[IDM]

The way I read this, is that the clubs have voted on how to curtail or finish a season early, ie enabled a rule to allow for such a situation.

They now (I think) need to choose to implement that for this season, against playing on.

I can’t see a majority voting to play on simply due to the cost implications.

[BillyStubbsTears]

I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but I'm with McAnthony.

A system that determines that Wycombe should be placed in the play-offs and Peterborough not, with all the information we have at our disposal, is a very, very poor one.

[DonnyOsmond]

In a way it'd be fairer to go based on everyone playing each other once.

[IDM]

I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but I'm with McAnthony.

A system that determines that Wycombe should be placed in the play-offs and Peterborough not, with all the information we have at our disposal, is a very, very poor one.

I’m not in favour of any method which tries to predict results.  But my opinion counts for nowt with the EFL.

Now that the how to curtail a season has been decided, do we think that for future seasons there will be more clubs going balls out to win more games sooner.?

Of course, everyone tries to win as much and whenever they can, but do we think teams and managers will take more risks to get a higher ppg rate ASAP.?

Mind you, we may never face such a situation again.?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Thing is, the unweighted PPG effectively DOES predict future results. It implicitly assumes that performance to the end of the season would be identical to the average, unweighted performance from August to March.

That is about as bad a method as you could possibly use.

[bedale rover]

Thing is, the unweighted PPG effectively DOES predict future results. It implicitly assumes that performance to the end of the season would be identical to the average, unweighted performance from August to March.

That is about as bad a method as you could possibly use.

The only good method is playing but the clubs can't afford to do that ergo PPG is the only game in town!

[selby]

  Well, if McAnthony thinks he can buy his way out of the division he wants to take a close look at Sunderland.
  The one thing he has in his favour is his manager, but only as far as spending his money for him.
  Them six points we took off them are getting sweeter by the minute.

[Guernsey Exile]

LEAGUE TWO SEASON ENDED
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[Bristol Red Rover]

There's many ways to work this including allowing a margin or error that would then add other teams to the mix - and could even mean a one off game for "automatic" promotion places. It wouldn't create many extra games, but the black and white approach is inevitable.

No need either for home and away semis, can have it at a neutral venue or the higher placed club's ground to speed up the process.

[Guernsey Exile]

LEAGUE ONE SEASON ENDED

COVENTRY CHAMPIONS

[Dabby]

LEAGUE ONE SEASON ENDED

COVENTRY CHAMPIONS

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52705124

[EasyforDennis]

So now we know our season has officially ended, when might we know who has been released and who we want to keep?

[DonnyOsmond]

I would have had a mini league to decide 2nd and 3rd from the top 8 or 9.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

No point going round in circles now, it's done. We move on. A season for the history books and plenty of quiz questions but, there is still a bigger matter that needs sorting first.

[Filo]

I would hope over the lockdown a plan was made for all eventuality’s and the relevant plan is now in operation to give us the best chance of putting a squad together for next season

[Lifelong supporter]

Shouldn't the headline for this thread be changed to 'It is now'.

[since-1969]

What a crying shame that so many sports have been lost in 2020.A year that we will never , for so many reasons forget. I hope that the fallout will not have a lasting effect on future seasons but it’s hard to imagine how I can’t . RTiD. 

[redarmy82]

So when is next season likely to start?

[since-1969]

September but not sure what year 

[Pancho Regan]

IMHO that was the best, fairest and most practicable way to end the season given the circumstances. Not ideal but no system would be.

And I think we can now reflect on a creditable 9th-place finish for DM and our squad, given the very challenging start we had.

I can't begin to imagine what next season will look like.

[mushRTID]

Has it been announced the 4 clubs who wanted to play on?

[vaya]

IMHO that was the best, fairest and most practicable way to end the season given the circumstances. Not ideal but no system would be.

And I think we can now reflect on a creditable 9th-place finish for DM and our squad, given the very challenging start we had.

I can't begin to imagine what next season will look like.

Mash-up of Threads and Jossy's Giants at a guess.

[Filo]

On. Jolly note, never has 6 points against Peterborough tasted sweeter, and f**k you Bolton, got what you deserved 😂😂😂😂