Bristol Rovers/Scunny/Northampton

Quoted from Heisenberg

I’m actually sort of inclined to stick up for Scunny here. It’s not their job to worry about the integrity of the league or any of that stuff, it’s Keith Hill’s job to think about the future of their team. He’s put the young pros into the fire to see how they manage, and whilst he might have been underwhelmed, would his stellar first team have done any better? There are arguments to say no.

And anyway, the majority of that 1st team squad will be gone, he’s probably had those conversations already - he’ll have probably got more commitment from the young ‘uns on the day.

Their budget is probably going to be modest next season, and he knows those youngsters might be relied upon more in the conference than in the league if they’d stayed up.

Keith Hill did show his hand last week on RH

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c0s53m

3:05 or thereabouts and he says some clubs won’t be happy but that the season is not just about one game 🤔

I think the EFL could start going through Keith Hills line-ups with a fine tooth comb and having a look at his contract because I bet he financially benefits from transfer fees of these players whilst he's manager. If the likes of Dan Gallimore, Finn Shrimpton etc decide to go somewhere else instead of signing a contract at Scunthorpe, their EFL appearances will significantly increase their tribunal fee and ultimately Mr Hills bonus.

The small matter of allegedly being due £50k for Ryan Lofts if Rovers got promoted also adds weight to things.

The rules are a recommendation and I'd hazard there are other things in there about fielding a strong team. I accept that their first team players have been terrible but on paper, they have considerably more experience and I don't think you can legitimately say first year scholars are first team players. Has this future England No1 of theirs actually played for England at any age levels or is it just more public hyperbole to boost his eventual transfer fee too?

I know the complaint is with the EFL and Scunthorpe aren't under their jurisdiction as of Saturday evening but I wouldn't be surprised to see them heavily fined and starting next season with a points deduction; if they get that far.

As for Bristol Rovers, result will probably stand but they I think they will get fined for not controlling their fans.

The rules say you must have ten outfield players on the team sheet (including subs) who were on the previous team sheet. Scunny did that, albeit with at least two of those players on the bench. So they adhered to the rules.

They made three changes to the starting 11, when perhaps they could have left a couple of the experienced players   in the starting line up, but there is nothing illegal about that.

So though they undoubtedly put out a very weak team, it was within the rules.  Just.

Be interesting to learn more regarding the Ryan Lofts payment.

If Northampton hadn't conceded a goal when they were 3-0 up on Saturday they'd have been promoted.

Moan as much as you like lads, I'd be 1-10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 the result stands.

Quoted from RonMariner

Be interesting to learn more regarding the Ryan Lofts payment.

I hear there going through the roof.

The club have insulated themselves from any criticism.

Didn't he used to be a central defender, then he became a striker.

That was a Lofts conversion.

His fee can't go above 50k. There's a ceiling on it.

Quoted from RonMariner

The rules say you must have ten outfield players on the team sheet (including subs) who were on the previous team sheet. Scunny did that, albeit with at least two of those players on the bench. So they adhered to the rules.

They made three changes to the starting 11, when perhaps they could have left a couple of the experienced players   in the starting line up, but there is nothing illegal about that.

So though they undoubtedly put out a very weak team, it was within the rules.  Just.

Not sure that's true. A few years back, a PL team (I think Wolves) were fined for fielding a weakened side against one of the top teams when they had a 6 pointer a few days later. Don't know if those rules still apply or are valid in the EFL, but unlikely to be anything come of it since they've been doing that for weeks and not just that game.