Saints Docked Points
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Yorkshire Vixen
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blimey :icon_conf
newtonfox
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Any link to that ,not good news at all :icon_sad:
Nottingham Fox
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Someone will step in at the last minute, they always do!
Darth Vodka
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i've got nothing against Southampton, they're a former Premiership team that fell to League One after dropping out and getting a new stadium...and going bust
er...same as us but a slightly different timing
if people dislike them because a former player cheered for them when they stayed up on the telly...that's pretty feeble
er...same as us but a slightly different timing
if people dislike them because a former player cheered for them when they stayed up on the telly...that's pretty feeble
Yorkshire Vixen
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true but it willl happen that a club/clubs will fold due to lack of interest/investors
Willlow
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He was being paid to report on the game not to be a fan. If he wanted to cheer and shout he should have been at the game. It was hard enough having the realisation that City were actually going down without him screaming and shouting.
I wouldnt wish any club out of business and hope they do get a buyer, but I will happily take some satisfaction from them being relegated.
bocadillo
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Not new news. It was reported at the start of the month that they might not be able to reach the end of the season without a buyer - see this report from the Daily Telegraph, dated 2nd April. The current 8-day deadline appears to be a slight extension on that, but with no more gate money to come the club must now be in serious jeopardy - and they may not be the only ones.
If they do manage to last out, their next hurdle might be the Football League asking for assurance that they will be able to carry out next season's fixtures and, possibly, asking for a bond to ensure that they do. An administrator is unlikely to pay that, so they really are faced with a rush to safeguard their future. Without the assurance and the bond, it is likely that they would be kicked out of the league.
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Willlow
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Out of interest what would happen if they were kicked out? Obviously this would only leave 23 teams in league 1
PFKAKTF FOX
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Interestingly the non league paper was reporting that the Blue Square league have been sounded out about accepting Saints should they be forced out of the league.
Yorkshire Vixen
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i had no problems with him cheering and shouting his team on he is a saints fan afterall, we were relegated because we were consistently rubbish but to have a pop at a fan of another club because they escaped relegation at our expense just seems bitter to me, BUT i am quite pleased that we will be swapping places with them next season
Willlow
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i had no problems with him cheering and shouting his team on he is a saints fan afterall, we were relegated because we were consistently rubbish but to have a pop at a fan of another club because they escaped relegation at our expense just seems bitter to me, BUT i am quite pleased that we will be swapping places with them next season
I had no problem with Southampton escaping relegation, but whilst I was grieving I didnt need some big nosed twat jumping up and down celebrating.
Matt_B
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I was just going by the BBC gossip page http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/gossip_and_transfers/8019921.stm
Yorkshire Vixen
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:icon_bigg we have the last laugh now :icon_wink i did find it amusing when le tiss was talking about how unfair it is that the saints will start on -10 next season when/if they finish in the bottom 3, he must have a short memory because leeds knew they were relegated from the championship then they went into administration so had 10 points deducted when it didnt make any difference which league they were in, so because of leeds exploiting a loop-hole the FL had to put its foot down, which i think was the right thing to do even though the fans/players suffer
Matt_B
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We won't if we come back down and they go up, I can see this going on a while :icon_bigg
Yorkshire Vixen
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Redditch Fox
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Southampton are and have been at risk of folding - although I somehow doubt that that will happen, but the possibility of a fairly big club going out of business has been rolling around for quite some time.
There are wider implications in that clubs promoted to the Premiership are now reluctant to push the boat out to much and clubs relegated are now much more pressured to jetison expensive staff.
There are wider implications in that clubs promoted to the Premiership are now reluctant to push the boat out to much and clubs relegated are now much more pressured to jetison expensive staff.
drummindefender
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They've even set up a website for fans to donate money to save them!
http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/saveoursaints/
http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/saveoursaints/
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| P | Pld | Pts | |
| 1 | Leicester | 46 | 97 |
| 2 | Ipswich | 46 | 96 |
| 3 | Leeds Utd | 46 | 90 |
| 4 | Southampton | 46 | 87 |
| 5 | West Brom | 46 | 75 |
| 6 | Norwich City | 46 | 73 |
| 7 | Hull City | 46 | 70 |
| 8 | Middlesbro | 46 | 69 |
| 9 | Coventry City | 46 | 64 |
| 10 | Preston | 46 | 63 |
| 11 | Bristol City | 46 | 62 |
| 12 | Cardiff City | 46 | 62 |
| 13 | Millwall | 46 | 59 |
| 14 | Swansea City | 46 | 57 |
| 15 | Watford | 46 | 56 |
| 16 | Sunderland | 46 | 56 |
| 17 | Stoke City | 46 | 56 |
| 18 | QPR | 46 | 56 |
| 19 | Blackburn | 46 | 53 |
| 20 | Sheffield W | 46 | 53 |
| 21 | Plymouth | 46 | 51 |
| 22 | Birmingham | 46 | 50 |
| 23 | Huddersfield | 46 | 45 |
| 24 | Rotherham Utd | 46 | 27 |
