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coops89

First Team Squad
Joe Baker's Dog said:
If we are going to get points back it will be on

"Failed to take into account mitigating factors that it should have done."

NFFC have already said that the Commission failed to take into account mitigating factors. (backed up by the excellent forensic Accountant who gave his very logical analysis/demolition of their decision in a recent FG podcast - which if you haven't seen it is worth watching.)
The point you make about Covid losses & promotion bonuses is an absolute disgrace & totally contrary to natural justice..........the PL knew about these for - as you say - for over a year. To disallow them at the last minute is to say the least not fair. NFFC couldn't do anything about it at such a late date.
One of the other comments made by the Commission was NFFC not accepting the offer from Athletic Madrid for Brennan Johnson........what they didn't take into account was the offer was conditional on them selling a player.........& as anybody with more than one brain cell would know getting rid of a player to sign another isn't always easy.............take Harry Ar.ter......
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Absolutely second this. His explanation of the case helped me understand how incompetent the Premier League have been putting a case together.
 
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Harry1982

Grenville Morris
Just a scenario if just say they turn around and give us a further reduction of say 6pts and state its for appealing. Then everton turn round and withdraw their appeal, that would be taking the piss.
 
Redemption

Redemption

One less gobshite...
GOBIAS

GOBIAS

Ian Bowyer
PlayedOnGrass said:
No Hawksby and Jacob’s - probably the best of a bad bunch - they don’t normally go for all the hype etc.
No sure why they would make it up
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They are quite funny to be fair. Definitely the more credible on there.

Although I do find Party Parlour and Alan Brazil just for their drunkenness.
 
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JonnoSnr

Youth Team
I'm admittedly far from an expert on the whole subject, but I'd be absolutely shocked (but delighted) if we were given anything back, never mind 2 points. The way the initial sanction was dished out made it seem like we lucky it was only 4 points taken.
 
Col Steve Austin

Col Steve Austin

Viv Anderson
Notcher said:
There was a guy on the Garibaldi podcast a few weeks ago. I don't know if it's the same chap.

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I watched that for the first time last night, it was very illuminating. Some strong stuff in there too, e.g. he thought one could easily read an agenda into the initial decision given how they seemed to be skewing stats to suit their argument.

It's almost as if they just saw the "look how many players Forest have signed!" headlines and decided they had to punish us to avoid a precedent. Their behaviour over the timing of denying the covid losses & promotion bonuses was disgraceful.

Given this and the referee decisions recently, it's very easy to see why someone from a culture where corruption reigns could lose the plot and think "they're out to get us".
 
RianBrice

RianBrice

Viv Anderson
Redemption said:
That's the guy is on the Supporters Trust board, Robert Matusiewicz.

incidentally, he's a former agent infamous for losing Jennas to Paul Stretford's Proactive in the build-up to his move to Newcastle. Proactive employed Paul Hart's son (who had recently moved from Matusiewicz' Ambition Management) as well as Freddie Sheppard's son. 🤝

Narrator: Paul Hart was the selling club's manager, Freddie Sheppard was the buying club's owner.
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Nothing like a spot of nepotism to oil the wheels of a transaction, eh Red?
 
Redemption

Redemption

One less gobshite...
RianBrice said:
Nothing like a spot of nepotism to oil the wheels of a transaction, eh Red?
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Matusiewicz was said to have lost £250k from not being able to conclude the deal, so there was plenty of grease in the posy to keep everyone else's hands well oiled.
 
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RianBrice

RianBrice

Viv Anderson
Redemption said:
Matusiewicz was said to have lost £250k from nit being able to conclude the deal, so there was plenty of grease in the posy to keep everyone else's hands well oiled.
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I bet Jermaine feels slightly awkward at the prospect of bumping into Mr Matusiewicz at the WFCG… having said that, it’s amazing how a bit of lolly helps cloud one’s conscience.
 
I'm Red Till Dead

I'm Red Till Dead

Stuart Pearce
Harry1982 said:
Just a scenario if just say they turn around and give us a further reduction of say 6pts and state its for appealing. Then everton turn round and withdraw their appeal, that would be taking the piss.
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I suspect that the Sky would be salivating at us receiving an extra point deduction so there is only one point in it between the 3 potential relegation rivals with just the one team to stay up.
 
Notcher

Notcher

Stuart Pearce
I said all of this 777 stuff would go sideways. Having your credit rating bumped down twice in the space of a couple of months is a sure sign things are about to go tits up.
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