Initial 10, then reduced to 6 + 2 Point Deductions

[GP_Monty]

There'll be no reduction of this on appeal.

This is 10 points and it'll send us through the trap door.

Ah so it wasn't just a corrupt journalist making it all up after all then Dave.

We'll stay up, 6 clubs much worse than us and it's a long season yet.

 

[jazzy]

Carragher speaking sense on SSN , stop the world , I want to get off!

 

[davek]

This is my concern. And literally just when things appeared to be improving in terms of results. It's a massive load of excrement shoved in the faces of everyone at the club. The manager and players getting the two fingers when they have collectively worked so hard. I'm not sure they or anyone else has the strength to recover from this. Its a stab straight in the heart.

We cant cope with that deduction.

Not at all.

A 48-50 point season is needed and we're still off that rate with DCL and Tarkowski being fit.

A key injury is all this takes now to relegate us.

Make no mistake that decision today relegated us.

All the bravado of "we can easily get clear" is BS. We cant.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

SSN we have a saving grace in luton being shabite...FECK OFF

 

[Saint Domingo]

Why did you think this was a 38pt safety season anyway? The fact we can get docked 10, despite being pretty naff, and not bottom says it all.

Because most seasons it ends up being low to mid 30s is the line for staying up/going down. Now we might get a season where 3 teams are completely rubbish and not one of them gets near that but equally it’s not impossible for one team to get a new manager or new signing in January and get that sort of points total. So for us to get to a tally that sees us up comfortably without it going to the last day again we’ve got to now get a lot of results. We’re going to be in this for a while now which is just so annoying as we’d started to pull out of it for the first time in years.

 

[gwladysnight]

We should withdraw our ground from the bid for whatever it is Euros? at the very last second!

What has the Euros got to do with the Premier league?

 

[matty1878]

We cant cope with that deduction.

Not at all.

A 48-50 point season is needed and we're still off that rate with DCL and Tarkowski being fit.

A key injury is all this takes now to relegate us.

Make no mistake that decision today relegated us.

All the bravado of "we can easily get clear" is BS. We cant.

if hasn’t dave. at all

 

[PhilEFC]

Carragher speaking sense on SSN , stop the world , I want to get off!

What’s he said mate?

 

[Saint Domingo]

SSN we have a saving grace in luton being shabite...FECK OFF

The media will be getting their direction from their paymasters now ‘make all this go away’

 

[davek]

You feeling okay, Dave? lol

Do you think anyone should be feeling ok after that judgement?

 

[Furey1878]

The fury over this will die down and we'll be slogging through games that don't go for us and the morale will be shattered.

We'll lose our way in January/February with injury and the pressure of it all.

Are people actually arguing here we'd have got 48/50 points this season - which is what we;ll have to do now.

No chance.

We were on track for 45 points, minus 10 almost certainly means we'll be fighting to the end now though.

I disagree though, Dave. People were exhausted last year, but we found a way to stay together. This year, it's come early, with much more chance of saving ourselves, in a completely ridiculous, disproportionate and unfair manor - which often works for us on any given match day at Goodison over the years.

The flip side though is how galvanised will the teams around us be?

 

[Wat Tyler]

I urge everyone to send an email to the premier league & Richard Masters (CEO) with your thoughts on this debacle.

Info@premierleague.com
rmasters@premierleague.com

I Can’t, think my email has a swear filter

 

[Lapeno77]

Carragher speaking sense on SSN , stop the world , I want to get off!

Would always caveat anything Carragher says as him wanting City punished rather than sticking up for us

 

[Blue83]

We cant cope with that deduction.

Not at all.

A 48-50 point season is needed and we're still off that rate with DCL and Tarkowski being fit.

A key injury is all this takes now to relegate us.

Make no mistake that decision today relegated us.

All the bravado of "we can easily get clear" is BS. We cant.

Behave, it's going to be a tough slog but it's not an impossible task like you're making out

 

[Davideeyore]

We can't just have a normal week. Even when we're not playing. When the last game we won. Just when you thought things were looking up.