QPR - Points Deduction

[Notters]

BOLLOCKS don't do it

I really,really , REALLY don't want to go to Loftus Pissing Road next season

This. Horrible dump and the stewards make the withdean ones look human.

 

[sam86]

because they cheated this year, why should the other teams be punished.

Wrong. They cheated 2 years ago, which is why it's wrong to punish this squad/manager with a point deduction.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I agree legal action will obviously follow as their owners have the money to do this and as such the play offs and possibly even preparation for next season could be put on hold. I would expect their owners to get an injuction stopping the FL from promoting any team and in affect staging the play offs until a court case appeal has been heard.

isnt there a rule in place that says the FA have the final word?

 

[bhaexpress]

As usual the FA drags it's feet and looks like it could turn the end of the season into a farce.

 

[fire&skill]

It'll be quite interesting to see how Warnock reacts to all this after the West Ham affair a few seasons ago

 

[JBizzle]

Rather than strip them of promotion, why don't they just make them start the season in the Premiership with minus points?

Good suggestion. A fine is pointless bearing in mind Briatore and Ecclestone are billionaires. Could you not just ban them from promotion?

So 2nd and 3rd go up automatically and 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th go into the playoffs?

Seems ridiculous that this has dragged on for so long. Everyone has known that this has been 'under investigation' for months. It could have been resolves in February! It seems pretty certain that they will be found guilty and if they get point deducted, Warnock has already proved that he's not afraid to help the club drag this though the courts.

 

[JBizzle]

It'll be quite interesting to see how Warnock reacts to all this after the West Ham affair a few seasons ago

My guess? Not well.

 

[fire&skill]

It's not QPR. It's us. Colin Murray said so.

 

[BensGrandad]

When Fozzie took the FA to court the judge said that they were autonomous and that every player and club agreed to their rules when they signed up but that wouldnt stop somebody contesting this again and perhaps another judge forming a different opinion if he considered that they had breached their own rules. If nothin g else it would delay things and prove a nuisance to the FA.

 

[Giraffe]

I agree legal action will obviously follow as their owners have the money to do this and as such the play offs and possibly even preparation for next season could be put on hold. I would expect their owners to get an injuction stopping the FL from promoting any team and in affect staging the play offs until a court case appeal has been heard.

Which is why the FA really need to sort these things out so much quicker. The penalty should have been brought in months ago.

 

[Seagulltonian]

Bit silly to impose the penalty now, as the offence took place two years ago!

 

[BensGrandad]

I would expect that the basis of QPRs argument would be that the puishment is not fair or just as the FA knew before hand what penalty would affect them most and issued the penalty accordingly which is totally against British justice.

 

[Working class pride]

As usual the FA drags it's feet and looks like it could turn the end of the season into a farce.

Its easy to blame the fa. Iltimately its not the fa fault what others do. The fa can then only employ people to investigate. Those employees then work a normal day but with lawyers and litigation waiting to have a go at them. Can hardly blame those employees beong cautios and takingvtheir time

 

[Jim D]

I would expect that the basis of QPRs argument would be that the puishment is not fair or just as the FA knew before hand what penalty would affect them most and issued the penalty accordingly which is totally against British justice.

I thought that if you were found guilty of fielding an ineligible player then you were deducted all the points won with him in the side. Isn't that what happened to Torquay and Hereford (although Torquay were deducted a point even though they lost)?

 

[BensGrandad]

But the FA should have made this a priority case to sort out when it first became public knowledge some months ago and thus avoided a last minute decision.

 

[bhaexpress]

Its easy to blame the fa. Iltimately its not the fa fault what others do. The fa can then only employ people to investigate. Those employees then work a normal day but with lawyers and litigation waiting to have a go at them. Can hardly blame those employees beong cautios and takingvtheir time

Two years ? I think that's rather longer than it needed to be. It will turn the season into a farce.

 

[Working class pride]

Two years is not long at all. Think of the task. Firstly they have to get disclosure of documents from unhelpful people who will try and obstruct them. They then have to meet people, then prepare for a hearing. Two years is not long in litigation for complex matters especially if people arecalleging wrong doing ad you have to get the evidence. It the usual football people reacrion from players who jv not done a job that like to moan without actually thinking what tgey are saying through

 

[BensGrandad]

I would bet that it doesnt take QPRs lawyers very long to file an appeal not 2 months and certainly not 2 years.

 

[Seagull27]

I think we'll be alright with Bennett, even if Norwich do go up. He's said in a fair few interviews just how happy he is and how he wants to stay here, and how he wants to play for us next season. We'd need to be offered a fair bit more than in Jan as we're a Championship club now, so I think we're in a much better position to keep hold of him.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

I bloody hope not. Hopefully The FA will give QPR a transfer ban of a year and a huge fine of probably £10 million.