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Accrington fined for having games called off due to Covid

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  • That is complete and utter madness. Do the people who make those decisions live in the real world?

  • I think with Andy Holt it is always wise to ensure you know the story before trusting one of his rants to be fully accurate.

    As an aside I see they were also fined for naming an illegible player (Paul Smyth as it happens) in the squad for the final match of the season - a result that cost Pompey a playoff spot.

  • How does a professional club even manage to field an ineligible player in this day and age?

  • Maybe just not getting it but what is so mad about a club with so many COVID cases being fined when other clubs have managed to put protocols in place to avoid illness and postponements?

  • edited August 2021

    Ha ha, how desperate do you have to be to be a contrarian to conjure up a take that bad?

  • This bit....

    "We got told we were being investigated for COVID-19 and the EFL have fined everybody who had to postpone games."

    Does that mean we've been fined as well?

  • @ReturnToSenda said:
    How does a professional club even manage to field an ineligible player in this day and age?

    From what I saw on Twitter, the contract stated Smyth’s loan ran until the final Saturday of the season. The season ended on a Sunday.

    Separate note - Andy also said that he thought they got £5k for winning Rd 1 of the Carabao - in fact there is no prize money until the semi finals.

  • @JohnBoy said:

    @ReturnToSenda said:
    How does a professional club even manage to field an ineligible player in this day and age?

    From what I saw on Twitter, the contract stated Smyth’s loan ran until the final Saturday of the season. The season ended on a Sunday.

    Separate note - Andy also said that he thought they got £5k for winning Rd 1 of the Carabao - in fact there is no prize money until the semi finals.

    Am sure someone else was quoting 5k on the fb group today.
    Seems a strangely small amount to be quoting if not true.

  • @Malone said:

    @JohnBoy said:

    @ReturnToSenda said:
    How does a professional club even manage to field an ineligible player in this day and age?

    From what I saw on Twitter, the contract stated Smyth’s loan ran until the final Saturday of the season. The season ended on a Sunday.

    Separate note - Andy also said that he thought they got £5k for winning Rd 1 of the Carabao - in fact there is no prize money until the semi finals.

    Am sure someone else was quoting 5k on the fb group today.
    Seems a strangely small amount to be quoting if not true.

    Yeah, from what I saw on Andy’s twitter - and I’ve not bothered to delve deeper - that was last years payouts.

  • @ReturnToSenda said:
    How does a professional club even manage to field an ineligible player in this day and age?

    According to @DevC, Paul Smyth was illegible, not ineligible. Dodgy signature on his contract, I imagine.

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