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Post by Joe Totale on Jan 7, 2005 18:25:20 GMT 1
The Football League have formally charged Shrewsbury for failing to fulfil a League fixture with Bury on Boxing Day. The Football League have taken little pity and now called for the Shropshire side to appear before a disciplinary commission to explain. A statement from the Football League read: "The Football League have formally charged Shrewsbury Town for failing to fulfil a League fixture, after the club did not arrive for their scheduled fixture against Bury." Oh s**t
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Post by mattsnapper2 on Jan 7, 2005 18:27:54 GMT 1
so what... its just a routine action following a team not showing up !!!
chill !
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Post by scooter on Jan 7, 2005 18:29:25 GMT 1
This was never going to be a matter that just went away Bury estimate they lost £15k, and are on the verge of going bust unless Nugents' sale goes through. They have made staff redundant today. boards.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=923&p=16They will be pushing for that money to be paid by us, at the very least.
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Post by Flixton_shrew on Jan 7, 2005 18:33:09 GMT 1
Do you think we could offer Darby as payment ?
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Post by Joe Totale on Jan 7, 2005 18:34:32 GMT 1
Scooter is right - it depends how much fuss Bury make. I'd be well hacked off it it happened to us. The whole episode makes us look like a bunch of amateurs.
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Post by mattsnapper2 on Jan 7, 2005 18:39:48 GMT 1
cant you get over this....?? Big wave comes and kills people Cars crash on motorway and hold up traffic for 5 hours stuff out of our hands called fate and act of God focus on things we are responsible for and chill
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Post by Ernesto on Jan 7, 2005 18:39:50 GMT 1
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Post by harmerhillshrew on Jan 7, 2005 18:40:20 GMT 1
Scooter is right - it depends how much fuss Bury make. I'd be well hacked off it it happened to us. The whole episode makes us look like a bunch of amateurs. The club can now put their case before a Football Disciplinary Commission. They must show that their absence was "outside of (their) control, or could not have been reasonably anticipated and remedied before kick-off". From the BBC Sport Website.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2005 18:45:06 GMT 1
The club can now put their case before a Football Disciplinary Commission. They must show that their absence was "outside of (their) control, or could not have been reasonably anticipated and remedied before kick-off". From the BBC Sport Website. It was out of our control no doubt about it. However, seeing the trouble that Bury are in - maybe STFC should give some money -maybe 5k as a sort of 'goodwill' gesture after the cancellation
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Post by Joe Totale on Jan 7, 2005 18:46:17 GMT 1
Looks like we've got a pretty good get out then. My advice for the re-arranged game - go up the A49 and go into Manchester that way Can't believe we were even trying to go on the M6 - it's a fecking nightmare.
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Post by mattsnapper2 on Jan 7, 2005 18:47:11 GMT 1
The club can now put their case before a Football Disciplinary Commission. They must show that their absence was "outside of (their) control, or could not have been reasonably anticipated and remedied before kick-off". From the BBC Sport Website. This is no problem.. but if some of our fans were representing us we'd lose the case Theres a song...and it goes like this... DONT WORRY BE HAPPY ! ;D
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Post by harmerhillshrew on Jan 7, 2005 18:51:08 GMT 1
Looks like we've got a pretty good get out then. My advice for the re-arranged game - go up the A49 and go into Manchester that way Can't believe we were even trying to go on the M6 - it's a fecking nightmare. We went through all this 2 weeks ago, dont start again tonight, I want a quite night in
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Post by Joe Totale on Jan 7, 2005 18:51:28 GMT 1
Here's some ammo for us. Bury wanted to narrow the pitch by a yard on either side for the game because of the weather. They would have needed us to agree to that to get the game on - we would have been well within our rights to say get stuffed. Game, set and match STFC - the game would have been postponed anyway,
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Post by mattsnapper2 on Jan 7, 2005 18:53:29 GMT 1
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Post by harmerhillshrew on Jan 7, 2005 18:53:41 GMT 1
Here's some ammo for us. Bury wanted to narrow the pitch by a yard on either side for the game because of the weather. They would have needed us to agree to that to get the game on - we would have been well within our rights to say get stuffed. Game, set and match STFC - the game would have been postponed anyway, GP drove from his Manchester home and was at Gigg Lane at 11.30am and agreed to the pitch been narrowed.
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Post by Joe Totale on Jan 7, 2005 18:54:55 GMT 1
Don't blame me - it's the FA's charge not mine - just trying to help
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Post by Ratcliffesghost on Jan 7, 2005 18:57:21 GMT 1
What's the chances of me having my bar tab for the day recompensed, seeing as I was a refugee in Bury for 7 hours?
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Post by Shrew in the know on Jan 7, 2005 19:01:36 GMT 1
I believe we will be fined and deducted three points as well as having to pay full costs to Bury from what i've just heard.
It seems that the club don't really have a defence and it seems some of the 'rumours' and 'gossip' what was on here about the players antics may have been true.
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Post by rob on Jan 7, 2005 19:04:33 GMT 1
and what might that be guest??? You might as well post all of these factors as after all your identity is protected reguardless
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Post by mattsnapper2 on Jan 7, 2005 19:09:31 GMT 1
I believe we will be fined and deducted three points as well as having to pay full costs to Bury from what i've just heard. It seems that the club don't really have a defence and it seems some of the 'rumours' and 'gossip' what was on here about the players antics may have been true. I have heard you are an absolute cock who listens and believes crap explain your post mr guest and tell us your source my sources on other threads regarding this were gary peters, a director and a player
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Post by rob on Jan 7, 2005 19:11:51 GMT 1
"We will never be in this position again" Uncle Roland-Exeter 2000 Shows how much the chairman knows
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Post by Salop_Ian on Jan 7, 2005 19:16:55 GMT 1
"We will never be in this position again" Uncle Roland-Exeter 2000 Shows how much the chairman knows But he was right. He said we'd never be in the position of having to win the last game of the season to stay in the league and we weren't. We'd been relegated before the last game.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2005 19:20:06 GMT 1
Seems reasonably straight forward to me....
we didn't fulfil a fixture - we didn't turn up - so we're guilty.
The FA are perfectly correct in following procedure to charge us and we have no defence.
All that remains therefore is the extent of the punishment. On that point I expect the circumstances that caused us to fail to turn up to be fairly self-evident as beyond our reasonable control and I expect the punishment to reflect that.
I would therefore expect some official finger wagging, little more. At worst some compo for Bury, but points deductions? No way.
Of course, if it were to happen again any time soon......
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Post by Joe Totale on Jan 7, 2005 19:21:38 GMT 1
Yes I'd be interested in hearing those rumours as well.
Don't tell me - it involves loads of booze and the usual suspects on our playing staff - at least GP seems to be sorting it out.
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Post by Shrew in the know on Jan 7, 2005 19:24:07 GMT 1
I'm sorry, i'm not in a position to reveal everything (although it will be at some point) but there are a few important people who aren't happy with what went on.
And one of the above posters is right, Gary did agree to Bury narrowing the pitch.
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Post by Joe Totale on Jan 7, 2005 19:26:39 GMT 1
So we try to help to get the game on and we get a bollocking for not turning up.
Surely Bury ought to be putting in a good word for us not laying the boot in?
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Post by harmerhillshrew on Jan 7, 2005 19:28:36 GMT 1
And one of the above posters is right, Gary did agree to Bury narrowing the pitch. Its not inside information that, its was in all the local press and on local radio.
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Post by mattsnapper2 on Jan 7, 2005 19:28:39 GMT 1
The FA are perfectly correct in following procedure to charge us and we have no defence. are some people on this board a bit drunk and think its just BURY and forgot the Shrews in front ? we have no defence..? How about being trapped in between motorway junctions with 16 cars piled up in front, the police refusing to give us polive escorts as the traffic police were too busy dealing with the Ambulances and Air Ambulance landing on the M6
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Post by ianwhit on Jan 7, 2005 19:32:50 GMT 1
I'm sorry, i'm not in a position to reveal everything (although it will be at some point) but there are a few important people who aren't happy with what went on. And one of the above posters is right, Gary did agree to Bury narrowing the pitch. would that be all the fighting etc on the coach? the directors have some great right hooks... gary said on the interview on shrewsweb that he'd gone early at request of ref to agree to narrow pitch.
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Post by Salop_Ian on Jan 7, 2005 19:57:59 GMT 1
A point that is easily missed is that the weather was also a major factor in the game being called off. The reason that the ref called off the match at 3.15 was that there was little prospect of the pitch being playable when the Town team finally got there.
If there had not been sub-zero temperatures then the kick-off could have been delayed to 5pm or even later to allow time for the Town coach to arrive.
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