Club Statement On Wycombe And Third Party Ownership Regulations

It's all a total joke

But..........

A 10k fine for what you have done is a joke as we'll.

 

In our current financial circumstances, after being shafted by one supposed financial benefactor (Steve Hayes). £10 would be a lot these days!
I think if Hayes had still been in charge and this deal had not been set up some time back, then maybe miore than £10k would be justified.
A club with a huge debt burden and annual losses, owned by the fans trust and largely financially supported by them - more would have been harsh

 

BBC with another report on this... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27602961

 

Bristol Rovers have said their legal bid against Wycombe over an alleged breach of third-party ownership rules has been advised by agent Phil Smith.
Last week Smith's licence was suspended and Wycombe were fined £10,000 for breaking agents' rules.

Can't help but think our board have been conned by a bitter agent.

 

This whole situation is getting even more embarrassing

 

We should stop spending money on lawyers and spend it on the team FFS ! I'd imagine the money spent on lawyers for something like this would probalby get us a decent striker for the season. If getting relegated to the Confernce wasn't embarrassing enough, whining about it is even worse. We're trying to weasel out of this on a technicality that happened 4 years ago - this is just embarrassing, it's not going to work, and I really don't like it !

 

Yeah very true I wonder if these lawyers know how to play

 

Going by the comments from all of us gasheads on here, we agree that it does stink of sour grapes and desperation. We deserved to be relegated as the table dont lie.

But here is 2 questions for you gasheads....

1) If Wycombe is guilty of breaching rules and end up getting points deducted meaning we therefore stay up, would you be happy?

2) If the board didnt pursue this but in later months it comes out in public that our board didnt try, would you be pissed off with the board for not trying?

 

1) Yes I would be happy but would feel sorry for Wycombe fans

2) Probablly not because we all know they are useless

 

1. Yes, but surely that is the FA's job to decide

2. As 1

If the FA are aware of this, then it is down to them to decide. From what I've read,they've already done this and passed their punishment to Wycombe - whether that was too leninet or not is a different question. However, I really do not believe it is down to us to employ shyster lawyers to try and dig up the distant past, to effectively try and weasel our way out of what was "earned" over 46 games of last season. Call me old-fashioned, but I'm actually quite sick of sporting outcomes being decided in courtrooms - that ain't what we watch this, or any other, sport for in my book. I'd rather we took this on the chin, had a season of stuffing the Alfreton Town and Welling Uniteds of this world out of site, and come back in a year's time with our heads held high - if only !!

 

1, No. It's tenuous to say the least. For me there has to be a clear competitive advantage that can be directly linked to any wrongdoing on Wycombe's part. For example, if they'd played an ineligible player who set up or scored a goal against us or Torquay. I don't like technicalities - we were **** and we deserved our relegation.

2, No. I'd be happy that they took the moral high ground and didn't turn a poor situation into an atrocious and embarrassing one, like they have. If we succeed in this and stay up at Wycombe's expense our good name will be forever tarnished. Especially as Wycombe are fan-owned and in financial trouble - this could destroy them. They were marginally less **** than us over 46 games and pulled it out of the bag against Torquay - we didn't.

Aylesbury's quote - I'm actually quite sick of sporting outcomes being decided in courtrooms - that ain't what we watch this, or any other, sport for in my book - is spot on.

 

1 If they docked us points but let you get away with 2 pitch invasion in concestive weeks I would angry
2 if it were our board i would trust them beacause they are fans like us in your situation I am unsure

 

1) No

2) No

 

It will all come out in the wash and tbh I can't see the board wasting good money on fighting a lost cause they must have information to back this claim.
But I can see the FA doing nothing so there's no winners here and we just have to face facts Wycombe are the Gases bogey team.
How many have forgotten it was Wycombe that sent the gas down from league 1 to league 2 the first time the gas were relegated from league 1
What will be will be there's nothing the fans can do about it

 

every club involved with relegation and promotion in the final weeks were involved in a pitch invasion. dock them all points

 

As they say, it's not just down to one or two games. It's the outcome of a full season that puts you were you end up.
We aren't really your bogey team as you beat us fair and square and had it in your own hands on the last day.
It's all ended up a bit of a sorry mess really, when both teams should be preparing for their prospective seasons, but i can understand the BRFC board to some extent

 

our board has got us in a right mess on and off the pitch. the fans are gunning for our board at every opportunity they get and to be honest rightly so.

however in fairness to the board they are damned if they do and damned if they dont.

 

Correct - our board are damned.

 

agreed jack it must be hard sitting on a board where what ever choice you make you get slated by the fans

 

But didn't you beat them? Then in that case they didn't have much of an advantage over you??