kentblues
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Per my last post the situation between the Prem and EFL is the same as between the EFL and NL. For Championship read NL. NL league intend to have promotions and no relegation. Prem and EFL were very clear last year regarding that scenario and what it meant.I understand the argument that the league rules were changed (there was nothing in the rules about how a season would be determined if all the matches in a division weren't completed, so the clubs had to vote on that in order for unweighted points per game to be applied), but this season the top five divisions in the pyramid are being completed, so there's no reason for anything to be voted and determined in the tortuous process you have outlined.
We've been relegated, as you say, deservedly, on the basis of a 46-game season. And whoever replaces us will have been promoted, deservedly, either automatically or via the play-offs, on the basis of a 42-game season being completed (it would have been 44 games, but Dover withdrew from the competition and their results were expunged).
That is promotion and relegation protecting the integrity outlined by the EFL last season, largely in an argument to ensure that the leading Championship clubs could earn promotion to the Premier League, because if they had not been promoted, then they would - unlike us and Grimsby, presumably - have had the finances to fund a legal protest.
Its nothing to do with fair, not even saying it should happen, but if the EFL are consistent its what the outcome would be. The EFL muted the Prem expanding for one season, so presumably they would be open to L2 doing the same when the boot is on the other foot. Which I believe is at the nub of what Grimsby are proposing. Bear in mind its their proposal (we are giving our support but then why wouldn't we)