Echo News Southend United to face Macclesfield Town in League Two next season

[Evening Echo]

SOUTHEND United will face Macclesfield Town in League Two next season after the Silkmen avoided relegation.

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[stewart]

Southend will be facing 22 other teams as well in league 2 next season

 

[RobM]

Southend will be facing 22 other teams as well in league 2 next season

Well, we think so! I can see a few more liquidated clubs before then.

 

[Tyga]

Never really understood how fining a team in financial peril does anything other than put the club in further debt and all but ensure future failures to pay players.

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Never really understood how fining a team in financial peril does anything other than put the club in further debt and all but ensure future failures to pay players.

Yes I agree or have I missed something ?

 

[Tyga]

Yes I agree or have I missed something ?

The second to last paragraph of the Echo article.

"Further to this, the Panel continued to adjudicate that the Club should pay a fine of £20,000 to the EFL by the aforementioned date - 'subject to the EFL, in its absolute discretion, considering whether to waive, defer or repay the same in the light of the business plan required'."

 

[Ricey]

Never really understood how fining a team in financial peril does anything other than put the club in further debt and all but ensure future failures to pay players.

Yep I’ve always found the baffling. The club is struggling financially so let’s give them massive points deductions with the potential to get them relegated and put them in further money troubles. On top of that they’ve got no money so let’s fine the ****ers too!

Bizarre, but unfortunately what else can they do?

 

[RobM]

Got no money? Have a fine! But I can't pay it. OK er...have a fine for not affording a fine!!

A punishment is only effective if it causes some inconvenience but making a situation worse is really no help. It's like being whacked on the head with a stick because your head hurts!

 

[Tyga]

Yep I’ve always found the baffling. The club is struggling financially so let’s give them massive points deductions with the potential to get them relegated and put them in further money troubles. On top of that they’ve got no money so let’s fine the ****ers too!

Bizarre, but unfortunately what else can they do?

I'm not sure what else they can do. I guess it comes down to whether the EFL is interested in clubs surviving (especially now) or it is purely an arbiter of punishment.

At the moment it is like a perpetual motion machine for debt and misery.

 

[Strykr]

Got no money? Have a fine! But I can't pay it. OK er...have a fine for not affording a fine!!

A punishment is only effective if it causes some inconvenience but making a situation worse is really no help. It's like being whacked on the head with a stick because your head hurts!

I see your point totally, but thats just life isnt it, live beyond your means and wait for the bailiffs.