Ilios
Winger
Any club that refuses to continue the season, should automatically be ruled out of competing in any playoffs and in the case of Rotherham, be kicked out of 2nd place as well. The playoffs/promotion should only be contested by teams who are willing to continue to play (by definition, regarding playoffs). I'd probably make an exception for Coventry because they are so far ahead and in exceptional form.
You can't on the one hand say, 'it is too unsafe/we can't afford to play 9 more games' but as long as the final table is contrived to squeeze them into the playoffs unjustly, all of a sudden it is 'oh, did we say we wouldn't play? Oh, what we meant is we don't want to play the remaining games as we'll not get in the playoffs that way. We'll definitely play 3 more games now though, as we can now afford to do that and playoff games are safer than league ones'...fuck that bullshit.
You can't on the one hand say, 'it is too unsafe/we can't afford to play 9 more games' but as long as the final table is contrived to squeeze them into the playoffs unjustly, all of a sudden it is 'oh, did we say we wouldn't play? Oh, what we meant is we don't want to play the remaining games as we'll not get in the playoffs that way. We'll definitely play 3 more games now though, as we can now afford to do that and playoff games are safer than league ones'...fuck that bullshit.
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