green welly wrote:
It's not obvious that the Evostik is actually that bothered whose fault it is - and why should they be? Fact remains it was JR's duty to know whether or not the CVA was being paid and, if it wasn't, to have raised the matter and got it sorted. He, not Gary Petit, was the one with most to lose.

BUT, even if the appeal goes in our favour and the punishment is reduced, fact is, "we've" still committed the crime, the CVA still hasn't been paid and we won't be accepted by the Conference should we win the play-offs. Clearly it would then be daft to allow us to even enter them.

As I see it, at the very best we can maintain Evostik status, playing at Stafford and with a future that is about as viable as Ye Olde Chocolate Teapot Company and, at the very worst, we'll be placed somewhere below NWCL. What exactly is below the NWCL by the way?

More likely, we'll end up somewhere in between but the question of viability, so long as that CVA has to be paid (with the FAC money frittered away), and we have no local ground to play at, will forever remain.

Nicki wrote:
Cheshire league.

So we could potentially go from a national league, to a northern league, to a north western league, to a cheshire league in, what is is 4, seasons?

Jeez if it gets much worse, we'll be playing the other half of the squad in a two-team Northwich Vics league!

That day at the Kassam seems so, so far away.

What makes it worse is that some of the divisions this far down have only one promotion spot so getting back up the ladder is much much harder than going down it.

What are the consequences of Vics getting into the playoffs, to then be kicked out of the BSN?

The 6th place team not allowed to compete in the EvoStik playoffs and one of the bottom teams in the BSN having a reprieve. Which one is more worthy of a place in the BSN?

This could potentially be the last shovel of dirt covering an already buried coffin.