Darragh MacAnthony
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I don't want those people losing their jobs right now or sad at home.
And as regards to how the clubs are going to perceive us, we know how they're going to perceive us.
Most of those clubs don't want to go back and play football.
They don't want to take people off furlough.
They want to sit there because they're worried about the financial landscape of the game, and rightly so.
But they also don't know that price they might have to pay if they don't go back and play.
And I've been asking the EFL in
might cost us down the pipe if we don't play these nine games it's nine games it's 28 days we've all got players on contract furlough doesn't cover all their wages i know the cost of the b if they have to take the more furlough for 45 days trust me it could be a lot less to get back and play the games than it could be for the price we're going to have to pay dad obviously a lot of the teams who are with you are teams who are looking to go up and close to you know the playoffs or you know promotion
It's so difficult, Jamie, because we don't know the different way they're going to do the voting.
If they do go down a voting route, how do you vote?
You've obviously got everyone with different agendas.
You've got the top two, and Coventry rightly so, because they're so far ahead.
We think they should be promoted.
Rotherham are in second place, three points clear of six teams.
So I don't think it's really fair to say, oh, yeah, Rotherham get the championship spot.
There's a lot to go still with nine games to go, and they're going to play a lot of top teams.
So I'm not sure that's going to work, Jamie.
But what I've suggested all along is, look, the teams who don't want to come back and play, if we do this and finish the season out, which has always been the EFL's target to finish, we'll forfeit your games.
You can forfeit those results.
If it's not possible for you to get back and play and give your fans some football and eye follow or whatever else, you can forfeit the results, and that's another way you can do it.