Niall Quinn

Yeah, I think that, you know, I, like all the teams that had something to play for, wanted to have that opportunity to play, in our case, to get away from the relegation zone, and in the case of the other guys, to achieve their ambitions, to get promoted, etc.

So playing three was clearly something that we supported.

But two things happened.

One is that the time frame, I don't think it's been used as effectively as it could have been used, and the decision has taken a long time to come.

Now, with that comes the problems that you see, and where the fault line is in the EFL, and that is really in League One, whereby you have this division between those who actually want and have the finances to play, and I am a finance guy, so I entirely understand

the positions of those who don't want to play.

So, as we've gone on in time, the opportunity to play and finish out the season, I think, has virtually disappeared from us, but there's still an opportunity to have playoffs.

The proposal I put together was because during our League One call, which had about 50 people on it, it was not a forum for proper debate because

a lot of the people were unaffected by um other than the decision to play or not play were unaffected by for example ppg which is what they was trying to apply if you actually stopped playing so there wasn't a great debate there but what was clear was this massive division in league in league one in league two there wasn't so much of a division so they helped they felt the game to the conclusion

but we needed a compromise in League One, and that's what the chair of the EFL asked for.

I indicated to him that I could look at one, or I was looking at one, which was a compromise.

I mean, I'll go right from the start and say, I don't think if you're stopping the season with 25% to go, I mean, you, David, I think you, was it 11-12, Chef Wednesday?

You had a great run.

Was it 14 games, 1-11?

It was absolutely right, yeah.

Yeah, if you'd applied PPG, Sheffield United would have gone up, I think, instead of you.

And that's the type of thing that all football people know.

So, you know, the solutions to not playing were not great.

I don't think anybody really thought about PPG being as unfair as it is, but all football people intuitively know that it doesn't take into account form.

the fact that some clubs towards the end of the season may play youngsters and stuff like all those things that we know happen we just know in our blood or intuitively in our water that in fact it doesn't actually bear any resemblance in terms of what happens so