Niall Quinn

Because if you look at it, you know, as I say...

we can see, I mean, if you looked at points per game at this stage last season, three out of the four that went down in League One wouldn't have gone down.

And that's the situation.

So you can see variances of about 25%.

And all I did, because I had to do a bit of maths, we just did a very rough and ready calculation of what the outreach was, and it's about 5% to 6%.

And then when you translate that across the tables, look at League One, that's where the fault line is.

If you looked at the bar charts in my paper, you can actually see what football people see.

And that is, you know, the Coventry are by and large away with it.

A lot of them haven't had promotion yet.

A lot of teams can catch them up.

And down at the bottom, you know, we are, in fact, we can drag in five or six teams.

And the others haven't really got a chance of getting out of it.

So that's what I essentially tried to do.

The difficulty is getting around clubs and explaining it to them.

Yeah, I make no bones about it.

It's not purely altruistic.

What I tried to do was to offer this solution for the EFL to take it on and to look at it and take it forwards.

Because I knew that coming from me, people would say, well, I have a vested interest in it.

And the answer is that, yeah, of course, I do have a vested interest in it, but the principles are still there, and it doesn't make it wrong because the chairman of a club that would actually be saved by it is putting it forwards.

What it does is it basically allows, in the division where the fault line is, it gives them the opportunity to vote for a margin for error, and that enables clubs to get into an expanded playoff situation that they justifiably could have argued was the case, and PPG avoids that for them.