Niall Quinn

So, you know, if you accept all of that, I think that if you look generally at the whole football scene,

There's been a total lack of coordination and leadership in the approach to it, and I've said that as much publicly.

With regard to this particular issue, I think that some of the stuff that I've been doing was at the request of the chairman.

He said, can we have some innovative thinking about a compromise that will actually get us through this?

And this was in the League One meeting.

And certainly the stuff that I've been doing, I would have liked the EFL to do, and I would have liked the EFL to budge it.

But they came out a few days later

just under a week later, and said they were going to have relegations and they were going to have PPG.

So they gave that leadership.

I'm not sure that they gave that much thought to the implications of that.

And I will not accept, because you guys know as much as anybody, how much effort goes in a dressing room, how much effort goes on the terraces and all the people around the clubs to get promoted and to stay promoted.

And for us, we've had a pretty horrendous five years, which we've had to fight through.

So I just want to accept the glib statements.

Well, this is a pandemic.

We can't please everybody as a way of dismissing the injustice of us actually getting relegated.

Because you guys know that we won three games away from home and we had three games on the trot away from home.

We won them.

And so we had a run of form which was coming in because what we do is we spend in the January window.

And the last four seasons, we've had successful second half of the season.

This was starting to happen again.