Originally Posted by sensoria:
“What madness this is. If a club can't be promoted why is it in the promotion race, if you were a supporter of the team that topped the championship and you got beaten in the convolouted play off system to a team that couldnt be promoted you would be livid!!
There must be a ground they can share down there somewhere??
Was I wrong in thinking Beford were in the same boat?”
Have you ever seen the criteria for a Championship side to get promoted?
Amongst the ridiculous things asked for, include that all gents urinals at the ground must be at least 60cm apart.
London Welsh joked that, if they'd won the Championship, they'd have nominated Twickenham as their home ground and the toilets would've failed the audit!
The Premiership clubs don't want Championship clubs coming up. Just look at the money Exeter didn't get compared to the other Prem clubs when the rules were, yet again, hastily rewritten the other season.
The Premiership has been effectively 'ringfenced' for several seasons now.