Salisbury's demotion.

[Meadow]

I'm surprised Dave hasn't posted about this, but in case you don't know, Salisbury face a two league demotion. I think this is draconian.

Anyway, there's a Bookface petition www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=128570467155691 if anyone feels like signing up.

[coops]

Nope, not draconian at all, and I wish more leagues would have the balls to actually punish clubs for not paying their debts.

Salisbury have risen up the leagues by paying good wages to players they couldn't afford without defaulting on payments to everyone else, that's a form of cheating, or at least gaining an advantage over all the clubs in both Conf South and Conf National who HAVE paid their taxes.

Harsh on the fans yes, and good luck to them in the Zammo off Grange Hill League, hope they get back up but this time paying their way as they go.

[votp]

I read this as "Sainsbury's demolition" which I thought slightly off the wall even for this Forum. I agree with Coops here, its time the leagues got tough, not that I am holding my breath as they seem in the main to be run incompetently. Actually that may be a little harsh, maybe amateurly would be better.

[AFC J Esaj PRA]

I'm pretty sure we questioned the Salisbury mob on here about the way they were being bankrolled and their reaction was 'we know it'll got tis-up, but we will enjoy the ride'. Fair enough, I hope they enjoyed it.

I find it hard to have any sympathy for a club that's going to inflict Forest Gump on us again.

[Col ISIHAC.]

'Tis but this years convoluted solution to the "Preserve WSM's BSS status" conundrum.

You get to keep the furry green rangers, we get to go back to Weston Super Mud!

[Sultan of Cannock- SRFC]

I only caught this as a quick skim-read of the NLP in Sainsburys on Tuesday night and i thought it was a bit harsh at first when i read that they'd paid up their non-revenue debts at 100%.

Going down a few lines, i raised an eyebrow seeing that the Inland Revenue had a agreed a "so-much-in-the-pound" deal with them

When the taxman came a-calling at Stafford a while back, we had to pay the whole lot, and rightly so IMHO. The way the taxman was determined to pursue the likes of Halifax and (correct me if i've got them mixed up with someone else) Farsley Celtic to the grave maybe Salisbury should be thankful for their deliverance.

At least Salisbury fans have suffered their double-relegation in one fell swoop and off the back of some decent memories. We had to take our's the hard way, back-to-back on the field in consecutive seasons.

[Col ISIHAC.]

The Salisbury faithful have been around and about asking for fans of other teams to sign a petition on their behalf - I can't actually remember the last occasion for which a petition of any sort got anything done; but the response to this one seems to be, generally anyway, "nah - naff orff; it's a fait cop"!

I am sure that everyone feels sorry for the fans, but rules are rules.