FA competitions

[Noggin]

It's nothing but another FA farce. They can finish the FACup, play Play Offs and pretty much any other league they WANT to finish, but they can't manage THREE games for non League clubs! In one way I hope it isn't finished with a crowd at Wembley, I won't have to give them any of my cash then. Why can't they actually announce a decision though? Or are we simply not worthy of one.....

That because the only competition the FA care about is the Premiership. In my opinion, the only reason that the Football League was played to a conclusion was because it impacted the Premiership via promotion.

[YeltzDoc]

We're deep into Speculation-ville here though. If you announce a raffle with a £100 prize and only sell one ticket, you have to give him £100.

I suspect the phrase "Force Majeure" may feature in all of our futures.

[andy]

Were any of the Vase semi finalists robbed of promotion as well, or are we the only club that's been stuffed twice by all of this?

[old git]

I hasten to add a rider that this was as it stood 9 years ago but ...the FA at that stage had NEVER broken close to even with playing Vase and Trophy at Wembley. This was the driver to making both finals on the same day. Part of Wembley’s licence is that they have to have a minimum police presence, regardless of what event is taking place, and that along with stadia costs means that a minimum day hire was back then about £150k.
I’m also pretty sure (can’t confirm this one though) but I was told that they pick up all the costs of the day themselves, and that the competing clubs keep ticket money from their own sales and get a share of any direct Wembley sales to non participants.

[YeltzDoc]

Were any of the Vase semi finalists robbed of promotion as well, or are we the only club that's been stuffed twice by all of this?

Bitton - Nah

Consett - Nah

Corinthian - Maybe

Hebburn Town - Nah

[piearce9]

The FA don’t want to finish the competition for sporting integrity or anything like that, it’s more because non-league finals day is a nice little earner and gives the sponsors the coverage they paid for. I’ve said all along that they can’t play these games without fans, but I suspect a Wembley final with a crowd is many months away, and now I must admit it’ll probably be behind closed doors or nothing. Not wishing to compound the doom-and-gloom of this post but I also do think it’s looking unlikely there’ll be crowds allowed back for league matches next month as hoped.