Three points debacle

Rofesleg said:
If your second point is correct then I also doubt we would have come straight back up.
The feeling of injustice was a major motivating factor the following season.
If we had been relegated with a whimper the atmosphere around the club would have been completely different.
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Totally agree.
 
Adi_Dem said:
I haven’t read the full thread so apologies if this is repetitive.

There is a mythology around that season that I think rewrites history. We were a poor team that year and, first two months and the cups aside, we looked and felt like a team that was going to be relegated. It was not a season of champagne football. That was rare and reserved for the cup games and usually against poorer opposition (with a couple of notable exceptions).

I draw two high level conclusions:

1. It was a ridiculously poor and incompetent decision to cal off the game without having got permission in writing. I blame the club for that serious error.

2. I don’t think the season would have played out in the way it did absent the siege mentality and the feeling that we’d been the victim of an injustice. It galvanised the team and the fans. There is a good chance we would have gone down anyway.
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But that’s just your opinion adi so largely supposition as the only fact we do know is that what ultimately led to our relegation/demotion was the removal of those 3 points.
As with those 3 pts we stay up it’s that simple.

Anything else is just guess work.
 
zorro_mfc said:
But that’s just your opinion adi so largely supposition as the only fact we do know is that what ultimately led to our relegation/demotion was the removal of those 3 points.
As with those 3 pts we stay up it’s that simple.

Anything else is just guess work.
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Of course it’s my opinion.
 
Adi_Dem said:
Of course it’s my opinion.
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But the fact is take three points of most of the bottom placed sides that season and they would go down.
so those 3 points was pretty much fatal and the prem league knew it.

we WON enough points on the pitch to stay up that year and us fans who witnessed one of those rare wins were robbed of that victory.

it was shameful
 
I think the club was at worst naive when it contacted the FA - it was a big step to try and get the game postponed and we should have had a 'belt-and-braces' approach.

But the FA made an example of us, which I'm sure wouldn't have been the case if it had been West Ham, for example.
 
zorro_mfc said:
But the fact is take three points of most of the bottom placed sides that season and they would go down.
so those 3 points was pretty much fatal and the prem league knew it.

we WON enough points on the pitch to stay up that year and us fans who witnessed one of those rare wins were robbed of that victory.

it was shameful
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That’s just guesswork.
 
I'm surprised nothing happened a few seasons ago with Derby cancelling their match against Cardiff at the last minute because it was snowy.

No punishment whatsoever and no real justification to do it.
 
zorro_mfc said:
But we didn’t fail to fulfil a fixture though as we did play it so it was at best postponed something that happens every season for a myriad of reasons and nothing is ever done.

btw making us play the game was a double punishment as well.
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Nobody outside of the Boro bubble would agree. It’s just a biased view I’m afraid. We unilaterally failed to fulfil a fixture without permission. That it was rearranged isn’t relevant.
 
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