League One will reportedly be brought to a premature end this week, despite the Blues and other clubs having demanded that the campaign is played to its conclusion.

According to the Daily Telegraph, following the impasse at Friday’s conference call, discussions have taken place between the clubs and EFL chairman Rick Parry over the weekend.

Each club was asked to put forward their thoughts on the way forward ahead of a vote which could take place on Tuesday with a meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning.

Despite six clubs - the Blues, Peterborough, Oxford, Sunderland, Fleetwood and Portsmouth - having issued a collective statement through Posh chairman Darragh MacAnthony on Thursday, and with as many as 11 clubs reportedly keen for the season to be played to an end behind closed doors, the majority of the 23 sides want the division brought to a halt now, as League Two unanimously opted to do on Friday.

Many clubs are unable to afford to stage their remaining games behind closed doors or the meet the cost of the large number of coronavirus tests which would be required.

Places will reportedly be confirmed based on points-per-game (PPG) or weighted PPG - whichever is deemed fairer by a statistician - with Coventry and Rotherham set to be promoted automatically with the third promotion spot going to the winners of play-offs which will involve the usual four or perhaps eight clubs.

The proposal to extend the play-offs came from MacAnthony at Friday’s meeting and was initially viewed as a semi-serious suggestion, and is subject to opposition with some clubs believing it contravenes EFL regulations.

Even if the play-offs are expanded to eight clubs, the Blues wouldn’t be involved if places were decided on either PPG scenario. While Town are 10th in the table as it stands, they drop to 11th under both PPG formulas.

That would be Town’s lowest finish since 1952/53 when the Blues, then managed by Scott Duncan, were 16th in Division Three South.

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ITFCsince73 added 10:24 - May 18 I have my opinion on Evans. Just look where we are in league standing. That answers all questions. It wouldn't have come to this at any other club, bar sleepy Suffolk.
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portmanteau added 10:55 - May 18 Whats with this lowest finish since 52/53? what about just last season bottom and relegated?
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Dissboyitfc added 11:00 - May 18 Not surprised to hear this! The bottom line is this... we should have been able to compete in this division with the squad we have! Many of the teams above us have lesser squads. That failing is down to one person and thats Paul Lambert. It could also be argued he had enough time to prevent our relegation from the championship, something a good football manager would have achieved! A change of owner, the right owner may i add would be great, i see that as less likely to happen now in these uncertain times! So my solution is to change the manager, get in John McGreal from colchester, colchester have a habit of suppling successful managers, Burley being one example for us and Lambert another, of course for Norwich, not going to do it here sadly. Or Nigel clough would an good shout! I really wish some others( mentioning no names) would throw their ideas out there to discuss, instead of just trying to oust the owner! The headline story could be about anything and they would post' embarrassing club and Evans out!"

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Palestine added 11:02 - May 18 I feel as a Town fan it is a blessing this season is called off. How sad is that. The only question is - with the same manager/regime in charge - is there any reason to be more optimistic about next season?
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dirtydingusmagee added 13:26 - May 18 i have come to the conclusion Barmy comes on here because nobody takes any notice of him in his FB group..Plenty of posts from him again , same old thing, nothing constructive, nothing relevant to the thread.Claims to be a fan and from Suffolk, insults both . HE is embarrassing .
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therein61 added 18:47 - May 18 I think we have Donald Trump posting who states what he feels with no respect for other peoples views gets very personal if disagreed with and throws his toys out of the pram!!! i have in the past had several serial down voters give me stick, but it doesn't bother me this site is all about individual opinions and i continue to state mine while respecting those who don't share my views hey ho that's what we are on here for the important thing is our football club.

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EatonBlue added 20:52 - May 18 How about this - promote Coventry and Rotherham plus the winner of third placed Oxford v the winner of an eight team knock-out competition for the teams finishing 4th to 11th.
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MurcianITCC added 22:04 - May 18 81, think I'm lying? Fine by me. Yet another pointless, irrelevant post by you spoiling for an argument....yawn
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