Possible reprieve for the Swans to make the playoffs ?

Junior member ?? Really ? I wish I was …. I was in 1971 when I first started supporting the Swans ….. 🙄

Thanks Mike for the 1st response. The only thing I left out was the link but I wasn’t going to do all the work for the forum members 🤣🤣

I have mixed views on this, should there be a points deduction and/or fine and I’m never sure even in the Premiership Championship, Division 1 & 2 and downwards if it is right or not.

Ok I will start the ball rolling with my views.

As a Swans long time (for me anyway) supporter through thick and thin, from 71 to Wembley glory in 73, good and bad times to continual relegation until the club was purchased and rebranded to what we now know it as today, should a points deduction and slide down the table be made against Merthyr ?
obviously I would take it, what swans fan wouldn’t based on our current position just outside the P/O places ?

Is it fair on Merthyr if points were to be deducted and as a result they slide outside the play off positions, down the league and swans move up the league back into the P/O positions ? No of course not. But the FA work in strange ways we all know that.

In any football league I think the club should be fined NOT have points deducted for any infringements of the rules, out of their control unless it is financial based.
The offending team, note the wording, who ever they are have worked hard to get where they are in the league, only to loose out on promotion P/O place, due to probably an alcohol fueled fan of theirs being abusive to an opponents player.

Racial abuse should never be tolerated, banter on the other hand is always part of football, it’s part and parcel, but never racist. The person responsible should be given a life ban by the club, for ruining the clubs promotion chances, and advise again to all people entering the stadium that racism will not be tolerated and such action and will be dealt with accordingly.

Any club that takes legal action against a “fan” for racist abuse would get anybody’s vote.

Sounds like I’m being harsh, but can you imagine what it could be like if Swans had got to Merthyr’s situation currently and see it all taken away in a few seconds due to a drunk idiot so called fan ? We can all moan about playing out from the back and loosing possession and conceding a goal, dreadful refs decisions, incorrect substitutions, etc but if someone who supposedly was a fan was standing next to you and as a result of a few beers, shouts racist comments, your teams points are deducted and slide out of the P/O positions and down the league I can’t imagine you would just shrug your shoulders and say oh well it’s happened let’s look to next season. No you would want to tell the fan his future…..

Many clubs have their idiotic/racial fans, I’ve even seen it at The Lane in the past and to a large extent it’s out of the clubs control, to punish a club with a points deduction for me would be harsh especially if there has been no previous. Even if Merthyr were taken out of the playoff mix I feel there are other teams hitting form at the right time and unfortunately we are running out of games.

Hey. As mentioned previously the Poole Town last home game of the season is the must go to match as a win will secure our play off position!!

Too may difficult games for our contenders to face yet so this is going to go to the last game.

This has been posted by Merthyr and copied from their website today ….

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Club Statement

2 April 2024
Following the alleged racist incident in yesterday’s game against Hungerford Town, the Merthyr Town FC Board convened an extraordinary meeting this evening to ensure the matter is addressed – and resolved – as soon as possible.

As a result, legal advice is being sought to ensure that a suitably structured and robust process is followed.

To assist in this approach, the club would welcome written statements or testimonials from any supporter in or around the area where the alleged incident took place, ideally detailing their recollection of events. Please submit any such document to the club via email at:
Info@MerthyrTownFC.co.uk or MerthyrTownFC@mail.com.

To reiterate: as a community club, Merthyr Town FC do not tolerate, and condemn in the strongest terms possible, any form of racist or homophobic behaviour.

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