Fair Play!

[JC]

Oh dear gentlemen, we appear to have lost £104M over the past 2 years... Anton would you like to buy 100,000 Reading FC replica shirts, 250,000 Reading FC ties and half a million Reading FC branded mugs? Phew.

Where do you get that figure from?

[Royal Biscuitman]

I wonder why we obstained?

I'm going to e-mail the club and ask - can't do any harm can it?

[Royal Ginger]

Oh dear gentlemen, we appear to have lost £104M over the past 2 years... Anton would you like to buy 100,000 Reading FC replica shirts, 250,000 Reading FC ties and half a million Reading FC branded mugs? Phew.

Exactly

[RoyalBlue]

Can see why we've abstained, the rules are pretty flawed and basically sustain the status quo while removing the possibility of another Portsmouth situation embarrassing the Premier League.

So show some balls, vote against them and then explain why you have done it.
Abstaining is now much different from not bothering to vote in political elections and then moaning about the result later - in my mind, the cowards way out.

[Wimb]

Can see why we've abstained, the rules are pretty flawed and basically sustain the status quo while removing the possibility of another Portsmouth situation embarrassing the Premier League.

So show some balls, vote against them and then explain why you have done it.
Abstaining is now much different from not bothering to vote in political elections and then moaning about the result later - in my mind, the cowards way out.

Without knowing the specifics it's hard to judge.

As I've mooted, perhaps we were generally happy that some regulation was coming in but didn't want to actively support it because of lack/over restriction. Maybe the other owners said it's this or nothing in which case it's better to let it go through under a protest by abstaining, rather than rejecting it outright and possibly being left with nothing.