Decision day in League 1 has finally arrived - we hope.

Clubs in the Football League will meet remotely today (Tuesday) are are expected to vote through a framework to be used should the season be curtailed. League 1 clubs will then vote whether to go along with those proposals or attempt to finish what’s left of the 2019/20 campaign.

The long drawn out process has all-but ended any hope of finishing the remaining fixtures and completing a play-off campaign too. Most teams in League 1 haven’t even returned to training yet.

Gillingham still have nine games of their season outstanding. Their players haven't trained as a group for almost three months.

On May 21 the Football League announced a preferred framework that would be used should clubs decide to end the season now. It would involve promotion, relegation and a four-team play-off. Coventry and Rotherham would go up automatically.

The play-offs would be contested by Wycombe, Oxford United - whose team are now back training, Portsmouth and Fleetwood Town.

But the EFL wanted clubs to have their say and that’s led to a handful of teams submitting alternative methods of ending the season, all of which are not surprisingly weighted in favour of the teams making the suggestion.

The EFL’s preferred method would be to decide placings on points per game average. That would see the Gills finish 10th, up one place from 11th, and leapfrogging Ipswich Town.

Peterborough United suggested an extended eight-game play-off tournament to decide the third promotion spot. That would have involved the Gills, but seems unlikely to get the nod. The EFL have already dismissed the idea once.

A PPG finish would see Peterborough miss out on the play-offs. They have backed an idea from relegation threatened Tranmere Rovers, whose formula - using data from the past three seasons - would keep themselves up and Peterborough in a play-off position. It would leave the Gills 11th.

Tranmere want a margin for error to be included so that teams missing out on the top six could complete in an expanded play-offs. It would also mean a 25-team League 1 next season.

Rovers have this week said the EFL's process isn't fair, with TV deals and Covid-19 testing already taking place for only four teams, assumed to be those taking place in the play-offs.

Vice chair Nicola Palios said: "How can clubs have a fair vote on Tuesday re our proposals when the EFL have only done Covid testing for clubs who would be in the play-offs under their proposal and not ours? And have struck the deal for TV assuming theirs will go through? This is NOT a fair process.”

The EFL tested 135 players for the virus over a four-day period and had no positive results.

Ipswich Town - who miss out on the play-offs under the EFL’s PPG scenario - are suggesting that if the season is curtailed then clubs should be able to vote on alternative play-off options.

Championship teams have already said they want to play out the season on the pitch and their clubs have been back in full training. They are due to resume their season on June 20. The Premier League restarts days earlier.

Barnsley have put forward a proposal that no teams are relegated from a division if fixtures aren’t completed.

League 2 clubs have already agreed to end their season but with the play-offs still taking places. The teams in those play-off positions are currently also training, in preparation.

The EFL have always said publicly they prefer the season to be played out in full but by putting the decision into the hands of member clubs, all of whom have their own agenda, which has only led to delay and debate, as well as plenty of arguments, leaving little chance to play those remaining matches.

Gillingham have nine games remaining. Loan players have returned to their parent clubs and only eight players are contracted beyond June. Chairman Paul Scally has already said it’s unaffordable to continue and impossible to finish the season.

Coronavirus testing has to be paid by individual clubs and those with nothing to play for see no benefit of paying out extra for a dead-rubber season, particularly as they would be playing without fans and thus without matchday revenue.

Hope is that by the end of today, or at least this week, a decision is made one way or another and teams can prepare for football or down tools and finalise decisions that need to be made on players with expiring deals.

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