I'd disagree about the EFL's problem being them immediately announcing the points deduction before investigating the circumstances.
We entered administration/suffered an insolvency event and it's an automatic 15pnt deduction regardless of the circumstances & that is something that all member clubs have agreed to (rules are rules as those Barnsley plant pots kept repeating)
Whether we got shafted by an owner stitching us up or had simply spent way beyond our means till the cash ran out is irrelevant under the current rules.
We never had any chance of fighting off that 15 point deduction & would have had no chance even if the EFL had waited to find out the full facts - lets not forget that we appealed it to an independent tribunal & lost coz under its rules the EFL had to do what they did as unfair as that felt on us
No club has ever successfully appealed an administrative points deduction either by having it removed or having it reduced
The Blackpool scenario you mention was a completely different kettle of fish. They were put into administration by a judge in order to allow that other fella to get the club off the Oyston's - they never suffered an insolvency event. Latics did - we had no income & nothing with which to pay the bills or wages.
I said it at the time of the appeal that, after what they'd been saying, I expected Begbies & the lawyer to pull some rabbit out of the hat so to hear them just repeat what was already in the public domain (i.e. Au Yeung had pulled a swift one & it was all very suss) was really disappointing & seemed like a complete waste of £500k - looking back you can argue that as a deal hung on us staying up it was worth chancing their arm but on hearing the tribunal's judgement we never had any chance of winning that appeal