Rotherham United share Blackpool view that League One clubs will vote to end season

Rotherham chairman Tony Stewart believes that 15 of the 23 clubs will vote to play no more fixtures, comfortably clearing the 51 per cent needed to win the vote.

There are no prizes for guessing which way the Millers will vote: using the EFL's proposed points-per-game system to finalise the table would mean Rotherham remain second and so gain automatic promotion.

By playing on,their success would be far from certain: six chasing clubs are within three points of them and the Millers would face four of those sides in their remaining nine games, including Fleetwood Town.

But Stewart says there is little appetite within the division to carry on playing, no matter what framework is used.

"We have played 80 per cent of the fixtures and we are where we are," he said.

"We have earned it over 35 games, so who is the Midas guy to come up with something that pips that?

"We are frozen in time. You ring around clubs and the consensus we get is that there is not a desire to complete the fixtures.

"I don't think for one minute the team that is fourth-bottom, just out of the relegation positions, is going to want to continue and the teams right up to 10th will feel the same.

"We believe about 15 clubs would vote against carrying on."

"The fact is it is going to cost us £150,000 to do the testing and you have to bring people out of furlough," added Stewart -points also made by Blackpool this week.

A "number of proposals" suggesting alternatives to the unweighted PPG system proposed by the EFL have been submitted by clubs. These will also be considered at Tuesday's meeting of all 71 EFL clubs.

Tranmere chairman Mark Palios, whose club would be relegated under the EFL framework, has presented a different model which factors in statistical margin for error and allows for an expanded play-off competition.

Once a framework has been agreed by clubs across the three EFL divisions, League One's fate will then be decided by a vote among its 23 clubs on whether to play on.

Among football's top six tiers in England, League One is the only division in which the clubs' preferences on playing out the season remain uncertain.