NICKY Adams believes cutting short the season in the bottom two tiers of the EFL is the correct call to stop other clubs going the way of Bury.

The Bolton-born midfielder was part of the Shakers side that won promotion from League Two last season only for the Gigg Lane club to then be expelled from the league as their financial woes worsened.

The 33-year-old is now preparing for a probable play-off campaign with Northampton and acknowledges the tough decisions that have had to be made since the season was put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“There’s the final decision about what’s going on on Tuesday but I don’t think it really changes much for us in League Two,” he told Nicky Adams: Up Close and Personal, with Tom Beresford.

“It’s kind of been done without being rubber-stamped and they’re just waiting on League One so they can do it all together.

“We’re preparing for the play-offs as we’ve been told. Everyone’s just waiting for that, the clubs in League One have been trying to decide what’s going to happen, there’s been some people who are upset about how they’re going to finish it.

“I do feel for teams, especially for Tranmere, if they do points-per-game they get relegated and it’s very harsh.

“When I’ve been asked about the situation I’ve just said the same thing, something like this is probably never going to happen again in our lifetime, who could have foreseen this happening?

“It’s so unfortunate, I don’t think you’re going to keep everyone happy and you can’t. I think everyone would like to finish but it’s not possible. Points-per-game is probably the best way of doing it.

“A lot of clubs are struggling at the moment and I know first-hand from Bury last year I wouldn’t want clubs to go to the wall which if teams try and carry on and start coming off furlough and paying players, which is one of the big stumbling blocks, then you’re going to see more and more clubs being in big, big trouble.

“I don’t want that. I don’t want that for fans up and down the country.”

Adams is bidding for back-to-back promotions from the third tier with Keith Curle’s men and a second with the Cobblers having returned to Sixfields last summer after being part of their 2016 title winners.

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The side of four years ago and Ryan Lowe’s Bury class of 2019 are teams Breightmet’s former Leicester man is proud to have been part of.

Adams, who has had three spells with the Shakers in all, said: “People ask me who would win a game between those two, it could be seven-all!

“I would have liked to have seen that game, that would have been two unbelievable teams going at it and I’ve been fortunate to be part of both of them.

“What it was with Bury was the way we played. Lowey just said ‘we’re playing total football, we ain’t changing for no-one. We’re going out there and we’re going to absolutely pop it’ and we did from day one.

“Lowey recruited some really good players and we’ll go down in history as one of the best clubs to get promoted from League Two.

“There were some special players in that team. Leaving Carlisle was difficult but I went back to my boyhood club and to captain them to promotion along with Neil Danns is a memory I’ll never forget.

“It was a special group of lads. I was with Dom Telford the other week and we were talking about it and I used to batter him every day but I love him to bits.

“The dressing room was total laughs. We didn’t get paid for nearly four months and we said, ‘look, we’re a good side, let’s go and make history’ and we did that.”

Adams is now watching on from afar as the town tries to cope without a football club, phoenix club Bury AFC looking to take their place in the North West Counties League next season while Shakers owner Steve Dale claims he has a plan to have the club playing in the National League structure come the 2020/21 campaign.

“I’m gutted what’s happened with the club,” he said.

“I’m a local lad, I know quite a few of the fans, they’re hurting, there’s no team to watch and it’s not nice.

“It’s a special, special memory for me though. I’ve got all the photos from last year with my family on the pitch at the end.

“I can’t speak highly enough of it. For me as a local lad to captain the team to promotion I’ll look back and think ‘wow’.”