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as several matches again bite the dust surely cancelling this season and starting again from scratch next august is the only answer

everton man citys off already this weekend and theres more isolating as cases surge

plus theres no reality in games behind closed doors, its not football really ,is it

if this new strain of covid whips up more cases in the next 3 4 months before the vaccine gets hold , surely many more games will be postponed
and this summer has the euros and olympics in the way

so for purely health reasons stop this farce now
 



Sky keeping it going to make cash. With more people being infected with their new variant it only makes sense to cancel all games until it is over..
 
blade too long said:
as several matches again bite the dust surely cancelling this season and starting again from scratch next august is the only answer

everton man citys off already this weekend and theres more isolating as cases surge

plus theres no reality in games behind closed doors, its not football really ,is it

if this new strain of covid whips up more cases in the next 3 4 months before the vaccine gets hold , surely many more games will be postponed
and this summer has the euros and olympics in the way

so for purely health reasons stop this farce now
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No one was asking for season to be cancelled after first lockdown when we were doing well.

They'll more likely suspend season again than cancel, which is fair.
 
All this fear porn over a cold virus. Any road, I want to see if my bet on 8 points pays out.
 
It appears suspension is looking more and more inevitable, as the picture keeps changing for the worse. There were 6 football league fixtures off the other day due to Covid, three of the local sides were called off (Rotherham, Donny and Chesterfield). Today has seen the first Premier league casualty, with the new strand it seems inevitable that it'll be stopped at some point.

For purely selfish footballing reasons this sounds great, get players back and hopefully turn it round. Sadly though we can't ignore what that would mean in terms of the wider picture. Another lockdown, retail and hospitality absolutely obliterated and the country on it's knees.
 



We would lose a lot of tv money for 2020/21 and we would still have to pay wages for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons. We would need a big loan for this as the tv money wont come in until 2022.
 
Silent Blade said:
We would lose a lot of tv money for 2020/21 and we would still have to pay wages for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons. We would need a big loan for this as the tv money wont come in until 2022.
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...if the season was curtailed (it won't do) then we'd get another year of Prem TV money next year by staying in it? Yes I know we'd lose a lot this year any payments would be delayed and many clubs as you say would need loans. However every club would be in the same position.

I am not sure how another shot at staying up and potentially 2 or 3 or longer years in the Prem + the TV money we would then get from.such seasons could be worse than going down and maybe not coming back for a long time possibly...took 12 years last time (yes I know we get parachute payments but these rarely help clubs as recent evidence of teams failing to bounce back).

I think anyone would take a do over this year. We could not do any worse and as I say whatever losses we had this year we'd surely have a full season of TV money next year...We are not getting that by being in the Championship as we will be.

It's a moot point anyway as the season will finish even if games are squeezed in.

We will get our money but as many other teams going down have found it will soon disappear paying wage bills of the squad relegated teams had on big wages...even with reductions in relegation. Norwich were one of few who cut cloth even when going up.

We offered several longer contracts we are lumbered with for quite a few 30+ players. These will be a bit of a millstone for the club seemingly as Norwood, Sharp, Stevens, Fleck, McGoldrick, Basham will all decline now as assets and probably play too even tho a few will be fine in Champ level.
 
One of the points which hasn’t been mentioned and may lead to a cancellation of the season is if footballers start to suffer from long covid as this could put their long term careers at risk.
 
Swinton Blade said:
And most of us slag them off for ot because we didn't want the season cancelled.

I don't think they'll cancel anyway, just suspend or keep fans out.
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Its not fans out .its quarantineing players
That's rising quickly. This new strain is rapidly forcing a large upswing in isolating
 
Deadbat said:
...if the season was curtailed (it won't do) then we'd get another year of Prem TV money next year by staying in it? Yes I know we'd lose a lot this year any payments would be delayed and many clubs as you say would need loans. However every club would be in the same position.

I am not sure how another shot at staying up and potentially 2 or 3 or longer years in the Prem + the TV money we would then get from.such seasons could be worse than going down and maybe not coming back for a long time possibly...took 12 years last time (yes I know we get parachute payments but these rarely help clubs as recent evidence of teams failing to bounce back).

I think anyone would take a do over this year. We could not do any worse and as I say whatever losses we had this year we'd surely have a full season of TV money next year...We are not getting that by being in the Championship as we will be.

It's a moot point anyway as the season will finish even if games are squeezed in.

We will get our money but as many other teams going down have found it will soon disappear paying wage bills of the squad relegated teams had on big wages...even with reductions in relegation. Norwich were one of few who cut cloth even when going up.

We offered several longer contracts we are lumbered with for quite a few 30+ players. These will be a bit of a millstone for the club seemingly as Norwood, Sharp, Stevens, Fleck, McGoldrick, Basham will all decline now as assets and probably play too even tho a few will be fine in Champ level.
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Yes, you are right that it will be worse for the clubs who pay the highest wages (also those who regularly have huge revenue on hospitality, expensive ticket prices etc) but I am concentrating on our own situation, we will be deeper in debt if we go down in 2022 (after this season becomes null and void) than if we go down in 2021 (if this season is played to the finish or more than 75% of the fixtures completed). Going down in 2023 or in 2024 might break even.
 
Swinton Blade said:
No one was asking for season to be cancelled after first lockdown when we were doing well.

They'll more likely suspend season again than cancel, which is fair.
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We're only 8/9 games left in march
Top clubs in Europe could need to fulfil 23 prem games 4 6 or 8 cl games 3 or 4 fa cup before may
If 4 or 5 get quarantined or a bad snowy winter as well won't have the dates to finish
 



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