Another 40 positive Covid cases in PL !

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Oldun said:
Why? Surely that’s the point of regular testing. So you can isolate the players who are positive.
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Is long covid not a factor? Some players already suffering with this so how can the FA keep them safe?
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Is long covid not a factor? Some players already suffering with this so how can the FA keep them safe?
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Of course it is. The FA are doing more than most employers to keep them safe. Twice a week testing of all players and staff, and strict rules. You don’t get that if you are a bus driver or on the tills in Tesco do you? Interesting to see the lack of hugging and handshakes in the FA cup games tonight.
 
Oldun said:
Of course it is. The FA are doing more than most employers to keep them safe. Twice a week testing of all players and staff, and strict rules. You don’t get that if you are a bus driver or on the tills in Tesco do you? Interesting to see the lack of hugging and handshakes in the FA cup games tonight.
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Point is the virus is out of control no matter who you are and no matter how many times you have been tested. Players and staff health is at risk and already proven. All sports needs suspending.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Point is the virus is out of control no matter who you are and no matter how many times you have been tested. Players and staff health is at risk and already proven. All sports needs suspending.
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Were you saying that last year when we were challenging for Europe?
 
Tracey Kelly said:
I sincerely hope you are wrong. I don't see why, after the country has been vaccinated and we are on top of any required annual boosters, that football (or any other event with mass gatherings) cannot return to normal. While the risk may not go away, if the risk is very low due to vaccines, it should be accepted by society, as he alluded to.
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It will eventually just become like the flu. Except all ages will be vaccinated until it gets to a point where our bodies cope with it but might take years. Its why I think War of the Worlds has got a lot going for it. No bloody alien would survive on planet earth with all the germs our bodies can cope with :)
 
The season has to be null and voided, there is no other viable option.
 
Mario1889 said:
The season has to be null and voided, there is no other viable option.
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What about carrying on with twice weekly testing and players sticking to the rules? That seems like it might just be another viable option?
 
Oldun said:
What about carrying on with twice weekly testing and players sticking to the rules? That seems like it might just be another viable option?
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How’s it viable when it’s not working?
 



Oldun said:
What about carrying on with twice weekly testing and players sticking to the rules? That seems like it might just be another viable option?
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Absolutely.

As long as there are consequences for players breaching the rules.

And I'm not taking about fines, I'm talking about long bans or points deductions.

Footballers are in an exceptionally privileged position to even be able to play at the moment, they need to start acting like it.
 
SellyOakBlade said:
Absolutely.

As long as there are consequences for players breaching the rules.

And I'm not taking about fines, I'm talking about long bans or points deductions.

Footballers are in an exceptionally privileged position to even be able to play at the moment, they need to start acting like it.
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Chorley need kicking out of the cup then.
 
SellyOakBlade said:
Have their players breached the rules???
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“The time spent spent in dressing room areas by athletes/teams/staff should be preferably avoided, but if not avoidable then minimised with strict social distancing.”
 
SellyOakBlade said:
Ah, I see.

They should certainly face a punishment. Long bans or points deductions as I said.
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They won’t though. Football is basically acting as if it is exempt from anything Covid. Like I said before there is no reason that football shouldn’t carry on - if they follow the rules.
 

Not directly Blades related.. but whilst there aren’t many who don’t think Rangers deserve to win the title, on current form.. plus, Celtic really have brought this upon themselves.. the covid restrictions really do put a shadow over this seasons results. As it did last season.

edit.. whoever made the plans and decision to take the team to Dubai really needs to reflect.
 
blade too long said:
Beginning of the end
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Possibly. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55615893

CW quoted in the above as well :

"We'll just go with what the Government and Premier League have to say and, if it's the case to carry on, we'll carry on. But I don't think I'm being controversial if I say I don't think anyone would be surprised if we don't carry on with the way it's sweeping through the country."
 
It's surely just a matter of time before it's all postponed again.

Probably too much to hope for that they will null and void the entire season and start again?
 
Rugby union just announced a 2 week postponement.
 
It's within football's own rules that two thirds of the season must be completed to award final placings so 25 26 minimum

If it goes before 20 games has to be voided like all the amateur leagues were last ssason
 



blade too long said:
It's within football's own rules that two thirds of the season must be completed to award final placings so 25 26 minimum

If it goes before 20 games has to be voided like all the amateur leagues were last ssason
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I thought it was 75% but I stand corrected. Either way if it’s cancelled anytime soon we stay up.

Lets get a petition up!
 
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