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Post by Rio Doherty on Nov 6, 2020 18:47:18 GMT
Unfortunately a number of our first team members received positive Covid test results today, so our matches against York City away tomorrow, Hereford FC at home on Tuesday, Guiseley at home next Saturday, and Farsley Celtic away the following Tuesday have been postponed. I wish all of our affected players a speedy recovery.
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Post by chesterken on Nov 6, 2020 20:51:20 GMT
Get well soon boys this has ruined the next two weeks for me.ðŸ˜
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Post by agl on Nov 6, 2020 20:56:29 GMT
You have to question the wisdom of carrying on while the country is in lockdown. Apart from anything else footballers are potentially spreading Covid.
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Nov 6, 2020 20:58:36 GMT
Plus they’re all part-time with other jobs and mingling with a wide variety of people.
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Post by utb on Nov 6, 2020 22:10:00 GMT
Utter stupidity that part time teams are still playing football during lockdown regardless of whether they play in an elite league. If they do, then all their fixtures should be postponed until the end of lockdown, it makes zero sense whatsoever when many have other jobs that involve them working in close proximity to others.
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Post by Lobster on Nov 6, 2020 23:06:25 GMT
Said it all along. There are tens of thousands of football matches taking place all over the country every Saturday, lads pulling each other's shirts, hugging each other when they score, sharing changing rooms and showers. Don't get me wrong, football has been a welcome distraction during this miserable time, but if we're serious about stopping the spread, it makes no sense to let this continue.
Thoughts with whichever members of our team tested positive. Get well soon, Blues.
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Post by rcb on Nov 6, 2020 23:14:21 GMT
Plus they’re all part-time with other jobs and mingling with a wide variety of people. As you were saying last week, players have been lucky to avoid a positive test until now! As for the future, I can only speculate, but find it hard to believe this season will reach a conclusion since current levels of Covid will probably remain high for the next three or more months as a best case probability.
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Nov 6, 2020 23:30:33 GMT
Indeed I wouldn’t be surprised if our season was to end null and void.
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Post by devadiva on Nov 7, 2020 11:45:43 GMT
I think the season will end up being decided on PPG again. That’s why I’ve said elsewhere that the NL needs to give some thought about the tipping point at which PPG stops being viable. In my mind you need not only a min number of games to have been played but you need a limit to the disparity in the number of games that teams have actually played as well. Doing PPG when all the teams have broadly played the same number of games (like last season) seems fine but not if some have played wildly more than others (which seem like a possibility this year).
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Post by jb on Nov 7, 2020 11:48:51 GMT
Hope the players who have contracted the virus make a full and speedy recovery.
Time to temporarily suspend the National League season as outbreaks in squads are going to be commonplace over the upcoming weeks.
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Post by devadiva on Nov 8, 2020 11:46:00 GMT
How are we going to get through 2 weeks without a match - 2 games a week that I could watch was just about keeping me sane, no matches and lockdown v2.0 will be purgatory ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜±ðŸ˜±ðŸ˜±
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Nov 8, 2020 12:02:23 GMT
Genuinely starting to get real buyers remorse with the season ticket - the real threat of the season being ended at any point now.
Obviously not the clubs fault whatsoever, just one of those things but it’s putting me off getting an ST next summer - will be the first year in five that I wouldn’t have one.
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Post by lincolnexile on Nov 8, 2020 13:00:17 GMT
This really is going to be the never ending season. We still have 37 league games to play.
Now we can't play until the 20th it'll take until the end of the first week of April to complete the season if we play two games a week every week. This doesn't take into account trophy games, which I'm assuming will now be cancelled as non elite clubs are not allowed to play during a lockdown, or is it classed as an elite competition because it includes elite clubs in the competition? This also doesn't take into account any further Covid scares.
Lets face it this season will be written off by the end of January, either that or it will continue on through the Summer.
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Post by chesterken on Nov 8, 2020 13:34:38 GMT
Genuinely starting to get real buyers remorse with the season ticket - the real threat of the season being ended at any point now. Obviously not the clubs fault whatsoever, just one of those things but it’s putting me off getting an ST next summer - will be the first year in five that I wouldn’t have one. I think you need to look at it another way without that early season ticket money the club would be in really serious trouble I know we are not out of the woods yet but at least it’s given us a fighting chance.
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Post by yossergolf on Nov 8, 2020 14:36:13 GMT
Dependant on who and how many are affected, keeping your fitness and sharpness will be very difficult. It could be worse than pre season as limited squad sessions can take place before we restart matches. This is going to be a very difficult season for all involved and we as supporters need to be considerate with our comments and criticism.
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Post by devadiva on Nov 8, 2020 15:55:45 GMT
It’s the same for everyone so we need to be professional about it and make sure we come out of it as best we can just in case the season does complete.
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Nov 8, 2020 17:43:05 GMT
Genuinely starting to get real buyers remorse with the season ticket - the real threat of the season being ended at any point now. Obviously not the clubs fault whatsoever, just one of those things but it’s putting me off getting an ST next summer - will be the first year in five that I wouldn’t have one. I think you need to look at it another way without that early season ticket money the club would be in really serious trouble I know we are not out of the woods yet but at least it’s given us a fighting chance. Yes totally understand that, it’s mainly why I purchased an ST. However there is only so far people can go in tolerating paying out quite a lot of disposal income they may not be able to fully afford (especially during a major recession now) for essentially nothing if the season is to be cancelled again.
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Post by prodigal on Nov 8, 2020 22:18:34 GMT
Would imagine that if the season is curtailed at any point, then the club will make the offer to refund again?
It is clear that some clubs are prepared to gamble financially in what they probably see as a 'soft' market, to take advantage over others who are struggling and find themselves in the best league position possible should the wheels come completely off.
However, I think clubs at our level and below need to start looking at this season in a different way ,a bit like what rugby union was like before the league structures came in; we all have our fixture lists and we play what we can, if and when we can, hopefully in front of fans when the time is right, but probably no promotion or relegation.
Contracts etc more of a problem at the 'elite' level, but essentially no full time players. Think many clubs at step 7 and below will already be 'open minded' about how the season pans out, and if all the leagues were officially knocked on the head in say, January due to impossible fixture pile ups, most clubs would surely arrange games between themselves anyway, especially if fans were allowed in.
Maybe this should happen quickly, so clubs can seize opportunities for fixtures when they can, or do we just wait and see how broken this season is when we hopefully come out of this pandemic.
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Post by avfo on Nov 10, 2020 16:55:20 GMT
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Nov 10, 2020 17:17:46 GMT
May explain why he’s been so quiet lately - I don’t blame him though, more important things in life.
Wishing all those affected a safe and speedy recovery.
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Post by midfieldgeneral on Nov 11, 2020 16:32:54 GMT
Wishing everyone envolved a speedy recovery.
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Post by rainhillblue9 on Nov 11, 2020 20:18:15 GMT
Wishing Johnno and all the players with this dreadful disease a speedy recovery and hope they get well soon.Thej joint boss always looks so healthy and fit and to hear him speak COVID really affected him badly.
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Post by cfc1885 on Nov 12, 2020 1:39:12 GMT
May explain why he’s been so quiet lately - I don’t blame him though, more important things in life. Wishing all those affected a safe and speedy recovery. More to do with some of our degenerates not being able to hack a defeat and resorting to giving hin loads shit calling for his job everytime we lose tbf
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Nov 12, 2020 6:25:40 GMT
May explain why he’s been so quiet lately - I don’t blame him though, more important things in life. Wishing all those affected a safe and speedy recovery. More to do with some of our degenerates not being able to hack a defeat and resorting to giving hin loads shit calling for his job everytime we lose tbf There hasn’t been much of that in the past fortnight to be fair. Good to see him back though.
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Post by Moltisanti on Nov 12, 2020 7:05:54 GMT
More to do with some of our degenerates not being able to hack a defeat and resorting to giving hin loads shit calling for his job everytime we lose tbf There hasn’t been much of that in the past fortnight to be fair. Good to see him back though. Because he’s not on Twitter.
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Post by Frank Owen’s Paintbrush on Nov 12, 2020 7:23:51 GMT
Sorry I didn’t mean Twitter.
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Post by muffinthemule on Nov 12, 2020 14:20:41 GMT
It's worrying that if the 6 players are affected with the same symptoms as the manager, ie, muscle aches and general tiredness, how long will it take them to recover full fitness. Can't see them being available in 10 days time for the Brackley? game.
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Post by Lobster on Nov 12, 2020 14:28:11 GMT
It's worrying that if the 6 players are affected with the same symptoms as the manager, ie, muscle aches and general tiredness, how long will it take them to recover full fitness. Can't see them being available in 10 days time for the Brackley? game. I think in most cases, once you're over it, you're over it. The 14-day isolation thing is just to stop infecting others.
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Post by bluejay on Nov 12, 2020 20:02:08 GMT
It's worrying that if the 6 players are affected with the same symptoms as the manager, ie, muscle aches and general tiredness, how long will it take them to recover full fitness. Can't see them being available in 10 days time for the Brackley? game. I think in most cases, once you're over it, you're over it. The 14-day isolation thing is just to stop infecting others. And he said he'd had it worst as he was the oldest and some had no symptoms at all.
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Post by ccfc2003 on Nov 13, 2020 15:21:58 GMT
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