compo 7,030 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 The champions league and the Europa cup have now been postponed with no final matches taking place British football authorities should follow suit 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 15,292 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 It seems pointless dragging this on. A decision should be made. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,654 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 10 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said: It seems pointless dragging this on. A decision should be made. The country is now in lockdown but are there still those in Scottish football who think this season will be completed? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,717 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 The SPFL won't make a decision until they see what happens over the order. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacK1950 2,376 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 26 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said: The country is now in lockdown but are there still those in Scottish football who think this season will be completed? They will still go to "work" tomorrow no doubt as there will be the usual attempt to come up with more drivel. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,721 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,744 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 (edited) 13 hours ago, Gonzo79 said: It seems pointless dragging this on. A decision should be made. Right now, all we have is "similar" to a winter break / bad weather postponements / international weekends. While they have postponed anything up till April 30th, that decision was made when no-one could really see the consequences. We hardly know what will happen in 2 weeks or 4 weeks time regarding the virus. Even if we have a suspension till the end of April, should competitions resume we would have 8-9 league games plus a handful of cup games for each side to reschedule. As I said before, if they have two games per week, which is not that unusal, the season could be over in 4 to 5 weeks. That would mean end of May or mid-June, with a few exceptions to the usual end of season rules and regulations in effect. Edited March 24, 2020 by der Berliner 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,744 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Snatched from FF, written by Beer Belly Loyal: Quote After Rangers had lost at home with 4 games left to play and his team 5pts ahead in the race, he took this stance... BBC Sport were not too convinced though... O'Neill was adamant as reported in The Guardian This was how the table stood with 4 games remaining... ...only a catastrophic World event could prevent them from winning the title.Perhaps even a Celtic collapse along with a resurgent Rangers might deny them? Yes it did!FINAL TABLE: MO'N was spot-on and Helicopter Sunday was born. https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/april-2005-m-oneill-was-spot-on.114375/ 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 15,292 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 29 minutes ago, der Berliner said: Right now, all we have is "similar" to a winter break / bad weather postponements Not sure if you've heard but this virus thing will last months, rather than weeks. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannochsidebear 2,405 Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Not a fan of Dolly FC at all, but that release from their chairman was very honest, with actual figures and showing how even a reasonably solvent, well run club, is going to be miles short of cash before we kick a ball in action again. However what we all need to realise is that businesses of all types, in all industries, are going through exactly the same problem, with a cash burn way in excess of anything they can bring in, and way in excess of anytihng even the most pessimistic forecast could have gotten close to. Football of course has pretty much its own employment rules due to competition rules, and that Aberdeen simply cannot just make all employees subject to this "furlough" system that is going to be used by most UK employers who are not supermarkets. Employee wages must be paid or face a points deduction, licence suspension, etc. Football must wake up and accept these are not normal times. Football players, their pathetic union, agents and all the others involved, need to accept there is a bigger picture. The furlough system will ensure that all players will get a maximum of £2500 per month, or 80% of their wage if less than that. Given that most small business owners, and small companies from all sectors, are having to go through this system and scrounge about for grants, business loans, mortgage holidays, just to get through this, I dont see why footballers, (who lets face it at the elite level should have plenty of savings put away to cover themselves anyway) should be treated any differently. Much bigger companies than Rangers, Aberdeen etc are having to use this system to get through this, the likes of McDonalds, Greggs, huge high street retailers, are all doing their best to get through this and will be placing thousands of workers on the furlough system, so the sooner we scrap the notion of football being a special case the better. We must also accept the reality that we will not be playing again in the next six months, so mothball the clubs, get all the staff onto the furlough system, and wake again ready to re-start the season either from scratch or where we left off only when it is safe to do so and we have buried the thousands who will have died including our families, friends, colleagues, neighbours. Frankly the media still talking about season 2019-20 make me sick. It's over, done, finished, incomplete. Get over it, and talk about how we can come together to help our elderly, vulnerable people get medical care, shopping etc instead. There is a whole messed-up world out there now, and it needs all of us to help where we can to control this. It sucks that we couldn't get to complete the greatest ever comeback in history and steal the title from our great rivals in even more glorious fashion than Helicopter Sunday, but we have to accept that is going to be denied to us all. It sucks we wont get to play in the 2020-21 Champions League. It sucks that we wont get to see Tav lift the 2020 UEFA Cup. But there are much bigger things going on in life just now than the coronavirus-scrapped football season. Lets all stay safe, healthy, and when this is all over we can then start talks about a pre-season for whatever can be done to get sport back into people's lives, but only when it is absolutely safe to do so, and that i'm afraid looks like a very long way away. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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